Sunday, February 5, 2012

'JFK slept with me when I was an intern'

'JFK slept with me when I was an intern'

'JFK slept with me when I was an intern'

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 09:21 PM PST

Then US president John F. Kennedy took the virginity of a White House intern in a side room a few feet away from where staffers were drinking at an after-work party, the Daily Mail Sunday quoted a new...

6.8 earthquake in Philippines; one dead

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 09:18 PM PST

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines on Monday, killing a child and triggering a local tsunami alert. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology issued the tsunami ale...

Pak cannot afford war over Kashmir: Gilani

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 09:01 PM PST

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today acknowledged that the Kashmir issue would have to be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy as Pakistan "cannot afford wars" in the 21st century. Four...

Clamour to stop aid to India grows louder in Britain after Dassault Rafale deal

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:50 PM PST

The clamour to stop the aid reached a new high when India last week decided to prefer the French fighter jet Dassault Rafale to the Typhoon, which is partly manufactured in Britain. The debate was pas...

In Afghan war, officer becomes a whistle-blower

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:49 PM PST

On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis travelled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent ...

Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:23 PM PST

For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be immi...

Nine-year-old US girl undergoes six-organ transplant

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 10:08 AM PST

The surgery performed on young Alannah Shevenell, sought to remove an aggressive cancerous growth festering since 2008, and that had attacked her stomach, liver, pancreas, esophagus, small intestine a...

Egypt clashes rage into fourth day

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 10:05 AM PST

Protesters and police fought pitched battles on Sunday at security headquarters in Cairo as deadly clashes raged into a fourth day and the interior minister leapt to the defence of his reviled forces....

Fauja Singh, world's 'oldest marathoner', competes in Hong Kong

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 09:23 AM PST

Born in 1911 and affectionately nicknamed the "Turbaned Torpedo", Fauja Singh finished the Hing Kong race in just over one hour and 34 minutes, organisers said, raising HK$200,000 ($25,800) for the ch...

Gilani laments 'stark difference' in democracy in India, Pak

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 09:21 AM PST

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday pointed to the "stark difference" in the continuity of the democratic systems of India and Pakistan and said conspiracies were being hatched agains...

Europe cold snap kills 176, heavy snow traps residents in Bosnia

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 08:41 AM PST

Bosnia's government declared a state of emergency in its capital on Saturday after Sarajevo was paralysed by snow, while in Rome residents dug out from the city's biggest snowfall in 26 years, which s...

Queen prepares to mark 60 years on throne

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:12 AM PST

Queen Elizabeth II braved the cold and snow to attend church on Sunday on the eve of her Diamond Jubilee anniversary. Bundled in a brown coat and matching fur hat, Elizabeth was joined by her husband,...

Seven dead in attack on Afghan police building: official

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:05 AM PST

Seven people were killed on Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a bastion of Taliban militancy, the interior ministry said. Three polic...

Nigeria oil line on fire; militants claim attack

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 06:29 AM PST

An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, their first alleged assault in months as its purported leader awaits trial on t...

Russia, China justify veto as criticisms mount

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 04:52 AM PST

As their UN Security Council veto on Syria invited bitter criticism, both Russia and China shot back today contending that the half-baked resolution would have only sent an "unbalanced signal" to the ...

Dominican migrant boat overturns; at least 10 dead

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 04:34 AM PST

An overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic overturned in the pre-dawn darkness on Saturday off the coast of the Caribbean country, killing at least 10 people and leaving dozens m...

41 in court at first Libya trial of Gaddafi loyalists

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 04:26 AM PST

Libya put 41 loyalists of dead dictator Moamer Gaddafi on trial on Sunday, in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime which was ousted after a bloody conflict.

Quake felt 70 km from Iranian nuclear plant

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 03:16 AM PST

An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale was felt some 70 km from Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the US Geological Survey reported on Sunday. There were no reports of any casualties or dama...

Romney wins big in Nevada, but Gingrich fights on

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 02:48 AM PST

Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney romped to victory in the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, cementing his position as frontrunner to take on President Barack Obama in November.
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