Turkey quake: 13-year-old rescued after 100 hours

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• Turkey quake: 13-year-old rescued after 100 hours
• Small plane crashes near Vancouver airport, 9 injured
• Teenager saved days after Turkey quake as toll reaches 550
• Post-Gaddafi, Libyans launch 'The Free Talk Show'
• Thai Prime Minister admits government cannot control floods
• Study shows why it's hard to keep weight off
• Egypt swaps arrested US-Israeli for 25 prisoners
• Twin bombs kill 18 in Baghdad, say officials
• Insurgents attack US-run base in Afghanistan
• Australia-New Zealand navies discover WW-II submarine
• Five senior Taliban militants killed in drone attack in Pak
• At least nine dead in Italy flash floods
• Turkey quake death toll rises to 523
• Rajat Gupta surrendered on Diwali, thinking 'Gods will protect him'
• Boeing's 787 takes flight, and lives up to its promise
• To liberalisation of popular culture, China says 'enough'

Turkey quake: 13-year-old rescued after 100 hours Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:49 AM PDT Rescuers, working under floodlights, pulled a 13-year-old boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building early on Friday, over 100 hours after a massive earthquake.

Small plane crashes near Vancouver airport, 9 injured Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:22 AM PDT A small plane broke into pieces as it crashed on a city street while approaching Vancouver's airport on Thursday afternoon, injuring all nine people aboard. No one was killed.

Teenager saved days after Turkey quake as toll reaches 550 Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:30 AM PDT Snow blanketed quake-hit eastern Turkey, while emergency crews found a teenager alive in the rubble more than 100 hours after the disaster even as the death toll climbed to 550.

Post-Gaddafi, Libyans launch 'The Free Talk Show' Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:18 AM PDT Is this a new dawn for Libya? Days after Gaddafi's death, a group of young Libyans have launched the country's first news, talk and music radio show, broadcast in English.

Thai Prime Minister admits government cannot control floods Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:27 AM PDT Clambering aboard bamboo rafts and army trucks, residents fled waterlogged homes on the outskirts of Thailand's capital on Thursday as floods that have engulfed a third of the country inched closer to downtown areas and foreign governments urged their citizens to avoid unessential travel to the threatened city.

Study shows why it's hard to keep weight off Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:34 AM PDT For years, studies of obesity have found that soon after fat people lost weight, their metabolism slowed and they experienced hormonal changes that increased their appetites. Scientists hypothesized that these biological changes could explain why most obese dieters quickly gained back much of what they had so painfully lost.

Egypt swaps arrested US-Israeli for 25 prisoners Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:50 PM PDT A U.S.-Israeli citizen arrested in Egypt as a suspected spy flew to freedom in Israel and into his mother's arms on Thursday after more than four months in jail, after a prisoner swap deal that has eased friction between the two countries.

Twin bombs kill 18 in Baghdad, say officials Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:43 PM PDT A twin bombing killed 18 people on Thursday in a Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad - the deadliest attack to rock Iraq since President Barack Obama declared the full withdrawal of US forces at the end of the year.

Insurgents attack US-run base in Afghanistan Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:03 PM PDT Insurgents attacked a U.S.-run civilian and military base with rocket-propelled grenades and guns in a brazen early afternoon assault in the southern city of Kandahar, a traditional Taliban stronghold, Afghan officials said on Thursday. Two attackers were killed.

Australia-New Zealand navies discover WW-II submarine Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:58 PM PDT Navy exercises off Papua New Guinea have uncovered what is believed to be the wreck of a World War II submarine in a notorious wartime harbour, officials said today.

Five senior Taliban militants killed in drone attack in Pak Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:36 PM PDT Five senior Taliban militants, including a brother and another relative of commander Mullah Nazir, were today killed in a US drone strike in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan.

At least nine dead in Italy flash floods Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:59 AM PDT Soldiers and civilian rescue workers are searching for survivors after flash floods and mudslides inundated picturesque villages around the coastal region of Liguria and Tuscany.

Turkey quake death toll rises to 523 Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:48 AM PDT Rain and snow on Thursday compounded difficulties for thousands rendered homeless in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey, and the government said the death toll has gone up to 523. The prime minister's center for crisis and emergency management said 1,650 people were injured and 185 were rescued from the rubble.

Rajat Gupta surrendered on Diwali, thinking 'Gods will protect him' Posted: 27 Oct 2011 08:52 AM PDT Diwali for Rajat Gupta, facing insider trading charges, was dark but the Indian-American poster boy of Wall Street success felt it was auspicious to surrender on the day of the festival of lights, thinking that "Gods will protect him".

Boeing's 787 takes flight, and lives up to its promise Posted: 27 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT It's the plane that is supposed to change the experience of flying. No more stuffy noses, dry throats or severe fatigue. Larger windows to provide a stronger connection to the world outside. And mood lighting that can either ease jet lag or turn the plane into a nightclub at 40,000 feet.

To liberalisation of popular culture, China says 'enough' Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:54 AM PDT Communist leaders in China are proposing new limits on media and Internet freedoms that include some of the most restrictive measures in years.

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