Friday, August 31, 2012

SA rethinking mine murder charges

SA rethinking mine murder charges

SA rethinking mine murder charges

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:34 AM PDT

South Africa's justice minister demands an explanation after state prosecutors charge 270 miners with murdering colleagues who were shot by police.

Abramovich wins UK court battle

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 07:38 AM PDT

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wins a £3bn ($4.7bn) breach of trust and contract case brought by exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky at London court.

Spanish firefighters battle blaze

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:53 AM PDT

Firefighters in southern Spain are struggling to control a huge wildfire that is blazing on the edges of the resort of Marbella on the Costa del Sol.

Romney heads to hurricane zone

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:35 AM PDT

Mitt Romney heads to an emergency centre in hurricane-damaged Louisiana, a day after accepting his party's nomination for US president.

Big quake strikes off Philippines

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:20 AM PDT

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes off the Philippine island of Samar, causing tsunami evacuations and power cuts.

Gujarat riots politician jailed

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:37 AM PDT

An Indian court sentences senior BJP party member Maya Kodnani to 28 years in jail for murder and other crimes in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Mexico challenger urges protests

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:13 AM PDT

Mexico's presidential runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador refuses to recognise a court ruling upholding July's election and calls for protests.

Tokyo court gives win to Samsung

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:24 PM PDT

A court in Tokyo rules that Samsung Electronics did not infringe on patents held by Apple, a victory for the South Korean company.

Man held in 'Pussy Riot' murder

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:25 AM PDT

Russian police arrest a man who they say confessed to trying to make a recent double murder look like a political act by writing Free Pussy Riot on the wall.

Fatal shooting at US supermarket

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:34 AM PDT

A New Jersey supermarket employee opens fire on his colleagues early Friday morning, killing two people and himself, officials say.

Strauss-Kahn wife confirms split

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:33 AM PDT

The wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, well-known journalist Anne Sinclair, appears to confirm rumours that the couple have split.

Cave girl's DNA gives up secrets

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:17 PM PDT

Scientists analyse the DNA of an 80,000-year-old Denisovan girl, shedding more light on her relation to our closest extinct evolutionary kin.

VIDEO: 'Fire forced me out of home'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:42 AM PDT

The landscape is completely burnt around El Puerto, where Kimberley Stone has a holiday home in Spain. The Briton said it was the worst fire she had seen in the area.

VIDEO: Life of blasphemy case girl 'in danger'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:15 AM PDT

A Pakistani court has ordered a Christian girl, accused of blasphemy, to be held in prison for another fortnight. Police said they wanted more time to investigate the allegations against the girl who is said to have profound learning difficulties.

VIDEO: Police raids target 'slum landlords'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:33 AM PDT

Ministers have vowed to crackdown on rogue landlords who illegally house people in converted substandard outbuildings.

VIDEO: Isaac forces dam evacuation order

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:59 PM PDT

Officials have begun a controlled release of water at a Mississippi dam that was battered by Hurricane Isaac.

VIDEO: 'Progress' with Taliban in Afghanistan

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:45 PM PDT

International forces in Afghanistan believe they are making progress in persuading Taliban fighters to lay down their weapons and join the government side.

AUDIO: Freed dissident 'in fine spirits'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:04 AM PDT

The wife of Wang Xiaoning says her husband's physical condition is fine, after he was released from jail in Beijing.

VIDEO: Asylum boat survivor describes ordeal

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 02:49 AM PDT

A survivor from a sunken boat has described how he and 150 other asylum seekers en route from Indonesia to Australia spent four days in the water waiting to be rescued.

US Fed hints at further measures

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:06 AM PDT

The head of the US central bank, Ben Bernanke, says that he has not ruled out further action to boost the US economy.

Eurozone unemployment at new high

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Unemployment across the 17-nation eurozone hit a record 18 million in July, the EU statistics agency says.

Gaze-controlled smart TV unveiled

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:28 AM PDT

Haier and Tobii team up to show off Gaze TV, a television set which users control by staring at buttons on its screen.

Scanning plan to aid home robots

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:33 AM PDT

Humans are being asked to help domestic robots recognise the multitude of objects found in the average home.

Clint speech bemuses fellow stars

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:19 AM PDT

Clint Eastwood's unconventional speech at the Republican National Convention in Florida draws a mixed reaction from the Hollywood community.

Boyle defends Paralympic jokes

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:11 AM PDT

Comedian Frankie Boyle says jokes he made on Twitter about the Paralympics were "celebratory, non discriminatory [and] pretty funny".

Blind fish share common ancestor

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:20 AM PDT

A family of eyeless, colourless cave-dwelling fish, separated millions of years ago, have turned up on either side of the Indian Ocean.

Isaac drove Mississippi backwards

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:10 AM PDT

Instruments measuring the flow and height of the Mississippi River find that it ran backward for 24 hours, driven by the storm surge of Hurricane Isaac.

Glass shape alters drinking speed

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:56 AM PDT

Can the shape of your beer-glass affect your drinking speed?

Active pensioners 'add six years'

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Being active and living a healthy lifestyle even after the age of 75 can make a huge difference to your life expectancy, a Swedish study suggests.

Angolans vote in general election

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:54 AM PDT

Angolans vote for a new president and parliament, in the second national elections since the country's 27-year civil war ended a decade ago.

China activist Wang Xiaoning free

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:13 PM PDT

A Chinese dissident convicted of subversion charges with the help of evidence provided by US internet giant Yahoo is released from jail.

Spain creates 'bad bank' for debt

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:42 AM PDT

The Spanish government is creating a "bad bank" into which all the toxic property assets of its debt-laden banking sector can be off-loaded.

Ecuador journalist gets US asylum

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 02:41 AM PDT

An Ecuadorean journalist is granted political asylum in the US a year after being sentenced to jail for an article against President Rafael Correa.

Torso found near Niagara Falls

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:46 AM PDT

Police in Canada are investigating the murder of a woman whose headless torso was found floating near Niagara Falls.

No regrades of English GCSE marks

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:01 AM PDT

England's exams regulator, Ofqual, says there will be no regrading of English GCSEs in the row over grade boundary changes.

Squatting becomes criminal act

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:55 AM PDT

A law making squatting in a residential building a criminal offence comes into force shortly, meaning squatters could face jail or a fine.

Three jailed for £10m Ponzi fraud

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:18 AM PDT

A couple and an accountant are jailed for cheating British ex-pats in Majorca out of £10m, in a Ponzi investment scheme.

Disability protests at Atos HQ

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:38 AM PDT

Disability rights campaigners protest against Atos, the firm carrying out the government's "fit for work" assessments.

Week in pictures: 25-31 August 2012

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 07:15 AM PDT

News photographs from the past week

In pictures: Wheelchair basketball in Afghanistan

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:23 AM PDT

Wheelchair basketball in Afghanistan

Paralympics: Day 1 photos

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:58 AM PDT

The best pictures from Day 1

Why was 34,969 Count von Count's magic number?

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:36 PM PDT

Why was this number so special to Count von Count?

Life as a nurse in a deadly city

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:39 PM PDT

Is this the toughest place to be a nurse?

Syria: The story of the conflict

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:43 AM PDT

The story of the conflict that has killed thousands

Fundamentalist movie sees 9/11 from the 'other side'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:36 AM PDT

Fundamentalist movie shows the 'other side' of 9/11

Quiz of the week's news

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:42 PM PDT

Who was shaken and stirred by a 007-themed party?

Day in pictures: 31 August 2012

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:35 AM PDT

24 hours of news photos from around the world

Herat Taliban fighters switch sides

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:36 PM PDT

Change of heart as some Taliban fighters join Afghan government

Biofuel crops transform German farming

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:36 PM PDT

Biofuel starts to edge out food on German farms

Should children be able to buy Fifty Shades of Grey?

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:56 PM PDT

Should children be able to buy Fifty Shades?
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