Saturday, September 1, 2012

For President Obama, beer a way to contact

For President Obama, beer a way to contact


For President Obama, beer a way to contact

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 09:04 PM PDT

President Barack Obama was barely back in Iowa, ready to drink in the adulation of supporters, when the booze news broke: The White House beer recipe is out.


Top London university loses right to sponsor visas; hundreds of Indian students affected

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 08:58 PM PDT

London Metropolitan University, which has over 350 Indian students on its rolls, has been told by the UK Border Agency that it cannot bring foreign students into the country. This has led to panic amo...


Author Richard Bach survives plane crash in US

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 07:28 PM PDT

Richard Bach, the author of the 1970s best-selling novella 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' among other spiritually oriented books rooted in themes of flight and self-discovery, was in serious condition ...


gypt TV presenter denies inciting president's killing

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT

A popular Egyptian TV presenter accused of inciting the killing of the country's new president on air denied the charges at the opening of his trial on Saturday, saying the case against him was part o...


Batman shooting: Caller hung up on University of Colorado minutes before massacre

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:44 AM PDT

A caller who phoned the University of Colorado Hospital less than 10 minutes before a mass shooting that killed 12 people hung up without speaking, officials said on Friday, a day after the accused gu...


Woman arrested 4 times in 26 hours for loud music, throwing frying pan

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 08:36 AM PDT

Authorities say a New Hampshire woman has been arrested four times in 26 hours for blasting the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and other loud music from her home and for throwing a frying pan.


Syrian rebels hit back at Assad's air power

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 05:40 AM PDT

Rebels seized an air defence facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force on which President Bashar al-Assad is increasi...


Japan officials to visit disputed East China Sea islands

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:48 AM PDT

Tokyo city officials intending to buy tiny islands at the center of a longtime territorial dispute with China will travel by boat on Saturday to survey the area ahead of the purchase they hope will bo...


Iran scores with summit but wrong-footed by nuclear report

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 02:37 AM PDT

Iran scored a point against Western efforts to isolate it by hosting a summit this week of 120 Non-Aligned Movement countries, but its bid to boost its prestige was wrong-footed by a new report on its...


German drug firm makes first apology for thalidomide

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 01:42 AM PDT

The German manufacturer of a notorious drug that caused thousands of babies to be born with shortened arms and legs, or no limbs at all, issued its first ever apology on Friday - 50 years after pullin...


Hurriane Isaac finally leaves US Gulf coast, uncertainty fills gap

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 01:25 AM PDT

As Isaac's drenching rains and cooling winds drifted north of the Gulf Coast, heat and humidity moved back in - along with frustration, exhaustion and uncertainty. People stuck inside stuffy, powerles...


Does China's next leader have a soft spot for Tibet?

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 11:58 PM PDT

For decades, Beijing has maintained that the Dalai Lama is a separatist, but Tibet's exiled spiritual leader once had a special relationship with the father of Xi Jinping, the man in line to become Ch...


Barack Obama names IIT Mumbai graduate to key post

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 11:05 PM PDT

President Barack Obama has appointed Romesh Wadhwani, an Indian American founder of several software and IT companies, on board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.


Blind Chinese activist to visit China's rival Taiwan

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:34 PM PDT

Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose escape from house arrest sparked a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington, accepted an invitation on Friday to visit Taiwan, underscoring ...

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