Thursday, September 27, 2012

I heard people inside the plane screaming: Nepal crash witness

I heard people inside the plane screaming: Nepal crash witness


I heard people inside the plane screaming: Nepal crash witness

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:51 PM PDT

Some passengers in the aircraft that crashed near the international airport in Kathmandu on Friday were heard "wailing and screaming", said an eyewitness who recalled the horror.


US chef guilty of cooking dead wife

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:22 PM PDT

A US chef was convicted of second degree murder on Thursday after he admitted to slow-cooking his wife's body for four days to get rid of the evidence, while claiming she had died accidentally.


Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye: Zawahiri

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 09:52 PM PDT

Slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye after an accident during his youth and was a one-time member of the Muslim Brotherhood, his successor has claimed in a new video tribute to th...


Arrest of Google Brazil head stirs debate over Web

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 09:10 PM PDT

The arrest of a top Google executive is reviving a debate about Brazilian laws that hold services such as YouTube responsible for the videos posted on them, making the country a hotbed of attempts to ...


US: Minneapolis office shooter among 'several' dead, say police

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:50 PM PDT

The shooter who opened fire inside a Minneapolis sign company Thursday was among "several" people found dead inside the building, according to police officials who won't specify how many people were k...


UN chief duped by prank call from fake Canadian prime minister

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:58 PM PDT

A pair of Canadian radio comedians said on Thursday it took them less than an hour to get UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the phone during international diplomacy's busiest week - by pretending to...


California man behind anti-Islam film arrested for violating terms of probation

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:14 PM PDT

The man thought to have been behind the crude anti-Islam video that set off deadly protests across the Muslim world in recent weeks was arrested on Thursday for violating terms of his probation in a 2...


19 killed as plane crashes minutes after take-off in Nepal

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:14 PM PDT

A passenger jet carrying 19 people, mainly foreigners, towards an airport in the shadow of Mount Everest crashed on Friday on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital, police said, killing everyone on bo...


Benjamin Netanyahu says world must draw 'red line' for Iran

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 11:19 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb by next summer and urged the world the draw a clear "red line" to stop it in its tra...


Iraq forces arrest top insurgent: Reports

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:44 AM PDT

Iraqi security forces have arrested an insurgent allegedly involved in more than 30 attacks, a security spokesman said on Thursday, as the number of people killed across the country in September reach...

Myanmar president pays United Nations tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:26 AM PDT

Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Thursday made an unprecedented public tribute at the United Nations to opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi's "efforts for democracy."


Iran says 'terrorist sect' attacked its diplomat in New York

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:52 AM PDT

Iran blamed on Thursday "a terrorist sect" for accosting a senior Iranian diplomat in New York and condemned the United States for deciding to remove the group, the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), from a U.S...


Worst flood in decades uproots 10,000 in central Nigeria

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:34 AM PDT

Nigeria's worst flooding in decades has displaced more than 10,000 people in the centre of the country over the past week and stranded some villagers on rooftops, emergency services said on Thursday.


100 million to die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate: Report

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:27 AM PDT

More than 100 million people will die and the global economy will miss out on as much as 3.2 percent of its potential output annually by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report comm...


Are we there yet? Pakistan plans bus route to United Kingdom

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:26 AM PDT

Authorities in Pakistan are planning to launch a bus route from the Kashmir town of Mirpur to the British city of Birmingham 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles) away.

Organised crime moving into logging: UN, Interpol

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:13 AM PDT

Organised crime is now a big player in illegal logging, which accounts for up to 30 per cent of all wood traded globally, the UN and Interpol warned on Thursday. In the mid-2000s, some tropical countr...

Syria tells rebels on mobile phones: "Game over"

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:06 AM PDT

Syrian authorities on Thursday sent text messages over cell phones nationwide with a message for rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's regime: "Game over."


Woman suspected of killing five babies: German police

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:41 AM PDT

A 28-year-old woman in Germany killed her five infants shortly after giving birth to them in secret at home and in the woods, and hid their bodies because she worried her husband would leave her if sh...


Mohamed Morsi wants blind sheikh to serve sentence at home

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:24 AM PDT

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said he wants Omar Abdul Rahman, the Egyptian Muslim cleric jailed in the Unites States for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, to serve out the rest of hi...

Taliban likely to regain power in Kabul: Analyst

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:59 AM PDT

The Afghan government will collapse and Taliban insurgents are likely to retake power after the US and NATO pull their troops out in 2014, a respected international scholar has predicted.

NASA calls off space station's dodging of junk

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:21 AM PDT

The International Space Station is safe from two pieces of menacing junk. The U.S. space agency said on Thursday the orbiting lab does not need to move out of the way of fragments from an Indian rocke...

Benjamin Netanyahu to set "clear red line" for Iran in U.N. speech

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:17 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will set out, in his speech at the United Nations on Thursday, an ultimatum for Iran to halt its disputed nuclear drive or risk coming under military attack, ...


Taiwan issues warning against Typhoon Jelawat

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:12 AM PDT

Taiwan on Thursday issued a warning over a strong typhoon approaching the island which could bring torrential rains and trigger landslides, a month after another heavy storm left six dead.

Robbers held after posing with loot on YouTube

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:21 AM PDT

A gang of burglars were arrested after they posed with their loot and uploaded the videos on YouTube. The "Ladbroke Grove Bloods" gang targeted homes each worth over three million pounds in West Londo...

Spanish magazine publishes Prophet Mohammad cartoon

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:52 AM PDT

Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on its cover, soon after violent protests rocked the Muslim world over a U.S. film and French caricatures de...


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