Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Write to Swiss officials and contempt case will end, Gilani told

Write to Swiss officials and contempt case will end, Gilani told

Write to Swiss officials and contempt case will end, Gilani told

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:05 PM PST

Pakistan's Supreme Court today said contempt of court proceedings against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani would automatically end if the chief executive wrote a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen...

Woman in China gives birth to 15-pound baby

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:01 PM PST

A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country's founding in 1949. The state-run Tianjin Post said Tuesday...

Maldives crises: The Dregs of Dictatorship

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:47 PM PST

The following opinion piece was authored by the recently ousted president of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed. The Dregs of Dictatorship: Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office....

Radical US Muslims of little threat, says study

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:45 PM PST

A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialised, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new ...

In grip of cold, Afghan family buries eighth child

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:35 PM PST

The war refugee Sayid Mohammad lost his last son on Wednesday, 3-month-old Khan, who became the 24th child to die of exposure in camps here in the past month. "After we had dinner he was crying all ni...

Violence spreads in Maldives as ex-leader's allies seize few police posts

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:23 PM PST

Supporters of the Maldives former president rioted through the streets of the capital and seized some remote police stations today to demand his reinstatement, as the country's new leader appealed for...

Seven-year-old US girl fights off kidnapper in supermarket

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:31 PM PST

Authorities say a 7-year-old girl recalled her stranger danger training and was able to get away from a parolee who tried to abduct her at a Walmart store in west Georgia.

Maldives crisis: Was made to resign at gunpoint, says ex-President Nasheed

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:23 PM PST

As the political turmoil in Maldives continues to grow, ousted president Mohamed Nasheed alleged that he was forced to step down at gunpoint. Insisting that it was a coup, Mr Nasheed said, "I was forc...

At 22 inches, this man from Nepal could just be 'world's shortest man'

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:57 PM PST

Pilloried by neighbours, laughed at in freakshows and spurned by the women he admired from afar, Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse.

US teen girl gets life for killing 9-yr-old

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:28 PM PST

A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with th...

Metro derails in Chile, crashes into building

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:06 PM PST

A subway train that was being tested following repairs derailed and crashed into a building in the Chilean capital Santiago on Wednesday morning.

World Trade Centre cost rises to $14.8 billion

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:48 AM PST

The agency that is building the new World Trade Centre is "dysfunctional" and has let costs get out of control on the $14.8 billion project, auditors said on Tuesday. The projected cost of the complex...

Soldiers sweep ice for Dutch skating race

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:25 AM PST

Dutch troops joined a race against time on Wednesday to prepare ice for a legendary 125-mile (200-kilometer) race across frozen waterways in the northern Netherlands that could be staged for the first...

Maldives crisis: India was asked to intervene, says ex-president's aide

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:06 AM PST

As the political turmoil in Maldives continues to grow, ousted president Mohamed Nasheed's camp says that India was asked to intervene militarily in the deepening crisis.

The 911 call after a dad blew up house with sons inside

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:15 AM PST

Police released 911 calls that revealed a social worker's frantic attempts to alert authorities that Josh Powell had locked himself in his home with his two young sons, moments before he set off a hug...

Pakistan fishermen catch giant 7000 kg whale shark

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:33 AM PST

In what is believed to be one of the biggest catch in the high seas, Pakistani fishermen have caught a giant whale shark - about 36 foot long and weighing over 7,000 kg.

Europe orders checks on every A380

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:23 AM PST

Europe's air safety authority is calling for checks on the entire fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbo jets for cracks on parts inside the wings - extending a previous order to check nearly a third of the ...

Storm over video of boy made to run naked through New York snow

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:14 AM PST

A home-filmed video showing a four-year-old Chinese boy being forced by his parents to run almost naked through the snow in bitterly cold New York has gone viral and sparked an online uproar.

Lanka govt releases video of alleged LTTE atrocities

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:42 AM PST

Facing an onslaught from the international community for alleged war crimes, the Sri Lankan government today released a video which they claimed carries "authentic evidence" of LTTE's atrocities durin...

Pakistan PM files appeal in Supreme Court against summoning in contempt case

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:07 AM PST

Citing precedents set by apex courts in countries like India, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court seeking suspension of its order summoning him for fr...
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