US to drop colour-coded terror alerts |
- US to drop colour-coded terror alerts
- Obama spares turkeys 'shellacking' he got at polls
- US blacklists Pakistan-based charity with Lashkar ties
- South Korea in mourning
- Protests over Obama's portrayal as Lord Shiva
- Bridge sway set off Cambodian stampede: Probe
- Special underwear for airport screening
- Amateur pilot strays into flypast in Britain
- World's lakes getting hotter, more than the air: NASA
- Survivors of stampede in Cambodia recall panic
- After condom remarks, Vatican confirms shift
| US to drop colour-coded terror alerts Posted: The US Department of Homeland Security is planning to get rid of the colour-coded terrorism alert system. Known officially as the Homeland Security Advisory System, the five-colour scheme was introduced by the Bush administration in March 2002.
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| Obama spares turkeys 'shellacking' he got at polls Posted: Barack Obama performed an annual rite of Presidents on Wednesday, pardoning a pair of turkeys on Thanksgiving Eve and cracking jokes about the competition that brought them to his famous doorstep.
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| US blacklists Pakistan-based charity with Lashkar ties Posted: As part of its ongoing crackdown against Pakistan-based terror groups, US has slapped sanctions against more key Lashkar-e-Toiba leaders and its affiliates. Sanctions have also been slapped against Pakistan-based Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), which is closely connected to banned terrorist group LeT and also to its front Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).
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| Posted: Rescuers found the burned bodies on Wednesday of two islanders killed in a North Korean artillery attack - the first civilian deaths from a skirmish that marked a dramatic escalation of tensions between the rival Koreas.
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| Protests over Obama's portrayal as Lord Shiva Posted: A Malaysian Hindu organisation has urged the government to ban the latest issue of American magazine Newsweek for "insulting Hindus" by depicting US President Barack Obama as Lord Shiva.
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| Bridge sway set off Cambodian stampede: Probe Posted: A swaying bridge loaded with thousands of people sparked mass panic and set off a raging stampede that killed more than 350 people in Cambodia's capital.
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| Special underwear for airport screening Posted: It's a special kind of underwear - with a strategically placed fig leaf design - and a Colorado man says it'll get you through the airport screeners with your dignity intact. Jeff Buske says his invention uses a powdered metal that protects people's privacy when undergoing medical or security screenings.
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| Amateur pilot strays into flypast in Britain Posted: An amateur pilot in Britain misread air restriction timing and was left stunned when he found himself flying alongside a huge formation of 29 military aircraft at an RAF flypast.
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| World's lakes getting hotter, more than the air: NASA Posted: Two NASA scientists used satellite data to look at 104 large inland lakes around the world and found that on average they have warmed 2 degrees (1.1 degree Celsius) since 1985. That's about two-and-a-half times the increase in global temperatures in the same time period.
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| Survivors of stampede in Cambodia recall panic Posted: The cause of the stampede on Monday night during Cambodia's annual water festival was unclear, but most of the dead were suffocated or trampled or crushed to death on a small bridge that became so packed that survivors said they had been unable to move or even breathe.
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| After condom remarks, Vatican confirms shift Posted: It was a significant and stunning personal pronouncement from the conservative pope after more than two decades of heated debate inside the Roman Catholic Church and condemnation by health workers who said the church's ban on prophylactics was morally indefensible during the AIDS crisis.
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