Monday, December 31, 2012

Pakistan frees eight Taliban prisoners

Pakistan frees eight Taliban prisoners


Pakistan frees eight Taliban prisoners

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:55 PM PST

Pakistan has released eight Afghan Taliban prisoners, including senior former administration chiefs, in a bid to aid its wartorn neighbour's peace efforts, officials said Tuesday.


Ami Bera, Tulsi Gabbard to be sworn in on January 3

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:47 PM PST

Indian-Americans Ami Bera and Tulsi Gabbard would be sworn in as members of the US House of Representatives later this week, much to the delight of the small but powerful community in the country.


Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 09:56 PM PST

President Hugo Chavez's new complications after cancer surgery prompted his closest allies to call for Venezuelans to pray for him on Monday, presenting an increasingly bleak outlook and prompting gro...


Rumours of PlayStation 4 as Sony stops making PlayStation 2 in Japan

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 09:43 PM PST

Japanese electronics giant Sony said it has stopped producing its PlayStation 2 consoles in Japan, fuelling online rumours a PlayStation 4 is in the pipeline.


Clinton expected to fully recover from blood clot near brain

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 09:18 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's blood clot formed in her head, her doctors said Monday, a potentially serious condition from which they nonetheless stressed they expect her to fully recove...


Senate to vote on 'fiscal cliff' deal as deadline approaches

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:37 PM PST

The White House and Senate leaders struck a bipartisan deal on Monday to try to avoid a "fiscal cliff" budget crisis, although the agreement was likely to face stiff challenges in the House of Represe...


North Korean leader, in rare address, seeks end to confrontation with South

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:24 PM PST

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for an end to confrontation between the two Koreas, technically still at war in the absence of a peace treaty to end their 1950-53 conflict, in a surprise New Ye...


Suspect in New York subway death arrested before

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:10 PM PST

The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and was ...


Subway victim recalled as always lending a hand

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 07:53 PM PST

Sunando Sen had no close relatives still living, nor had he started a family in his adopted home of New York. So it was the close circle of friends whom he had come to call his family in the United St...


Hugo Chavez in stable condition, says son-in-law

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 07:13 PM PST

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in stable condition and spent Monday with his daughters, the cancer-stricken leader's son in law said in an appeal for supporters to ignore rumors about his conditi...


Mexican Olympic medalist shot in head

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:54 PM PST

Noe Hernandez, a Mexican who won the silver medal in race walking at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, lost his left eye and was in serious condition on Monday after being shot in the head in a bar, reports s...


Hillary Clinton suffers clot behind right ear, full recovery seen

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:21 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffered a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear but is expected to make a full recovery, her doctors said on Monday in a statemen...


Tentative deal on raising taxes on wealthy

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:11 PM PST

Furious last-minute negotiations between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership Monday secured a tentative agreement to allow tax rates to rise on affluent Americans, but the measure was...


Hillary Clinton tops list of 2016 While House hopefuls: Poll

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:39 AM PST

Ailing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has repeatedly ruled out her second run for president in 2016, but a latest opinion poll shows that if she decides not to retire, she would be the Democrat...


Blasts aimed at Iraqi Shiites, police kill 23

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:28 AM PST

Insurgents launched a wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday, primarily targeting Shiite communities and pilgrims and killing at least 23 people, officials said.


Progress seen in last-minute 'fiscal cliff' talks

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:21 AM PST

Working against a midnight deadline, negotiators for the White House and congressional Republicans narrowed their differences on Monday on legislation to avert across-the-board tax increases.


With Hugo Chavez sicker, Venezuela axes New Year party

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:11 AM PST

Venezuela called off public New Year's Eve festivities on Monday and social media sizzled with worry after the government said cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez had taken a turn for the worse.


Pakistan releases four more Taliban prisoners

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 07:25 AM PST

Pakistan on Monday released another four Afghan Taliban prisoners, including former justice minister Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, as part of a process designed to kickstart peace efforts, a government off...


Vomiting Larry battles 'Ferrari of the virus world'

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:05 AM PST

Poor Larry isn't looking too good. He's pale and clammy and he's been projectile vomiting over and over again while his carers just stand by and watch.


Psychiatric test for suspect in New York subway death

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 05:48 AM PST

A woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim laughed and smiled during a court hearing where she was ordered to undergo a psychiatric eva...


Remains of Connecticut gunman claimed for burial

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 04:44 AM PST

The body of the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school has been claimed for burial.


Chinese dissidents in rare visit to Nobel laureate's wife

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 04:38 AM PST

A small group of Chinese dissidents forced their way past security guards last week to visit the detained wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and deliver a message of support, one of the dissi...


London's NRIs pray, condole and offer to help Amanat's family

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 04:25 AM PST

The case of the 23-year-old medical student, who was gang-raped and brutally beaten on a moving bus in New Delhi, has shocked many among the Indian community in the UK. There has been an instant outpo...


Al Qaeda carves out own country in Mali

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:27 AM PST

Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has...


Continue praying for Nelson Mandela, Zuma tells South Africa

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 02:18 AM PST

President Jacob Zuma wrapped up the year urging South Africa on Monday to continue praying for the frail Nelson Mandela who is recovering from a lung infection and surgery to extract gallstones.


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