Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Paul Ryan's role: Defending Mitt Romney and slamming Barack Obama

Paul Ryan's role: Defending Mitt Romney and slamming Barack Obama


Paul Ryan's role: Defending Mitt Romney and slamming Barack Obama

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:39 PM PDT

With a no-nonsense tone, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan embraced his role as Barack Obama's top agitator - and Mitt Romney's chief defender


100-year-old driver hits 11 near Los Angeles school

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:22 PM PDT

A 100-year-old man backed his car on to a sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, across from an elementary school in South Los Angeles just after classes had ended on Wednesday, authorit...


Isaac steers clear of direct blow on New Orleans

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:17 PM PDT

Hurricane Isaac sidestepped New Orleans on Wednesday, sending the worst of its howling wind and heavy rain into a cluster of rural fishing villages that had few defenses against the slow-moving storm ...


19 killed in China coal mine blast, 28 still trapped

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 08:58 PM PDT

A gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest China has killed 19 miners and trapped dozens more, state media reported on Thursday. The Xiaojiawan coal mine in Sichuan province's coal-rich Panzhihua cit...


Supreme Court order on Kasab boosts India's case ahead of PM-Asif Ali Zardari meet

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 08:33 PM PDT

With the Supreme Court on Wednesday upholding the death sentence on the Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, India's case for action against others involved in the Mumbai terror attacks got strengthened a...


Secret Service agent's gun found in Romney's plane bathroom

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:50 PM PDT

A Secret Service agent on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign plane accidentally left a gun in the plane's bathroom. The gun was discovered in the restroom by a reporter traveling...


Romney will prove to be a great president: Bush

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:36 PM PDT

A day after being nominated as Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney received praise from former President George W Bush, who expressed belief that the former Massachusetts Governor will prov...


Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit opens today

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Amidst Western efforts to isolate Iran over its nuclear programme, the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement will open in Tehran on Thursday with issues like Syrian crisis and Palestine statehood se...


Iran's Khamenei remembers Gandhi-Nehru in his meeting with Manmohan Singh

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:56 AM PDT

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei no Wednesday fondly remembered Mahatma Gandhi and Indian premier Jawaharlal Nehru in his first-ever interaction with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Tehra...


Millionairess's mails revive interest in Swedish Prime Minister's 1986 murder case

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:35 AM PDT

The unsolved 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme is front page news again in Sweden after newspapers published excerpts of emails written by millionairess Eva Rausing before her death saying she ...


Loss of radio contact prompts Amsterdam plane hijack scare

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 05:40 AM PDT

The Netherlands intercepted a Spanish airliner with two fighter planes and then sent security forces to surround it on the tarmac at Amsterdam's airport in a hijack scare caused by a loss of radio con...


Hurricane Isaac tops Louisiana levee on Katrina anniversary

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:59 AM PDT

Hurricane Isaac drove water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans on Wednesday, triggering life-threatening flooding seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina, authorities said....


'Chinese city official escapes to US with millions of dollars'

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:43 AM PDT

A former top city-level official of the ruling Communist Party of China, who was facing corruption charges, has fled to the US, reportedly with millions of dollars. Wang Guoqiang, who was the party's ...


German authorities detonate 550-pound World War II bomb

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:31 AM PDT

Explosives experts in Germany detonated the remains of a 550-pound (250 kilogrammes) World War II bomb in central Munich on Tuesday evening. The DAPD news agency cited a police spokesman as saying the...


China to deploy drones to conduct maritime surveillance

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:13 AM PDT

Amid increasing maritime disputes with a host of its neighbours, China today said it plans to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) along its coast line to conduct "remote-sensing marine surveillance...


Iran's connection to India's Sikhs

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:01 AM PDT

NAM Summit: It could simply be lore now, but if the story Jugal Kishore, the principal of Tehran's new Kendriya Vidyalaya told us is true, Iran's province of Zahedan was named for the Sikh gentlemen, ...


In a post-9/11 city, a person's language can be a cause for police suspicion

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:15 AM PDT

Earlier this summer, Thomas P. Galati, commanding officer of the New York Police Department's elite intelligence division, sat for an unusual legal interrogation, during which he talked of his keen in...


Amsterdam airport partly closed by World War 2 bomb scare

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:28 AM PDT

Authorities closed part of Amsterdam Schiphol airport on Wednesday after discovering what they suspected was a World War Two bomb, the Dutch airport said. "Terminal C has been evacuated as a precau...


Militants attack Pakistan army post, kill nine troops

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 11:54 PM PDT

A Pakistani military official says Taliban militants attacked an army post near the Afghan border, killing nine soldiers. The official says several other soldiers were wounded in the attack in the ...


Released from jail, Indian Australian surgeon speaks out

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:48 PM PDT

Days after a High Court quashed his conviction on three counts of manslaughter, Indian-origin surgeon Jayant Patel praised the Australian justice system and sympathised with his former patients. Dr Pa...

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