Today's Headlines -- Thursday

• IMF chief resigns, will make new bid for bail (AP)
• Obama's Mideast speech offers punishment, praise (AP)
• US quietly expanding defense ties with Saudis (AP)
• Long-feared flood rolls toward La. bayou country (AP)
• Schwarzenegger child report spurs media frenzy (AP)
• Twin bombs kill 27 at police station in Iraq (AP)
• Rep. Giffords has surgery to repair skull (AP)
• Feds must stop writing gibberish under new law (AP)
• Cannes condemns von Trier after Hitler remarks (AP)
• James owns crunch time as Heat top Bulls in Game 2 (AP)
• IMF chief resigns, debate on successor heats up (Reuters)
• Al Qaeda releases posthumous bin Laden audio recording (Reuters)
• LinkedIn IPO prices at $45 per share, top of range (Reuters)
• ECB issues Greek debt threat to stop restructuring (Reuters)
• A year on, mystery shrouds Thailand's deadly unrest (Reuters)
• Quake knocks Japan into recession, late 2011 recovery (Reuters)
• Tensions dog Air France crash investigation (Reuters)
• Troops deploy in Syrian village, U.S. sanctions Assad (Reuters)
• IMF chief resigns, vows to prove innocence (AFP)
• Bomb attacks on north Iraq police kill 27 (AFP)