Yemen crisis: Saleh signs deal to transfer power |
- Yemen crisis: Saleh signs deal to transfer power
- Thai man gets 20 years in prison for offensive text against queen
- James Murdoch quits as director of UK newspapers
- Sherry Rehman named Pakistan's new envoy to US
- Qantas faces backlash over Twitter hash
| Yemen crisis: Saleh signs deal to transfer power Posted: 23 Nov 2011 02:17 PM PST Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh says he will cooperate fully with his country's new proposed unity government after he signed an agreement to transfer power to his vice president. 
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| Thai man gets 20 years in prison for offensive text against queen Posted: 23 Nov 2011 12:38 PM PST A Thai criminal court sentenced a 61-year-old man to 20 years in prison Wednesday for sending text messages deemed offensive to the country's queen. The court found Amphon Tangnoppaku guilty on four counts under lese majeste and computer crime laws, sentencing him to five years imprisonment for each charge, to be served consecutively. 
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| James Murdoch quits as director of UK newspapers Posted: 23 Nov 2011 12:14 PM PST James Murdoch has resigned as a director of several British newspapers including The Sun and The Times, documents and sources said Wednesday, in the latest shake-up at his father Rupert's empire. 
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| Sherry Rehman named Pakistan's new envoy to US Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:21 AM PST Pakistan's former information minister Sherry Rehman has been appointed the country's new Ambassador to the United States. The appointment came just hours after Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani asked envoy Husain Haqqani to resign over a secret memo, allegedly written by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari asking for US intervention in his country to prevent a military takeover following the death of Osama bin Laden in an American military raid in May this year. 
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| Qantas faces backlash over Twitter hash Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:56 AM PST Embattled Australian airline Qantas was Wednesday facing a social media storm after a publicity exercise on Twitter dramatically backfired, prompting an outpouring of negative comments. As the airline works to win back the hearts of Australians after grounding its entire fleet last month over an industrial dispute, stranding tens of thousands of passengers around the world, it launched a Twitter competition. 
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