Monday, May 28, 2012

Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case called corrupt, womaniser

Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case called corrupt, womaniser


Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case called corrupt, womaniser

Posted: 28 May 2012 10:47 PM PDT

The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then jailed for 33 ye...


Plane makes forced landing amid reports of falling debris

Posted: 28 May 2012 10:43 PM PDT

An Air Canada jet bound for Japan made an emergency landing in Toronto on Monday afternoon after an engine shut down shortly after takeoff from Pearson International Airport. No injuries were reported...


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Aung San Suu Kyi

Posted: 28 May 2012 10:31 PM PDT

In what is billed as one of the high-points of his landmark visit to Myanmar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is meeting opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today amid expectations of India conveying its...


Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan make surprise cameo on Chinese TV

Posted: 28 May 2012 10:17 PM PDT

Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese TV documentary about the country's police force: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his now-wi...


North Korean farmers cite grave drought, aid unlikely

Posted: 28 May 2012 09:26 PM PDT

North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticise...


Zuckerbergs spotted in Rome on their honeymoon

Posted: 28 May 2012 09:01 PM PDT

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan were spotted during their honeymoon in Rome by a tourist who posted their photo on Twitter.


Nelson Mandela returning to home village

Posted: 28 May 2012 12:27 PM PDT

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is leaving Johannesburg on Tuesday to take up residence in his eastern home village of Qunu, the country's current leader said Monday. In a statement M...


Malaysian 'WWW1' license plate sells for $165600

Posted: 28 May 2012 10:06 AM PDT

The World Wide Web has inspired a bidding war in Malaysia - on license plates. When the prefix "WWW" became available on this Southeast Asian country's plates, more than 18000 people submitted bids. T...


UN envoy 'horrified' by Syria massacre, 108 dead

Posted: 28 May 2012 10:06 AM PDT

U.N. envoy Kofi Annan on Monday called on "every individual with a gun" in Syria to lay down arms, saying he was horrified by a weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people, including women and s...


Doha mall fire kills 19 people, including 13 children

Posted: 28 May 2012 10:05 AM PDT

A fire that erupted on Monday at a main shopping centre in Doha killed 19 people, including 13 children, the interior ministry said.The blaze left "19 dead, including 13 children, among them seven gir...


Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mubarak's ex-PM to contest runoff for President

Posted: 28 May 2012 08:45 AM PDT

Three top candidates in Egypt's Presidential race filed appeals to the election commission ahead of the deadline on Sunday, alleging violations in the first round vote that they say could change the o...


Blair admits being too close to Murdoch

Posted: 28 May 2012 08:27 AM PDT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a press ethics inquiry on Monday that he got too close to Rupert Murdoch's media empire, in evidence disrupted by a protester calling him a "war criminal"...


Pope's butler vows to help Vatican scandal probe

Posted: 28 May 2012 08:06 AM PDT

One of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades has widened with the pope's butler - arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home - agreeing to cooperate with investigators, his l...


Four Britons, one Indian arrested over Bali 'drug ring'

Posted: 28 May 2012 06:55 AM PDT

Four Britons and one Indian national have been arrested on the resort island of Bali for drug smuggling, police said. The arrested men could face death under Indonesia's stiff anti-drug laws. Lindsay ...


Explosion hits downtown Nairobi, 28 wounded

Posted: 28 May 2012 06:42 AM PDT

An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 28 people, officials said. A blast in Kenya's capital immediately conjures fears that al-Sha...


India to provide $500mn line of credit to Myanmar

Posted: 28 May 2012 06:01 AM PDT

India on Monday announced that it will provide a $500 million line of credit to Myanmar as the two countries signed 12 agreements on a range of sectors, including air services. This would mark the beg...


Campaigning tests Obama's staying power

Posted: 28 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT

With Election Day five months off, the campaign increasingly appears to consume Mr. Obama's days and his White House, shaping his schedule, his message and many of his decisions. He is running against...


NATO aircraft crashes in Afghanistan, no fatalities reported

Posted: 28 May 2012 02:50 AM PDT

The US-led NATO coalition in Afghanistan has said that one of its aircraft crashed in the country's east, but no fatalities were reported.


Kofi Annan heads to Syria under shadow of massacre

Posted: 28 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT

UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan headed to Damascus on Monday in a bid to salvage his battered peace plan a day after the UN condemned the Syrian regime's use of artillery in a massacre that killed more than ...


Egypt to announce presidential poll result on Monday

Posted: 28 May 2012 02:05 AM PDT

Egypt's election committee will announce on Monday first round results of the presidential poll, an official said, after unofficial counts showed it would go to a run-off between the Muslim Brotherhoo...


Frustrations grow as US and Pakistan fail to mend ties

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:26 PM PDT

When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Pakistan's president at the NATO summit meeting in Chicago last week, the two spent most of the meeting talking politics, and Mrs Clinton was nothing...


Two Tibetans set themselves ablaze in Lhasa: Reports

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:13 PM PDT

Two Tibetan men have set themselves on fire outside a temple in Lhasa and one has died, reports said on Monday, as a wave of self-immolations in China's Tibetan areas spread to the heavily guarded cit...


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