Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Obama campaign accuses Romney of outsourcing jobs to India

Obama campaign accuses Romney of outsourcing jobs to India

Obama campaign accuses Romney of outsourcing jobs to India

Posted: 02 May 2012 10:29 PM PDT

The Obama Campaign in a new ad has accused presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs to India when he was the Massachusetts Governor.

US ready to help Chinese activist: official

Posted: 02 May 2012 10:10 PM PDT

The United States is ready to help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng if he has changed his decision to leave US protection and wants to leave into exile, a senior US official said on Thursday.The offi...

Australian ex-girlfriend's diaries show Obama in love

Posted: 02 May 2012 09:56 PM PDT

Secret diaries of an Australian woman who was one of the young Barack Obama's girlfriends, show not only the warmth and trust of the future President in love, but also hint at his reserve and "coolnes...

Video of woman abusing Indian-origin man goes viral

Posted: 02 May 2012 09:40 PM PDT

A woman who hurled racist abuse at an Indian-origin man on the London Underground is likely to be jailed after admitting her offence. the police had launched an investigation after a video of the inci...

Activist pleads for US help to leave China

Posted: 02 May 2012 07:58 PM PDT

Activist Chen Guangcheng told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday that he did not feel safe in China despite assurances made under a deal to remove him from the US embassy, pleading for American he...

World tour on solar-powered boat to beat climate change

Posted: 02 May 2012 07:42 PM PDT

Scanning the horizon on his solar-powered catamaran, Swiss electrical engineer Raphael Domjan counts down the hours to the completion of his record-breaking world tour."The idea was not to perform a f...

Munch's 'Scream' beats auction record at $119.9 million

Posted: 02 May 2012 07:14 PM PDT

The only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" -- one of the most recognizable paintings in history -- set a world record on Wednesday when it sold for $119.9 million at Sotheby's in ...

Gingrich departs, Obama posts anti-Romney video

Posted: 02 May 2012 01:13 PM PDT

Newt Gingrich officially ended his campaign on Wednesday, and US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a web video of clips from the Republican primaries in which the former House spe...

Fighter jets over London as it prepares for Olympic Games

Posted: 02 May 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Fighter jets flew into a base in northwest London on Wednesday, the first time they will be stationed in the capital since World War Two, at the start of a week of military exercises to test out secur...

20 dead after attackers storm Cairo protest

Posted: 02 May 2012 11:21 AM PDT

Thugs attacked an anti-military protest near the defence ministry in Cairo on Wednesday, sparking clashes which killed 20 people in the politically tense run-up to Egypt's first post-uprising presiden...

Olympics 2012: UK military prepare for '9/11-type attack'

Posted: 02 May 2012 11:18 AM PDT

British military commanders said they were training to deal with a "9/11-type attack" as they launched a major exercise on Wednesday to test their readiness for the 2012 London Olympics.

Who is Rupert Murdoch?

Posted: 02 May 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born media mogul, is the head of a $50 billion empire which spreads from the United States to Australia. The 81-year-old is chief executive of News Corp, a global media comp...

The purpose of spectacular wealth, according to a spectacularly wealthy guy

Posted: 02 May 2012 10:58 AM PDT

Ever since the financial crisis started, we've heard plenty from the 1 percent. We've heard them giving defensive testimony in Congressional hearings or issuing anodyne statements flanked by lawye...

Blind Chinese activist wants to leave China, fears for family's safety

Posted: 02 May 2012 10:40 AM PDT

Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he now fears for his family's safety, and wants to leave the country. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on today, he told The Associated P...

Osama raid most important day in White House, says Obama

Posted: 02 May 2012 10:20 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama described the lonely decision he made to mount a Navy SEAL raid to kill Osama bin Laden and called the daring escapade the "most important single day" of his tenure.

100,000 Facebook users use new organ donor option

Posted: 02 May 2012 08:50 AM PDT

An organ donation group says more than 100,000 people used a new Facebook feature the first day to declare they are donors

Kuwaitis worry Twitter cases stir sectarian tensions

Posted: 02 May 2012 08:29 AM PDT

Kuwait is about to take a firmer line on regulation of social media, uneasy about people who it says use Twitter and Facebook to stoke sectarian tensions and wary of spillover from turmoil in nearby G...

Moon to be biggest, brightest on May 6

Posted: 02 May 2012 08:07 AM PDT

Get ready for the moon's most prominent and spectacular appearance of the year on May 6, as it will shine at its brightest and look the biggest.

Pakistan on high alert, fear attacks on Osama's death anniversary

Posted: 02 May 2012 06:41 AM PDT

Pakistani security forces were on high alert on Wednesday to thwart any possible attacks by militants to mark the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing in a unilateral raid by the US in Abbot...

India, China next destination for talent from the West

Posted: 02 May 2012 06:32 AM PDT

The booming markets of India and China, where a new war for professional talent is hotting up, will see incredible opportunities for Western professionals, a noted marketing expert has said.

Blind Chinese dissident leaves US Embassy in Beijing

Posted: 02 May 2012 06:07 AM PDT

Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident who fled house arrest last month in a dramatic escape from security forces, left the American Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday after securing assurances fro...

2 UK brothers diagnosed with condition which turned them into kids

Posted: 02 May 2012 05:32 AM PDT

A devastating age-reversing disease has regressed two middle-aged brothers back to their childhood in the UK, a bizarre condition that mirrors Brad Pitt's role in the American fiction 'The Curious Cas...

Italy scientists say they have found oldest human blood

Posted: 02 May 2012 05:12 AM PDT

Scientists examining the remains of "Otzi," Italy's prehistoric iceman who roamed the Alps some 5,300 years ago, said on Thursday they have isolated what are believed to be the oldest traces of human ...

Tsunami-swept Harley in container found in Canada

Posted: 02 May 2012 01:24 AM PDT

It must have been a wild ride. Japanese media say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle lost in last year's tsunami has washed up on a Canadian island about 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles) away. The rusted b...
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