Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in Louisiana, over 200,000 homes without power

Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in Louisiana, over 200,000 homes without power

Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in Louisiana, over 200,000 homes without power

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 09:06 PM PDT

Hurricane Isaac slammed into the southern Louisiana coast late on Tuesday, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds, as residents hunkered down behind boarded-up windows. New Orleans ca...

Signing out: Armstrong autographs under hammer

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:27 PM PDT

A series of autographs of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, will go under the hammer this week with auctioneers wondering if the sky's the limit for the prized signatures. Interest is...

Indian American grabs attention in Republican convention

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:45 PM PDT

Ranjit Ricky Gill, a 25-year-old Republican Party leader of Indian origin, grabbed attention of many with an impressive speech over a range of policy issues during party's on-going convention in Tampa...

Mitt Romney nominated as Republican presidential candidate

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:24 PM PDT

Republicans bestowed their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney on Tuesday, turning to the former Massachusetts governor and multi-millionaire businessman to drive Barack Obama from the White House ...

NAM summit: Iran will try to prove it's a global power

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:15 AM PDT

In the biggest public relations initiative undertaken in the 33-year-old history of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the country hopes to shed its status of international pariah, as it gets set to host t...

Now soldiers strip on Facebook in support of Prince Harry

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 06:40 AM PDT

Thousands of soldiers and fans of the British armed forces joined a Facebook group and posted their nude pictures in support of Prince Harry after his naked Las Vegas photo furore. Soldiers and fans t...

Girl arrested for blasphemy in Pakistan is 14 years old

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 06:37 AM PDT

An official medical review of a Pakistani Christian girl accused of desecrating the Quran has determined that the girl is a minor, a lawyer for the girl said Tuesday. The finding, which means the g...

Afghan beheadings could signal confusion in Taliban ranks

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 05:54 AM PDT

It was meant to be another night of music and dance, a brief distraction from life in the searing heat and dust of Afghanistan's conservative rural south for a small group of boys and girls in Helmand...

Tropical storm Isaac on verge of becoming a category 1 hurricane

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:08 AM PDT

Tropical Storm Isaac gathered strength early Tuesday and was on the verge of becoming a Category 1 hurricane as it rumbled toward the Gulf Coast, though precisely where it will make landfall remains g...

Tropical storm Isaac gains strength on path to US Gulf Coast

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:35 AM PDT

Tropical Storm Isaac had nearly reached hurricane strength as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and appeared to be taking direct aim at New Orleans, almost seven years to the day since th...

Duped by Pak husband, Indian woman yearns to return home

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 01:59 AM PDT

An Indian woman, who left her country and religion to marry a Pakistani man, claims that her husband has locked her up in a small room on the roof of their house here for the past 13 years. Shirley An...

US troops punished for Quran burning, urination video

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 01:30 AM PDT

American military authorities disciplined nine service members on Monday for two episodes this year - the burning of Qurans and the posting of a video showing Marines urinating on dead insurgents - th...

American Taliban fighter says prayer rule 'absurd'

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:27 AM PDT

American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh says a federal prison rule barring him and other Muslims from praying together daily is "absurd" and contends the US is causing him to sin against his r...

Indians have black skin that highlights gold jewellery: Chinese daily

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:04 AM PDT

Indians have black skin that highlights gold jewellery, a state-run Chinese daily says in an article that goes on to observe that even girls begging on roadsides have a "gold nail in the nose" and tha...

When Neil Armstrong apologised to Indira Gandhi

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 11:48 PM PDT

"I apologise for the inconvenience", US astronaut Neil Armstrong told Indira Gandhi when informed that the Indian Prime Minister had kept awake till 4:30 am to watch him land on the moon on July 20, 1...

After 11-year-old's arrest, fearful Pakistani Christians make home in forest

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 11:25 PM PDT

Having fled their homes in the latest spasm of Pakistani religious strife, a few hundred Christians have camped in a forest in the Pakistani capital, cut down trees and are using the branches to build...

Can Curiosity Mars mission inspire like Apollo?

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 11:19 PM PDT

Neil Armstrong inspired millions with his moonwalk. Can a feisty robotic rover exploring Mars do the same for another generation? With manned missions beyond the International Space Station on hold, t...

Another US Republican steps into controversy over rape comments

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 11:12 PM PDT

Another Republican US Senate candidate sparked a controversy on Monday with comments on rape, comparing his family member's decision to have a child outside marriage to a pregnancy caused by rape.
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