Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Obama to unveil strategy for leaner US military

Obama to unveil strategy for leaner US military

Obama to unveil strategy for leaner US military

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:04 PM PST

US President Barack Obama will unveil a revised US military strategy on Thursday designed to reflect fiscal constraints and a greater focus on the potential threat posed by a rising China, officials s...

Pakistani militants kill 15 security officers

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:04 PM PST

Pakistani militants on Thursday killed 15 security force members they kidnapped last month close to the Afghan border, showing that not all insurgent factions are interested in reported peace talks wi...

US State Department acknowledges error in India maps

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:01 PM PST

The U.S. State Department says it erred in its depiction of disputed Kashmir in maps on its website and after six weeks has posted revised ones.

Mercedes overtakes BMW for US luxury car crown

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:00 PM PST

Mercedes-Benz overtook rival BMW to snatch the crown of best-selling luxury brand in the United States after an incentive-fuelled race to the finish of 2011, industry data showed Wednesday.

Work as usual for US warship after warning by Iran

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:38 PM PST

If Iran's warning on Tuesday to this American aircraft carrier was intended to disrupt the ship's routine or provoke a high-seas reaction, nothing of the sort was evident on Wednesday.

Europe takes bold step toward a ban on Iranian oil

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:38 PM PST

European countries have taken their boldest step so far in the increasingly tense standoff with Iran over its nuclear program, agreeing in principle to impose an embargo on Iranian oil, French and Eur...

Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:25 PM PST

Police shot and killed an eighth-grader in the hallway of his middle school Wednesday after the boy brandished what looked like a handgun and pointed it at officers. It turned out to be a pellet gun t...

Plane crashes while fighting Argentina forest fire

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:44 PM PST

A plane being used to fight a forest fire in Argentina crashed on Wednesday but the pilot survived, officials said.

Pentagon-backed 'time cloak' stops the clock

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:41 AM PST

Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable. The laboratory device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for the...

China bus slides off snow-covered bridge, 16 dead

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:01 AM PST

A bus went out of control and slipped from a snow-covered bridge in southern China on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people, state media reported. About 50 people were aboard the bus when it crashed t...

Anuj Bidve killing: UK universities reassure Indian students

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:41 AM PST

Universities UK, the representative body of varsities in the UK, today sought to reassure Indian and other international students that the country is "safe and tolerant" with low levels of violence an...

Memogate: Pak judicial commission issues notice to Zardari

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:03 AM PST

The Pakistani judicial commission, investigating the Memogate scandal, has issued a notice to President Asif Ali Zardari to present his views on the issue at the next hearing on January 9.

Yahoo names PayPal executive as CEO

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:27 AM PST

The struggling Internet company has been without a permanent CEO since early September. It fired Carol Bartz after losing patience with her attempts to turn around the company during her 2 1/2 years o...

Bits of Russia's failed Mars probe expected to fall to Earth on January 15

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:16 AM PST

Fragments of a failed Russian space probe are now expected to fall to Earth on January 15, officials said on Wednesday. The unmanned Phobos-Ground probe was launched November 9. A precise date was giv...

'Lost world' found near Antarctica

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:39 AM PST

British scientists have discovered what they claim is a "lost world" of unknown species nearly 8,000 feet deep on the sea floor off the coast of Antarctica - kept alive by undersea volcanoes.

Husain Haqqani fears for his life: Report

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:52 AM PST

Pakistan's embattled former ambassador to US, Husain Haqqani, fears he will be murdered if he leaves his sanctuary in the official residence of the Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, a media r...

After Bidve killing, Asian assaulted in Salford

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:04 AM PST

Amidst anger and grief over the unprovoked killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford in the UK, another Asian man has suffered group assault and racial abuse in the city.

Row over trapped traders: China asks India for 'objectivity and fairness'

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:30 AM PST

The safety of two traders from Mumbai who are trapped in a hotel near Shanghai is creating a diplomatic flashpoint for India and China. The traders cannot leave a hotel in Yiwu, a trading hub, because...

Booking a flight to space, with travel insurance

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:03 AM PST

To go to outer space, Catherine Culver went to a travel agent. The first flights of the new airlines that will take tourists past the threshold of space are poised to take off in 2012, and getting a s...

Romney Wins Iowa caucus by eight Votes

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:30 AM PST

Mitt Romney's quest to swiftly lock down the Republican presidential nomination with a commanding finish in the Iowa caucuses was undercut on Tuesday night by the surging candidacy of Rick Santorum, w...

World's best paid ministers see salary cuts

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:07 AM PST

Singapore's politicians, the highest paid in the world, will soon see their unpopular multi-million dollar salary packages cut by at least a third, but in spite of that they would remain top paid glob...

'The Legend' who has 255 kills to his name

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:46 PM PST

With 255 kills, 160 of them officially confirmed by the Pentagon, Chris Kyle, the retired Navy Seal sniper, is the deadliest marksman in US military history.
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