Saturday, July 23, 2011

England on top despite Dravid ton (AFP)

England on top despite Dravid ton (AFP)

England on top despite Dravid ton (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:26 AM PDT

India's Rahul Dravid (R) is congratulated by India's Zaheer Khan (L) after he reaches 100 runs not out. England remained in charge of their series opener with India despite Dravid finally achieving the coveted dream of a Test century at Lord's on Saturday -- 15 years after falling agonisingly short.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - England remained in charge of their series opener with India despite Rahul Dravid finally achieving the coveted dream of a Test century at Lord's on Saturday -- 15 years after falling agonisingly short.

Evans makes Tour de France history for Australia (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:23 AM PDT

Australia's Cadel Evans competes in the 42.5 kms individual time-trial and twentieth stage of the 2011 Tour de France cycling race run around Grenoble, southeastern France. Evans is set to become the first Australian winner of the Tour de France after overcoming his overnight deficit to Andy Schleck in the penultimate stage time trial.(AFP/Pascal Pavani)AFP - Cadel Evans is set to become the first Australian winner of the Tour de France after overcoming his overnight deficit to Andy Schleck in the penultimate stage time trial Saturday.

Chinese state media say 16 dead in train accident (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:18 AM PDT

RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP - Emergency workers and people work to help passengers from the wreckage of train after two carriages from a high-speed train derailed and fell off a bridge in Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang province Saturday July 23, 2011. A Chinese news agency says there is no immediate word on casualties.(AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - A Chinese bullet train lost power after being struck by lightning and was hit from behind by another train, knocking two of its carriages off a bridge, killing at least 16 people and injuring 89, state media reported.

At least 16 die in east China highspeed train crash (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:17 AM PDT

Reuters - At least 16 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in front of it in China's eastern Zhejiang province on Saturday, state media said, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network.

China double high-speed train crash kills 16 (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT

Chinese firefighters work to rescue survivors, after a Chinese high-speed train derailed and two of its carriages fell off a bridge after a lightning strike knocked out power on the line, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. At least 16 people were killed in the accident.(AFP)AFP - A Chinese high-speed train derailed Saturday when it was hit by another express, state media said, throwing two carriages off a viaduct and killing at least 16 people.

Bin Hammam handed lifetime ban by FIFA (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:45 AM PDT

Asian football supremo Mohamed bin Hammam, pictured in April 2011, was banned from the game for life after a two-day hearing into corruption allegations ended with a guilty verdict from FIFA's ethics committee.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - Asian football supremo Mohamed bin Hammam was on Saturday banned from the game for life after being found guilty of corruption following a two-day hearing of FIFA's ethics committee.

China inspects electronics stores after fake Apple shops report (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Reuters - Chinese industrial and commercial authorities in Kunming have started to inspect all of the southwestern city's electronics shops after an American blogger wrote about fake Apple stores, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

Vietnam sees inflation at 22% in July (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:41 AM PDT

Vendors sell beef and pork meat on the pavement of a street downtown Hanoi in May 2011. Vietnam's inflation rate, already one of the world's highest, accelerated for the 11th straight month in July, according to official estimates released Saturday.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - Vietnam's inflation rate, already one of the world's highest, accelerated for the 11th straight month in July, according to official estimates released Saturday.

Japan's quake region holds samurai festival (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:31 AM PDT

Residents wearing Samurai warrior armour parade on horses after the kick-off ceremony of the three-day Soma Nomaoi festival in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture. The festival, started more than 1,060 years ago, was forced to cancel two of its three key events as some of the venues are located in the 20 to 30 kilometre zone from the troubled nuclear plant, Fukushima Daiichi.(AFP/Jiji Press)AFP - Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima region has kicked off a thousand-year-old horse festival, with riders in samurai armour defying an ongoing nuclear crisis to take to the streets and vow recovery.

Suu Kyi to meet Myanmar minister: official (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:13 AM PDT

Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, seen here on July 19, will meet a minister on Monday in her first dialogue with the country's new civilian leadership, a government official told AFP.(AFP/File/Soe Than Win)AFP - Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will meet a minister on Monday in her first dialogue with the country's new civilian leadership, a government official told AFP on Saturday.

Glimpse into daily life in North Korea (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 08:48 AM PDT

In this April 15, 2011 photo, women perform a dance routine with badminton rackets at an event to mark the birthday of Kim Il Sung at a park in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - A little boy skips along grasping a classmate's hand, his cheeks flushed and a badge of the Great Leader's smiling face pinned to his Winnie the Pooh sweatshirt. Men in military green share a joke over beers at a German-style pub next door to the Juche tower. Schoolgirls wearing the red scarves of the Young Pioneers sway in unison as they sing a classic Korean tune I, too, learned as a child.

Sri Lanka's war-hit Tamils vote for local councils (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:32 AM PDT

A police officer accompanies a Sri Lankan polling official as he carries election material in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 22, 2011. Sri Lanka's former war zone will elect members for local bodies Saturday July 23, 2011 after a lapse of three decades. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)AP - Voters in Sri Lanka's northern Tamil heartland trickled to polling stations Saturday to elect local councils following the country's long civil war amid reports of intimidation and vote-buying.

US tough on North Korea, South China Sea (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:34 AM PDT

North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, right, talks to South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-hwan at the 18th ASEAN Regional Forum in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, July 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)AP - Tentative steps by North and South Korea to repair relations are not enough to warrant renewed multination nuclear disarmament talks, the U.S. said Saturday at an Asian security conference where it also took a tough line on resolving tensions in the South China Sea.

Anti-Taliban group kills 13 militants in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 05:15 AM PDT

REFILE - REMOVING EXTRA BYLINE A boy hangs on to the back of a vehicle passing through flooded streets during heavy monsoon rain in Lahore July 23, 2011. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)AP - An anti-Taliban militia killed 13 militants in clashes in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, a government official said Saturday.

12 years later, China's most-wanted sent back (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, July 11, 2011 file photo, Lai Changxing, right, is escorted by a security guard from an Immigration and Refugee Board detention hearing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Lai, a fugitive at the center of a 12-year extradition court battle in Canada was returned Saturday to China, where he is accused of running a $10 billion smuggling ring that dealt in everything from cars to oil in a scandal touching the government's highest levels. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)AP - The fugitive at the center of a 12-year extradition court battle in Canada was returned Saturday to China, where he is accused of running a $10 billion smuggling ring that dealt in everything from cars to oil in a scandal touching the government's highest levels.

Former South Vietnam leader Nguyen Cao Ky dies (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2004 file photo, former South Vietnamese premier Nguyen Cao Ky, talks during an interview in Hanoi, Vietnam. Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam War, died Saturday, July 23, 2011. He was 80. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)AP - Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 80.

Indian Kashmir shuts down to protest alleged rape (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:19 AM PDT

Kashmiri protestors throw stones at Indian paramilitary soldiers in Kulgam, some 85 kilometers south of Srinagar, India, Friday, July 22, 2011. Thousands hurling rocks and shouting anti-India slogans protested in a remote village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, after a woman told police she was abducted and raped by army soldiers stationed in the disputed Himalayan region. (AP Photo)AP - Shops and businesses shut down Saturday in Indian-controlled Kashmir to protest an alleged abduction and rape that triggered two days of violent anti-India demonstrations.

Strong earthquake jolts northeastern Japan (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 10:38 PM PDT

A car is driven past a ship swept by ashore by the March 11 tsunami, at a fishing port in Kamaishi, Iwate prefecture, one month after the area was devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami, April 11, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/FilesAP - A strong earthquake has jolted northeastern Japan, the same region devastated by March's massive quake and tsunami.

Clinton calls for 'restraint' in South China Sea (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:55 PM PDT

South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, top left, walks by his North Korean counterpart Pak Ui Chun, bottom center, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto, center, prior to the start of ARF Retreat Session in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, July 23, 2011. Clinton is telling North Korea that it must do more to improve ties with the South before the U.S. and other countries will return to nuclear disarmament talks. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging China and its Southeast Asian neighbors to show restraint in disputed waters in the South China Sea.

North and South Korean top diplomats meet (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:39 PM PDT

In this March 9, 2011 photo, a photograph of Kim Il Sung hangs on a wall next to a light made from a grenade inside an exhibit, made to look like underground bunkers used during the resistance against the Japanese occupation, at the war museum in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - The foreign ministers of North and South Korea met briefly Saturday on the sidelines of a regional security meeting in Indonesia, a day after discussions between nuclear negotiators for the two countries raised hopes of a breakthrough in stalled disarmament talks.
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