Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Chinese teams win Asian Champions League openers (AFP)

Chinese teams win Asian Champions League openers (AFP)

Chinese teams win Asian Champions League openers (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 10:54 AM PST

Bali Maimaitiyili (L) of China's Hangzhou Greentown fights for the ball against Naoshi Nakamura of Japan's Nagoya Grampus during the 2011 AFC Champions League group F match in Hangzhou's Huanglong Stadium, east China's Zhejiang province. Two second-half goals were enough to ease Hangzhou Greentown past J-League champions Nagoya Grampus.(AFP)AFP - Chinese teams enjoyed a great night in the opening round of Asian Champions League action on Tuesday, as Tianjin Teda battled past Jeju United and Hangzhou Greentown shocked Nagoya Grampus.

4 Afghan police found dead, 3 NATO troops killed (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 10:40 AM PST

An elderly Afghan man looks on as he waits for customers at a roadside firewood stall in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)AP - The bodies of four of eight Afghan policemen who left their checkpoint and never returned were found Tuesday in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, and NATO officials said three service members had been killed in the last two days.

Karzai in Britain for talks, Afghan exhibition launch (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 10:16 AM PST

British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at 10 Downing Street in central London. Karzai, who arrived in London late Monday for a two-day visit, is expected to discuss issues including the planned transition of security responsibility from international troops to their Afghan counterparts in 2014.(AFP/POOL/Ben Stansall)AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai was to hold talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday before opening a major London exhibition of artefacts from his country.

Karzai, new US envoy hold first meeting (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 10:12 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is pictured at 10 Downing Street in central London. The United States' new special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan held his first meeting in the job with Karzai in London Tuesday, Afghan officials said.(AFP/POOL/Ben Stansall)AFP - The United States' new special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan held his first meeting in the job with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in London Tuesday, Afghan officials said.

New Zealand falls silent for quake victims (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 10:12 AM PST

International Urban Search and Rescue teams pay their respects to earthquake victims at Cathedral Square in Christchurch. Grieving New Zealanders wept and hugged Tuesday, as the nation fell silent to mark the moment last week when an earthquake tore apart Christchurch and claimed hundreds of lives.(AFP/POOL/Cameron Spencer)AFP - Grieving New Zealanders wept and hugged Tuesday, as the nation fell silent to mark the moment last week when an earthquake tore apart Christchurch and claimed hundreds of lives.

N. Korea threatens military response to war games (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 10:02 AM PST

South Korean anti-war activists hold placards during a rally against a US-South Korea military drill outside a US military base in Seongnam. North Korea has threatened a military response to ongoing US-South Korean military drills, blasting them as preparations for a nuclear war of aggression against it.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - North Korea on Tuesday threatened a military response to ongoing US-South Korean war games, as Seoul's leader called for talks with Pyongyang to erase the peninsula's Cold War legacy.

Carmakers upbeat as Feb sales show promise (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 09:07 AM PST

Reuters - As Europe's car market weans itself off the rush of government subsidies, carmakers at the Geneva auto show are finding cause for optimism on a continent overshadowed by heady growth in emerging Asia.

Police probe 63 in India telecoms scandal: lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 09:01 AM PST

India's former telecom minister A. Raja (C), escorted by Central Bureau of Investigation officials, leave for court in New Delhi in February 2011. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is investigating what has been described as one of the biggest corruption cases in India's history, with up to $40 billion of public revenue lost, according to the government auditor.(AFP/Prakash Singh)AFP - Indian police have investigated more than 60 people, including top executives at 10 telecom companies, in a probe into a massive corruption scandal, a court heard Tuesday.

India's richest man urges 'equitable growth' (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 09:00 AM PST

India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, pictured in 2010, said Tuesday the country needed equitable growth at all levels to include millions of Indians residing in slums and villages in the mainstream of progress.(AFP/File/Punit Paranjpe)AFP - India's richest man Mukesh Ambani said Tuesday the country needed equitable growth at all levels to include millions of Indians residing in slums and villages in the mainstream of progress.

N. Korea vows 'physical' response to war games (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 08:37 AM PST

South Korean anti-war activists hold placards during a rally against a US-South Korea military drill outside a US military base in Seongnam. North Korea has threatened a military response to ongoing US-South Korean military drills, blasting them as preparations for a nuclear war of aggression against it.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - North Korea on Tuesday threatened a military response to ongoing US-South Korean military drills, blasting them as preparations for a nuclear war of aggression against it.

China tightens media controls amid protest calls (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 06:22 AM PST

A Chinese security guard stands on duty in an area that is now off limits to foreign journalists working in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. China appears to be rolling back some press freedoms it introduced ahead of the 2008 Olympics, barring foreign journalists from working near a popular Shanghai park and along a major Beijing shopping street after calls for weekly protests in those spots appeared online. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - China appears to be tightening restrictions on international media again, barring foreign journalists from working near a popular Shanghai park and along a major Beijing shopping street after calls for protests in those spots appeared online.

Death penalty for 11 in India train burning case (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:15 AM PST

Indian police officers stand guard as unidentified Muslims return after meeting with relatives at the Ahmedabad Central Jail in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. A special court setting inside the jail sentenced eleven Muslims to death Tuesday after finding them guilty of setting a train fire that killed 60 Hindu pilgrims nine years ago that triggered one of India's worst outbursts of communal violence. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)AP - An Indian court sentenced 11 Muslims to death Tuesday after finding them guilty of setting fire to a train in which 60 Hindus were killed nine years ago, an act that triggered one of India's worst outbursts of communal violence.

India seeks return of accused soldier from US (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:31 AM PST

Relatives of civilian Showkat Ali Khan wail during his funeral in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Khan, who was seriously injured in a grenade attack by suspected militants in Batamaloo area, succumbed to his injuries early Tuesday morning. Khan and two policemen were injured when suspected militants hurled a grenade towards a police post. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)AP - India will ask the United States to extradite an ex-army officer who is accused of kidnapping and killing a Kashmiri human rights lawyer 15 years ago and is now living in California, investigators said Tuesday.

Tigers, Burmese pythons rescued in Manila fire (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:05 AM PST

AP - Firefighters in the Philippines were shocked to find tigers and other wild animals living in a house that caught fire.

South says Koreas mustn't repeat 'dark history' (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 01:53 AM PST

South Korea President Lee Myung-bak and his wife Kim Yoon-ok sing the national anthem during the 92th anniversary ceremony of Independence Movement Day against Japan in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Jo Yong-hak, Pool)AP - South Korea's president called Tuesday for serious talks with North Korea, warning that the rivals must not repeat their "dark history" and urging Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programs.

Asia shares higher as oil eases, Wall Street gains (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 11:12 PM PST

A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the number for the Dow Jones Industrial average at the close, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Asian shares regained their nerve Tuesday following signs the world's No. 1 economy may be improving and as the price of oil stabilized despite a violent rebellion in OPEC-member Libya.

Voice from history exposed by New Zealand quake (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 10:26 PM PST

In this Feb. 24, 2011 photo, two police walk towards the fallen statue of the city's founder, Irishman John Robert Godley in Christchurch, New Zealand. Christchurch Major Bob Parker said Tuesday, March 1, 2011 that a handwritten parchment in a bottle and a sealed copper cylinder believed to contain documents were discovered inside the statue of the city's founder. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - The New Zealand earthquake has exposed potentially historic documents hidden inside a 19th century statue that toppled in the disaster.

Owners: NZ's CTV building was structurally sound (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 10:18 PM PST

Emergency workers gather around the collapsed CTV building, where dozens of foreign students, mostly Japanese and Chinese, from an international language school were believed trapped after last Tuesday's earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. The 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the city on Feb. 22, 2011, claiming lives of local and foreign people and causing wide spread damage to property, buildings and infrastructure. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Shuzo Shikano) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICAAP - The owners of a building that collapsed in the New Zealand earthquake, killing up to 120 people, say a recent engineers report found no problems with its structural integrity.

Oil hovers near $97 traders eye Libyan exports (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 07:58 PM PST

Investigator Matt Nicholson, left, questions Sara Peralta, integrity management manager, PG&E, shown on video screen, during the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2011, to gather additional factual information for the ongoing investigation into the natural gas pipeline rupture and explosion that occurred on Sept. 9, 2010, in San Bruno, Calif. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Oil prices hovered near $97 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as traders watched closely Libya's battered crude exports and whether political upheaval will spread to other oil-rich countries.

Vietnam releases prominent dissident on bail (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 07:14 PM PST

AP - A well-known Vietnamese pro-democracy dissident has been released on bail after calling for a revolution inspired by protests in the Middle East, state-controlled media reported Tuesday.
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