Saturday, September 25, 2010

Pakistan jet evacuated in Sweden after bomb threat (AP)

Pakistan jet evacuated in Sweden after bomb threat (AP)

Pakistan jet evacuated in Sweden after bomb threat (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:59 AM PDT

AP - Passengers are being evacuated from a Pakistan International Airlines jet that made an emergency landing in Stockholm after Canadian authorities received a tip that a man on the plane was carrying explosives.

Commonwealth Games head sees improved conditions (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:17 AM PDT

An Indian laborer bathes in the street next to a temporary camp fro migrant workers in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. The first foreign competitors arrived Friday for the troubled Commonwealth Games, where frantic last-minute work by an army of cleaners was said to be paying off with improved conditions at the fetid athletes' village. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - With national teams on their way to New Delhi, the Commonwealth Games chief said Saturday that India's last-minute push to clean and finish facilities was paying dividends, but much more work remained before the beleaguered sporting event opens in less than a week.

US strategists seek Afghan fixes outside the box (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:17 AM PDT

** FOR STORY BY KIMBERLY DOZIER SLUGGED AFGHANISTAN RED TEAM ** Members of a U.S. military 'Red Team' gather at a base in Kabul on Sept.15, 2010. From left to right, are SSGT Steven Dietz; Lt. Col. Bruce Ferrell; Lt. Col. Michael McGee; and Lt. Col. Brian Hammerness. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)AP - On a NATO base in Kabul, a five-member team is rethinking the war in Afghanistan and questioning some of the basic assumptions behind the effort to clean up corruption and gain the upper hand over the Taliban.

Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakh steppe with 3 aboard (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:26 AM PDT

Expedition 24 Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson, left, Commander Alexander Skvortsov, center and Mikhail Kornienko sit in chairs outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after they landed near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Russian Cosmonauts Skvortsov and Kornienko and NASA Astronaut Caldwell Dyson, are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station. (AP Photo/NASA - Bill Ingalls)AP - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts who lived six months on the International Space Station touched down safely, but one day late, Saturday morning in the cloudy, central steppes of Kazakhstan.

Caribbean crime wave linked to US deportations (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:39 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 7, 2010, Grenada's Ronald Michael Phillip, aka Ronald de Ally, second right, is escorted by police officers to the Sauteurs Magistrate Court in St. Patrick, Grenada. Phillip, a convicted felon in the U.S. who had been deported to his Caribbean homeland, is the suspect in the murder of his landlord and nightclub owner, whose body was found Sept. 5 hacked with a machete. (AP Photo/Johnson Richardson)AP - The crime was horrifying enough — a nightclub owner, hacked to death with a machete, was found buried in pieces. But what really outraged people was that the accused killer had been deported from the U.S. to his native Grenada as a convicted felon.

Evicting Haiti's Homeless: How Land Tenure Hampers Recovery (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Venality and inefficiency combine to create massive obstacles to building shelter for hundreds of thousands of displaced people

'Every reason' to believe French Sahara hostages alive (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:34 AM PDT

There is AFP - There is "every reason" to believe that five French hostages being held in the Sahara by Al-Qaeda are alive, French Defence Minister Herve Morin said on Saturday.

Knife removed from Brazil man's head after 3 years (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:28 AM PDT

Edeilson Manoel do Nascimento holds an X-ray showing a knife that was inside his head at the Hospital das Clinicas in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Nascimento is recovering nicely after a team of surgeons removed the 4-inch knife that had remained stuck in his head for three years after a bar fight. (AP Photo/Helia Scheppa, JC Imagem)AP - A man in northeastern Brazil is recovering after surgeons removed a 4-inch (10-centimeter) blade that had been stuck in his head for three years following a bar fight. Edeilson Nascimento, a 29-year-old tire repairman, tells reporters Friday he is feeling great after the three-hour surgery earlier this week.

Sudan seeks global support as vote nears (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 06:25 PM PDT

President Barack Obama attends a Ministerial Meeting on Sudan, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, at the United Nations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Sudanese officials asked world leaders including President Barack Obama on Friday for international support to maintain peace as they near a critical independence referendum on south Sudan that is likely to split Africa's largest country in two.

Russian-U.S. space crew lands in Kazakhstan (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 12:52 AM PDT

Reuters - A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on Saturday.

Harper picks Onex executive as his top aide (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:39 AM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has chosen a top executive from big private equity firm Onex Corp to be his new chief of staff, charged with focusing on the economy, a government official said on Friday.

Australia's first saint 'exposed paedophile priest' (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:30 PM PDT

Portrait of Mary MacKillop is pictured at the Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel in Sydney. The late nun who is soon to become Australia's first Catholic saint was briefly excommunicated by the church in part because she exposed a paedophile priest, according to a new documentary.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - The late nun who is soon to become Australia's first Catholic saint was briefly excommunicated by the church in part because she exposed a paedophile priest, a new documentary claims.

South Sudan referendum plans seem shaky (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:12 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Matthew Majok seemed strangely unperturbed as he explained why the family has not returned to planting as many crops as it did prior to Sudan’s decades-long civil war, which ended five years ago.

Is the End Near for Basque Separatist Group ETA? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Time.com - After 50 years of fighting, Basque separatist group ETA is smaller, weaker and rattled by infighting. As it puts out a call to the Spanish government for peace negotiations, experts say the group won't survive much longer

Mexican drug cartels: Can journalists escape their violence? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:25 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Mexican press has been subject to assault and attack at the hands of suspected drug traffickers â€" including grenades launched into high-tech broadcast stations and dingy newspaper offices â€" for years.
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