Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Pakistan helping Taliban: Secret NATO report

Pakistan helping Taliban: Secret NATO report


Pakistan helping Taliban: Secret NATO report

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:33 PM PST

The Pakistani security services are secretly helping Afghanistan's Taliban, who assume their victory is inevitable once Western troops leave, a secret NATO document says, according to reports on Wedne...


Romney would rank among richest presidents ever

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:32 PM PST

Just how rich is Mitt Romney? Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you're in Romney territory. He would be among the richest...


World Trade Center design flaw could cost millions

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:24 PM PST

The agency building the new World Trade Center says a design flaw could add millions of dollars to the cost of the complex's signature tower. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Tues...


World Trade Center design flaw could cost millions

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:23 PM PST

The agency building the new World Trade Center says a design flaw could add millions of dollars to the cost of the complex's signature tower. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Tues...


Pakistan considers India an existential threat: US

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:39 PM PST

The United States wants its relations with Pakistan to remain positive, but their interests sometimes differed as Pakistan considered India as an existential threat, Washington's intelligence chief to...


US, allies urge UN action to end violence in Syria

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:17 PM PST

Vowing to avoid "another Libya," the U.S. and its allies challenged Russia on Tuesday to overcome its opposition to a U.N. draft resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad yield power and...


Romney wins Florida primary, may emerge as Obama's challenger

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:17 PM PST

Mitt Romney trounced main rival Newt Gingrich in Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday, putting himself in a commanding position to win the nomination to take on President Barack Obama in November, ...


Anger and poverty unite former enemies in Bosnia

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:27 AM PST

They were bitter enemies on opposite sides of the front line during the horrors of the Bosnian War. Now, one side is bailing out the other in an act of once-unimaginable generosity. Bosniak and Croat ...


New app helps find who 'unfriends' you on Facebook

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:16 AM PST

People who have been "unfriended" on social network Facebook can now check out the person through a new software that can be installed in any internet browser. The software -- called "Unfriend Finder"...


Los Angeles teacher charged with molesting 23 kids

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:07 AM PST

A Los Angeles elementary school teacher bound and gagged nearly two dozen children, put cockroaches on some of their faces and posed in photos with them, possibly inside a classroom, the Los Angeles C...


WikiLeaks' Assange to guest star on 'The Simpsons'

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:43 AM PST

Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, will guest star on the 500th episode of the animated TV comedy show "The Simpsons" that will be aired Feb 19, The Entertainment Weekly...


Indian-origin man's murder accused found dead in jail

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:58 AM PST

A Lithuanian national arrested for the twin murders of Indian-origin man Avtar Singh Kolar and his English wife in Birmingham has been found hanging in his prison cell, where he was lodged since early...


Pak will be 'force multiplier' in China's rise, says Zardari

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:03 AM PST

Pakistan and China are finding new "comfort zones" to consolidate their ties, President Asif Ali Zardari has said, declaring that Islamabad will be a "force multiplier" in China's emergence as the wor...


Newsreader who 'buried Putin' is Internet star

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:29 AM PST

A newsreader who slipped up and said bloggers were debating whether Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should be buried has become an Internet sensation and received thousands of grateful posts in Russia.


Car slams into house, lands on sleeping man

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:33 AM PST

A police chase ended early Tuesday when the suspect's car slammed into a house, coming to rest inside a bedroom and on top of a sleeping man. The tenant, 34-year-old Michael Sweat, was pinned under...


Obama's remark on drone strikes angers Pakistan

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:29 AM PST

Hours after President Barack Obama confirmed that US drones regularly target militants in its tribal belt, Pakistan today said such attacks were "unlawful" and a violation of its sovereignty.


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