Monday, October 24, 2011

Gaddafi's body taken from freezer, burial could be today

Gaddafi's body taken from freezer, burial could be today

Gaddafi's body taken from freezer, burial could be today

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:13 AM PDT

The bodies of Moammar Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a former aide have been moved from a commercial freezer in a warehouse area of Misrata in anticipation of burial, a security guard said.

Judge who convicted Taseer's assassin seeks refuge in Saudi Arabia

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:07 AM PDT

The Pakistani judge who gave the death sentence to Governor Salmaan Taseer's self-confessed assassin has sought refuge in Saudi Arabia with his family after receiving death threats from religious extremists.

War crimes charges filed against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT

Ahead of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, a Sri Lankan man, who migrated to Australia, has filed war crimes charges against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a city court here.

Turkey quake: Death toll rises to 279

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:47 AM PDT

Distraught Turkish families mourned outside a mosque or sought to identify loved ones among rows of bodies Monday as rescue workers scoured debris for survivors after a 7.2-magnitude quake that killed at least 279 people.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' biography hits the bookstores

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:31 AM PDT

The eagerly awaited biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hit bookstores on Monday, painting a candid portrait of a technology visionary who could be as bruising as he was brilliant. The 630-page book, titled simply "Steve Jobs," is already number one on the list of best-sellers for Amazon's Kindle and goes on sale less than three weeks after Jobs died at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Steve Jobs’ biography: Making the iBio for Apple’s genius

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:23 AM PDT

After Steve Jobs anointed Walter Isaacson as his authorized biographer in 2009, he took Mr. Isaacson to see the Mountain View, Calif., house in which he had lived as a boy. He pointed out its "clean design" and "awesome little features." He praised the developer, Joseph Eichler, who built more than 11,000 homes in California subdivisions, for making an affordable product on a mass-market scale. And he showed Mr. Isaacson the stockade fence built 50 years earlier by his father, Paul Jobs.

Full transcript of Assange's interview with NDTV

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:07 PM PDT

After announcing that WikiLeaks would temporarily suspend publication in order to raise funds for its operations, its founder Julian Assange told NDTV that he was grateful for the strong Indian support and that he was in the process of setting up an Indian bank account for supporters to deposit donations.

WikiLeaks suspends release of secrets to seek cash

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 11:01 AM PDT

One of the world's most notorious secret-spillers is going silent. WikiLeaks said in a statement on Monday that it would stop publishing in order to focus on making money - explaining that the blockade imposed by financial companies including Visa, MasterCard, Western Union and PayPal left it with no choice.

53 bodies of Gaddafi loyalists found, says human rights group

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT

A human rights groups says it has discovered 53 decomposing bodies, apparently of Moammar Gaddafi loyalists, some of whom may have been executed by revolutionary forces. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Monday that the discovery in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte "seems part of a trend of killings, looting and other abuses committed by anti-Gaddafi fighters who consider themselves above the law."

Steve Jobs' search for his father

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:59 AM PDT

A Sunday night interview on "60 Minutes" with Steve Jobs's biographer Walter Isaacson included audio recordings of Mr. Jobs describing a remarkable moment in his life: an accidental encounter with his biological father.

Potential new Saudi Crown Prince: Hard-line but pragmatic

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:59 AM PDT

With the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia tumbling and much of the region churning this past February, Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, the veteran Saudi interior minister who is expected to be elevated to crown prince this week, swept into a private Riyadh home where he had summoned leading editors and columnists to dinner.

Indian student wrongly detained, to get 600,000 Oz dollars

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:39 AM PDT

An Indian student, who was detained in 2004, by Australian immigration authorities for violating visa rules, is likely to get a whopping compensation of 600,000 Australian dollars after the country's human rights body termed his detention as 'arbitrary'.

Libya declared free, but Gaddafi death questioned

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:14 AM PDT

Libya's interim rulers declared the country liberated on Sunday after an 8-month civil war, launching the oil-rich nation on what is meant to be a two-year transition to democracy. But they laid out plans with an Islamist tone that could rattle their Western backers. The circumstances of Gaddafi's death remain unclear. In separate accounts late Sunday, two Libyan fighters said Gaddafi was hurt after being captured, but was able to stand. One said that when he and others placed Gaddafi in an ambulance, the former Libyan leader had not yet suffered what Libya's chief pathologist said was a fatal gunshot to the head.
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