Cheat Sheet - What Happened to Obama’s Asia Pivot?

Today: Lockerbie Bomber Dies in Libya , Chen Guangcheng’s Flight to Freedom , At Least 4 Dead in Italian Quake May 20, 2012 DIPLOMACY 1. What Happened to Obama’s Asia Pivot? The president talked of shifting from Europe to Asia. But that idea has faded as the G8 and NATO meetings loom. Good riddance, writes The Daily Beast’s Leslie H. Gelb. Read it at The Daily Beast TERRORIST 2. Lockerbie Bomber Dies in Libya Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died in Libya on Sunday at age 59, according to his brother. Two hundred seventy people were killed in the attack, and in 2001 Megrahi was convicted by a court in the Netherlands. In 2009 he was released from Scottish prison after a cancer diagnosis gave the bomber months to live. Upon returning to his home country of Libya, Megrahi was welcomed by then-ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Despite calls for the bomber to be extradited to the United States or the United Kingdom, leaders refused after toppling the dictator. Read it at BBC NEXT STOP, U.S.A. 3. Chen’s Flight to Freedom Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived at New Jersey’s Newark Airport on Saturday night, capping a weeks-long diplomatic drama. The Daily Beast’s Melinda Liu reports from the plane on Chen’s hope for a new life in America—and concern for his aging mother back home. Read it at The Daily Beast TREMOR 4. At Least 4 Dead in Italian Quake Four people were killed by falling debris after an earthquake about 20 miles from Bologna, Italy, on Sunday. Two or more additional people may have been killed in the magnitude-6.0 quake in the historic northern Italian towns. The quake caused a ceramics factory to collapse in the town of Sant’Agostino and shook down the roof of a foundry in Tecopress di Dosso. Fifty or more people were injured in the disaster, reports said, as emergency officials rushed to the affected areas. It was the most serious quake to rattle the country since a 2009 tremor in L’Aquila that claimed almost 300 lives. Read it at BBC SURPRISE 5. Zuckerberg Ties the Knot It’s been quite the week for Mark Zuckerberg. On Monday the Facebook founder celebrated his 28th birthday, and on Friday he took his company public. One day later, the Facebook founder and Priscilla Chan wed in Palo Alto, Calif. The ceremony was held in Zuckerberg’s backyard with about 100 guests who all thought they were there to celebrate Chan’s recent graduation from medical school. Contrary to the lovelorn Zuckerberg portrayed in The Social Network, the two have been dating since they met at Harvard nine years ago. Read it at The Associated Press DELUGE Afghanistan: Flash Flood Kills 19 Destroys hundreds of homes. INVESTIGATION Suspects ID’ed in Italian Bombing Caught on surveillance tape, officials say. DRIVING FORCE Afghan Woman Wants Driving Rights Opened driving school for women in Kabul. FINANCE States Fight Citizens United 22 states and D.C. back Montana law. PONIES I’ll Have Another Wins Preakness Speeds toward Triple Crown. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET The Yes List Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. How Zuckerberg Can Spend His Millions by Rebecca Dana Al Gore’s New Flame by Matthew DeLuca ‘Game of Thrones’ Wild Card by Jace Lacob

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