Sunday, May 27, 2012

Girl kept as slave, forced to pull horse-cart

Girl kept as slave, forced to pull horse-cart


Girl kept as slave, forced to pull horse-cart

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:57 PM PDT

A German girl has been rescued by Bosnian police after allegedly being held captive by a couple for eight years during which she was forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart. A neighbour who raise...


Obama enjoyed pot as a school boy, claims book

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:53 PM PDT

Barack Obama inhaled. Frequently, happily and allegedly quite greedily. Various websites published excerpts on Friday from an upcoming book on the US president containing fresh details about his en...

UK phone hacking: Ex-prime minister Tony Blair faces grilling over ties to Murdoch

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:19 PM PDT

Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favourable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media ...


Britons pay Indians to become surrogate mothers: Report

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:16 PM PDT

India's surrogacy industry is being used by Britons to become parents, a media report said on Sunday. There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all unregulated, in the country, many specialising in helping B...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange set for UK extradition verdict

Posted: 27 May 2012 09:34 PM PDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Wednesday whether he can be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the Supreme Court hands down its judgement at the end of a marathon legal battle.


Syria denies Houla killings, UN condemns attack

Posted: 27 May 2012 09:13 PM PDT

Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people - including women and children - in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, but the UN Security Council...


Nepal crisis: Prime Minister calls for fresh polls in November

Posted: 27 May 2012 08:02 PM PDT

Nepal's prime minister called for new elections in November after the term of the Constituent Assembly expired at midnight on Sunday without political leaders completing the task of writing a new cons...


Video captures plane before it crashes, killing 4 in US

Posted: 27 May 2012 07:59 PM PDT

Security video captured a small plane taking off from a southern Utah airport just before it crashed about 300 yards from the runway, killing all four men aboard, a federal investigator said on Sunday...

Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks

Posted: 27 May 2012 06:56 AM PDT

The Vatican's inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed...


Elixir of youth? NASA invents drink that reverses signs of ageing

Posted: 27 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT

A "space drink" developed by NASA to protect astronauts from radiation can also reduce wrinkles and reverse the tell-tale signs of ageing in just four months, say researchers, following a human trial....


Former Mubarak aide sentenced to 7 years for graft in Egypt

Posted: 27 May 2012 04:05 AM PDT

A Cairo criminal court on Sunday sentenced ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's former chief of staff to seven years in jail on corruption charges, a judicial source told AFP. Zakaria Azmi was al...


Words to avoid online to stop US agencies from spying on you

Posted: 27 May 2012 03:22 AM PDT

"Cloud", "team" and "Mexico" - these are some of the words used by government spies to scour social networking sites and online media for evidence of threats to the US, it has emerged.


Iran to build new nuclear plant by early 2014: State TV

Posted: 27 May 2012 03:09 AM PDT

Iran will build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country's Atomic...


50 years on, fire still burns underneath US town

Posted: 27 May 2012 02:24 AM PDT

It's an anniversary the few remaining souls who live here won't be celebrating. Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that even...


Afghan official claims 8 civilians killed in NATO airstrike

Posted: 27 May 2012 02:20 AM PDT

Afghan authorities have said that an airstrike by the US-led NATO coalition has killed eight members of a family in eastern Afghanistan. The coalition has said that it is aware of the allegation and i...


Berlusconi spent $25 million on his bunga bunga parties: Report

Posted: 27 May 2012 01:20 AM PDT

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had 16 million (about $25 million) in cash delivered to his luxury villa to pay girls at his bunga bunga parties, The Sun reported.


Nepal faces midnight deadline on new constitution

Posted: 27 May 2012 12:38 AM PDT

Nepal's leaders held urgent talks on Sunday to avoid a political crisis, with just hours remaining before a midnight deadline to agree a new post-war constitution or face the dissolution of parliament...


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