Sunday, December 2, 2012

Malaysia frees 105 foreign maids 'held against will'

Malaysia frees 105 foreign maids 'held against will'

Malaysia frees 105 foreign maids 'held against will'

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 11:17 PM PST

Malaysian authorities have freed 105 mostly Indonesian maids who were forced to work without pay by day and held against their will at night, local media reported on Monday.

Evacuations as powerful typhoon nears Philippines

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:47 PM PST

A powerful typhoon barrelled towards the Philippines on Monday, prompting authorities to order the immediate evacuation of thousands of people from coastal and low-lying areas, officials said.

Indian couple arrested in Oslo charged with gross maltreatment of their children

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:17 PM PST

A court in Norway will decide today whether an Indian couple arrested in that country for the alleged abuse of their seven-year-old son are guilty or not. Here is the statement by the Oslo Police Depa...

Indian couple arrested in Oslo: Court to give verdict on child abuse case today

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:07 PM PST

In Norway, a court will decide today whether an Indian couple is guilty of child abuse. Here are the top 10 developments in this story:

Homeless man grateful for boots, but he's barefoot again

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:04 PM PST

After Officer Lawrence DePrimo knelt beside a barefoot man on a bitterly cold November night in Times Square, giving him a pair of boots, a photo of his random act of good will quickly took on a life ...

Chinese teacher carries guns to class, creates online buzz

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 09:42 PM PST

A teacher at a Chinese university has become an Internet sensation after photographs showed him carrying real guns, including an AK-47, to a class, a media report said on Monday.

Bomb kills two police officers in northwest Pakistan

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 09:32 PM PST

Police say a bomb blast ripped through one of their vans as it was patrolling in northwestern Pakistan, killing two officers and wounding two others.

US election, iPhone 5, Kardashian top Yahoo! 2012 searches

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 09:12 PM PST

The US presidential election became the most-searched item and Kim Kardashian was the most-searched person on Yahoo! in a year when online searches were dominated by big news stories and pop culture o...

Japan readies missile defence over North Korean rocket

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 08:50 PM PST

Tokyo has begun deploying a surface-to-air missile defence system and is putting its armed forces on standby ahead of a planned North Korean missile launch this month, reports and officials said Monda...

Dustin Hoffman, Led Zeppelin honoured at Kennedy Center

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 08:38 PM PST

Seven top performing artists from around the world were honoured late on Sunday at Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for their lifetime contribution to American culture.

Syrian forces pound Damascus suburbs, flights to resume

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 08:15 PM PST

Syrian forces pounded rebel-held suburbs around Damascus with fighter jets and rockets on Sunday, opposition activists said, killing and wounding dozens in an offensive to push rebels away from the ai...

Hillary Clinton visits Czech Republic amid nuclear deal hopes

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 08:07 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the Czech Republic on Monday for a brief visit, hoping to win a tussle with Russia and help secure a $10 billion nuclear plant contract for US giant We...

Benjamin Netanyahu brushes off world condemnation of settlement plans

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 07:25 PM PST

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday brushed off world condemnation of Israel's plans to expand Jewish settlements after the Palestinians won de facto UN recognition of statehood.

Napoleon's coded Kremlin letter sold for $243,500

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 07:03 PM PST

A secret code letter sent by French emperor Napoleon boasting that his multinational forces would blow up Moscow's Kremlin has sold at auction on Sunday for €187,500 ($243,500) - 10 times its es...

Vietnam war-era mortar shell blast kills four kids

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 06:55 PM PST

A mortar shell left from the Vietnam War has exploded in a southern village, killing four children and seriously injuring five other people.

Google celebrates UAE National Day

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 06:36 PM PST

Google celebrated the UAE's 41st National Day on Sunday with a doodle on its homepage on the UAE domain.

Suspected Islamists kill 10 Christians in northeast Nigeria

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 06:30 PM PST

Suspected Islamist fighters went on the rampage in northeast Nigeria overnight, killing 10 Christians with guns and machetes and burning down their houses, witnesses said on Sunday.

Safety questions as nine killed in Japan tunnel collapse

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 06:25 PM PST

Rescuers found three crushed bodies in a collapsed tunnel on a major Japanese highway, taking the death toll to nine on Monday as questions mounted about whether decaying ceiling supports caused the d...

Indian couple arrested in Oslo: Court to give verdict today

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 06:14 PM PST

Indian couple arrested in Oslo: A court in Norway will decide today whether an Indian couple arrested in that country for the alleged abuse of their seven-year-old son are guilty or not. The prosecuti...

WikiLeaks suspect's gender struggle under spotlight

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 06:14 PM PST

The US military held WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning under strict "suicide watch" partly because his gender identity struggle showed he was mentally "not stable," a witness said on Sunday.

Coast Guard member dies in crash off US coast

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 06:07 PM PST

A US Coast Guard member was killed and another was injured when their small boat was rammed by a smuggler's vessel before dawn on Sunday off the Southern California coast.

Egypt's top court suspends work indefinitely

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 05:59 PM PST

Egypt's top court says it has suspended its work indefinitely to protest "psychological pressures."

With arrow in head, heroic teacher fights off son, helps students flee

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:18 AM PST

Gravely wounded by an arrow fired into his head, a Wyoming college instructor still managed to wrestle with his 25-year-old son who carried out the attack and give his students time to flee the classr...

North California towns brace for storm, flooding

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 10:04 AM PST

Residents of Northern California braced for flooding as another powerful storm brings heavy rains to a region already soaked by two major weather systems in recent days.

In this traffic jam, cars move a kilometre a day

Posted: 02 Dec 2012 09:37 AM PST

Russian officials struggled on Sunday to contain a monster highway traffic jam sparked by heavy snowfall that left many drivers stuck for days.
Posted by Harshad at 11:31 PM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)