Sunday, May 20, 2012

Student Dharun Ravi to be sentenced on Monday

Student Dharun Ravi to be sentenced on Monday

Student Dharun Ravi to be sentenced on Monday

Posted: 20 May 2012 10:51 PM PDT

In the two months since he was found guilty of using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Dharun Ravi has gone from being a symbol of anti-gay bias to being something of a folk hero, with rallies of his s...

Historic Hindu temple vandalised in Pakistan

Posted: 20 May 2012 10:35 PM PDT

Unidentified men yesterday vandalised a historic Hindu temple in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan that was reopened on the orders of a court last year, police officials and local residents said.

Flash flood kills 19 in Afghanistan; many missing

Posted: 20 May 2012 09:50 PM PDT

Flood waters ravaged a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 19 people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials said on Sunday. About 60 other people were missing and rescuer...

Group says 60 arrested, some hurt in Chicago anti-NATO clashes

Posted: 20 May 2012 09:28 PM PDT

Baton-swinging police clashed with anti-war protesters marching on the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday and a lawyers' group representing the demonstrators said at least 12 people were injured, some w...

Trial of former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta starts in New York

Posted: 20 May 2012 08:12 PM PDT

The July 29, 2008, phone call between two titans of Wall Street began with the old friends exchanging mild pleasantries, but then quickly turned serious and - by the government's account - criminal.

Convicted Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi dies of cancer in Libya

Posted: 20 May 2012 07:59 PM PDT

He was the embodiment of one of modern Libya's darkest chapters - a man synonymous with horrifying scenes of wreckage, broken families and a plane that fell out of the sky a generation ago. His name, ...

Rajat Gupta: The rise and the fall

Posted: 20 May 2012 07:59 PM PDT

He joined McKinsey & Company, the elite and secretive management-consulting firm as an earnest, under-stated young man, fresh out of Harvard Business School, and IIT Delhi before that. He rose rapidly...

Millions look skyward as rare eclipse crosses Asia

Posted: 20 May 2012 07:19 PM PDT

Millions of Asians watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies early on Monday. The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its...

Pakistan restores Twitter after brief ban over blasphemous content

Posted: 20 May 2012 11:22 AM PDT

Pakistani authorities today briefly blocked access to Twitter on the ground that it was being used to promote a contest on Facebook for blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed before Prime Ministe...

Fourth NATO protester faces terror charges

Posted: 20 May 2012 08:50 AM PDT

A fourth man faces terrorism charges in a separate plot to toss Molotov cocktails during protests against the NATO summit in Chicago, police said on Sunday.

Huge asteroid to fly close to earth, may destroy satellites

Posted: 20 May 2012 08:08 AM PDT

A 150-foot-wide, 140,000 tonne asteroid may come so close to Earth early next year that it might destroy communications satellites.

This vegetarian shark prefers celery to fish

Posted: 20 May 2012 06:21 AM PDT

Florence, a six-foot nurse shark, is creating ripples with her unusual dietary preferences - she is perhaps the world's only vegetarian shark.

US not to pay USD 5,000 per truck to Pak: Panetta

Posted: 20 May 2012 06:19 AM PDT

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has ruled out paying Pakistan USD 5,000 per truck carrying vital supplies across its territory for NATO troops in Afghanistan, citing financial challenges faced by Am...

Pakistan blocks Twitter over Prophet Mohammed cartoons: Officials

Posted: 20 May 2012 05:55 AM PDT

Pakistan on Sunday blocked Twitter over a competition to make caricatu

Saudi beheads two Pakistanis over murders

Posted: 20 May 2012 05:29 AM PDT

Saudi authorities on Sunday beheaded two Pakistanis in the holy city of Mecca after finding them guilty of two murders, the interior ministry said.

Couple's prank backfires, son gets trapped in washing machine

Posted: 20 May 2012 03:25 AM PDT

A US couple's prank went horribly wrong after they placed their child inside a washing machine in a public Laundromat. The machine then started to whir into action with the child stuck inside.

Swraj Paul hints at racism behind his suspension from House of Lords

Posted: 20 May 2012 01:11 AM PDT

Hitting back at those behind his brief suspension from the House of Lords in 2010, prominent Indian-origin industrialist Swraj Paul has insisted that he did not do anything wrong, and believes that ra...

UK visa curbs putting off Indian students?

Posted: 20 May 2012 12:56 AM PDT

Amidst renewed calls to the David Cameron government to review recent curbs on student visas, the British universities have reported a significant fall in applications for courses from India for the f...

Obama sees 'emerging consensus' on economic fix

Posted: 20 May 2012 12:14 AM PDT

Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt tha...
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