Hurricane Irene cost seen as ranking among top ten |
- Hurricane Irene cost seen as ranking among top ten
- This car hasn't broken down since 1904
- Gadhafi's daughter delivers a baby in exile
- WikiLeaks site comes under cyberattack
- Putin rides on a three-wheel Harley to impress Russian youths
- Libyan rebels demand Algeria return Gaddafi's family
- Unions in Chile declare general strike, block copper mines
- Controversy over ads that offer brides for sale
- Man hid 7 snakes, 3 tortoises in his pants
- Two special Eid trains collide in Pakistan, two killed
- Angry father throws young son off boat
- Lithuanian jet crashes after midair collision
- Strauss Kahn visits IMF headquarters in Washington
- Four Indian Americans among top fund raisers for Obama
| Hurricane Irene cost seen as ranking among top ten Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:56 AM PDT Hurricane Irene will most likely prove to be one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in the nation's history, and analysts said that much of the damage might not be covered by insurance because it was caused not by winds but by flooding, which is excluded from many standard policies. 
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| This car hasn't broken down since 1904 Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:43 AM PDT A couple in Britain are proud owners of a car which hasn't broken down in the last 107 years. The one-cylinder motor vehicle, which can run at a top speed of over 46 km per hour, averages around 17 km per litre. 
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| Gadhafi's daughter delivers a baby in exile Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:43 AM PDT Hunted throughout her homeland and forced to flee into exile across a dangerous desert border, the daughter of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi paused somewhere in the Sahara to have a baby. 
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| WikiLeaks site comes under cyberattack Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:16 AM PDT The WikiLeaks website crashed in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organisation raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential US embassy sources. 
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| Putin rides on a three-wheel Harley to impress Russian youths Posted: 30 Aug 2011 12:15 PM PDT Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reached out to the politically indifferent younger generation by making a spectacular entrance on a three-wheel Harley Davidson at a motorbike festival ahead of the December parliamentary polls. 
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| Libyan rebels demand Algeria return Gaddafi's family Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:50 AM PDT Libyan rebels are demanding that Algeria return Muammar Gaddafi's wife and three of his children for trial after they fled, raising tensions between the neighboring countries. 
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| Unions in Chile declare general strike, block copper mines Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:07 AM PDT Protesters blocked access to Chile's largest copper mines by setting barricades on fire as unions declared a general strike in Calama. 
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| Controversy over ads that offer brides for sale Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:53 AM PDT Marriage bureaus in China are offering to organize Vietnamese brides for men, and if they run away, the agencies promise free replacements. Matchmaking agencies have posted advertisements offering Vietnamese women for 200,000 yuan (US $32,000), the Shanghai Daily reported. 
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| Man hid 7 snakes, 3 tortoises in his pants Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:51 AM PDT The Transportation Security Administration says a man tried to board a flight from Miami to Brazil with nylon bags filled with exotic snakes and tortoises hidden in his pants. 
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| Two special Eid trains collide in Pakistan, two killed Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:48 AM PDT Two special passenger trains carrying people headed home for Eid celebrations, collided near this Pakistani city today, killing two persons and injuring 19 others. The two special Eid trains collided after one of them had to unexpectedly stop near the Lahore railway station and the other hit it from behind. 
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| Angry father throws young son off boat Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:37 AM PDT It was a pleasant afternoon aboard a sightseeing cruise around California's scenic Newport Harbor until the unthinkable happened - a man threw his crying 7-year-old son overboard during an argument in front of shocked passengers, authorities said. Sloane Briles, 35, was taken into custody for child endangerment and resisting arrest, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said. 
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| Lithuanian jet crashes after midair collision Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:28 AM PDT Lithuania's Defense Ministry says a Lithuanian military jet has crashed after colliding midair with a French NATO plane. 
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| Strauss Kahn visits IMF headquarters in Washington Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:45 AM PDT Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF visited the headquarters of the body here to meet his successor and say goodbye to his ex-colleagues following the dismissal of sex assault charges against him. 
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| Four Indian Americans among top fund raisers for Obama Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:42 AM PDT Four Indian Americans have emerged among the key fund raisers for Barack Obama, raising almost a million dollars among themselves for the US President's re-election campaign. 
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