Friday, November 30, 2012

Barack Obama appoints blind Indian-American to key post

Barack Obama appoints blind Indian-American to key post

Barack Obama appoints blind Indian-American to key post

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 09:59 PM PST

The Obama administration has announced to appoint a blind Indian-American to a key administrative post in an independent US agency devoted for people with disabilities.

Obama hits out at 'Scrooge' Republicans on tax

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:01 PM PST

US President Barack Obama warned on Friday that Republicans would give Americans a lump of coal for Christmas if they kill his plan to raise $1.6 trillion from higher taxes on the wealthy.

Lakshmi Mittal, French govt strike deal over disputed Florange unit

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 06:26 PM PST

French Prime Minister Bernard Ayrault announced the government had shelved its nationalisation plan. In return, ArcelorMittal chief Lakshmi Mittal has promised to invest 180 million euros at the Flora...

Couple wins lottery worth more than Rs 1,600 crore, second largest in US history

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 11:22 AM PST

A Missouri mechanic and his unemployed wife came forward on Friday as holders of one of two winning tickets in the second largest lottery in US history: a $587.5 million Powerball jackpot.

US college shooting: At least one dead, one wounded in Wyoming

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 10:25 AM PST

At least one person was killed and another was wounded on Friday morning in an attack at a community college in central Wyoming.

WikiLeaks suspect turned bed sheet into a noose

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 10:04 AM PST

The army private accused of the biggest leak of official secrets in US history admitted on Friday he had turned a prison bed sheet into a makeshift noose he could have used to kill himself.

Two more cases of new virus related to SARS in Jordan

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 09:55 AM PST

International health officials have confirmed two more fatal cases of a mysterious respiratory virus in the Middle East.

Tajikistan blocks US-funded news website

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 09:44 AM PST

Tajikistan has blocked a popular U.S.-funded news website, only days after barring access to social networking site Facebook for featuring content allegedly insulting to the Central Asian nation's pre...

Suu Kyi wants Government apology for violent crackdown

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 09:22 AM PST

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday said authorities must apologize for a violent crackdown on monks and other foes of a mine in northwest Myanmar, but she also stuck to the government's view...

Ireland abortion row: Human Rights Commission registers case

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:54 AM PST

The National Human Rights Commission on Friday registered a case on the death of dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died last month in Ireland after doctors refused to terminate her miscarriage pregnanc...

Silvio Berlusconi drags his own party to destruction before Italy vote

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:39 AM PST

Five years after he won one of Italy's biggest postwar election victories, Silvio Berlusconi is dragging his own party towards destruction by a mixture of indecision and refusal to withdraw gracefully...

Afghanistan presses Pakistan to free Taliban prisoners

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:23 AM PST

The Afghan foreign minister pressed Pakistan on Friday to free more Taliban detainees in Islamabad's custody in a bid to help coax the militant group into peace negotiations to end the 11-year-old war...

Spain shipwreck treasure shown for the first time

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:15 AM PST

Spanish cultural officials allowed the first peep on Friday at some of the 16 tons (14.5 metric tons) of shipwreck treasure worth an estimated $500 million that a U.S. salvage company gave up this yea...

Russian news agency fires editor, loses entire staff

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 06:39 AM PST

The head of a major Russian regional news agency unusually critical of the local authorities was fired on Friday in what she called the result of official pressure on editorial policy.

New Jersey bridge collapses, train derailed, hazardous spill reported

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 05:31 AM PST

A freight train derailed on Friday on an old-style swing bridge that apparently buckled, three years after a similar failure, toppling at least two tanker cars into a creek and causing a leak of hazar...

Global hacking network 'Anonymous' declares Internet war on Syria

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 05:27 AM PST

Global hacking network Anonymous said it will shut down Syrian government websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believe aimed at silencing the opposition to Presiden...

Tension mounts over Mittal plant facing French takeover

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 05:22 AM PST

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and the French government sought a last-ditch solution on Friday on the eve of the expiry of his deadline to the state to find a new buyer for a plant it has threatened to ...

Thousands march in violence-hit Tunisian town

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 05:19 AM PST

Thousands of people protested for a fourth straight day on Friday in the central town of Siliana demanding the governor quit, as political instability mounts in Tunisia two years after a revolution.

Myanmar verifying Muslim citizenship

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:48 AM PST

Guarded by rifle-toting police, immigration authorities in western Myanmar have launched a major operation aimed at settling an explosive question at the heart of the biggest crisis the government has...

For most, tax burden is lower than in 1980

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:38 AM PST

Alan Hicks divides long days between the insurance business he started in the late 1970s and the barbecue restaurant he opened with his sons three years ago. He earned more than $250,000 last year and...

Syria: Airport road reopens but Internet still cut

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:11 AM PST

Syrian rebels battled regime troops south of the capital on Friday and Internet and telephone lines were cut for a second day, but the government reopened the road to Damascus' airport in a sign that ...

Congo rebels extend stay in Goma

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST

A rebel spokesman says that his fighters have delayed their departure from Goma by 48 hours for "logistical reasons," defying for a second time an ultimatum set by neighboring African countries.

Egypt constitution finalised as opposition cries foul

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 03:37 AM PST

An Islamist-led assembly raced through approval of a new constitution for Egypt on Friday to end a crisis over President Mohamed Morsi's expanded powers, but the opposition said it was an escalation t...

Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 03:28 AM PST

The single line of Napoleon's secret code told Paris of his desperate, last order against the Russians: "At three o'clock in the morning, on the 22nd I am going to blow up the Kremlin."

Chinese man sentenced to death in sex slave murder case

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 02:10 AM PST

A Chinese court sentenced a man to death for holding six women as sex slaves in an underground prison and killing two of them, Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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