Tuesday, October 2, 2012

US film protests bring boom for Pakistan flag makers

US film protests bring boom for Pakistan flag makers


US film protests bring boom for Pakistan flag makers

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:45 PM PDT

As Pakistan's mullahs railed against a US-made anti-Islam film, Naveed Haider's print works went into overdrive, running off hundreds of US flags for angry protesters to burn at demonstrations.


Police brutality video goes viral: Cop seen hitting woman

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:11 PM PDT

More than 800,000 people have viewed the "Philadelphia police brutality" video of a uniformed officer hitting a woman in the face this week.


Crocodile War: Family feud at clothing firm Lacoste

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 09:59 PM PDT

A family feud at the top of the Lacoste clothing company is pitting father against daughter in a battle for management of the green crocodile brand.


Hong Kong firm says ferry in tragedy passed inspection

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 09:53 PM PDT

The company that owns the ferry involved in one of Hong Kong's deadliest accidents in decades said on Wednesday that it passed an inspection just last month, though authorities have offered no explana...

Ahead of presidential debate, Obama enjoys an upper hand over Romney

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 08:43 PM PDT

Ahead of a crucial presidential debate before the US goes to polls next month, President Barack Obama, who eyes a second term at the White House, enjoys a minor lead over his Republican rival Mitt Rom...


Iranian president Ahmadinejad calls Netanyahu's bomb prop 'childish'

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 07:41 PM PDT

Iran's president sneered on Tuesday at Israel's presentation at the United Nations last week, calling the cartoon-style drawing of a bomb held up by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "primitive" and d...


Pope's butler says he didn't steal the pontiff's private letters

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 07:25 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI's onetime butler declared on Tuesday that he was innocent of a charge of aggravated theft of the pope's private correspondence, but acknowledged he photocopied the papers and said he...


Vatican butler alleges harsh conditions after arrest

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 09:09 AM PDT

Pope Benedict's former butler, facing trial for stealing papal documents, told a Vatican court on Tuesday that he was held in a tiny room with the light on constantly and put under pyschological press...


Knife attack victim survives as he was overweight

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 08:58 AM PDT

Being fat is not always that bad. 44-year-old Danny Ross, who was stabbed 38 times, cheated death because he was overweight.


Indian-origin doctor's 'Gandhigiri' in UK

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 08:11 AM PDT

A pioneering Indian-origin brain doctor, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, has set on a five-day hunger strike in London to protest "unfair" treatment meted to him and his colleagues by the National Health ...


Maldivian ruling party MP assassinated outside his home

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 07:32 AM PDT

An unidentified attacker stabbed and killed a Maldivian ruling party legislator on Tuesday in the first assassination of a lawmaker in the Indian Ocean archipelago, police said.


TV show claims UK TV host Jimmy Savile abused children

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 06:49 AM PDT

For decades, Jimmy Savile was a fixture on British television an eccentric, aggressively jocular host of children's shows and a tireless charity fundraiser. When he died last year at 84 - by then knig...


Gunmen kill at least 26 students at Nigerian college

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 06:37 AM PDT

Gunmen shot dead at least 26 students in an attack overnight on their college residence in northeast Nigeria, a college spokesman said on Tuesday.


Tel Aviv-bound jet makes emergency landing

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 05:53 AM PDT

A US Airways jet travelling to Tel Aviv from Philadelphia has made an emergency landing at a Canada airport after smoke was smelled in the cabin.


France drops rape investigation into ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 05:37 AM PDT

France's public prosecution service said on Tuesday it was shelving an investigation into allegations that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man once tipped to become President of F...


Iranians attack French embassy over Prophet film

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 05:09 AM PDT

Dozens of Iranians angered over an anti-Islam film made in the U.S. and caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a weekly in France have attacked the French Embassy in Tehran.


When a professor stripped in front of his class

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 04:56 AM PDT

A professor of an American university was taken into protective custody after he took off his clothes in front of a class and started shouting at students.


Chinese govt ships in waters of disputed isles: Japan

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 04:27 AM PDT

Chinese government ships returned to waters off disputed Japanese-controlled islands on Tuesday, the coastguard said, a week after they last left and days after heated exchanges at the United Nations.


Barack Obama holds lead with boost from women: Poll

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 04:11 AM PDT

Women voters have lifted President Barack Obama over his Republican rival in the latest national poll out on Tuesday, just five weeks ahead of the November 6 Presidential election.


Pakistani Taliban offers protection to Imran Khan

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 03:49 AM PDT

The Pakistani Taliban has offered protection to Imran Khan, who is scheduled to hold a peace march in the violence-prone tribal areas on Sunday, it was reported in London.


Six crew arrested over fatal Hong Kong ferry crash

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 02:49 AM PDT

Six crew from two passenger boats that collided killing 37 people in Hong Kong's worst maritime accident in decades have been arrested, the territory's security chief said on Tuesday.


Denver to host first US Presidential debate tomorrow

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 02:22 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are running neck and neck in a series of national polls ahead of the first of the three presidential debates to be held in Denver on...


Nearly 300 arrested in Bangladesh for attacks on Buddhists

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:41 AM PDT

Bangladesh police said on Tuesday that they had arrested nearly 300 people after Muslim mobs attacked temples and houses in what Buddhist leaders described as the worst violence against the community ...


Britain spending 11,000 pounds a day to keep Assange holed up

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:24 AM PDT

It costs a whopping 11,000 pounds a day for Britain to ensure that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy here, does not flee the country.


Attend mosque daily for a month: Pakistan court tells brothel owner

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:02 AM PDT

A court in Pakistan's restive northwest has granted bail to a brothel owner on the condition that she will spend an hour a day at a mosque for a month to repent for her sins.


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