Thursday, July 28, 2011

Meena tames Carnoustie to lead British Open (AFP)

Meena tames Carnoustie to lead British Open (AFP)

Meena tames Carnoustie to lead British Open (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:57 AM PDT

Lee Meena of Korea plays her tee shot on 16th hole during the first round of the Women's British open at Carnustie in Scotland. Meena battled through the harshest conditions, but emerged without a bogey on her card to lead the first round by two shots with a terrific seven under par 65 on Thursday.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - South Korea's Lee Meena battled through the harshest conditions, but emerged without a bogey on her card to lead the first round of the Women's British Open by two shots with a terrific seven under par 65 on Thursday.

Summary Box: Hyundai profit soars on sales (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:42 AM PDT

AP - PROFIT JUMP: Hyundai Motor Co.'s second-quarter net profit rose 37 percent to 2.31 trillion won ($2.2 billion) from 1.68 trillion won in the same quarter last year.

India adds nearly 60 million mobile users in quarter (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:35 AM PDT

An Indian salesman arranges mobile handsets at a communcations shop in New Delhi in 2010. Indian telecom companies added nearly 60 million mobile users in three months, taking the country's number of wireless subscribers to nearly 812 million, official data showed Thursday.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AFP - Indian telecom companies added nearly 60 million mobile users in three months, taking the country's number of wireless subscribers to nearly 812 million, official data showed Thursday.

Tale of 2 villages a year after Pakistan's floods (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:25 AM PDT

In this picture taken on July 24, 2011, a father picks his three-month old daughter at camp he is living in after being displaced by last's year flooding in Mor Jangi near Taunsa Sharif, in central Pakistan. Residents of this Pakistani village whose lives were washed away by last year's floods complain they have been largely forgotten. Some are still living in tents and others have had to sell their cattle and take on significant debt to rebuild their homes. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Residents of this Pakistani village whose lives were washed away by last year's floods complain they have been largely forgotten. Sewage runs through the street. Some people still live in tents under the searing summer sun. Others had to sell their cattle and take on heavy debt to rebuild their homes.

Pakistan accused over separatists who 'disappear' (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:11 AM PDT

Members of Pakistani Marri Baloch tribe blandish their AK-47 rifles at their camp in Kahan in 2004. Soldiers, police and intelligence agencies in Pakistan regularly torture and kill abducted activists in a campaign to quash a separatist movement, a rights group said Thursday.(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)AFP - Soldiers, police and intelligence agencies in Pakistan regularly torture and kill abducted activists in a campaign to quash a separatist movement, a rights group said Thursday.

Indonesian fishermen find body of American surfer (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:58 AM PDT

FILE - This May 2008 file photo provided by family friend Maurice Mitchell shows Daniel Bobis on his wedding day in Point Lookout, N.Y. Bobis, 32, a math teacher and coach at Long Beach High School in New York, disappeared during an apparent surfing accident off the coast of western Indonesia on July 24, 2011. Local fishermen say they found his body about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from where he's last been seen. (AP Photo/courtesy of Maurice Mitchell, Allison Caviness, File)AP - Local fishermen on Thursday found the body of an American surfer who went missing last weekend in waters off western Indonesia.

Afghan Taliban launch twin attacks in the south (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:51 AM PDT

Afghan army soldiers looks on during their graduation ceremony at the National Army's training center in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday July 28, 2011. Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai earlier this week told his country's soldiers and police that they face a difficult year ahead as they take on more security responsibilities, but he wants them to push ahead so that Afghanistan can eventually defend itself.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)AP - Two suicide bombers and militants armed with heavy weapons launched twin attacks targeting the Afghan government and its allies Thursday, killing at least 19 people in the latest outburst of violence weakening the government's grip on the Taliban's southern heartland.

China drub sorry Laos in World Cup qualifier (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:32 AM PDT

China stormed into the third round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers on Thursday as they smashed six past hapless Laos to claim a 13-3 aggregate victory. Laos went into the match in Vientiane trailing 7-2 after the first leg and there was no let-up from the visitors as Qu Bo opened the scoring after 24 minutes before Yu Hanchao, pictured in June 2011, put China two up at half-time.(AFP/File)AFP - China stormed into the third round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers on Thursday as they smashed six past hapless Laos to claim a 13-3 aggregate victory.

Flooding rains may have shifted SKorean land mines (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:21 AM PDT

Vehicles are submerged in floodwater after heavy rain in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 28, 2011. Thousands of rescuers used heavy machinery and shovels Thursday to clear mud and search for survivors after huge landslides and flooding killed more than 40 people in South Korea.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - South Korea's military warned Thursday that buried land mines may have slid down mountains eroded by flooding rains this week as the death toll from the torrential downpours rose to at least 57.

US, North Korea hold nuclear talks (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:19 AM PDT

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan talks to press as leaves his hotel in New York. The United States opened discussions Thursday with North Korea, in a move testing Pyongyang's willingness to negotiate giving up its nuclear arsenal.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)AFP - The United States opened discussions Thursday with North Korea, in a move testing Pyongyang's willingness to negotiate giving up its nuclear arsenal.

Bus, truck collision in Bangladesh kills 17 (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 07:42 AM PDT

Bangladeshi villagers walk past the wreckage of a bus after it collided with a truck at Shajahanpur in Bogra district, 176 kilometers (110 miles) north of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, July 28, 2011. At least 17 people died and 30 others were injured, a police official said. (AP Photo/ Monirul Islam)AP - A crowded bus collided head on with a truck in northern Bangladesh on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 30, police said.

Official: Missing SKorean pilot reported fire (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:15 AM PDT

AP - A pilot aboard an Asiana Airlines cargo plane that crashed Thursday in waters off a southern South Korean resort island reported a fire just before losing contact with air traffic workers, an official said.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi seeks end to ethnic fighting (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:39 AM PDT

AP - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called upon Myanmar's new president to implement a cease-fire and open peace talks to end fighting with ethnic guerrilla groups.

3 Indonesians found guilty in Islamic sect attack (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:17 AM PDT

Indonesian Muslims who are on trial for their involvement in a fatal attack against followers of a minority Islamic sect earlier this year wait for the start of the hearing at a holding cell at a district court in Serang, Banten province, Indonesia, Thursday, July 28, 2011. The court has sentenced the men to up to six months in jail for their roles in the attack. (AP Photo)AP - The ringleader of a frenzied mob attack that killed three members of a minority Muslim sect was sentenced Thursday to 5 1/2 months in prison in a ruling decried by critics as too lenient and a blow to religious freedom in Indonesia.

7 Filipino troops die, 21 wounded in rebel clash (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:34 AM PDT

AP - Abu Sayyaf militants killed seven Philippine marines and wounded 21 others who were about to raid their jungle camp Thursday in some of the fiercest fighting this year between the military and the al-Qaida-linked rebels.

Smoke in oven sends Air Canada jet back to Sydney (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:06 AM PDT

An Air Canada Boeing 777 sits at a gate after it was forced to return to Sydney Airport in Sydney, Thursday, July 28, 2011, after crew members saw smoke coming from an oven in the galley. No one on Flight AC34 was injured in the incident, which forced the pilot to dump fuel before safely landing. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - An Air Canada flight returned to Sydney airport on Thursday after crew members saw smoke coming from an oven in the galley, an airline official said.

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Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:01 AM PDT

AP - Afghan official: 17 killed in suicide attacks on government compound in southern Afghanistan.

Afghan police suffer worst casualties of war (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:41 AM PDT

In this May 10, 2011 photo, Afghan medics place cotton under the broken leg of Afghan policeman Jan Agha at the police hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Agha, 26, broke both of his legs in several places while under fire from the Taliban during patrol. Unlike thousands of his fallen comrades, Agha of Maidan Shah in Wardak province, lived to tell this story: Afghan policemen on the front line of the war suffer more deaths and injuries than Afghan soldiers or U.S.-led coalition forces. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - The Taliban were raining fire on his checkpoint when Afghan policeman Jan Agha heard the whooshing sound of an incoming rocket just as he was tying a tourniquet on his bloody hand ripped by a machine gun bullet.

Indian village organizer among Magsaysay winners (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:11 AM PDT

AP - An Indian village organizer and an Indonesian who has helped impoverished rural villages run small hydropower plants are among the six winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Awards.

Lao forests feeding Vietnam industry, group says (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:25 AM PDT

AP - Despite an export ban, Vietnamese companies are smuggling logs from the once rich forests of Laos to feed a billion-dollar wood industry that turns timber into furniture for export to the Europe and the United States, an environmental group said Thursday.
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