Female pilot tosses passenger for sexist remarks

Female pilot tosses passenger for sexist remarks
Mrs Zuckberg's wedding dress bought using fake name: Designer
Zuckerberg's property status, post-marriage
Pak parents accused of killing daughter for wanting boyfriends
White House said to give inside access for Osama bin Laden film
Egyptians to choose Mubarak successor in historic vote
Armed 14-year-old holed up in school, German police negotiate
Rajat Gupta jury hears competing views of Rajaratnam ties
US Defence Secretary to travel to India early June
Qantas to split domestic, international businesses
British military to take charge of air space for Olympics: Report
Equipment of buried Pakistani soldiers found in Siachen
TNA calls for release of Tamil political prisoners
Gunmen open fire at rally in Pakistan, 9 killed
5 Egypt policeman handed 10 years for protest deaths
What is hate? Rutgers webcam case rekindles debate
UN nuclear Chief : Deal with Iran reached on probe
Case against Facebook in Pakistan for 'blasphemous content'
Film on Benazir Bhutto gets US award
Indian man loses appeal in Australia rape conviction
SpaceX makes historic launch to space station
NRI who scored 99.5% in higher secondary exam to join Stanford University
Barack Obama snubs Asif Ali Zardari over NATO supply routes
'Mafia-style execution' for Australia's flawed Obama mugs

Posted: 22 May 2012 11:06 PM PDT

A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes.Trip Airlines says in a Tuesday statement the pilot ej...

Mrs Zuckberg's wedding dress bought using fake name: Designer

Posted: 22 May 2012 11:04 PM PDT

Los Angeles-based designer Claire Pettibone says Priscilla Chan was wearing one of her dresses when she married Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg's property status, post-marriage

Posted: 22 May 2012 10:41 PM PDT

The new Mrs Mark Zuckerberg might not have to worry much about money, but that doesn't mean she is automatically a billionaire.

Pak parents accused of killing daughter for wanting boyfriends

Posted: 22 May 2012 10:26 PM PDT

A 17-year-old Pakistani girl was murdered by her parents and her body dumped into a river after her westernised lifestyle brought shame on her strict Muslim family's honour, a British court has heard....

White House said to give inside access for Osama bin Laden film

Posted: 22 May 2012 10:22 PM PDT

The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a conservative...

Egyptians to choose Mubarak successor in historic vote

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:44 PM PDT

Egyptians take to the polls on Wednesday in a historic presidential election contested by Islamists and secularists promising radically different futures for the country.

Armed 14-year-old holed up in school, German police negotiate

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:29 PM PDT

A 14-year-old schoolboy armed with two weapons was locked in a tense stand-off with police on Tuesday after firing a shot at his school in southern Germany, authorities said.

Rajat Gupta jury hears competing views of Rajaratnam ties

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:21 PM PDT

Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta was once on hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam's "important people" list but excluded from a fantasy football celebration helicopter trip to Atlantic City ...

US Defence Secretary to travel to India early June

Posted: 22 May 2012 07:48 PM PDT

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta would travel to India in the first week of June, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.

Qantas to split domestic, international businesses

Posted: 22 May 2012 12:01 PM PDT

Qantas Airways has announced plans to separate its domestic airline business from its loss-making international operations.

British military to take charge of air space for Olympics: Report

Posted: 22 May 2012 11:44 AM PDT

Britain's military is to take charge of London's airspace for the first time since 1945 as part of the huge security operation set up to police the Olympic Games, The Times reported on Tuesday.

Equipment of buried Pakistani soldiers found in Siachen

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:54 AM PDT

Rescue teams have found equipment belonging to Pakistani soldiers at the site of a massive avalanche that buried 138 soldiers and civilians in Siachen in April, the Pakistan Army said on Tuesday.

TNA calls for release of Tamil political prisoners

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:27 AM PDT

The Tamil National Alliance has called on the government to take immediate steps to release all Tamil political prisoners. R Sampanthan, the leader of the TNA told the Sri Lankan parliament on Tuesday...

Gunmen open fire at rally in Pakistan, 9 killed

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:13 AM PDT

Gunmen opened fire on a political rally in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and sparking rioting, police said. The violence was a reminder of the port city's vola...

5 Egypt policeman handed 10 years for protest deaths

Posted: 22 May 2012 07:09 AM PDT

A Cairo court today sentenced five policemen to 10 years in jail in absentia for the killing of protesters during the uprising which ousted president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources told AFP. Judge Mo...

What is hate? Rutgers webcam case rekindles debate

Posted: 22 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT

A week before Dharun Ravi was sentenced to jail for using a webcam to spy on a gay college roommate who later killed himself, supporters rallied behind him, arguing that New Jersey laws should be chan...

UN nuclear Chief : Deal with Iran reached on probe

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:29 AM PDT

Despite some differences, a deal has been reached with Iran that will allow the UN nuclear agency to restart a long-stalled probe into suspicions that Tehran has secretly worked on developing nuclear ...

Case against Facebook in Pakistan for 'blasphemous content'

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:06 AM PDT

The Margalla police station in Islamabad registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Facebook and three other websites under sections 295-A and 298-A of the Criminal Procedure Code on the dire...

Film on Benazir Bhutto gets US award

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:06 AM PDT

A documentary on the life of Benazir Bhutto has received a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for electronic media the US."Bhutto" is a 111-minute documentary about the two-time Pakistani Prime M...

Indian man loses appeal in Australia rape conviction

Posted: 22 May 2012 03:10 AM PDT

An Indian-origin taxi driver, sentenced to eight years for sexually assaulting a drunk woman passenger, has lost his appeal against his conviction. According to an AAP report, Gurpreet Singh was foun...

SpaceX makes historic launch to space station

Posted: 22 May 2012 02:40 AM PDT

The US company SpaceX on Tuesday became the first commercial outfit to send its own spacecraft toward the International Station with the launch of the cargo-bearing Dragon capsule.

NRI who scored 99.5% in higher secondary exam to join Stanford University

Posted: 22 May 2012 01:53 AM PDT

This 17-year-old knew that he would do well in his Grade 12 exams but becoming the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) topper worldwide with 99.5 per cent marks was unimaginable. India-bo...