Sunday, October 31, 2010

No tricks, big treat: a White House Halloween

No tricks, big treat: a White House Halloween


No tricks, big treat: a White House Halloween

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President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, handed out Halloween treats to area children and military families at the White House Sunday evening.


No tricks, big treat: a White House Halloween

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President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, handed out Halloween treats to area children and military families at the White House Sunday evening.


40 yrs in jail for Al-Qaida 'child soldier'

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Afghan Canadian Omar Khadr, the only child soldier and last western prisoner held at Guantanamo, has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for killing a US medic in Afghanistan in 2002.


Did this man make the US-bound bombs?

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US intelligence officials say Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, considered a key figure in al-Qaida's most active franchise, is now the chief suspect behind the mail bombs sent from Yemen and bound for the United States. Together with a US-born preacher, Yemeni militants, and former Saudi inmates of Guantanamo, al-Asiri makes up the leadership of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.


Tiger Woods loses top spot, Lee now No. 1 golfer

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For the first time in more than five years, Tiger Woods is no longer golf's No. 1 player. Lee Westwood of England took the top ranking Sunday, becoming the first European in 16 years to be No. 1 in the world and only the fourth player to get there without having won a major.


In a first, Brazil elects a woman as President

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Dilma Rousseff was elected the country's first female president on Sunday, as Brazilians voted strongly in favor of continuing the economic and social policies of the popular president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ms Rousseff, who served as Mr da Silva's chief of staff and energy minister, joins a growing wave of democratically elected female leaders in the region and the world in the past five years, including Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina and Angela Merkel in Germany.


Iraqi forces free hostages from church, at least 19 killed

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US and Iraqi officials say Islamic militants held around 120 Iraqi Christians hostage for nearly four hours in a church before security forces freed them, ending a standoff that left at least 19 people dead.


Girl uses iPod to prevent kidnapping

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A quick-thinking 12-year-old girl in the US prevented herself from being kidnapped when she held up her iPod Touch - a music player which looks like a phone - and told the would-be kidnapper she was calling the police.


Taliban hold secret talks with Afghan president

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Three Taliban leaders secretly met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai two weeks ago in an effort to weaken the US-led coalition's most vicious enemy, a powerful Al-Qaida linked network that straddles the border region with Pakistan.


US mid-term polls: Republicans positioned to take House

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Republicans in the US are positioned to wrest control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday's elections, the wind at their backs as they try to capture the 40 seats they need to claim the majority and potentially many more.


Bombs were designed to destroy planes, believes US

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John O. Brennan, the president's chief counterterrorism adviser, said Sunday that American authorities believe now that the two bombs found inside cargo packages were designed to blow up the airplanes carrying them, even though they were addressed to locations "associated with synagogues" in Chicago.


Young Indian entrepreneur wins Cartier Award

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Before Tong Sarochinee Paweenawat decided to pursue a master's degree in business administration this year, she had extensive work experience at Schlumberger, both as an offshore engineer responsible for exploration projects in the North Sea and as a field service manager in her native Thailand.


Air strikes kill 18 Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan

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Eighteen Taliban militants and two women were killed in air strikes and clashes in the Orakzai and Bajaur tribal regions and the Swat valley in Pakistan's restive northwest on Sunday, security officials said.


At least 32 wounded in Istanbul explosion

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A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday beside a police vehicle in a major Istanbul square near tourist hotels and a bus terminal, wounding 32 people, including 15 policemen.


The Twitter story: Why the CEO demoted himself?

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At the annual South by Southwest gathering of techies in Austin, Tex., in March, conference organizers had chosen a hangar-size room to accommodate their star speaker: Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, the messaging and social networking site that had become a digital phenomenon.


In praise of celebrity excuses

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Celebrity blame-shifting is as old as Adam ("the woman you put here with me — she gave me the fruit from the tree") and Eve ("the serpent deceived me!"). But to be truly great, an excuse needs to be more than just finger-pointing or a flat denial.


Battle for Bihar: FIR against Lalu and Rabri

Battle for Bihar: FIR against Lalu and Rabri


Battle for Bihar: FIR against Lalu and Rabri

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 07:10 PM PDT

Lalu Prasad walked inside the polling booth with his security, which is a violation of election norms. The Election Commission has ordered an enquiry.

Phase 4: Peaceful voting on in Bihar

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 10:13 PM PDT

Ignoring the Maoists' call of poll boycott, voters queued up outside the polling booths soon after balloting began.

Pranab, Antony seek more time to study documents

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 07:34 PM PDT

Mukherjee told journalists that they would require more time to go through the documents relating to the Adarsh scam.

Army set to probe Adarsh Housing Society scam

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:45 PM PDT

Army is set to begin its own probe into the Adarsh Housing Society controversy. The role of over 40 officers will be under the scanner.

Adarsh scam: 8 top leaders recommended flats

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 12:51 AM PDT

CNN-IBN investigations have shown eight top Maharashtra Congress-NCP leaders recommended flats for the society.

Maharashtra cabinet must resign: BJP-Sena

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 07:06 AM PDT

In the latest turn of events in relation to the Adarsh housing scam, the BJP-Shiv Sena have now asked for the resignation of the entire Maharashtra cabinet.

Row over the minimum wage under NREGS

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 07:46 PM PDT

The NAC and the Rural Development Ministry have come to blows over what should be the minimum wage under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

Naxals open fire in Jamui; no injuries reported

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 09:10 PM PDT

Naxals have fired at a polling party at Batia forest area in Jamui, Bihar. BSF jawans returned the fire. No injuries have been reported.

Yemen bomber: US narrows down on suspect

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:06 PM PDT

A Saudi bomb maker believed to be working with al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing is a key suspect in the parcel bomb plot against the United States.

Brazil gets first female president

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 09:44 PM PDT

Former guerrilla leader Dilma Rousseff won Brazil's presidential election and promised to stick to policies that have lifted millions from poverty.

CNN-IBN bags top award at ITA 2010

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 09:17 AM PDT

Your favourite news channel CNN-IBN swept the Indian Television Awards (ITA) 2010 on Sunday night, winning as many as three major awards, including the award for the Best English News Channel for the fourth time in a row.

Blind artisans build 'diyas' for Diwali

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 10:10 PM PDT

The lives of the people who are lighting up this Diwali are filled with darkness - the artisans are all blind but that never stood in their way.