Thursday, January 5, 2012

Pak's ruling party to advance general elections: Reports

Pak's ruling party to advance general elections: Reports


Pak's ruling party to advance general elections: Reports

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:55 PM PST

The ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has decided to hold the general election and the polls to the Senate ahead of schedule against the backdrop of rampant speculation that the government may not ...


Titanic items to be sold 100 years after sinking

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:29 PM PST

Items as small as a hairpin and as big as a chunk of the Titanic's hull are among 5,000 artifacts from the world's most famous shipwreck that are to be auctioned in April, close to the 100th anniversa...


Navy SEAL accidentally shoots himself in head

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:11 PM PST

San Diego police say a Navy Seal is on life support after accidentally shooting himself in the head. Officer Frank Cali told U-T San Diego that officers were called to a home in Pacific Beach at about...


Qantas says no risk after cracks found in A380 wing

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:02 PM PST

Australian airline Qantas on Friday reassured passengers there was no risk to safety after cracks were found on the wings of some A380 superjumbo jets, including one in its fleet.


Burst dike forces thousands to flee Brazil town

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:34 PM PST

Civil defense officials say they are evacuating an entire town after floodwaters burst a nearby dike in southeastern Brazil. The Civil Defense department of Rio de Janeiro state says the waters of ...


Landslides in Philippines, 25 killed

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:57 PM PST

A landslide tore through a small-scale gold mining site in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and burying dozens more.


Osama raid details leaked to Hollywood?

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:33 PM PST

Investigators are probing whether the Obama administration divulged too many details of the secret raid on Osama bin Laden to Hollywood filmmakers.


Hosni Mubarak should be hanged, say Egyptian prosecutors

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:43 AM PST

Prosecutors on Thursday called for Hosni Mubarak to be hanged, saying he bore full responsibility for the killing of protesters during the uprising against him, in a courtroom moment unthinkable barel...


Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST

The parents of an eighth grader who was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas school are demanding to know why officers took lethal action, but police said the boy was brandishing - and refuse...


Attacks targeting Shiites kill 72 in Iraq

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:55 AM PST

A wave of bombings targeting Shiites in Iraq killed 72 people on Thursday, deepening sectarian tensions that exploded just after the last American troops left the country in mid-December. The coordina...


At least 50 vehicles collide in foggy Texas pileup

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:15 AM PST

Authorities say dozens of people are injured, at least four critically, in a pileup of some 50 vehicles in Southeast Texas. Jefferson County Sheriff's Department Deputy Rod Carroll says two cars caugh...


Anuj Bidve's parents see his body at a funeral parlour in UK

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:42 AM PST

Indian student Anuj Bidve's parents have viewed his body for the first time at a funeral parlour here, more than a week after he was killed in an unprovoked attack in the British city of Salford. Subh...


Pakistan to get new F-16 jets starting this month

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 05:30 AM PST

The United States today said the last batch of the new F-16 jets purchased by Pakistan is scheduled to start arriving in the country later this month and contended that there had been no stoppage in i...


Insurgents execute 15 kidnapped Pakistani soldiers

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 05:04 AM PST

Taliban insurgents executed 15 kidnapped security troops and dumped their bodies on a hilltop in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, government and military officials said, in retaliation for the killi...


Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:08 AM PST

British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved -- How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling di...


US man sentenced for raping Indian-origin girlfriend

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:10 AM PST

A New York private detective has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for raping his Indian-origin girlfriend and then implicating her in a series of false armed robberies for which she was wrongly ja...


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