Sunday, September 2, 2012

SA to drop miner murder charges

SA to drop miner murder charges

SA to drop miner murder charges

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:12 AM PDT

Murder charges against 270 striking South African miners, brought under an apartheid-era law, are to be provisionally dropped, prosecutors say.

Afghan recruits training halted

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 03:29 AM PDT

Training for new recruits into the Afghan local police is suspended while they are re-vetted for possible ties to the Taliban, US officials say.

Pakistan blasphemy case imam held

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:34 AM PDT

An imam is remanded in Pakistan, accused of planting pages of the Koran among burnt pages in the bag of a Christian girl arrested on charges of blasphemy.

Thousands attend Meles funeral

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:39 AM PDT

Thousands of people and many foreign leaders attend the funeral in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa of long-serving PM Meles Zenawi.

Pirate Bay founder Warg arrested

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:15 AM PDT

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of the popular file-sharing website Pirate Bay, is arrested in Cambodia, police say.

ECB urged to take eurozone action

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:14 AM PDT

The head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development calls on the European Central Bank to take action on the eurozone crisis.

Blast in 'Damascus security area'

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:56 AM PDT

An explosion is reported in an area of the Syrian capital Damascus which houses major military and security compounds.

Walk On By lyricist David dies

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:28 AM PDT

US songwriter Hal David, who wrote dozens of hit songs with collaborator Burt Bacharach, dies from complications stemming from a stroke aged 91.

Algeria diplomat 'killed in Mali'

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:40 AM PDT

An Islamist militant group in Mali says it executed one of Algerian diplomats seized in April.

Israel removes West Bank settlers

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:53 AM PDT

Scuffles erupt as Israeli police remove Jewish settlers from an illegal West Bank outpost of Migron, north of Jerusalem.

Pilot whales stranded on coast

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:08 AM PDT

A total of 16 pilot whales die and 10 others are saved after being stranded on the east coast of Scotland.

Imperious Button wins in Belgium

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:42 AM PDT

McLaren's Jenson Button wins the Belgian GP after a first-corner crash puts Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso out.

VIDEO: Songwriter Hal David dies at 91

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 01:57 AM PDT

US songwriter Hal David, who wrote dozens of hits with collaborator Burt Bacharach, has died at the age of 91.

VIDEO: Priest numbers fall in Ireland

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:14 AM PDT

Parishioners in some parts of Ireland have started to lead Catholic masses, as the number of priests in the country falls.

VIDEO: El Salvador's fireball tradition

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:23 AM PDT

Residents in the town of Nejapa in El Salvador have been commemorating a volcanic eruption in 1658 which destroyed the town, by hurling fireballs at each other.

VIDEO: Danish high-tech link to history

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:11 AM PDT

New technology is being deployed in a Danish cemetery to provide the smartphone generation with a link to the past.

VIDEO: Obama's home brew recipe revealed

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:59 AM PDT

The White House has released details of one of its most closely guarded secrets - the recipe for President Barack Obama's home-brewed honey ale.

VIDEO: Thousands attend Meles funeral

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:46 AM PDT

Thousands of people have been attending the state funeral in Addis Ababa of Ethiopia's long-serving Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died last month.

VIDEO: Jordan in Syria crisis aid plea

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 07:28 PM PDT

Jordan has sharply increased the amount of money it says it requires from the international community to cope with the influx of refugees from Syria.

France helps Credit Immobilier

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 03:18 AM PDT

Struggling French mortgage lender Credit Immobilier has its assets guaranteed by the government.

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.

Author Richard Bach crashes plane

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 01:57 PM PDT

The author of 1970s short story Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach, has crashed his small plane in the US, seriously injuring himself.

Wyoming wolves lose US protection

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:50 PM PDT

The US government ends its protection of gray wolves in Wyoming, allowing the western state to shoot wolves on sight in most areas.

Birds and berries to be surveyed

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:56 PM PDT

A British Trust for Ornithology study will aim to discover if the berry-eating habits of garden birds impact on the countryside.

White House divulges beer recipe

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 05:50 PM PDT

The White House releases details of one of its most closely guarded secrets - the recipe for President Barack Obama's home-brewed honey ale.

Egypt retires 70 army generals

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:20 AM PDT

The Egyptian government announces that 70 army generals from the era of ousted President Hosni Mubarak are to be retired.

Japan survey of disputed islands

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT

A group of Japanese officials conduct a survey of a group of islands claimed by both Japan and China, drawing protests from Beijing.

Warrant over 'sex abuse' priest

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:32 AM PDT

Police obtain a European Arrest Warrant for a former Catholic priest accused of sex offences, who failed to answer bail.

Peru state of emergency to end

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 05:34 PM PDT

Peru's government decides not to renew a state of emergency in three provinces, to allow talks about a controversial gold mining project to resume.

Jordan in Syria crisis aid plea

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:49 PM PDT

Jordan calls for international help to cope with the influx of refugees, as escalating fighting in Syria increases the number of fleeing civilians.

Osborne vows infrastructure boost

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:40 AM PDT

Chancellor George Osborne unveils plans to back up to £50bn in private sector building projects - but Labour says he has "no new ideas".

Footballer held over crash deaths

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:31 AM PDT

Manchester City footballer Courtney Meppen-Walter is arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

Games anti-doping policy defended

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:12 AM PDT

Paralympic organisers defend their decision not to drug test all medal-winning athletes - as with the Olympics - saying the greater number of events made it "impossible".

Parents missing from Broads boat

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT

A river search is taking place for the parents of a 13-year-old girl who was found alone on a boat on the Norfolk Broads.

VIDEO: Thai school for blind masseurs

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Do blind people make the best masseurs?

JG Ballard and the magic of memory

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:03 AM PDT

How did JG Ballard's early life influence his fiction?

Indian woman's 24-year fight to prove she is alive

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:05 AM PDT

How a 'dead' Indian woman returned to life

In pictures: Ethiopian PM Meles' funeral

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:39 AM PDT

Ethiopia stages first state funeral for a leader for 80 years

Denmark pioneers hi-tech memorials

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 12:30 AM PDT

Denmark goes hi-tech to remember the dead

Huge naked lady unveiled to world

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 01:19 AM PDT

Landcape sculpture named Northumberlandia revealed

Seven of the week's best reads

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 04:23 PM PDT

Seven of the week's best reads from around the web

Has Israeli firm cracked electric car angst?

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 03:58 AM PDT

Does Israeli invention spell end to electric car angst?
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