India PM defends no-bid coal awards |
- India PM defends no-bid coal awards
- U.N.: Myanmar sentences aid workers
- Syrian bloodbath: Who to believe?
- Fighting al-Assad with satire
- Places that inspired a masterpiece
- Fighting al-Assad with satire
- Pussy Riot duo flees Russia
- Syria siege: Who to believe?
- Afghan soldier opens fire on U.S. troops
- Massive typhoon heads for Koreas
- Pakistan court gives prime minister more time
- Major earthquake hits off coast of El Salvador
- UK police call off search for lion
- Pussy Riot duo flees Russia
- Miners barricade themselves in protest
- Son's death consumes Syrian family
- Iran takes on U.N. at global meeting
- Mine shootings test Zuma
- Islamic cleric killed in ambush
| India PM defends no-bid coal awards Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:05 AM PDT India's beleaguered prime minister, Manmohan Singh, on Monday sought to defend allocations of coal fields without competitive bidding as opposition lawmakers called for his resignation over an audit report that says the exchequer may have lost up to $33 billion by not auctioning off the mines. |
| U.N.: Myanmar sentences aid workers Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:26 AM PDT A court in Myanmar has handed down prison sentences to three aid workers, including two U.N. employees, who were detained amid sectarian clashes that killed scores of people in the west of the Southeast Asian nation, a U.N. spokesman said Monday. |
| Syrian bloodbath: Who to believe? Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:55 AM PDT After a weeklong siege in a Damascus suburb left more than 200 civilians dead, Syrians heard two very different accounts of the story. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:21 AM PDT With horrors emerging from Syria's civil war with numbing regularity, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that the uprising has not been waged only with guns. But Syria's artists are waging war using different weapons: satire and creativity -- and they are bolder than they have ever been before. |
| Places that inspired a masterpiece Posted: 27 Aug 2012 05:55 AM PDT Whether carefully decorated or intentionally uncluttered, artists' homes and studios show us who they were at the core. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:21 AM PDT With horrors emerging from Syria's civil war with numbing regularity, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that the uprising has not been waged only with guns. But Syria's artists are waging war using different weapons: satire and creativity -- and they are bolder than they have ever been before. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:36 AM PDT Two members of the female punk rock band Pussy Riot have fled Russia, the group said. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:05 AM PDT CNN's Jim Clancy reports on two different versions of one of the worst cases of violence in Syria. |
| Afghan soldier opens fire on U.S. troops Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:34 AM PDT An Afghan soldier killed two American troops Monday in the latest attack by Afghan security forces on coalition soldiers, authorities said. |
| Massive typhoon heads for Koreas Posted: 27 Aug 2012 04:49 AM PDT Okinawa emerged relatively unscathed on Monday from a ferocious typhoon that churned across the Japanese island before heading toward the Korean Peninsula. |
| Pakistan court gives prime minister more time Posted: 27 Aug 2012 04:47 AM PDT Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf of Pakistan told the country's Supreme Court on Monday that he wants to resolve a long-running quarrel between the government and the judiciary that cost his predecessor his job. |
| Major earthquake hits off coast of El Salvador Posted: 27 Aug 2012 04:48 AM PDT A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of El Salvador late Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported |
| UK police call off search for lion Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:26 AM PDT The search for a lion in Essex, near London, has been called off -- even as the big cat's fame grows on Twitter. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:36 AM PDT Two members of the female punk rock band Pussy Riot have fled Russia, the group said. |
| Miners barricade themselves in protest Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:07 AM PDT More than 100 miners have barricaded themselves with explosives inside a carbon mine on the Italian island of Sardinia as they seek to persuade the government to invest in the mine's future. |
| Son's death consumes Syrian family Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:31 AM PDT The small room in the back of the Monsours house is set up for two people -- two desks, two night stands, and two beds. Both beds have matching sheets and pillowcases adorned with Superman caricatures. |
| Iran takes on U.N. at global meeting Posted: 27 Aug 2012 04:47 AM PDT Iran kicked off a meeting of more than 100 countries on Sunday by slamming the "adverse consequences of the current world order" and demanding change from the United Nations, state-run Press TV reported. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:26 AM PDT An official national day of mourning in South Africa on Thursday, called by President Jacob Zuma to memorialize the lives of dozens of miners mowed down in a police fusillade one week ago, turned into an opportunity by his critics to call for his ouster. While government leaders urged restraint, and religious figures prayed for redemption, the embattled president's opponents exploited an opening created by the tragedy to portray his government -- and trade unions allied with Zuma -- as pawns of foreign, white owners. |
| Islamic cleric killed in ambush Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:05 AM PDT A radical Islamic cleric who faced charges relating to terrorism was killed in a daylight ambush Monday morning in Kenya's main coastal city, Mombasa, Kenya Police said. |
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