Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Russian president's cat: Top trend on Twitter

Russian president's cat: Top trend on Twitter


Russian president's cat: Top trend on Twitter

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:40 PM PDT

Dorofey, the cat of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, currently on a visit to India, briefly entered Twitter's top trends after rumors of his disappearance. The Sobesednik weekly reported on Wednesda...


New tool helps US group track sex crimes in Syria

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:10 PM PDT

A U.S. women's group is using new crowd-sourcing techniques to track rape and other sexual violence across Syria in one of the first efforts to monitor assaults against women during military conflict ...


Myanmar polls set to sweep Suu Kyi into Parliament

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:54 PM PDT

The Nobel laureate, who spent most of the past twenty two years locked up by the generals, is widely expected to win a seat in a parliament dominated by the military and its political allies in by-ele...


Earth Hour dilemma: When the "like" button harms the planet

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:43 PM PDT

Green groups around the world are turning to social networking to drive their campaign for Earth Hour on Saturday, when lights are turned off for an hour to signal concern about global warming.But her...


Strauss-Kahn claims immunity in US sex case

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:38 PM PDT

Allegations in the civil suit are much the same as the criminal charges initially lodged against Mr Strauss-Kahn: that Ms Diallo went to clean his luxury hotel suite and found herself being chased, th...


BRICS to eye joint bank, stock exchange tie-up at summit

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:25 PM PDT

The BRICS group of emerging world powerhouses - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - is set to outline plans at a summit this week for a joint development bank, while the five countries' st...


Kuwait arrests man over Prophet Mohammad tweets

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Kuwaiti authorities arrested a local man for insulting the Prophet Mohammad on his Twitter account, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, in a rare case of alleged blasphemy using social media.


'Pushed to a corner', Iran could drop a bomb?

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:22 PM PDT

Pre-emptive military strikes aimed at forcing Iran to abandon its nuclear activities may end up having the opposite effect: convincing the Islamic Republic's leaders they need an atomic arsenal to sec...


Not bound by 'unilateral' sanctions on Iran: BRICS

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:20 PM PDT

The BRICS group of countries have broadly agreed they are not bound by "unilateral" sanctions on Iran, measures that threaten higher global oil prices and could result in supply shortages, South Afric...


'Tens of billions' of habitable worlds in Milky Way

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:03 PM PDT

Astronomers hunting for rocky planets with the right temperature to support life estimate there may be tens of billions of them in our galaxy alone. A European team said on Wednesday that about 40 per...


Pope meets Fidel Castro; wants more freedoms for the church

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:37 AM PDT

Pope Benedict, speaking from Cuba's biggest stage, urged Cubans on Wednesday to search for "authentic freedom" and pressed the communist government to let the Catholic Church teach religion in schools...


Gaddafi family assets worth 1.1 billion Euros seized in Italy

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:38 AM PDT

Italian tax police said on Wednesday it had seized Italian assets worth more than 1.1 billion euros belonging to members of the Gaddafi family. In a statement, the tax police said the assets include s...


Mumbai, Miami on list for big weather disasters

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:07 AM PDT

Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of cl...


Pakistan army chief to meet senior US commanders

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 06:08 AM PDT

Pakistan's army chief will hold his first meeting with senior U.S. commanders on Wednesday to discuss American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at two Afghan border posts last year.


Burglars targeting Asian homes for gold, says UK police

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:24 AM PDT

More incidents of burglars targeting gold and jewellery in houses belonging to British-Asians have come to light, with police issuing guidelines to the community that is known to traditionally preserv...


Iran says nuclear talks to resume on April 13

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:10 AM PDT

Long-stalled talks between Iran and world powers are to be revived on April 13 at a place yet to be agreed, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Wednesday. The talks carry hopes of d...


Chinese buy paper iPads for ancestor worship

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:20 AM PDT

Paper replicas of Apple's iPad and iPhone are selling like hot cakes in China this year as millions prepare to honour their ancestors in an age-old annual festival that has taken on a modern twist.


Is the '$1.5 million maid' an isolated case?

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:05 AM PDT

A non-profit which brought Shanti Gurung's case to light is reviewing "at least five" other cases of Indian employers allegedly exploiting their domestic workers


Probe finds high radiation levels at Fukushima plant

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:05 AM PDT

One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and much less water to cool it than officials had estimated, according to an internal examination that renews doubts ab...

Hafiz Saeed dodges police, addresses rally in Islamabad

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 12:57 AM PDT

For almost six hours Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat leader Ahmed Ludhianvi played cat-and-mouse with Islamabad police and paramilitary forces who were trying to...


Afghan women fleeing abuse, rape forced into jail: Report

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 12:30 AM PDT

For Afghan women, the act of fleeing domestic abuse, forced prostitution or even being stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriver by an abusive husband, may land them in jail while their abusers walk free,...


The most extensive full face transplant ever performed

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 11:37 PM PDT

A 37-year-old Virginia man injured in a 1997 gun accident has been given a new face, teeth, tongue and jaw in what University of Maryland physicians say is the most extensive face transplant ever perf...


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