Thursday, April 19, 2012

Pakistan journalist Murtaza Rizvi murdered in Karachi

Pakistan journalist Murtaza Rizvi murdered in Karachi


Pakistan journalist Murtaza Rizvi murdered in Karachi

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:37 PM PDT

The Pakistani newspaper Dawn says one of its editors has been murdered in the southern city of Karachi.


UN chief wants 300-member supervision mission in Syria

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:33 PM PDT

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday described the situation in Syria as "highly precarious" and recommended the Security Council to authorise a 300-member strong supervision mission in the tr...

Norway killer sharpened aim by playing video game

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:02 PM PDT

Anders Behring Breivik knew it would take practice to be able to slaughter dozens of people before being shot by police. In a chilling account, the far-right fanatic claimed that he sharpened his aim ...


15 dead in Bolivia bus disaster

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:25 AM PDT

A bus hurtled off a cliff on a winding mountain road on the eastern slopes of the Andes, killing 15 people and injuring 20, Bolivian police said on Thursday.


Sun journalist held ahead of showdown for Murdochs

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT

British police arrested three people, including the royal editor of Rupert Murdoch's Sun tabloid, a source familiar with the situation said, in an escalation of a long-running phone hacking scandal wh...


US-India Homeland Security meeting on Friday

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:50 AM PDT

Terrorism and its funding, transnational crime and intelligence sharing will be among the key issues to be discussed threadbare at the US-India Homeland Security meeting to be held in New Delhi on Fri...


Dozens of wildfires sweep across southern Siberia

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:18 AM PDT

Emergency officials in Russia said on Thursday that wildfires have swept across southern Siberia, and destroying houses in several villages and endangering others. No deaths have been reported.


British politicians warn sponsors over Bahrain Grand Prix

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:11 AM PDT

A group of British lawmakers has warned Formula One sponsors that they risk damaging their brands by supporting the Bahrain Grand Prix, arguing the race should have been called off because of politica...


Carolina town all set for annual international whistling competition

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:48 AM PDT

It's all fair game as the little college town of Louisburg, North Carolina, welcomes whistlers for the 39th annual parade of puckerers. This year, more than five dozen contestants are coming from 20 s...


A museum that traces history of racism in USA

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:46 AM PDT

The objects displayed in Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque - a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a...


Missiles of the world: A look at countries' arsenals

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:22 AM PDT

Before India entered into the elite club with the Thursday launch of Agni-V missile, only five countries - the US, Russia, China, France and Britain - had the capability to launch nuclear capable long...


Woman crashes through supermarket injuring 10

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:17 AM PDT

A woman in the US state of Florida has been charged with careless driving after her car crashed through a supermarket on Saturday, injuring ten people. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) charged the 76-...


Indonesian eight-year-old smoker kicks habit

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:34 AM PDT

An eight-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked more than a pack a day from age four has kicked the habit, a child-welfare commission said today.


Taliban vow revenge over photos of militants' remains

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Afghanistan's Taliban on Thursday condemned photographs of US soldiers posing with the remains of their militants, calling the two-year-old photos "inhuman" and vowing revenge.


US corpse abuse pictures fuel anger, NATO exit

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:37 AM PDT

Pictures of US troops abusing corpses, on top of a series of outrages this year, have fuelled anti-US anger in Afghanistan, with the president calling on Thursday for an early exit of foreign forces.


Viral gang-rape phone video shocks South Africa

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT

Seven young men appeared in a South African court on Thursday to face charges of gang-raping a mentally handicapped teenage girl and recording the act on a cell-phone video that then went viral.


India welcomes Kayani's statement on Siachen

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:12 AM PDT

India today welcomed Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's remarks on resolving the Siachen issue and demilitarisation there and said the money spent on deployment of troops can be spent ...


Wanted to 'kill everybody' on Island, behead ex-PM: Norway mass murderer

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:46 AM PDT

Anders Behring Breivik told an Oslo court on Thursday he meant "to kill everybody" in his Utoya massacre, not just 69 people, and that he also wanted to behead a former prime minister.


Western nations begin lifting sanctions against Myanmar

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:53 AM PDT

Western nations have begun lifting sanctions against Myanmar to encourage sweeping reforms that have included the recent election of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to parliament.


Son of legendary climber dies on Everest

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:33 AM PDT

The son of fabled Everest climber Ang Rita Sherpa has died attempting to scale the mountain, officials said on Thursday, in the first death of the season on the world's highest peak.Karsang Namgyal Sh...


Drunk flyer blames airline for free drinks

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:05 AM PDT

Nashik resident Madan Lal Sharma and his wife Veena had landed at 3 am on a Dubai-Emirates flight ET 500, and lost their temper when Customs officials, who grew suspicious of Madan's behaviour, had as...


Zuma gives South Africa fourth First Lady, protocol headache

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:01 AM PDT

South Africa's polygamist President Jacob Zuma marries again this weekend, officially giving the country four first ladies and an even bigger protocol headache.Durban-born businesswoman Bongi Ngema wi...


New military photo scandal: Panetta apologises

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:46 AM PDT

Defence Secretary Leon Panetta apologized on Wednesday for gruesome, newly revealed photographs that show US soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of dead insurgents in Afghanistan.


Bin Laden's family likely to be in Pakistan for a few more days: relative

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:41 AM PDT

Pakistan could take several more days to deport the widows and children of Osama Bin Laden to Saudi Arabia, and perhaps Yemen, the former Al Qaeda leader's brother-in-law said on Thursday.The three wo...

Kony's days of freedom are 'numbered': US lawmaker

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:14 AM PDT

Wanted Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony's days as a free man are "numbered," a US lawmaker said on Wednesday, adding that the "noose is tightening" on the leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)....


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