Friday, April 20, 2012

Plane crash in Pakistan: All 127 on board killed; black box found

Plane crash in Pakistan: All 127 on board killed; black box found

Plane crash in Pakistan: All 127 on board killed; black box found

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:04 PM PDT

Plane crash in Pakistan: Pakistani authorities have recovered the black box flight data recorder of a passenger jet that crashed in Islamabad on Friday, killing everyone on board.

Shocking nation, Norway killer describes island massacre

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:35 PM PDT

Addressing a courtroom frozen in horror, Breivik said he shot most of his victims several times, using the first shot to take them down, then following up with a shot to the head. His trial, now into...

6.6 quake rocks Indonesia's Papua

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:25 PM PDT

A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's Papua region on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said (USGS), but no tsunami warning was issued.The quake struck at 10.16 am (0116 GMT) at a dept...

UN council schedules Saturday vote on Syria monitors

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:18 PM PDT

The United Nations announced on Friday the 15-nation council planned to hold the vote at 11.00 am EDT (1500 GMT). It will be considering a compromise resolution that combines Russian and European draf...

Major air crashes in Pakistan

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:06 PM PDT

A Pakistani passenger plane with up to 130 people on board crashed while trying to land in bad weather near the capital Islamabad on Friday, officials said.Following is a chronology of major air crash...

Worst air crashes worldwide over the past five years

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:00 PM PDT

World air crash timeline:Here is a list of worst air crashes worldwide over the past five years:-April 20, 2012: PAKISTAN - A passenger jet crashed in Islamabad, killing all 127 on board. The Bhoja Ai...

Pakistan begins Bhoja Air crash probe

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:47 PM PDT

Pakistan has launched an investigation after a passenger jet crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm, with all 127 people on board believed to be dead.The Bhoja Air flight from Karachi ...

Pak plane crashes near Islamabad, 127 killed

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:17 PM PDT

A passenger plane carrying 127 people on board crashed in bad weather in the outskirts of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Friday.

Coke addiction allegedly kills a New Zealand woman

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:41 PM PDT

A New Zealand woman's 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death, according to medical experts, a conclusion that led the soft-drink giant to note that even water can be deadly i...

Pakistan plane crash: Report from ground zero

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:40 PM PDT

The smell of burning filled the air at the scene of Friday's deadly plane crash on the outskirts of Islamabad, where chunks of charred wreckage lay scattered across farmland.

Norway mass murderer's trial: A timeline

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Below are key moments in the first four days of the trial of Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik at the Oslo District Court on charges of a twin killing spree which cost 77 lives on ...

Norway mass murderer's chilling account of carnage

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:07 AM PDT

In an account that shocked the nation, Norway's mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik described with a chilling calm on Friday how he methodically chased teenagers room by room and shot them dead on an...

A penny worth more than a million dollars!

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:37 AM PDT

A rare, experimental penny minted in US in 1792 went under the hammer for a whopping $ 1.15 million at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Chicago on Thursday.

US restaurant known for 'rudest waiter' closing

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:28 AM PDT

A 100-year-old Chinese restaurant in San Francisco known for having "the world's rudest waiter" is shutting its doors.

Jail term extended for female band members who mocked Putin

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:57 AM PDT

Three female punk rockers who mocked Vladimir Putin in a surprise protest inside Russia's main Orthodox church will be kept in jail, a Moscow court ruled Thursday.

Norway mass murderer studied al-Qaida attacks before rampage

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:38 AM PDT

Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik took to the Internet to learn how to carry out a bombing-and-shooting rampage, studying attacks by al-Qaida, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh a...

Era of missing children on milk cartons recalled

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT

He was America's missing child, the little boy who went off to school alone and vanished. A renewed investigation into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City recalled the year...

Australia's wealthiest woman fights her children in court over multi-billion dollar inheritance

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT

Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart lost an appeal for a confidential court hearing over the handling of a multi-billion family trust, pitting her in open court against three of her children over...

Bears on rampage in Japan kill two women

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:58 AM PDT

Bears killed two women after escaping from their enclosures in a park in northern Japan, police said on Friday, admitting that they still did not have a handle on the incident as night fell.An unknown...

Vietnam seeks help with mystery disease; 19 dead

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:53 AM PDT

Vietnam has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to help investigate a mystery disease that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in central Vietnam.Le Han Phong, Chairman of the People's ...

Oath wording stalls Suu Kyi's debut in parliament

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:55 AM PDT

The party of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi will seek fresh ways to try to alter an oath to be taken by newly elected members of parliament, a party official said on Friday, making it unlikely the main op...

Doctor criticised for surgery pics on Facebook

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:51 AM PDT

The Mexican social media has been abuzz with criticism of an anaesthesiologist who mocked patients by posting humiliating operating room photos on her Facebook page.Mayte Rosas Gomez, who works for Me...

Drug scam: Pakistan faces medicine shortage

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:12 AM PDT

Pakistan's pharmaceutical industry has been hit hard by a Rs 7 billion drug scam in which Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son has been named an accused. The scam has caused scarcity of controlled ...

2-gallon Coke a day addiction could have caused woman's death

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:44 AM PDT

Experts say that a New Zealand woman's 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death, a conclusion that led the soft-drink giant to note that even water can be deadly in excessive a...

After India fires missile, China calls for n-security

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:41 AM PDT

China has called on the international community to work together in promoting international nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear disarmament and nuclear security.The statement came on Thursday, a day wh...
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