Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Corrupt Chinese officials draw unusual publicity

Corrupt Chinese officials draw unusual publicity


Corrupt Chinese officials draw unusual publicity

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 10:02 PM PST

Images of a Communist Party functionary having sex with an 18-year-old girl spread on the Internet late last month.


Three Afghans dead in new blast at US base in Afghan east

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:42 PM PST

A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a US base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the same base that is believed to be used by the CIA and which a suicide bomber attacked three years ago kil...


Storm brings tornadoes, snow to US South; two dead

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:18 PM PST

A major winter storm system swept through the southern United States on Tuesday, spawning tornadoes in several states and killing two people in weather-related road accidents.


Missing Japanese students rescued after boat mishap: reports

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:07 PM PST

A group of 15 Japanese students who went missing after a boat accident near Tokyo have all been rescued, public broadcaster NHK and Jiji press news agency reported on Wednesday citing police and local...


Indian soap operas, ruled by mothers-in-law

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:50 PM PST

Soap operas dominate prime time here, and the mother-in-law reigns in almost all of them. However plucky the heroine or serpentine the plot, every love story seems to circle back to marriage and the m...


Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new Prime Minister

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:19 PM PST

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet resigned on Wednesday to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install the nation's new leader, Shinzo Abe, a conservative whose nationalist positi...


Israel revisits ban on female prayer at holy site

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:06 PM PST

Israel's Prime Minister has instructed a quasi-governmental Jewish organisation to find a solution for non-Orthodox Jewish female groups wishing to pray at one of Judaism's holiest sites.


US urges Egyptians to bridge divisions after constitutional vote

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:59 PM PST

The United States on Tuesday urged all sides in Egypt to increase political engagement after Egyptian officials announced that voters had overwhelmingly approved a new constitution drafted by Presiden...


World's longest bullet train service begins in China

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:52 PM PST

China has started service of the world's longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country's rapid and -- sometimes troubled -- super fast rail network.


Barack Obama may cut vacation to deal with fiscal crisis in Washington

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:44 PM PST

President Barack Obama is likely to leave his vacation in Hawaii to return to Washington as early as Wednesday to address the unfinished "fiscal cliff" negotiations with Congress, an administration of...


Killing people is 'what I like doing best': New York shooter

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:29 PM PST

A convicted felon who committed suicide after shooting dead two firefighters he lured into an inferno wrote in a note that killing people was his favourite pastime, police said Tuesday.


Japan's Shinzo Abe set for second term, to tap allies for cabinet

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:15 PM PST

Shinzo Abe will be voted in as Japan's Prime Minister by parliament's lower house on Wednesday, giving the hawkish lawmaker a second chance at Japan's top job as the country battles deflation and conf...


Egypt adopts new constitution as opposition cries foul

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:08 PM PST

Egypt's electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a controversial, Islamist-backed constitution was passed by 64 percent of voters, rejecting opposition allegations of polling fraud.


Egypt constitution approved with 63.8 per cent: election committee

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 10:54 AM PST

Egypt announced on Tuesday voters had approved overwhelmingly a constitution drafted by President Mohamed Morsi's Islamist allies, and the government imposed currency restrictions to cope with an econ...


Man who killed two firemen left note on killing plan

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:57 AM PST

Police In Webster, New York, say the man who lured firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of gunfire left a typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and "do what I like doing b...


Newtown observes Christmas amid signs of mourning

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:52 AM PST

Newtown observed Christmas amid snow-covered teddy bears, stockings, flowers and candles left in memorial to the 20 children and six educators gunned down at an elementary school just 11 days before t...


Egypt poised to give official poll results

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:43 AM PST

Authorities in Egypt are to release official results on Tuesday of a constitutional referendum that the ruling Islamists say they have already won but which the opposition alleges was marred by fraud.


Nigeria gunmen kill six at Christmas church service

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:40 AM PST

Gunmen attacked a church in northern Nigeria during a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, killing six people including the pastor, before setting the building ablaze, residents and police said on Tuesday.


Military plane carrying 27 crashes in Kazakhstan: official

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:42 AM PST

A military aircraft carrying 27 people including top members of the Kazakhstan border guard service crashed on Tuesday in the south of the country with many fatalities feared, officials said.


Iran pays Russian women to cover up in nuclear plant

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:41 AM PST

Iran is paying Russian women working as technicians at its sole nuclear power plant to adhere to the Islamic dress code, an Iranian lawmaker told the ISNA news agency on Tuesday.


Russia's brutal early winter claims 123 lives

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:33 AM PST

A bitter cold spell in Russia has claimed 123 lives in the past 10 days, an official said on Tuesday, with the unseasonably early freeze testing authorities in a country used to notoriously tough wint...


Pregnant Kate absent from royals' Christmas church visit

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:25 AM PST

Queen Elizabeth II joined the British royal family for a Christmas church service on Tuesday -- but Prince William and his pregnant wife Catherine were notably absent.


Man dies after being bitten by camel

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:10 AM PST

A Chinese man died after his camel turned on him and bit him on his head in a northeast China city.


Pope's Christmas message says hope mustn't die in Syria, Nigeria

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:38 AM PST

Pope Benedict used his Christmas message to the world on Tuesday to say people should never lose hope for peace, even in conflict-riven Syria and in Nigeria where he spoke of "terrorism" against Chris...


Two dead, 11 hurt in Myanmar plane crash

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:35 AM PST

A Myanmar passenger jet packed with foreign tourists crash-landed and burst into flames on Tuesday in a field in eastern Shan state, killing two people and injuring 11 others, officials said.


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