Sunday, December 9, 2012

Australian radio host in tears over death call prank

Australian radio host in tears over death call prank


Australian radio host in tears over death call prank

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 11:01 PM PST

One of the Australian radio presenters who made a prank call to a London hospital treating Prince William's wife Kate on Monday sobbed as she recalled hearing the news that a nurse had been found dead...


Suicide attack kills six at Pakistan police station: officials

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 10:39 PM PST

Suicide bombers attacked a Pakistani police station on Monday, killing six people in the outskirts of northwestern town Bannu near the militant stronghold of North Waziristan, officials said.


South Korea's porn fight 'like shoveling in a blizzard'

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 09:55 PM PST

Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he's viewed online while his wife and children slept. He feels no shame - only a righteous sense of mission.


Taliban bomb kills Afghan police chief

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 09:27 PM PST

A Taliban roadside bomb killed the top police commander of a western Afghan province on Monday, officials said.


In girl's last hope, altered immune cells beat Leukemia

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 09:23 PM PST

Emma Whitehead has been bounding around the house lately, practicing somersaults and rugby-style tumbles that make her parents wince.


As China's clout grows, sea policy proves unfathomable

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 09:09 PM PST

The tropical province of Hainan, home to beachfront resorts and one of China's largest naval bases, authorised a unit of the police to interdict foreign vessels operating "illegally" in the island's w...


Egypt's opposition rejects constitutional referendum

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 08:53 PM PST

Egypt's main opposition coalition rejected on Sunday Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's plan for a constitutional referendum this week, saying it risked dragging the country into "violent confrontatio...


Profiting from a child's illiteracy

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 08:53 PM PST

This is what poverty sometimes looks like in the United States: parents here in Appalachian hill country pulling their children out of literacy classes. Moms and dads fear that if kids learn to read, ...


Obamas entertained by Gangnam star PSY in annual holiday concert

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 08:45 PM PST

A holiday concert attended Sunday by President Barack Obama and his family included some non-traditional entertainment this year: a performance by South Korean rapper and Internet sensation PSY.


Prank radio hosts to break silence in Australia

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 08:41 PM PST

The two presenters who made a prank call to a London hospital treating Prince William's wife Kate are set to break their silence on Monday in a "raw and emotional" interview with Australian television...


Three dead, three children wounded in shootings in California

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 08:14 PM PST

A man suspected of fatally shooting three people and wounding three children, including his two daughters, has died from his injuries in a police shootout, authorities said.


China sacks twin mistresses cop: media

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 07:50 PM PST

A Chinese police chief accused online of keeping twin sisters as mistresses has been sacked, state media said on Monday, the latest official to fall in a sex and corruption scandal in China in recent ...


John McAfee wants to return to US, 'normal life'

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 07:39 PM PST

Software company founder John McAfee says he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can.


John Dramani Mahama declared winner of Ghana presidential polls

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 07:13 PM PST

Ghanaian incumbent John Dramani Mahama was on Sunday declared the winner of closely fought presidential polls, but the opposition alleged fraud in a nation that has been seen as a model of African dem...


North Korea replacing rocket stage, likely to launch as planned: report

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 06:54 PM PST

North Korea is moving a new rocket component to its missile test site to replace a faulty stage that has delayed its planned launch of a long range rocket and is likely to still go ahead with a launch...


5.6 quake shakes Philippines' Mindanao

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 06:45 PM PST

A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook the typhoon-hit southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.


Protesters say European Union does not deserve Peace Prize

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 06:34 PM PST

Around a thousand members of left-wing and human rights groups marched in Oslo on Sunday to protest against the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union.


Prank station says tried to contact hospital five times

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 06:25 PM PST

A Sydney radio station at the heart of the British royal prank call scandal on Monday said it tried to contact the London hospital five times to discuss what it had recorded before going to air.


John McAfee petitions anew to avoid deportation in murder probe

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 06:24 PM PST

US anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee filed another legal motion Sunday as he seeks to avoid deportation to Belize for questioning over his neighbor's murder, his lawyer said Sunday. McAfee as...


Mexican-American star singer Jenni Rivera killed in plane crash

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 06:16 PM PST

A small plane carrying Mexican-American star singer Jenni Rivera crashed in northern Mexico on Sunday, leaving no survivors and sparking an outpouring of grief among fans and fellow celebrities.


Termination of GMR contract not to affect ties with Maldives: Government

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 10:08 AM PST

India today hoped that the termination of GMR's Male airport project by the Maldives government will not impact its relationship with the neighbouring country.


Kate hoax call: Australian radio station defends conduct after Indian nurse's death

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 09:45 AM PST

Prince William abandoned an event on Sunday to be with his wife Catherine, as the Australian radio station engulfed in the row over the hoax phone call death promised to review its practices.


US drone strike in Pak kills senior Al Qaeda leader, three others

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 07:31 AM PST

A senior Al Qaeda leader and three others were killed today in a US drone strike in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region, the second time a top terrorist has died in an attack by the CIA-...


Nelson Mandela comfortable in hospital, government says

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 05:55 AM PST

Former South African president Nelson Mandela spent a second day in a Pretoria military hospital on Sunday for medical tests and the government said the anti-apartheid leader's condition was comfortab...


Hugo Chavez suffers cancer recurrence, names potential successor

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 05:55 AM PST

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez returns to Cuba on Sunday for more surgery after a recurrence of cancer led him to name a successor for the first time in a sign the disease may force an end to his 1...


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