Monday, February 13, 2012

Apple asks outside group to audit working conditions at its factories

Apple asks outside group to audit working conditions at its factories

Apple asks outside group to audit working conditions at its factories

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 10:24 PM PST

Responding to a growing outcry over conditions at its overseas factories, Apple said Monday that an outside organization had begun to audit working conditions at the plants where the bulk of iPhones, ...

India, Pakistan to dismantle trade barriers

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:56 PM PST

Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, accompanied by business leaders of more than 100 Indian companies, on Monday, walked into Pakistan through the Wagah border, vowing to bring down barriers hampering tra...

Israel embassy car blast: Police studying CCTV footage from residence near site

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:51 PM PST

A day after a car bomb attack injured four people including an Israeli woman diplomat in the heart of Delhi, the police have started scouring for possible leads from CCTV footage from a residence near...

Legendary Empire State Building going public

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:42 PM PST

Investors will soon be able to own a piece of one of New York's greatest views, as the owners of the Empire State Building filed today to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Manhattan's most famou...

Live peacefully, get good education: Osama told his kids

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:53 PM PST

Slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden reportedly told his children to live peacefully in the West where they would get a good education, his brother-in-law has revealed. Zakaria al-Sadah, whose sister ...

Israel embassy car bombing leads to international diplomacy row

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:29 PM PST

The explosion in an Israleli diplomat's car in New Delhi on Monday has led to a global war of words with Israel training its guns on Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran and its...

UN condemns attacks against Israelis in India, Georgia

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:00 PM PST

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has condemned the attacks on Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia and called on the concerned authorities to investigate the matter and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Australian man fined for 'mooning' queen

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:50 PM PST

A man was slapped with an Aus$750 (US$803) fine on Tuesday for flashing his buttocks at Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Australia last year -- and said he would do it again. Sydney barman Liam ...

Deaf Pak girl allegedly kept in UK cellar as sex slave for a decade

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 11:28 AM PST

Locked in a cellar where she was allegedly raped and beaten for nearly a decade, a young deaf and mute Pakistani woman told a UK court on Monday how she was trafficked into Britain and forced to work ...

US President Obama felicitates Amartya Sen, others

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 10:41 AM PST

India-born Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is being felicitated by US President Barack Obama for his efforts to increase the understanding of how to fight hunger and poverty.

Iraq's romance grows with Valentine's Day

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST

Iraq's capital is embracing Valentine's Day this year with a huge public display of affection in what its residents say is the nation's most amorous celebration of the holiday ever. Street corners acr...

Iran denies role in Israel embassy car explosion

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 10:02 AM PST

Iran on Monday rubbished Israeli accusations about its alleged involvement in attacks on Israeli personnel in India and Georgia, saying they are "untrue and sheer lies." "Any terrorist attack is conde...

In complicating move, Al Qaeda backs Syrian revolt

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:10 AM PST

Al Qaeda's leader has called for the ouster of Syria's "pernicious, cancerous regime," raising fears that Islamic extremists will try to exploit an uprising against President Bashar Assad that began w...

Suu Kyi finally gets United Nations' nonviolence prize awarded in 2002

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST

The United Nations has given Aung San Suu Kyi a 10-year-old peace award delayed by her long house arrest. A UN official visiting Myanmar presented Suu Kyi with its Mandanjeet Singh Prize for the Promo...

Greece passes new austerity deal amid protests

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:33 AM PST

Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after riots in Athens and other cities left stores loote...

On Valentine's day, a museum for broken hearts

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:43 AM PST

What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a windscreen during a stormy breakup? Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine's Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An axe that s...

Foreign media on Israeli car explosion in Delhi

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:21 AM PST

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Iran and Hezbollah for the bombings that targeted Israeli Embassy personnel in New Delhi and Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. "In the past few month...

Malaysia defends deporting Saudi in Twitter row

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:08 AM PST

Malaysia on Monday defended its deportation of a Saudi journalist wanted at home for comments deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, saying it was not a "safe haven" for fugitives.

Brazil mid-air drama: Pilot, crew attacked

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:30 AM PST

A Brazilian airliner safely made a forced landing after a passenger had a "psychotic attack," entered the cockpit and assaulted a pilot, crew members and passengers who tried to subdue him, witnesses ...

Arab League wants UN peacekeepers in Syria

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 11:44 PM PST

The Arab League has called for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad's regime, the ...
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