Friday, December 28, 2012

Woman sought after fatal shove onto subway tracks

Woman sought after fatal shove onto subway tracks

Woman sought after fatal shove onto subway tracks

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:45 PM PST

Like so many busy New Yorkers in a hurry to get where they have to go, Sunando Sen peered out over the tracks on an elevated subway stop in Queens on Thursday evening, anxiously awaiting the next trai...

Venezuelans obsess: Will Hugo Chavez live or die?

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 10:56 AM PST

He's getting better. He's getting worse. He's already dead. The whole thing is a conspiracy and he was never sick in the first place.

Family quiet on condition of George H W Bush

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 10:20 AM PST

Former President George H.W. Bush is unlikely to leave the Houston hospital where he's being cared for anytime soon but would tell well-wishers to "put the harps back in the closet," a longtime aide s...

Eleven dead as boat capsizes in Ivory Coast lake

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 09:57 AM PST

Eleven people perished and one was missing after a boat capsized in a lake in central Ivory Coast, the captain said on Friday.

China's Xi Jinping to take over as President in March

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 09:50 AM PST

China's new Communist Party leader Xi Jinping will formally take over as President in early March when the country's legislature opens to elect the leaders at various levels.

Pakistan to lift ban on YouTube within 24 hours: Rehman Malik

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 09:43 AM PST

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday said Pakistani authorities would lift a ban on YouTube within 24 hours, over three months after the popular website was blocked so that people could not access...

Nelson Mandela 'doing great', says daughter

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 09:31 AM PST

Nelson Mandela is "doing great" and is enjoying time at home with his family after being discharged from hospital, his daughter Zenani Mandela-Dlamini said on Friday.

22 dead, 69 missing in shipwreck off Guinea-Bissau

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 09:29 AM PST

At least 22 people died and 69 were missing after their overloaded boat sank on Friday off the capital of Guinea-Bissau, rescue workers said.

Pakistan seeks help to rescue 23 missing police

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:39 AM PST

Pakistani officials pressured tribal elders on Friday to help rescue 23 policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban during attacks on their posts in the country's troubled northwest triba...

Visit the elderly or risk being sued in China

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:20 AM PST

So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their aged parents "often" - or risk being sued by them.

Boy gets metal detector gift, finds World War II bomb

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:15 AM PST

A seven-year-old boy in Britain left his parents dumbfounded when he discovered a buried torpedo-shaped World War II bomb, with the help of a metal detector he got as a Christmas present.

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to stay in army hospital as health worsens

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:08 AM PST

Egypt's deposed leader Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence for his role in killing protesters during a 2011 revolt, will stay in an army hospital for at least two weeks after his health dete...

Over one million hit by winter vomiting in Britain

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:01 AM PST

More than a million people in Britain have contracted the norovirus or winter vomiting bug this season, official figures show.

Storm blows through East; thousands lose electricity in Arkansas

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:27 AM PST

A muted version of a winter storm that has killed more than a dozen people across the eastern half of the country plodded across the Northeast on Thursday, trapping airliners in snow or mud and frustr...

Silvio Berlusconi to pay 36 million euros a year divorce settlement

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:15 AM PST

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to pay his estranged wife Veronica Lario 100,000 euros a day as part of a divorce settlement, the daily Corriere della Sera said on Friday.

Brazil police mistake Bible for gun and kill man

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:11 AM PST

Law enforcement officials say a police officer in southeastern Brazil shot and killed a garbage collector after mistaking the Bible he was carrying for a gun.

Russia urges Bashar al-Assad to talk to opposition

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:58 AM PST

Russia, the only world power with close ties to the Syrian regime, urged President Bashar al-Assad on Friday to talk to the opposition as Moscow itself put out feelers to the rebels.

US drone strike kills four in Pakistan: officials

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:53 AM PST

US drones targeting a suspected militant compound on Friday killed four people in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.

Video released of New York City suspect in fatal subway push

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:32 AM PST

A surveillance video of the woman suspected of pushing a man to his death in front of an oncoming subway train was released Friday by the New York Police Department.

Man pushed to his death under train in Queens

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:23 AM PST

A young woman pushed a man to his death under an oncoming train at the 40th Street-Lowery Street subway station in Queens on Thursday evening, law enforcement authorities said.

Pakistan Taliban chief says group will negotiate, but not disarm

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:22 AM PST

The head of Pakistan's Taliban said his militia is willing to negotiate with the government but not disarm, a message delivered in a video given to Reuters on Friday.

Three New Jersey police officers injured in shooting at police station

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:05 AM PST

Three officers have been injured in a shooting at a police station in New Jersey. Police Chief Harry Earle says gunfire erupted inside the Gloucester Township police station before dawn on Friday. ...

Myanmar to allow daily private newspapers

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 05:40 AM PST

Myanmar has said it will allow private daily newspapers starting in April for the first time since 1964, in the latest step toward allowing freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation.

Indian nurse's suicide: Australian RJs not to be charged

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 05:18 AM PST

The two Australian radio presenters whose prank call was blamed for the suicide of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha are unlikely to face charges, a media report said on Friday.

Now, theatres offering 'Tweet seats' to cell phone addicts

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 05:09 AM PST

A US theatre is the latest to offer 'Tweet seats' where audience members are encouraged to post comments about the performance on the social messaging sites without distracting others.
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