Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Mother charged with stabbing eight-year-old daughter to death

Mother charged with stabbing eight-year-old daughter to death


Mother charged with stabbing eight-year-old daughter to death

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:58 PM PST

A 26-year-old woman was charged on Wednesday with felony murder in the stabbing death of her daughter at their Detroit home just days before the girl's ninth birthday.


Barack Obama signs sweeping US defense spending bill

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:48 PM PST

President Barack Obama has signed into law a $633 billion US defense spending bill that funds the war in Afghanistan and boosts security at US missions worldwide.


Drones kill 13 in Pakistan, including top militant

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:04 PM PST

Pakistani intelligence officials say two US drone strikes in the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan have killed 13 people, including a senior militant commander who had a truce with Pakistan's milit...


Sandy Hook kids head to school for first time since attack

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:39 PM PST

Hundreds of the children who escaped the harrowing attack on their elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, last month head back to classes on Thursday for the first time since a gunman killed 20 of...


'Do-not-publish' Diana photo up for auction in US

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:11 PM PST

A previously unseen press photo of an apparently teenaged Princess Diana that a London tabloid deemed too hot to publish is coming up for auction in the United States later this month.


Immigration change to ease family separations

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:03 PM PST

Obama administration officials unveiled rules Wednesday that will allow many US citizens - perhaps hundreds of thousands - to avoid long separations from immediate family members who are illegal immig...


Cheap meth! Cheap guns! Click here.

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:22 PM PST

Want to buy illegal drugs in China? No problem - just go to the wild and woolly Internet here and order a $50 or $100 package of methamphetamines, ecstasy or cocaine. It'll be delivered to your door w...


Revealing Superman's real-life identity

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:01 PM PST

Years before Superman could be easily spotted in the sky among the birds and planes - or in motion pictures, or on billboards or lunchboxes or the many other pop-cultural artifacts he now occupies - h...


'First' Afghan female rapper seeks reason with rhymes

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:40 PM PST

Sporting a long leather coat and western jeans under a headscarf, Soosan Feroz looks like many modern women in Kabul.


Gunman kills three, wounds two in Switzerland: police

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:48 PM PST

A gunman shot dead three people and wounded two others late on Wednesday in the Swiss village of Daillon, police said after wounding and arresting the man.


Malala Yousafzai's father given diplomatic role in UK

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:34 PM PST

The father of a teenage Pakistani activist shot in the head by Taliban for advocating girls' education has been given a diplomatic post in the UK.


Google's executive chairman to visit North Korea

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:19 PM PST

Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. Eric Schmidt will be traveling to North Korea on a private, humanitarian mission led by f...


Hillary Clinton out of hospital, keen to resume work

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:41 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left a New York hospital late on Wednesday after three days of treatment and is expected to make a full recovery from a rare blood clot in her head.


Venezuela opposition: Hugo Chavez secrecy feeds rumors

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

Venezuela's opposition on Wednesday once again criticized the secrecy surrounding the condition of President Hugo Chavez more than three weeks after his cancer surgery in Cuba.


New Jersey, New York blast lack of Sandy aid

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:48 AM PST

The governors of New Jersey and New York on Wednesday blasted the US House of Representatives for not passing a $60.4 billion aid package to help their states recover from superstorm Sandy.


Tehran says hoping for nuclear talks 'very soon'

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:44 AM PST

Iran hopes talks with six major powers about its atomic programme will begin very soon, the country's top nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday during a trip to India.


Gunmen kidnap seven Pakistani soldiers

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:43 AM PST

Gunmen kidnapped seven soldiers from a bus in Pakistan on Wednesday, military officials said, just days after Taliban forces executed 21 pro-government paramilitaries they had seized.


Iran claims shooting down two US-made RQ-11 drones

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:57 AM PST

Iran on Wednesday said it had shot down two US-made RQ-11 reconnaissance drones in the past 15 months, adding to a ScanEagle drone and RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft it already claims to have captur...


David Headley, Tahawwur Rana sentencing rescheduled by US court

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:19 AM PST

A US court today rescheduled the sentencing of Pakistani American LeT terrorist David Headley, accused of involvement in 26/11 Mumbai attacks, from January 17 to January 24, while that of his accompli...


US journalist, AFP contributor, kidnapped in Syria

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:09 AM PST

A freelance American reporter who contributed videos to Agence France-Presse (AFP) in recent months was kidnapped in war-torn Syria six weeks ago and has been missing since, his family revealed on Wed...


UN raises Syria death toll to 60,000

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:04 AM PST

More than 60,000 people have died in the Syrian uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.


United States avoids calamity in 'fiscal cliff' drama

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST

The United States averted economic calamity on Tuesday when lawmakers approved a deal to prevent huge tax hikes and spending cuts that would have pushed the world's largest economy off a "fiscal cliff...


US school massacre survivors ready for class

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:27 AM PST

Students at the elementary school where a gunman massacred 26 children and teachers last month were returning to class for the first time Thursday in a new building adapted to look exactly like their ...


Family of five die in French apartment blaze

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:21 AM PST

All five members of a family -- including two teenagers and a child -- died in a pre-dawn fire Wednesday at an apartment building in the suburbs of the Paris, officials said.


Barack Obama returns to Hawaii for vacation after fiscal cliff vote

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:07 AM PST

With the fiscal cliff deal done, US President Obama on Wednesday returned to Hawaii to resume his traditional end-of-the-year vacation with his family.


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