Friday, March 2, 2012

Thousands told to evacuate as floods hit Australia

Thousands told to evacuate as floods hit Australia


Thousands told to evacuate as floods hit Australia

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:48 PM PST

Thousands of Australians were on Saturday ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney's northwest and elsewhere in New South Wales State as heavy rainfall flooded rivers and waterways.


American-born Qaeda associate jailed for 27 years

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:32 PM PST

A New York man was on Friday sentenced to 27 years in jail for conspiring to kill American soldiers stationed overseas and on related terror charges, the US Justice Department said.


Flying robots swoop and swarm as a team

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:18 PM PST

Tech-savvy TED-goers watched in wonder as flying robots darted through tossed hoops, worked together in swarms and even formed a band to play trademark "James Bond" film theme music.


27 dead, one town 'gone' as tornadoes rip central US

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:10 PM PST

Rescue workers searched for survivors on Saturday after more than six dozen tornadoes tore across the central United States, killing at least 27 people and wiping out whole communities.


Two French journalists who escaped Syria return home

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:05 PM PST

The long and treacherous journey home ended on Friday for two French journalists trapped for nine days in a besieged Syrian city - an experience one called a "non-stop nightmare."


Syria blocks Red Cross from entering Baba Amr

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 09:40 AM PST

Syrian authorities have blocked Red Cross aid workers from entering the Baba Amr district in the city of Homs, where civilians have endured days of fierce fighting, the International Committee of the ...


Trial unlikely for US troops in Afghan Quran burning: report

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 09:12 AM PST

Five US soldiers took part in last week's apparently accidental burning of Qurans in Afghanistan, but they are unlikely to face public trial, the Washington Post reported on Friday.


Obama says he's not bluffing about Iran

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 07:45 AM PST

US President Barack Obama warned a premature attack on Iran would allow it to play the "victim" in the nuclear crisis, in remarks published on Friday days before he meets Israeli leader Benjamin Netan...


40,000 Indians to be allowed to work in Europe, says report

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 07:34 AM PST

At least 40,000 Indians may be allowed to work in Europe, including 12,000 in Britain alone, under a secret trade plan between the European Union and New Delhi, a media report said, citing leaked docu...


I did ride Rebekah Brooks' police horse, says David Cameron

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 07:33 AM PST

Prime Minister David Cameron sought on Friday to calm a minor domestic storm by admitting he rode a horse lent by Britain's top police force to the former editor of the now-closed News of the World.


Italy says India must show respect in killings row

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 07:24 AM PST

India must show respect for Italy, Italian Defence Minister Giampaolo Di Paola said on Friday, in an escalating row over two Italian soldiers facing murder charges for killing two Indian fishermen.


Pak censoring web on the lines of 'Great firewall of China'

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:14 AM PST

Pakistan is moving beyond what has been a makeshift approach to censoring the Web, setting out a plan for a filtering system akin to the so-called Great Firewall of China.


China denies dam drying up river in India

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 05:14 AM PST

China denied on Friday that a dam it was building on a major river in Tibet was impacting the lower reaches of the waterway in India, despite complaints that water-levels there were plunging.


Drunk driver enters Philadelphia airport runway

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:33 AM PST

A drunk driver drove through a gate and onto a runway at Philadelphia International Airport, sparking a terrorism scare and forcing a passenger plane to abort its landing at the last minute, authoriti...


US special forces present in five South Asian countries, including India

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 02:06 AM PST

US Special forces teams are currently stationed in five South Asian countries including India as part of the counter-terrorism co-operation with these nations, a top Pentagon commander has disclosed.


Voting begins in Iran Parliamentary election

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:54 AM PST

Polls opened on Friday for a Parliamentary election in Iran that will test the popularity of the clerical establishment at a time of a standoff with the West over the country's nuclear programme.


NASA loses command codes to control space station

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:24 AM PST

An unencrypted laptop computer stolen from NASA last year contained command codes used to control the International Space Station (ISS), media reports said.


Christian woman in Pak paraded in streets for 'anti-Islam views'

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:23 AM PST

A Christian woman was brutally tortured and paraded in the streets of a village in Pakistan's Punjab province by a mob for her alleged "anti-Islam views", local residents and police officials said on ...


Pakistan politicians elect senators

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:06 AM PST

Pakistani regional lawmakers on Friday began casting their votes for members of the Senate, the indirectly-elected upper house of the federal Parliament, officials said.


Obama gets a Facebook upgrade

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:07 AM PST

On Thursday, another Facebook user adopted the site's new Timeline feature, regaling followers with the minutiae typical of the world's cyber capital of oversharing.


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