Friday, January 27, 2012

Magnitude 5.5 quake shakes Japan

Magnitude 5.5 quake shakes Japan

Magnitude 5.5 quake shakes Japan

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 09:16 PM PST

A magnitude-5.5 earthquake rattled Yamanashi prefecture in central Japan on Saturday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Bin Laden raid: Pak doctor provided key information, says US

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 08:35 PM PST

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the US in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin La...

US man gets USD 22 million for solitary confinement

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 10:22 AM PST

A US man has been awarded USD 22 million for inhumane treatment after being jailed in solitary confinement for 22 months for drink driving in the southern state of New Mexico.

Bus-sized asteroid comes extremely close to Earth

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 09:21 AM PST

A bus-sized newly discovered asteroid today came extremely close to the Earth, coming much nearer than the Moon, space scientists said.

US seeing high levels of poverty: Geithner

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 09:04 AM PST

In a candid admission of the problems plaguing the world's largest economy, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today said the country is seeing "very high levels of poverty and inequality".

NASA finds 11 new solar systems, 26 planets

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 06:26 AM PST

Scattered across 11 planetary systems, their temperatures would be too hot for survival, as they all circle their stars closer than Venus, the second planet from the Sun, which has a surface temperatu...

Teens send Lego man into space with gear bought on Craigslist

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 05:58 AM PST

Using the home-stitched parachute and other equipment, two 17-year-old Canadians have send Lego man 80,000 ft into the air.

ABBA to release song after two decades

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 05:12 AM PST

hey ruled the music scene in the 1970s and now the legendary Swedish band ABBA is releasing a never-before-heard number "Twinkling Star to a Passing angel" after almost two decades.

Muslims demand NY police chief's resignation for inflammatory film

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:14 AM PST

As his administration faces a firestorm over a video shown to hundreds of police officers that depicted Muslims as extremists, New York Mayor Michael R Bloomberg conceded on Thursday that the episode ...

Gingrich promises to build American base on Moon

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:11 AM PST

Unveiling an election agenda that is literally out of this world, a leading Republican White House hopeful has promised to build a permanent American base on the Moon, an idea termed by his rivals as ...

FBI seeking social media monitoring tool

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:11 AM PST

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips. The US domestic law enforcement agency is asking information technology contractors about th...

US Secret Service inquiry on shot-up Obama image

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:03 AM PST

The US Secret Service said on Thursday that it was looking into a photograph posted on the Internet that showed a group of young Arizona men posing in the desert with guns while holding up what appear...

US envoy Grossman may have met Taliban reps in Qatar

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:01 PM PST

Special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman appears to have met Taliban representatives in Qatar when he was in the Gulf nation early this week, but the State Department is ke...
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