Thursday, October 25, 2012

NRI IT consultant killed in a freak accident, inquest told

NRI IT consultant killed in a freak accident, inquest told

NRI IT consultant killed in a freak accident, inquest told

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:04 PM PDT

A 48-year-old NRI IT consultant was crushed to death by his own car after his seven-year-old son accidentally released the handbrake while looking for sweets, an inquest into the six month old inciden...

Citi Chairman allegedly planned Vikram Pandit's exit for months

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:57 PM PDT

Vikram Pandit's last day at Citigroup swung from celebratory to devastating in a matter of minutes. Having fielded congratulatory e-mails about the earnings report in the morning that suggested the ba...

Glitch halts South Korea's third attempt at rocket launch

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:51 PM PDT

South Korea called off the launch of a space rocket on Friday after a glitch in the Russian-built booster halted preparations five hours before the scheduled lift-off.

Syria commits to four-day truce, but prospects dim

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:40 PM PDT

The embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad promised on Thursday to observe a U.N.-proposed truce during a four-day Muslim holiday, while rebels claimed major gains in the key battleground o...

Shot schoolgirl Malala inspires Pakistani students

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:17 PM PDT

The courage of schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has renewed Pakistani students' determination to learn despite the poor state of the country's education system, undermined by poverty and under attack from ...

Pussy Riot got what they deserved: Vladimir Putin

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:08 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin flatly rejected on Thursday Western criticism of the imprisonment of the Pussy Riot punk protest band, saying its three female members deserved their fate because they...

Ex-Central African Prime Minister stopped at airport carrying bushmeat

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:54 PM PDT

French customs officials on Thursday fined former Central African Prime Minister Martin Ziguele after he was found carrying 11.8 kilograms of bushmeat, mainly monkey, on his arrival at Paris' Charles ...

Two US troops die in apparent Afghan insider attack

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:33 PM PDT

A man in an Afghan police uniform shot and killed two American service members in what appeared to be the latest attack on international forces this year by their Afghan partners.

Barack Obama endorses same-sex marriage initiatives in three states

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:26 PM PDT

President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed state ballot initiatives to legalise same-sex marriage in Washington state, Maryland and Maine as he sought to galvanise gay and lesbian enthusiasm for his ...

Two siblings killed in New York City; Nanny arrested

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:24 PM PDT

A mother returned home from work to her luxury Upper West Side apartment on Thursday night to find two of her children, a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl, fatally stabbed in a bathtub by the fami...

Barack Obama is first US President to vote early - after showing his photo ID

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:13 PM PDT

President Barack Obama cast his ballot for the November 6 election on Thursday in his hometown of Chicago and encouraged others who could vote before Election Day to follow his example.

China paves way for prosecuting disgraced politician Bo Xilai

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:58 PM PDT

China's largely rubber stamp parliament has expelled disgraced former senior politician Bo Xilai, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, paving the way for formal criminal charges to be laid against...

Malala better, asks for books; father vows she'll return to Pakistan

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:52 PM PDT

The father of 15-year-old Pakistani activist girl Malala, who was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman vowed Thursday that she would return home after finishing medical treatment abroad despite new in...

Five shot dead in Karachi restaurant

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:49 PM PDT

Five people were shot dead at a restaurant late on Thursday in Pakistan's port city of Karachi.

56 dead in Myanmar communal violence: Official

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:39 PM PDT

At least 56 people have been killed and thousands of homes torched in a wave of communal violence convulsing western Myanmar, a Rakhine state spokesman told AFP on Friday.

Mitt Romney surges ahead of Barack Obama in new poll

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:30 PM PDT

Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney has edged ahead of US President Barack Obama, a poll conducted by a leading national daily said in Washington.

Magnitude 5 earthquake hits southern Italy, hospital evacuated

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:17 PM PDT

A magnitude 5 earthquake struck north of Cosenza in southern Italy early on Friday, and police said a hospital had been evacuated after cracks were found in its structure, but there were no reports of...

Billions in hidden riches for family of Chinese leader

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:14 PM PDT

The mother of China's prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao's political campaigns. And during childhood, "my family was extremely poor...

WikiLeaks releases new US military documents

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 12:13 PM PDT

Julian Assange's WikiLeaks website on Thursday started publishing more than 100 US Department of Defense documents including the first prisoner treatment manual for Guantanamo Bay.

Suspect in United States Consulate attack is Libyan: Official

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 11:24 AM PDT

An Egyptian security official says a man killed in a security ambush in a Cairo suburb is a Libyan national suspected of links to the deadly attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi.

Hillary Clinton indicates longer stay as Secretary of State

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 11:14 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had earlier announced that she would quit her post at the end of President Barack Obama's first term, has now indicated that she may continue for a bit longe...

300 potential Jimmy Savile abuse victims: Reports

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:54 AM PDT

British police say 300 potential victims of a disgraced BBC entertainer, the late Jimmy Savile, have come forward so far since details emerged earlier this month that he was among the country's most p...

56 dead in new ethnic violence in Myanmar

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:04 AM PDT

At least 56 people were killed and nearly 2,000 homes destroyed in the latest outbreak of ethnic violence in western Myanmar, a government official said on Thursday.

Officer plotted to kidnap women and cook them

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:50 AM PDT

A New York police officer was arrested on Wednesday in Queens by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he discussed cooking and eating female body parts, according to a criminal complaint.

China appoints new Army Chief ahead of key Party Congress

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:36 AM PDT

Amidst looming national leadership transition and escalating tensions with Japan, China on Thursday appointed a new army Chief of Staff along with several other top officers, sidelining generals assoc...
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