Tuesday, February 28, 2012

He tweeted photos of flames when Nascar's biggest race was suspended

He tweeted photos of flames when Nascar's biggest race was suspended

He tweeted photos of flames when Nascar's biggest race was suspended

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:59 PM PST

It was, certainly, an unusual place to tweet from: Car No. 2 at the Daytona 500, the race suspended, part of the track ablaze with burning jet fuel. "Fire!" Brad Keselowski, the driver of the No. 2...

In 911 call, student describes moment when killer pulled out gun

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:49 PM PST

TJ Lane, the teenager accused of killing three students in a shooting at a school cafeteria in the US state of Ohio, admitted taking a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to Chardon High and firing 10 shot...

US sees Iran attacks as likely if Israel strikes

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:49 PM PST

American officials who have assessed the likely Iranian responses to any attack by Israel on its nuclear program believe that Iran would retaliate by launching missiles on Israel and terrorist-style a...

Remains of some 9/11 victims went to landfill

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 09:16 PM PST

Partial remains from some victims of the September 11 attacks were dumped in a landfill, the Pentagon on Tuesday revealed for the first time, issuing a report that exposed years of bungling at the US ...

Japanese robot finds lost things

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:36 PM PST

The red and white robot, named EMIEW2, is about the size of a six-year-old child and glides everywhere on wheels at the bottom of its legs, its round, white face with two black eyes vaguely reminiscen...

Ohio school shooter confesses; 911 calls reveal tense moments

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:28 PM PST

The teenager accused of killing three students in a shooting at a school cafeteria in the US state of Ohio chose his victims at random and is "someone who's not well," a prosecutor said on Tuesday as ...

Romney wins Michigan, Arizona presidential primaries

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 07:42 PM PST

Mitt Romney scored a hard-won, home state triumph in Michigan and powered to victory in Arizona Tuesday night, gaining a two-state primary sweep over Rick Santorum and precious momentum in the most tu...

Oops! Beer shower for German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 07:12 PM PST

German chancellor Angela Merkel was greeted by a beer shower at a high profile event on Tuesday when a waiter spilled a tray of beer glasses on her.

French court rules genocide law unconstitutional

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 07:03 PM PST

France's Constitutional Council ruled on Tuesday that a French law concerning the mass killings of Armenians a century ago violates the country's constitution.

Syria civilian death toll 'well over 7,500': UN

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:17 PM PST

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can be classified as a war criminal, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as the United Nations announced more than 7,500 civilians had been killed by his forc...

Police monitoring and a climate of fear

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:12 PM PST

The counterman at the Jordan Halal Restaurant, a greasy spoon of a greasy spoon on South Orange Avenue, tossed up his hands as I pulled out my press card. No, no, he doesn't want to speak, please no.

Death toll rises to three in Ohio school shooting

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 11:40 AM PST

The death toll rose to three Tuesday in the shooting rampage in an Ohio high school cafeteria as schoolmates and townspeople grappled with the tragedy and wondered what could have set the teenage gunm...

Michael Douglas tackles greed for FBI

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:55 AM PST

Gordon Gekko is cooperating with the F.B.I. No, there's not another big-budget Oliver Stone follow-up to "Wall Street" in the works. Instead, Michael Douglas, who played the financier in the 1987 m...

US rule set for cameras at cars' rear

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:01 AM PST

On average, two children die and about 50 are injured every week when someone accidentally backs over them in a vehicle, according to KidsAndCars.org, a nonprofit group that pushed the government to b...

Choppers to fly food, flashlights to passengers on crippled Italian cruise ship

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:23 AM PST

Helicopters will ferry food and flashlights to more than 1,000 passengers and crew stuck aboard a disabled cruise ship that is being towed to the Seychelles Islands through waters prowled by pirates, ...

New UK immigration rule to cover Indians

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:53 AM PST

Indian citizens with permission to settle in the UK permanently will need to apply for a biometric residence permit (BRP) as part of changes in immigration rules intended to make it harder for non-Eur...

Student brain dead in Ohio shooting

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:48 AM PST

Authorities say a student wounded in an Ohio school shooting has been declared brain dead, the second reported fatality. Hugh Shannon, administrator at the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office, s...

Japan hid dangers of nuclear disaster, finds probe

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:19 AM PST

The Japanese government withheld information about the full danger of last year's nuclear disaster from its own people and from the United States, putting US-Japan relations at risk in the first days ...

WikiLeaks show Coca-Cola used Stratfor to gauge threat of Olympic protestors

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 01:11 AM PST

Private intelligence firm Stratfor was paid by Coca-Cola to gauge the threat of Olympic protesters, provided Dow Chemical information on environmental activists, and sells what clients and subscribers...

Gunmen open fire on bus in Pakistan, 18 killed

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:39 AM PST

Gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus in the northern Pakistani district of Kohistan in an apparent sectarian attack on Tuesday, killing 18 people, police officials said. The bus was traveling from ce...
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