Friday, August 31, 2012

Blasphemy case evokes fear in Pakistan Christian town

Blasphemy case evokes fear in Pakistan Christian town

Blasphemy case evokes fear in Pakistan Christian town

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:04 PM PDT

For Rafia Margaret, the case of a young Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy rekindled horrifying memories of the day a furious mob smashed through her front door and torched her house.

Peru minibus crash kills 10

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:45 PM PDT

At least 10 people were killed and more than 30 wounded when a packed minibus overturned on a road in southeastern Peru, local authorities said.

Facebook cracks down on insincere 'Likes'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:51 PM PDT

Facebook has ramped up efforts to get rid of "Likes" that aren't from people genuinely interested in giving a virtual thumbs up to pages at the world's leading social network.

Suicide bombing kills at least six Afghans at NATO base

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:42 PM PDT

A suicide bombing at a large NATO military base in central Afghanistan killed at least six Afghan civilians around dawn on Saturday, officials said.

Thousands return home after Philippines quake, tsunami warning lifted

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:39 PM PDT

Tens of thousands of people on a central Philippine island returned home on Saturday after a tsunami alert was lifted following a 7.6 magnitude undersea quake, as local authorities began work to repai...

Quake off Philippines spurs small tsunami; one dead

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:29 PM PDT

Thousands of villagers who fled their coastal homes during a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines have returned home, but hundreds more still jittery from the temblor remained in evacuation ...

New Jersey shooting: Gunman an ex-Marine, had tweeted about killing 'everyone I see'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:25 PM PDT

An ex-Marine who had suffered from depression and once tweeted about killing "everyone I see" opened fire in camouflage gear at a supermarket early Friday, gunning down two co-workers before he killed...

Eight dead after canoe capsizes outside Guinea capital

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:09 PM PDT

Survivors say at least eight people have died and another 30 are missing after a canoe overloaded with merchandise capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Conakry, the capital of Guinea.

SEAL broke no US secrecy rules with book: Lawyer

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 07:25 PM PDT

A lawyer for the ex-Navy SEAL who wrote a book about the raid that took out Osama bin Laden has not violated any non-disclosure agreements with the Pentagon and has "earned the right to tell his story...

One dead as wildfires rage near tourist areas in Spain

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 11:21 AM PDT

One person died and 4,000 others were forced to evacuate their homes as a wildfire fanned by strong winds devoured hillsides near the Spanish resort city of Marbella on Friday. A regional Interior Min...

Pakistan blasphemy row: Christians protest after arrest of teenager; attempts to calm fears

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 11:11 AM PDT

Pakistani Christians marched through the streets of Islamabad on Friday to protest against religious persecution. The march came after a court in Pakistan ordered a Christian girl accused of blasphemy...

Indonesia rescues 43 Sri Lankans adrift for 9 days

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:58 AM PDT

Indonesian fishermen on Friday rescued 43 starving, dehydrated Sri Lankans who had been adrift in a boat for nine days after their engine broke down while trying to reach Australia to seek asylum, pol...

Flags at half-mast across US for Neil Armstrong funeral

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:33 AM PDT

Flags flew at half mast across the United States on Friday in memory of astronaut Neil Armstrong to mark the private funeral in Ohio of the first man to walk on the moon.

7-year-old girl, 12-year-old boy found beheaded in Afghanistan

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:41 AM PDT

The decapitated bodies of a 7-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy found Friday in the country's south and east continued a spate of grisly beheadings in Afghanistan this week.

Hurricane Isaac: Rain stalls US crop harvest, some damage done

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT

Rain and wind from the remnants of Hurricane Isaac are expected to move into the central US Midwest on Friday and into the weekend, stalling crop harvests and causing some localized damage, an agricul...

Osama's dead body was identified by young girl: Book

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 07:49 AM PDT

The dead body of Osama bin Laden was identified by a young girl who was in the room where he was killed after his wives refused to name the elusive Al Qaeda chief, a new book by an ex-US Navy Seal has...

Plane skids off runway in Pakistan, all on board safe

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:25 AM PDT

A Pakistan International Airlines' plane skidded off the runway while landing at the airport in Lahore on Friday though all 48 people on board escaped unhurt. A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman told...

Tsunami warning lifted for Japan, Taiwan after 7.6 quake in Philippines

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:07 AM PDT

A 7.6-magnitude undersea quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines late Friday, triggering tsunami warnings across the region. At least one house collapsed and power was knocked out in sev...

Insurgents launch rare multiple attacks in south Thailand

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:36 AM PDT

Suspected Muslim separatists launched a wave of bomb attacks in Thailand's south on Friday in a rare show of coordination in a usually low-level insurgency in the predominantly Buddhist country.

UK crackdown on Indian-origin 'rogue landlords'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:23 AM PDT

Britain on Friday launched a major crackdown on landlords -- many of them of Indian origin - who construct illegal extensions to their houses dubbed as "beds in sheds" and rent them out to illegal imm...

Emotional ties to Obama may be central to the election

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:42 AM PDT

Through three nights of gauzy videos, sentimental testimonials and, finally, his own address to the nation Thursday, Mitt Romney worked hard to show he has a heart.

Timeline of other major shooting incidents in the United States

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:33 AM PDT

Several people are reported dead at a supermarket in New Jersey after a gunman opened fire. Unconfirmed reports say the gunman is among those killed. Here is a timeline of some of the other worst s...

New Jersey supermarket shooting: Store worker fatally shoots 2 employees, self

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:20 AM PDT

A shooting at a New Jersey supermarket early on Friday killed three people, and the gunman is believed to be among the dead, a law enforcement official said. The shooting happened around 4 am inside a...

Pakistani court extends remand of Christian girl

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:48 AM PDT

A Pakistani court has extended by a fortnight the judicial remand of a minor Christian girl arrested on a charge of blasphemy. Rimsha Masih, who was arrested from the low-income Mehria Jaffar area on...

Harvard probes dozens of students on cheating allegation

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:14 AM PDT

Harvard University is investigating whether dozens of undergraduate students cheated on a take-home exam last spring. School officials said they discovered students may have shared answers or plagiari...
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