Saturday, May 21, 2011

Punjab knocked out by Deccan (AFP)

Punjab knocked out by Deccan (AFP)

Punjab knocked out by Deccan (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 10:36 AM PDT

Deccan Chargers players led by Amit Mishra (centre) celebrate after victory in their IPL match against Kings XI Punjab at The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala. Mishra took a hat-trick as Deccan scored an 82-run victory.(AFP/Raveendran)AFP - Shikhar Dhawan cracked an unbeaten 95 and Amit Mishra took a hat-trick as Deccan Chargers knocked Kings XI Punjab out of the Indian Premier League with an 82-run victory on Saturday.

At least 10 dead in Malaysia orphanage landslide (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 10:27 AM PDT

Emergency teams work at the site of a landslide that hit an orphanage in Hulu Langat. A landslide caused by heavy rains hit an orphanage in Malaysia on Saturday, killing at least eight children and two caretakers, the official Bernama news agency said.(AFP)AFP - A landslide caused by heavy rains hit an orphanage in Malaysia on Saturday, killing at least eight children and two caretakers, the official Bernama news agency said.

NATO fuel tanker explodes in Pakistan, killing 15 (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Pakistani tribesmen offering funeral prayer of the victims of NATO oil tanker explosion in Landi Kotal near Afghan border in Pakistan on Saturday, May 21, 2011. A tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan exploded Saturday in northwestern Pakistan as people tried to siphon off some of its fuel, and 15 were killed, an official said. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)AP - Militants in northwest Pakistan blew up a tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Saturday, and a secondary explosion killed 15 people as a group gathered to try to siphon off some of its fuel. Another bombing damaged 14 NATO tankers in a nearby border town, but no one was hurt.

15 dead in NATO tanker fire in Pakistan: officials (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 10:03 AM PDT

A local resident walks past wreckage of a NATO supplies oil tanker following a bomb attack by militants in Landi Kotal town in the northwestern tribal region of Khyber. A bomb attack Saturday on a NATO fuel tanker headed to Afghanistan sparked a huge fire that killed 15 people who had rushed to collect petrol leaking from the bombed-out vehicle.(AFP)AFP - A bomb attack Saturday on a NATO fuel tanker headed to Afghanistan sparked a huge fire that killed 15 people who had rushed to collect petrol leaking from the bombed-out vehicle.

India says fugitive list blunder a 'wake-up' call (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 09:58 AM PDT

Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, shown in 2009, apologised after India withdrew a list of AFP - India on Saturday said an embarrassing blunder in the country's "most wanted fugitives list" given to Pakistan was a "wake up" call to security agencies to become more professional.

Authorities block separatist rally in Indian Kashmir (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard at a barbed wire road block during an undeclared curfew in Srinagar. Authorities in restive Indian Kashmir placed separatist leaders under house arrest on Saturday to thwart a rally marking the anniversaries of the killing of two of the independence movement's key figures.(AFP/Rouf Bhat)AFP - Authorities in restive Indian Kashmir placed separatist leaders under house arrest on Saturday to thwart a rally marking the anniversaries of the killing of two of the independence movement's key figures.

Easy win for Irie at Japan Open swimming (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 09:53 AM PDT

World silver medallist Ryosuke Irie, pictured in action in 2010, coasted to victory in the men's 200-metre backstroke at the Japan Open on Saturday, in a warm-up event for the world swimming championships in July.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - World silver medallist Ryosuke Irie coasted to victory in the men's 200-metre backstroke at the Japan Open on Saturday, in a warm-up event for the world swimming championships in July.

Ahmed gives Pakistan valuable, late boost (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 09:40 AM PDT

Pakistan's Tanvir Ahmed (R) after hitting a four run shot during day two of the second test against West Indies at the Warner Park ground in the St Kitts capital of Basseterre.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)AFP - Tanvir Ahmed completed a maiden half-century and frustrated West Indies with Saeed Ajmal for close to two hours, as Pakistan were dismissed for 272 shortly before lunch in the second Test on Saturday.

Six dead in suicide blast at Kabul military hospital (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Afghan soldiers arrive to secure the road which leads towards the military hospital in Kabul. Six medical students have been killed and 23 others wounded in a Taliban suicide attack at Afghanistan's main military hospital in Kabul, the defence ministry said.(AFP/Punit Paranjpe)AFP - Six medical students were killed and 23 others wounded in a Taliban suicide attack at Afghanistan's main military hospital in Kabul on Saturday, officials said.

Sixteen killed in NATO fuel truck blast in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 21 May 2011 08:51 AM PDT

Reuters - At least 16 people were killed in Pakistan on Saturday after a bomb hit a truck carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, the latest attack in an upsurge of violence since Osama bin Laden was killed.

Landslide buries 20 boys at Malaysian orphanage (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 08:43 AM PDT

People carry an orphan injured in a landslide in Hulu Langat in central Selangor state, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, May 21, 2011. Police say about 30 children were buried by the landslide that hit an orphanage Saturday. (AP Photo) MALAYSIA OUTAP - A landslide buried 20 boys and four adults at a Malaysian orphanage Saturday where rescuers were digging by their hands in soil softened by the rains to find the missing, police said.

Destroyed slum echoes Indian history, economic gap (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:59 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, March 16, 2011 photo, residents of a shanty town near Raj Niwas, what was once called Ludlow Castle Road, walk past an open garbage dump in New Delhi. Slums are demolished nearly every week in India because the land has become too valuable, or the slum has become an eyesore, or when a politician wants to push out opposition voters. Meanwhile residents are left struggling against vulturous landlords, corrupt bureaucrats and an inept, overburdened legal system that gives them little recourse to justice when the bulldozers come. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)AP - Years later, long after their handmade shacks had been reduced to rubble, after fresh concrete had erased the scene of so many lifetimes, they look at the place that was once their neighborhood and see the ghosts of what is no longer there.

Birthday boat sinks in southern Vietnam; 15 dead (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:25 AM PDT

Pham Thi Hoang, second from left, cries while waiting for her missing son Pham Xuan Khanh, 9, who was aboard a tourism boat which sank in Saigon River, Binh Duong province, Vietnam, Saturday, May 21, 2011. A little boy's birthday party went tragically wrong Friday when the double-decker tour boat capsized during a storm, killing 15 people, including the 3-year-old being honored and four other children, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo)AP - A tour boat cruising a river to celebrate a 3-year-old's birthday capsized during a violent storm in southern Vietnam, killing the boy, four other children and 10 adults, officials said Saturday.

NKorea's Kim said to be on 3rd China visit in year (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 05:22 AM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, second from right, leaves a hotel in Mudanjiang in northeastern China Friday afternoon, May 20, 2011. Kim Jong Il, who rarely travels abroad, made an unusual third trip in just over a year Friday to his country's main ally and benefactor, China, news agencies reported. The trip set off a media frenzy because many initially reported it was his son and heir apparent, Kim Jong Un, who had crossed the border, a reflection of the difficulty of getting information from or about North Korea. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was said to have visited an industrial city in northeastern China on Saturday and appeared headed to Beijing by train on the second day of a mysterious trip to his country's most important ally.

Suicide bomber kills 6 at Kabul military hospital (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Afghan National Army soldiers arrive at the Kabul's main military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 21, 2011. The Afghan Defense Ministry says a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a tent filled with medical students eating lunch at a military hospital in Kabul Saturday, killing at least six people and wounding 23. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - A Taliban suicide bomber targeting NATO medical trainers infiltrated Kabul's main military hospital on Saturday and blew himself up in a tent full of Afghan medical students eating lunch, killing six and wounding 23.

China, SKorea leaders tour devastated Japan region (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 03:38 AM PDT

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak holds a Japanese girl who survived from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a shelter in Tagajo, northeastern Japan, Saturday, May 21, 2011.(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, Pool)AP - The leaders of Japan, China and South Korea gathered Saturday to demonstrate their shared desire for Japan's earthquake and tsunami recovery and to smooth out differences over Japan's handling of its nuclear crisis.

Exiled Tibetans discuss shifting Dalai Lama's role (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2011 01:28 AM PDT

Tibetan Buddhist monks in exile carry a portrait of the Dalai Lama to be placed in a hall where a meeting of the parliamentarians and others to discuss the changes in the Tibetan charter following the Dalai Lama's decision to devolve his political powers in favaor of an elected leadership in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, May 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)AP - Exiled Tibetans are debating how to change their constitution to allow the Dalai Lama to leave political life.

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Posted: 21 May 2011 01:17 AM PDT

AP - Afghan Defense Ministry says at least 3 killed, many wounded in Kabul military hospital blast.

China calls for attacking Somali pirate bases (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 11:21 PM PDT

This undated photo courtesy of a family friend shows Jean and Scott Adams. Three Somali men pleaded guilty on Friday to piracy charges related to the hijacking of a yacht off the coast of Oman in February that left four Americans dead, including Jean and Scott Adams.(AFP/HO/File)AP - A Chinese general's call for land attacks on Somali pirate strongholds is being seen by analysts as another sign of the armed forces' growing assertiveness, even if the proposal is unlikely to result in action.

China alleges huge tax evasion by artist Ai Weiwei (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 09:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, artist Ai Weiwei arrives at the Wenyuhe court to support fellow artist Wu Yuren during his trial in Beijing. China alleged Friday, May 20, 2011 Ai's company evaded a huge amount of tax in the government's clearest disclosure yet about its investigation of the activist detained more than six weeks. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - A company that China says is controlled by artist Ai Weiwei was accused of massive tax evasion in the government's clearest disclosure yet about its investigation of the activist detained for more than six weeks.
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