Tuesday, April 17, 2012

North Korea warns US of retaliation over rocket launch

North Korea warns US of retaliation over rocket launch


North Korea warns US of retaliation over rocket launch

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 10:53 PM PDT

North Korea accused the US of hostility on Tuesday for suspending an agreement to provide food aid following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch, and warned of retaliatory measures in response...


New York bomb plotter describes al-Qaeda plan

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 10:29 PM PDT

The convicted bomb-maker in a 2009 plot to cause carnage in New York described how he and an al-Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theatres as targets.


Italian hostage held by Al-Qaeda freed after 14 months

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:59 PM PDT

An Italian hostage kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in February last year in Southern Algeria was released on Tuesday and is in a hotel in Burkina Faso, officials said.


Warren Buffett's letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:40 PM PDT

Billionaire Warren Buffett said on Tuesday that on April 11, he was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. The 81-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. released a letter to the sha...


Warren Buffett diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:03 PM PDT

Billionaire Warren Buffett said on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer, but he tried to reassure his company's shareholders that the condition is "not remotely life-thr...


Police handcuff kindergartner for tantrum

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:36 AM PDT

Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum, and the police chief is making no apologies. The police report says the girl knocked over a shelf that injured the principa...


Grass with Mahatma Gandhi's blood sells for £10,000

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:28 AM PDT

A pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at an auction in London today that also saw many other Gandhi memo...


Mali nominates Cheick Modibo Diarra as new Prime Minister

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:27 AM PDT

Soldiers arrested the head of one of Mali's biggest political parties and officials from the country's ousted government today, deepening questions about whether the military is still in control even ...

Space shuttle Discovery lands at new museum home

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital on Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home. The combo la...


Girl in Pulitzer-winning picture still has nightmares

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 09:35 AM PDT

Down a rutted dirt alley in Old Kabul, the "Girl in the green dress" -- the subject of AFP's Pulitzer-winning photograph -- still has nightmares about the day a suicide bomber made her image world fam...


Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack, say officials

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:31 AM PDT

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female e...


Afghan leader challenges Taliban "brothers" over attacks

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:24 AM PDT

President Hamid Karzai called the Taliban "brothers" on Tuesday and reached out to them to do more for the good of the country after the insurgents carried out multiple attacks in Kabul and elsewhere ...


Julian Assange makes TV debut; interviews Hezbollah Chief

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:17 AM PDT

The opening episode of Julian Assange's new talk show featured an interview with militant leader Hassan Nasrallah, whose Syria-backed Hezbollah militia is considered a terrorist organization in the Un...


Expansion of defence, trade ties with India Powell's priority

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Expansion of defence and trade ties, cooperation in new areas and combating common global threats with enhanced mutual partnership will be the key priorities for US Ambassador-designate to India, Nanc...


282 killed during Songkran festival in Thailand

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 06:32 AM PDT

At least 282 people were killed and 3,059 others injured in road accidents during the first six days of Songkran festival, the Thai New Year, authorities here said today.


Norway mass murderer: 'I would have done it again'

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 06:25 AM PDT

Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik insisted Tuesday he would massacre 77 people all over again, calling his July rampage the most "spectacular" attack by a nationalist militant since World War II...


Sleepy Air Canada pilot dives plane; 16 injured

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 04:03 AM PDT

A sleepy Air Canada pilot who mistakenly believed his jet was about to crash into a U.S. military plane forced a sudden dive that caused 16 injuries among passengers and crew on a transatlantic flight...


Japan to be without nuclear power from May 5

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 03:14 AM PDT

Japan will within weeks have no nuclear power for the first time in more than 40 years, after the trade minister said two reactors idled after the Fukushima disaster would not be back online before th...


World's second tallest tower in Japan shows off views

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 02:30 AM PDT

Sweeping but hazy views of Tokyo's skyline greeted journalists taken up the world's tallest freestanding broadcast structure before its opening to the public next month. The 634-meter Tokyo Skytree is...


7.0-magnitude quake hits off Papua New Guinea

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 02:24 AM PDT

A 7.0-magnitude quake struck off the northeast of Papua New Guinea today, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning issued. The quake hit at 5:13 pm, local time, 141 kilometres n...


Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 01:43 AM PDT

At daybreak on Tuesday, the oldest of NASA's retired shuttle fleet will leave its home at Kennedy Space Center for the final time, riding on top of a modified jumbo jet. Its destination: the Smithsoni...


Hillary Clinton parties in Colombia nightclub

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 01:07 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, known for her hard work and gruelling schedule, took a rare moment off at the weekend and let her hair down to enjoy a dance and a beer with some friends.


Obama confident new World Bank chief will be an inclusive leader

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 11:37 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama has exuded confidence that the new World Bank president Jim Young Kim will prove to be an inclusive leader with a commitment to sustained economic growth.


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