Archive for September 26th, 2009

One of Russia’s richest men, businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, is set to pour millions of dollars into the New Jersey Nets basketball club.  A deal thought to be worth at least 700 million dollars would make him a majority stake-holder in the club.

President Obama is getting ready to host Israeli and Palestinian leaders for a meeting he hopes might get peace talks started again. But Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has made his position clear, saying he will defend settlement expansion, which is the big sticking point. Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher has been out on the streets of Jerusalem to find out what Israelis think about Obama and his plans.