Sunday, August 26, 2012

Pakistani Prime Minister arrives for latest Supreme Court hearing

Pakistani Prime Minister arrives for latest Supreme Court hearing

Pakistani Prime Minister arrives for latest Supreme Court hearing

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:01 PM PDT

Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf arrived at the country's Supreme Court on Monday for the latest round in a long-running legal wrangle over reopening graft cases against the president.

Ex-UK minister's daughter living life of a Sikh warrior

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:24 PM PDT

The daughter of former British minister Jonathan Aitken has swapped the world of nightclubs and parties for a simple life as a devout Sikh in Punjab.

Series of earthquakes rattle Southern California

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:23 PM PDT

Dozens of small to moderate earthquakes struck southeastern California on Sunday, knocking trailer homes off their foundations, shattering windows and rattling nerves in a small farming town east of S...

Viral debate over airlines saying you can't wear that

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:04 PM PDT

Airlines give many reasons for refusing to let you board, but none stir as much debate as this: How you're dressed.

To hero-astronaut Armstrong, moonwalk 'just' a job

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:01 PM PDT

Neil Armstrong made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon. He commanded the historic landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of...

Before Batman shooting, hints of 'bad news'

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 09:56 PM PDT

The text message, sent to another graduate student in early July, was cryptic and worrisome. Had she heard of "dysphoric mania," James Eagan Holmes wanted to know? About two weeks later, minutes in...

Neil Armstrong's Asian legacy a new space race

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 09:28 PM PDT

American astronaut Neil Armstrong passed away into the heavens, his explorations are legendary and he will remain as tall as the stars and moon. A man whose famous words one small step for man, one gi...

Evidence mounts of new massacre in Syria

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 08:06 PM PDT

Row upon row of bloodied bodies wrapped in colorful blankets laid out on a mosque floor in a Damascus suburb. Long narrow graves tightly packed with dozens of victims. Nestled among them, two babies w...

Anti-Obama documentary highlights weak Hollywood newcomers

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:32 AM PDT

Hollywood may have run out of summer hits, but an anti-Obama documentary is helping to fill the gap.

Saudi Arabia foils 'terror' plot, busts two cells: ministry

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:49 AM PDT

Saudi authorities today announced they had foiled a "terror" plot by elements suspected of links to Al-Qaeda, mostly Yemenis, and busted two extremist cells in Riyadh and Jeddah.

Palestine's first women racing team finds freedom behind the wheel

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:43 AM PDT

In Palestine, The group of six women car racers, Muslims and Christians from their 20s to mid-30s, have battled sceptical parents, the realities of the Israeli occupation and a sometimes disapproving ...

Prince Harry, give him a break, tweets Rupert Murdoch

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:23 AM PDT

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch came to the defence of Britain's Prince Harry on Sunday, urging critics to "give him a break" over photographs of him frolicking naked in a Las Vegas hotel suite.

2 Pussy Riot members flee Russia to escape arrest

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:11 AM PDT

The Russian punk band Pussy Riot says two activists who were being sought by police have left the country. Five members of the feminist group took part in a provocative performance inside Moscow's ...

Syria accused of 'massacre' as hundreds of bodies found

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:58 AM PDT

Several hundred bodies have been found in a town near Damascus after a ferocious assault by the Syrian army, a watchdog said Sunday, as activists accused government forces of a gruesome "massacre". ...

Weekly anti-nuclear protests signals new activism in Japan

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:39 AM PDT

This is Japan's summer of discontent. Tens of thousands of protesters - the largest demonstrations the country has seen in decades - descend on Tokyo every Friday evening to shout anti-nuclear slogans...

26/11 case: Pakistan asks India to allow lawyers to quiz key witnesses

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:36 AM PDT

Pakistani authorities have sent two requests to India to allow defence lawyers to cross-examine key witnesses in the 2008 Mumbai attacks case, saying any failure to do so could allow the accused in th...

Taliban deny report of Haqqani commander's death

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:09 AM PDT

A Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan rejected reports that the son of the founder of the powerful Haqqani militant network has been killed, even as senior insurgents and members of the Pakistani governm...

Bus collides with tanker in China, killing 36

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:47 PM PDT

A double-decker sleeper bus rammed into a tanker loaded with highly-flammable methanol on a northern Chinese highway early Sunday, causing both vehicles to burst into flames and killing 36 people, sta...

Famous lost word in Neil Armstrong's 'mankind' quote

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:17 PM PDT

Was the walk on the moon one small step for man, or a man? Neil Armstrong's first words from the moon were heard all over Earth, and Earth heard this: "That's one small step for man, one giant lea...
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