Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Canada's 'Marilyn Monroe' towers

Canada's 'Marilyn Monroe' towers


Canada's 'Marilyn Monroe' towers

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:48 AM PDT

Southwest of Toronto, in a satellite city called Mississauga, Ma Yansong's vision of a flowing, organic architecture halts the tedium of a relentlessly box-shaped cityscape.

Teddy bears dive for 'democracy'

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT

Watch as a Swedish activist throws teddy bears out of an airplane over Belarus in support of free speech and democracy.

Ahmadinejad responds to Western jabs

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the United Nations on Wednesday, said his nation was committed to peace and accused world powers of double standards in pursuing an arms race.

Afghan girls take brave first step

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:58 AM PDT

Many schoolgirls in Afghanistan have been viciously attacked by people who think female education should be forbidden -- just as it was during the Taliban's rule. But amid the violence, there is promise.

When to publish, when not ...

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:43 AM PDT

The topless duchess, the dying diplomat, cartoons of the Prophet and photographs of a secretive filmmaker. News coverage of all four have been a lightning rod for the debate about privacy, decency, tolerance, the right to publish and self-restraint.

Opinion: Authoritarians get savvy

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:54 AM PDT

Vladimir Putin always understood that the old ways would no longer do.

Nuclear hypocrisy in Middle East?

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:08 AM PDT

Does Israel enjoy a double standard when it comes to nuclear ambitions in the Middle East? CNN's Sara Sidner reports.

When to publish, when not ...

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:43 AM PDT

The topless duchess, the dying diplomat, cartoons of the Prophet and photographs of a secretive filmmaker. News coverage of all four have been a lightning rod for the debate about privacy, decency, tolerance, the right to publish and self-restraint.

Afghan girls take brave first step

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:58 AM PDT

Many schoolgirls in Afghanistan have been viciously attacked by people who think female education should be forbidden -- just as it was during the Taliban's rule. But amid the violence, there is promise.

Opinion: Authoritarians get savvy

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:54 AM PDT

Vladimir Putin always understood that the old ways would no longer do.

Nuclear hypocrisy in Middle East?

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:08 AM PDT

Does Israel enjoy a double standard when it comes to nuclear ambitions in the Middle East? CNN's Sara Sidner reports.

Ma Yansong's sinuous towers

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 03:47 AM PDT

Southwest of Toronto, in a satellite city called Mississauga, Ma Yansong's vision of a flowing, organic architecture halts the tedium of a relentlessly box-shaped cityscape.

Rebels attack Syria's Pentagon-like military facility

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 12:07 PM PDT

With explosives and gunfire, rebels attacked a military building in Damascus on Wednesday, the second such attack on a military facility in two days.

Thousands protest austerity measures in Greece

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 10:17 AM PDT

Thousands of Greeks took to the streets Wednesday to protest new austerity measures that critics described as draconian.

Reality show contestant slain after TV confession

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 04:52 AM PDT

A Peruvian reality show has become part of a real-life crime drama as authorities investigate the slaying of a contestant who appeared on the program.

South Africa's Malema charged with money laundering

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:59 AM PDT

South African firebrand politician Julius Malema slammed the nation's president Wednesday after a court charged him with money laundering at a hearing that paved the way for a fiery trial.

Suspect due in court in St. Maarten murder case

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:44 AM PDT

A man arrested in connection with the stabbing death of an American couple in the Dutch Carribean nation of St. Maarten will appear before a judge Wednesday, after his scheduled court date was pushed back a day. The proceedings are not expected to be open to the public.

Police: DNA solves Canadian teen's 1974 murder

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:47 AM PDT

DNA evidence links a now-dead American convict to the murder of a Canadian teenager who disappeared in 1974, authorities in British Columbia said Tuesday.

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