Friday, February 24, 2012

Explosions, gunfire heard in northeast Nigeria

Explosions, gunfire heard in northeast Nigeria

Explosions, gunfire heard in northeast Nigeria

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 10:20 PM PST

Explosions and gunfire could be heard on Friday night across a city in north-east Nigeria previously targeted by a radical Islamist sect, as authorities in another city blame its members for killing f...

Indian housekeeper claims she was treated as 'slave' in UK

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 10:19 PM PST

A senior government official in Britain had kept an Indian housekeeper as a "slave" and fed scraps for four years, according to a media report here.

Iran has expanded sensitive nuclear work: UN agency

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:29 PM PST

Iran has sharply stepped up its controversial uranium enrichment drive, the United Nations' nuclear agency said on Friday in a report that will further inflame Israeli fears that the Islamic Republic ...

Syria to vote on constitution amid bloodshed

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:29 PM PST

Syrians are to vote on Sunday on a new constitution that could end five decades of single-party rule, although the opposition has called a boycott amid a bloody crackdown on dissent.

Spanish duke due in court in corruption case

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:29 PM PST

Spanish King Juan Carlos's son-in-law Inaki Urdangarin goes before a judge on Saturday in a corruption case that has caused a rare embarrassment for Spain's royals.

Dharun Ravi trial: Defendant's views debated in roommate webcam spying case

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 08:29 PM PST

The trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate liaison with another man opened on Friday with questions about whether the defendant had a ...

Red Cross begins evacuations in Syria

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 08:26 PM PST

Western and Arab nations ratcheted up pressure on Syria's Bashar al-Assad as the Red Cross said it had finally gained access to a besieged area of the city of Homs to begin evacuating casualties on Fr...

Russian billionaire wins internet fame with rap

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 11:47 AM PST

Just over a week before Russia's presidential election, billionaire candidate Mikhail Prokhorov's rapping skills have made him an internet star. Prokhorov, who shares ownership of the New Jersey Nets ...

Riot over limited edition Nike basketball shoe

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 11:39 AM PST

More than 100 sheriff's deputies in riot gear had to be called in to break up an out-of-control crowd waiting outside a mall to buy a limited edition Nike basketball shoe. Authorities say there were n...

Records detail New York mosque spying; police defends tactics

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST

The New York Police Department (NYPD) targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organizations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the ...

'Major differences' with Iran on nuclear drive: IAEA

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 10:02 AM PST

The UN atomic agency said on Friday it has "major differences" with Iran and "major concerns" about its nuclear programme, after inspectors probing suspected weapons work returned from Tehran empty-ha...

It's time for Britons to learn English!

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:24 AM PST

A lot of young people in Britain are being expected by their employers to return to the classroom for unlearning the kind of language they use. Bosses say increasing numbers of young recruits are unab...

Memogate: Ijaz submits details of communications with Haqqani

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 08:57 AM PST

Pakistani American businessman Mansoor Ijaz on Friday handed over to the Memo Commission four pages of his Blackberry bill detailing his communications with then Pakistani envoy to the US Husain Haqqa...

Death toll rises to 24 from Afghan anti-US protests

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST

Anti-US protesters tried to storm a US consulate and march on NATO headquarters in Kabul on Friday as violent demonstrations over the burning of Qurans pushed into a fourth day, killing 24 people.

Dharun Ravi trial: Opening arguments in roommate webcam spying case

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 07:53 AM PST

Opening statements have begun in the trial of 19-year-old Dharun Ravi. He faces 15 criminal counts, including invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and charges that allege he tried to cover his track...

From a Playboy cover girl to a Putin critic

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:00 AM PST

Russia's answer to Paris Hilton has emerged as a surprise critic of Vladimir Putin in a protest movement that has pitted the wealthy socialite against the man her father once mentored. Ksenia Sobchak,...

US murder charge dismissed in honeymoon drowning

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:17 AM PST

An Alabama judge on Thursday acquitted Gabe Watson, a US citizen accused of murdering his wife in 2003 while the couple scuba dived during their honeymoon in Australia.

Can United States defuse Quran burning uproar?

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:54 AM PST

After a third day of bloody protests over the burning of the Quran, there is a sense that America is lurching from one image crisis to the next in Afghanistan, with no clear path for U.S. officials to...

US cop suspended, charged after raiding refrigerator

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 11:20 PM PST

A sting operation by a suburban Houston police department netted one of their own when surveillance cameras caught him repeatedly stealing colleagues' food and drinks from the refrigerator in the stat...
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