Edgar Yepez takes a photo among 7,000 American flags on display outside the Long Center in Austin, Texas, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2013. The flags are in honor of the fallen veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The display was organized by Operation Honor Our Heroes, an organization that was founded by Nancy Glass after her friend MSG Robert M. Horrigan was killed in Iraq in 2005. "I feel very honored to be part of this celebration," said Yepez, 28, who was born in Mexico to a Mexican mother and Pakistani father. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
Edgar Yepez takes a photo among 7,000 American flags on display outside the Long Center in Austin, Texas, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2013. The flags are in honor of the fallen veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The display was organized by Operation Honor Our Heroes, an organization that was founded by Nancy Glass after her friend MSG Robert M. Horrigan was killed in Iraq in 2005. "I feel very honored to be part of this celebration," said Yepez, 28, who was born in Mexico to a Mexican mother and Pakistani father. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
The fire-damaged exterior of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship is seen while docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama island, Monday, May 27, 2013. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday while on route from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the mooring area of deck 3 and was quickly extinguished. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. (AP Photo/The Freeport News, Jenneva Russell)
FILE - In this Saturday, May 18, 2013 file photo, Paul McCartney performs during the first U.S concert of his "Out There" tour, in Orlando, Fla. McCartney made his first visit to the one-time home of the King of Rock 'N' Roll and left a gift behind. According to the official Twitter account of the former Beatle, McCartney dropped a personal guitar pick on Elvis Presley's grave, Sunday, May 26, 2013, and said it was ?so Elvis can play in heaven." (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. PRESSURE FOR PEACE IN SYRIA
Top U.S. and Russian diplomats meet in Europe to try and bring Assad and Syria's fractured opposition to talks in Geneva and the EU ends its arms embargo to the rebels.
2. QUESTIONS ABOUT MCCAIN'S UNANNOUNCED TRIP
The State Department was aware the Arizona Republican, a proponent of arming Syrian rebels, slipped into the country for the meeting with anti-government fighters.
3. CRUISE CANCELED AFTER ANOTHER SHIP FIRE
More than 2,200 passengers were being flown home after the blaze aboard the Royal Caribbean ship blaze, months after a Carnival ship was disabled by a fire.
4. OBAMA GOING BACK TO JERSEY SHORE
With Christie at his side again, the president will take a post-Hurricane Sandy tour of the coastline.
5. EMBATTLED RUTGERS STANDS BY NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
President Robert Barchi says Julie Hermann will start next month, despite charges she humiliated and verbally abused her Tennessee volleyball team.
6. PRESIDENT MAKES MEMORIAL DAY APPEAL
"Even as we turn the page on a decade of conflict, our nation is still at war," Obama says at Arlington as combat in Afghanistan approaches 12 years.
7. CHARGES EXPECTED IN LIBERTY RESERVE PROBE
The founder of the Costa Rican digital currency business was arrested in Spain on money laundering charges and a Russian citizen will also be extradited to the
8. NEWBORN RESCUED FROM TOILET PIPE
Chinese firefighters sawed open the sewer pipe after a tenant in a residential building heard the baby's cries. The baby was reported safe in a nearby hospital.
9. WHY OBESE WOMEN ARE CHOOSING SURGERY
A study suggests that mothers who undergo weight-loss operations give birth to slimmer offspring.
10. WHAT MCCARTNEY LEFT FOR ELVIS
The former Beatle dropped a personal guitar pick on Presley's grave in his first trip to Graceland, "so Elvis can play in heaven."
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