Sunday, September 5, 2010

Aussies muscled out of world basketball championships (AFP)

Aussies muscled out of world basketball championships (AFP)

Aussies muscled out of world basketball championships (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:36 AM PDT

Slovenia's Goran Dragic goes for a basket during the World Cup Championship basketball match Australia versus Slovenia in Istanbul. Australia's world basketball championships campaign came to a bone-shuddering end on Sunday when they were crushed 87-58 by Slovenia in the last 16.(AFP/Franck Fife)AFP - Australia's world basketball championships campaign came to a bone-shuddering end on Sunday when they were crushed 87-58 by Slovenia in the last 16.

Scandal-hit Pakistan well beaten by England in cricket Twenty20 (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Pakistan's Umar Akmal plays a shot during the first Natwest International Twenty20 match against England at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Pakistan's latest match in their controversial tour of Britain ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England at Sophia Gardens here on Sunday.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Pakistan's latest match in their controversial tour of Britain ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England at Sophia Gardens here on Sunday.

Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:49 AM PDT

An Afghan boy is removed from a stretcher at a hospital, after being injured in a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Some people were killed and others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. Army convoy in the insurgent hotbed of Kandahar, according to local hospitals. NATO said there were no injuries to coalition forces or damage to their vehicles. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.

Pakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:42 AM PDT

An aerial view shows floodwaters surround houses in the Rajanpur district of Punjab province, Pakistan on Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Floodwaters are still swamping rich agricultural land in the southern provinces of Sindh and Punjab weeks after it lashed the country killing about 1,600 and leaving about 20 million people affected by floods. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.

Taliban vow to disrupt Afghanistan election (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:07 AM PDT

Following a U.S. Army Task Force Shadow helicopter rescue mission, army medical professionals wheel an Afghan man who was injured in an IED explosion into a Role 3 advanced medicine field hospital, at Forward Operating Base Dwyer, in southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The explosive, which also struck a boy in the face, was planted to kill or maim Marines and Afghan soldiers on foot, who responded and applied tourniquets to the man's upper thighs, and calling in the rescue unit from the 101st Airborne's TF Destiny. The man's legs were later amputated. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)Reuters - Afghanistan's Taliban said on Sunday they would attempt to disrupt elections this month and warned Afghans to boycott the vote, the first explicit threat against the poll by the hardline Islamists.

Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:05 AM PDT

In this photo taken on May 11, 2010, teacher Kazuyo Arai, background standing, and her class listen to a student speaking at Honmoku Elementary School in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is adding about 1,200 pages to elementary school textbooks, bringing the total to nearly 6,100. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - When Mio Honzawa starts fifth grade next April, her textbooks will be thicker.

Minister says Pakistani militants stoking sectarian rift (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:59 AM PDT

Shi'ite Muslims carry coffins for burial, of those who were killed during a Shi'ite Muslim procession a day earlier, in Quetta September 4, 2010. REUTERS/Rizwan SaeedReuters - Pro-Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to create a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis.

Fresh 'fixing' claims cloud Pakistan-England match (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:20 AM PDT

Pakistan players train ahead of the first Twenty20 international against England at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. A fourth Pakistan cricketer was reportedly being investigated over alleged match-fixing Sunday, with fresh betting scam claims casting a shadow over the country's one-day match against England.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - A fourth Pakistan cricketer was reportedly being investigated over alleged match-fixing Sunday, with fresh betting scam claims casting a shadow over the country's match against England.

Afghan Central Bank: Kabul Bank has `stabilized' (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:16 AM PDT

Afghanistan's former presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks at a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Abdullah Abdullah, who ran against President Hamid Karzai in the last presidential election, criticized the Afghan government on Sunday, saying it should have acted more quickly to correct management problems at the troubled Kabul Bank. Abdullah, who withdrew from last year's fraud-marred presidential election, also complained that efforts being made to reconcile with the Taliban was opaque and the end goals unclear. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - Afghanistan's largest bank remained solvent Sunday after a nearly weeklong run on the troubled institution, according to the governor of the nation's central bank, which is being criticized for looking the other way at the bank's mismanagement problems for too long.

Detective Dee brings Tang Dynasty whodunnit to Venice (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 07:38 AM PDT

(L-R) Chinese actress Li Bingbing, Hong Kong director Tsui Hark and actress Carina Lau pose during the photocall of AFP - Hong Kong's Tsui Hark unveiled his latest blockbuster, a Tang Dynasty whodunnit, at the Venice film festival Sunday while Kelly Reichardt cast her feminine eye on the Wild West in "Meek's Cutoff".

Reports: Afghan captors release Japanese reporter (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 06:33 AM PDT

This undated photo shows Kosuke Tsuneoka, a Japanese journalist and veteran of war zones. The Japanese journalist who was abducted by apparent Taliban militants in Afghanistan five months ago has been freed by his captors, reports said Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA, MANDATORY CREDIT **AP - A Japanese journalist who was abducted by apparent Taliban militants in Afghanistan five months ago has been freed by his captors, reports said Sunday.

Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 27, 2010 file photo, Peter Chou, chief executive officer of Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp., or HTC Corp., talks about the introduction of the brand into China's market during a press conference held in Beijing, China. East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are anonymous. Now HTC Corp., the Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.

NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:09 AM PDT

A person cycles past a damaged road near the Avon River following Saturday's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The quake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city also ripped a new 11-foot- (3.5 meter-) wide fault in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Alexander) **NEW ZEALAND OUT**AP - The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new fault line in the Earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday.

Philippine police kill militant commander, 2 men (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:18 AM PDT

AP - Philippine police commandos killed an Abu Sayyaf commander linked to last year's kidnapping of Red Cross workers and gunned down two other militants in a clash in the south, officials said Sunday. Police went on full alert after the killings to guard against any retaliatory attacks.

NZ probes skydiving plane crash that killed 9 (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 10:11 PM PDT

The scene of the crash where nine people died including an Australian, a German, an Englishman and an Irishman when their aircraft believed to be carrying a group of skydivers crashed shortly after taking off from the air strip at Fox Glacier, New Zealand, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/NZPA, Hokitika Guardian) ** NEW ZEALAND OUT **AP - Investigators expressed confidence Sunday that they will learn why an airplane carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing four Europeans and five New Zealanders.

Outgoing NATO deputy rues early optimism on Marjah (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 08:52 PM PDT

U.S. soldiers of the Fort Campbell based 1-75 Cavalry fire 122 mm mortars at a nearby Taliban position at Forward Operating Base Wilson in Kandahar Province, Southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/ Todd Pitman)AP - NATO commanders were overly optimistic when they predicted quick success taking the key Taliban-held town of Marjah last winter, the outgoing deputy commander said.

Many desperate Pakistanis still wait for flood aid (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 05:31 PM PDT

A Pakistani family displaced by floods prepares to cross a flooded road as the rain falls, in Shah Jamal village, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab Province, Pakistan, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. More than 3 million people have yet to receive desperately needed food aid, according to the U.N., and the Pakistani government says nearly 1 million people have received no help of any sort. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.
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