Thursday, August 2, 2012

Mitt Romney ropes in Indian-American to reach to Asia Americans

Mitt Romney ropes in Indian-American to reach to Asia Americans


Mitt Romney ropes in Indian-American to reach to Asia Americans

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 09:30 PM PDT

Indian-American Akshay Desai has been roped in by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his outreach to Asian American community ahead of the crucial November 6 US presidential elections. ...


Spain's King Juan Carlos trips and falls

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 10:54 AM PDT

Spain's King Juan Carlos has tripped and fallen while visiting army headquarters in Madrid, but the 74-year-old monarch did not appear to be seriously hurt.


New Egypt Cabinet sworn in, faces heavy tasks

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 10:44 AM PDT

Egypt's new prime minister and his Cabinet were sworn in on Thursday, the first government since the election of a Muslim Brotherhood leader as the country's first freely elected president.


French president Hollande takes train, not plane, on vacation

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 10:26 AM PDT

France's President Francois Hollande has headed off on vacation this year by train, not plane, in a break with his flashy predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy.


Romney back on US campaign trail, touts recovery plan

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 09:27 AM PDT

Republican Mitt Romney reintroduced himself to US voters on Thursday, touting a recovery plan he says will create millions of jobs, as his campaign warned the economy under President Barack Obama was ...


Spain arrests three Al Qaeda suspects, Europe plot feared

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Police have arrested three suspected members of Al Qaeda who had amassed explosives and may have been plotting attacks in Spain or elsewhere in Europe, Spain's interior minister said on Thursday. Two ...


Kofi Annan quits as Syria peace envoy

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 08:09 AM PDT

Kofi Annan resigned as UN-Arab League envoy for Syria on Thursday, complaining the international community had not done enough to support his bid to persuade Bashar al-Assad to accept a peace plan.


Woman faces death by stoning in Sudan

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 08:02 AM PDT

A 23-year-old Sudanese woman, mother to a six-month-old baby, has been convicted of adultery and will be stoned to death, Sky News reported. Laila Ibrahim Issa Jamool is being kept shackled to her bab...


Attacks on Iraq checkpoints kill eight: Officials

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 07:22 AM PDT

Three attacks on separate checkpoints north of Baghdad on Thursday killed eight people, including four policemen and three anti-Qaeda militiamen, Iraqi officials said.


Armies of India, Russia to hold joint counter-terror exercise

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 07:21 AM PDT

Armies of India and Russia will hold their first joint counter-terrorism war games involving tanks and armoured fighting vehicles close to Moscow's boundary with China and Mongolia from August 7. The...

Pakistan army chief calls for transparent ties with US

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:58 AM PDT

Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Thursday called for transparent ties with US based on mutual trust as he met American commanders in Afghanistan, days after the two sides struck a d...


Three commuter jets avoid midair collision in US: Report

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:44 AM PDT

US Airways said on Wednesday that it is working with federal officials to investigate a newspaper report that three commuter jets narrowly averted a mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan Washington Nat...


Indo-American prof leads new ways to treat colon cancer

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:16 AM PDT

Genetic vulnerabilities could lead to powerful new treatments for colon cancer and the researchers hope that the drugs designed to strike these weak spots will eventually stop the disease that is almo...


How swimming photographers make their underwater moment

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:39 AM PDT

As Al Bello struggles to wedge his lean body into his scuba gear, it appears that taking the photographs has to be the easy part.


NASA braces for 'terror' in Mars landing

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:41 AM PDT

The biggest, baddest space rover ever built for exploring an alien planet is nearing its August 6 landing on Mars, and the US space agency is anxious for success despite huge risks.


Afghan forces kill 7 insurgents over attack plan

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:47 PM PDT

Afghan forces killed seven insurgents who were planning to attack Kabul in an early morning gunbattle on Thursday just outside of the capital, official said.


China scorns US criticism of religious policies

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:58 PM PDT

China has blasted a U.S. State Department report that criticised its controls on religion, saying on Thursday that the document was prejudiced and an attempt to meddle in domestic affairs.


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