Sunday, October 10, 2010

No new cracks found on red sludge pool in Hungary (AP)

No new cracks found on red sludge pool in Hungary (AP)

No new cracks found on red sludge pool in Hungary (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2010 12:38 AM PDT

Hungarian soldiers wearing protective gear are washed by water jets in Devecser, 164 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary, Saturday Oct. 9, 2010. Five days ago more than 750,000 cubic meters of toxic sludge spilled out of a nearby reservoir flooding seven villages. (AP Photos/MTI, Lajos Nagy)AP - Hungarian engineers didn't detect any new cracks overnight in a red sludge reservoir that was at risk of collapse, officials said Sunday, expressing hope there wouldn't be a repeat of the toxic deluge that killed at least seven people last week.

NKorea's Kim, heir apparent son at lavish parade (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 11:28 PM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un attends a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - Clapping, waving and even cracking a smile, Kim Jong Il's son and heir apparent joined his father Sunday at a massive military parade in his most public appearance since being unveiled as North Korea's next leader.

Kyrgyz vote in historic parliamentary election (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2010 12:37 AM PDT

A Kyrgyz policeman provides security at a polling station in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Of the 29 parties in the running in Sunday's elections, at least half a dozen are expected to make it into a newly strengthened parliament, as an intensely fought and often ugly campaign draws to an end. (AP Photo/Nina Gorshkova)AP - Polls opened in Kyrgyzstan for parliamentary elections Sunday to choose a new and empowered parliament that the government hopes will usher in a new era of democracy.

Mayor-elect shot as hits on Mexico politicos climb (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:37 PM PDT

AP - The mayor-elect of a small town near Oaxaca state's Pacific coast has been shot to death, the latest in a string of politicial figures who have been slain in Mexico this year.

Hanoi throws extravagant 1,000th birthday bash (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 11:46 PM PDT

A float carrying a huge portrait of late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh passes his mausoleum during a parade in Hanoi, Vietnam on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Painted in Communist red and draped in propaganda slogans, Vietnam's capital turned 1,000 years old Sunday in an extravagant ceremony meant to stoke nationalism and show the outside world that this once war-ravaged country has moved far beyond its dark history. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)AP - Draped in red Communist banners and propaganda slogans, Vietnam's capital turned 1,000 years old Sunday in an extravagant ceremony intended to stoke national pride and show the world that this once war-ravaged country has moved beyond its dark history.

Alain Ducasse's Weapon Against Poverty: Cooking Classes (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 01:35 AM PDT

Time.com - For his latest project, the world-renowned French chef is giving 15 women from Paris' poverty-stricken suburbs the chance to learn to cook like professionals -- and maybe even work in one of his restaurants

Button 'rolls dice' with tyre strategy (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 09:30 PM PDT

Reigning world champion Jenson Button has taken a gamble on his tyre strategy for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in a bid to keep his title defence alive. The 30-year-old hopes the harder one of the two Bridgestone tyres will be more durable in the early phases of the 53-lap race, in which he will start from fifth place on the grid.(AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Reigning world champion Jenson Button has taken a gamble on his tyre strategy for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in a bid to keep his title defence alive.

A glut of fatwas spurs Saudi king to impose curbs (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 09:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the Saudi grand mufti, prays at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque during Eid al-Fitr morning prayers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah is moving to regain control over an abundance of fatwas. Under a royal decree issued in mid-August 2010, only clerics on the government-appointed panel may issue the fatwas that answer every question of how pious Saudis should live their lives. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - The ideology that reigns in Saudi Arabia comes into plain view on the website of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars, where boys and girls sharing a swimming pool causes "mischief and evil" and bringing flowers to a hospital patient is to be discouraged because it's a foreign custom that "imitates Allah's adversaries."

Cuba to free 3 prisoners not in church deal of 52 (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 06:15 PM PDT

AP - Cuba will release into exile in Spain a lawyer jailed for allegedly revealing state security secrets and two hijackers, none of whom were on a list of 52 political prisoners the government has agreed to free in a deal with the Roman Catholic Church.

Sudan set to divide amid Security Council pressure (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 10:18 PM PDT

Sudanese people take part in a government sponsored pro-unity rally in Khartoum on October 9, 2010. Africa's largest country remains on course to break up next year after the UN Security Council put new pressure on the government over a self-determination referendum, but the major powers are still fretting over how to avoid conflict.(AFP/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Sudan remains on course to break up next year after the UN Security Council put new pressure on the government over a self-determination referendum, but the major powers are still fretting over how to avoid conflict.

Top North Korean defector Hwang Jang-yop dies (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2010 12:53 AM PDT

File - In this April 10, 2007 file photo, Hwang Jang-yop, a former senior member of the North Korea's ruling Workers' Party who defected to South Korea in 1997, salutes during the Committee for Democratization of North Korea in Seoul, South Korea. A police official said Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 that Hwang, 88, had died, but could not offer any additional details. South Korea's YTN television and Yonhap news agency both reported the death with YTN reporting he was found dead at his home in Seoul. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - Hwang Jang-yop, the key architect of North Korea's isolationist state policy who once mentored authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il before defecting to South Korea in 1997, has died. He was 87.

Chilean miners: A way out, at last, as drill punches through (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:28 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A drilling rig punched through to the underground purgatory where 33 miners have been trapped for 66 agonizing days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes on Saturday.

Prostitution, Ukraine's Unstoppable Export (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 01:35 AM PDT

Time.com - Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Odessa has become a major hub for Europe's sex trade, as poverty and corruption drive young women from Ukraine, Romania and Moldova into a life of prostitution

Global doors slam shut on immigrants (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 06:21 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In this town of 800,000, illegal immigrants beg in the middle of streets and linger along the railway tracks that clack incessantly with boxcars ferrying food and textiles. They cook over open fires under highway overpasses. They sleep by day on dirty backpacks that bulge with a life's belongings and wait for taco stands and cantinas to close at night to plead for leftovers.
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