Monday, October 31, 2011

FBI releases surveillance tapes of Anna Chapman

FBI releases surveillance tapes of Anna Chapman

FBI releases surveillance tapes of Anna Chapman

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:57 AM PDT

The FBI on Monday released surveillance tapes, photos and hundreds of pages of documents that shed new light on operation "Ghost Stories," the bureau's investigation of a ring of Russian sleeper agents that ended after more than a decade in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.

US cuts UNESCO funding over Palestinian vote

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:22 AM PDT

The Obama administration on Monday cut off funding for the U.N. cultural agency, after its member countries defied an American warning and approved a Palestinian bid for full membership in the body.

Palestine becomes full member of UNESCO

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:01 PM PDT

Palestine became a full member of UNESCO on Monday, in a highly divisive breakthrough that could cost the agency a fifth of its budget and that the U.S. and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts.

From India to Africa, '7 billionth' babies celebrated

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:54 PM PDT

At a crowded public hospital, Seun Dupe's twin boys squirm underneath a bundled-up mosquito net as they share the same bassinet. Already they are part of the swelling tide of history, as the U.N. on Monday marked the world population reaching seven billion amid fears of how the planet will cope.

Suicide attack near UN office in Kandahar in Afghanistan, four killed

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:35 PM PDT

A suicide bomber slammed a pickup truck packed with explosives into a checkpoint in a neighbourhood housing U.N. and international aid group offices in the southern city of Kandahar on Monday, killing four people including the district police chief, Afghan officials said.

US snow leaves three million powerless; 12 dead

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:31 PM PDT

Thousands of schoolchildren around the Northeast woke up to powerless homes and one of the earliest snow days in memory Monday after a storm dumped as much as 30 inches of wet, heavy snow that snapped trees and electricity lines and threatened to disrupt Halloween trick-or-treating.

BBC training staff to announce Queen's death: Report

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT

The BBC is reportedly training all its news presenters how to announce the British Queen's death in case of the 85-year-old Monarch's demise.

Passengers trapped in grounded plane for over 7 hours

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:06 AM PDT

Passengers on at least three JetBlue planes and one American Airline plane say they were stranded on the tarmac for seven hours or more after being diverted from New York-area airports on Saturday.

Berlusconi named in US govt report on human trafficking

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:07 AM PDT

There is more embarrassment for Silvio Berlusconi, with a US report on human trafficking naming the Italian Prime Minister as a result of his alleged sexual relationship with a Moroccan-born underage prostitute.

Qantas returns to the skies after fleet grounding

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:02 AM PDT

Qantas Airways planes returned to the skies on Monday after an Australian court ruled on a bitter labour dispute that had prompted the world's 10th-largest airline to ground its entire fleet.

Philippines welcomes symbolic '7 billionth baby'

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:35 AM PDT

The Philippines welcomed one of the world's symbolic "seven billionth" babies Monday, after she arrived to a celebratory cheer at a packed government-run hospital. Weighing 2.5 kilos (5.5 pounds), Danica May Camacho was delivered just before midnight Sunday amid an explosion of camera flashes in the delivery room at Manila's Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital.
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