Monday, July 30, 2012

Pakistani daily criticises outdated law

Pakistani daily criticises outdated law


Pakistani daily criticises outdated law

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 10:43 PM PDT

Two men being hauled up for having soft drinks by the police under a Ramzan law has been criticised by a leading Pakistani daily that rued "how injudicious legislation emboldens those inclined towards...


Mitt Romney's foreign controversies overshadow economic message

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:51 PM PDT

Republican Mitt Romney's campaign tried to keep the domestic political focus on the US economy and jobs on Monday, although the effort was overshadowed by more controversy from a foreign trip after he...


Haqqani militant group poses risk to U.S.-Pakistan relations

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:41 PM PDT

Grinning for the camera, the suicide bomber fondly patted his truckload of explosives. "We will defeat these crusader pigs as they have invaded our land," he declared as he revved the engine.


Twitter suspends reporter's account for NBC email address tweet

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:20 PM PDT

Twitter Inc has suspended a British reporter's account after he sent a tweet revealing NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel's email address. The microblogging service said Guy Adams, the Los Angeles ...


Fire probe: Pakistan police arrests owner of TV channel

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:38 PM PDT

Pakistani police have arrested the owner of a television channel and sealed its studios after a fire killed five persons and injured a dozen others, a senior official said on Monday. A murder case has...


Colorado shooting suspect charged with 1st-degree murder

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:09 PM PDT

The former graduate student accused of opening fire at a midnight screening of the new "Batman" film in Colorado, killing 12 people, was charged on Monday with 24 counts of first-degree murder, making...


Prosecutors lay 142 charges against Colorado 'shooter'

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:53 AM PDT

Colorado prosecutors charged James Holmes on Monday with 140 counts of murder or attempted murder, including 12 of first-degree murder for each fatality in the Aurora cinema shooting.


Julian Assange's mother says WikiLeaks founder suffering

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:14 AM PDT

The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says her son's health is suffering after being confined for more than a month in Ecuador's embassy in London.


Anti-Putin punks declare innocence, regret at trial

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:12 AM PDT

Three members of an all-girl punk band voiced regret Monday for causing offence by performing an anti-Vladimir Putin song in Russia's main Orthodox cathedral but said they were innocent of the charges...


Myanmar rejects Muslim crackdown concerns

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:27 AM PDT

Myanmar on Monday told a UN rights envoy that it rejected accusations of abuse by security forces in the wake of communal unrest, after the United Nations raised fears of a crackdown on Muslims.


Iran sentences four people to death for $1bn bank fraud

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:10 AM PDT

An Iranian court has sentenced four people to death for a billion-dollar bank fraud that tainted the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state media reported on Monday. Iranians, hit by sanct...


How much does an illegal Facebook party cost in Germany? $280,000, a court finds

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:09 AM PDT

A German court has handed a 20-year-old apprentice a $280,000 bill to cover police costs after he organised an illegal party through the Facebook social network in the southern German town of Constanc...


More heavy rain hits North Korea, flooding buildings

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:51 AM PDT

More heavy rain has pounded North Korea, flooding buildings and farmland and forcing people and their livestock to take shelter on rooftops. The latest inundation follows storms earlier this month tha...


12-year-old girl grabs wheel when grandfather dies

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:04 AM PDT

A 12-year-old New Jersey girl steered a car to safety when her grandfather died at the wheel with his foot on the accelerator.


UN says 200,000 have fled Aleppo fighting in Syria

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:51 AM PDT

The UN has said that 200,000 Syrians have fled the embattled city of Aleppo since intense clashes between regime forces and rebels began 10 days ago.


South African baby with brain outside his head dies

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT

A South African doctor has said that a baby born with his brain outside his head has died after being alive for three weeks.


Batman movie shooting: Colorado theatre lacked security, unlike some peers

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:34 AM PDT

The Colorado movie theater complex that was the scene of a massacre earlier this month didn't have any uniformed security guards on duty the night of the shooting, even though other theaters operated ...


'Happiest' Olympic worker's video goes viral

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:31 AM PDT

A volunteer handling people before the Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games has become an internet star.


NATO trucks suspended for fifth day at Pakistan crossing

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:37 AM PDT

Pakistani officials said on Monday that a ban on NATO trucks at the main border crossing into Afghanistan will last until the government promises to safeguard security. Officials closed the northweste...


A day job waiting for a kill shot a world away

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:01 AM PDT

From his computer console here in the Syracuse suburbs, Col. D. Scott Brenton remotely flies a Reaper drone that beams back hundreds of hours of live video of insurgents, his intended targets, going a...


A giant leap for women, but hurdles remain

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:42 AM PDT

During Friday's opening ceremony, Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee, drew loud and sustained applause when he said: "For the first time in Olympic history, all the pa...


Roller coaster stuck for hours with people on board

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:35 AM PDT

A newly built roller coaster stalled 150 feet above ground Sunday afternoon, stranding a dozen riders for almost two hours at a Northern California amusement park, a park spokeswoman said.


Colorado shooting suspect faces formal charges

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:34 AM PDT

Launching a case that legal analysts expect to be dominated by arguments over the defendant's sanity, Colorado prosecutors are filing formal charges on Monday against James Eagan Holmes, the former ne...


Ex-Fiji PM found guilty in corruption case

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:49 AM PDT

Former Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarese was found guilty of abuse of office today in a long-running corruption case dating back to the early 1990s. Qarese, who became prime minister in 2000 and was...


NASA photos reveal fate of flags left on the moon

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:06 AM PDT

Four decades after America's last landing on the Moon, new images from NASA's camera have shown that all flags except one planted during Apollo missions are still standing and waving despite the harsh...


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