Saturday, July 28, 2012

Queen tours Olympic Park after debut as Bond Girl

Queen tours Olympic Park after debut as Bond Girl


Queen tours Olympic Park after debut as Bond Girl

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:16 PM PDT

Queen Elizabeth II toured London's Olympic heartland on Saturday hours after she surprised a worldwide audience by starring as the newest Bond Girl.


Pakistan's ISI chief to meet CIA counterpart amid amid furore over drone attacks

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 09:54 PM PDT

Pakistan's ISI chief Lt Gen Zahir-ul-Islam will visit Washington from August 1 to 3 to hold talks with his CIA counterpart David Petraeus, the first meeting between the spy chiefs amidst persisting te...


Syrian rebels survive regime onslaught in Aleppo

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 09:40 PM PDT

The Syrian government launched an offensive Saturday to retake rebel-held neighbourhoods in the nation's commercial hub of Aleppo, unleashing artillery, tanks and helicopter gunships against poorly ar...


US couple denied wedding because they were black: Report

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 08:58 PM PDT

A Mississipi couple got the shock of their lives when the pastor at the church they attended told them the wedding they planned could not be held there because they are black, ABC television reported ...


North Korea floods kill 88, leave thousands homeless: State media

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 07:16 AM PDT

Flooding across impoverished North Korea this month has killed 88 people, left tens of thousands homeless and devastated swathes of farmland, state media said Saturday.


26 arrested, 2 dead in raid after Indians killed in Nigeria

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:26 AM PDT

Nigerian soldiers have arrested 26 alleged members of Islamist group Boko Haram and killed two others in a raid after an attack that left two Indian nationals dead, a statement said on Saturday.


Saudis hail women in Olympics parade despite men first

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:14 AM PDT

Saudi commentators on Saturday hailed the first ever participation of women from the ultra-conservative kingdom in the Olympics, but criticised placing female athletes behind the men in the opening ce...


2 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 02:57 AM PDT

The NATO military coalition in Afghanistan says two of its service members have been killed in an insurgent attack in the east of the country. The military alliance says the attack happened on Satu...


Batman shooter was psychiatric patient

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:58 AM PDT

The suspected Batman massacre gunman was seeing a psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia before the attack that killed 12 in Colorado, court documents showed on Friday.


Syrian troops kill six-year-old fleeing into Jordan

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:31 AM PDT

The family crept across farmland under night's cover, heading for the border, when Syrian troops opened fire. Bullets whizzed around them as they broke into a mad dash, survivors say. The six-year-old...


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