Monday, February 20, 2012

Iran says may cut oil to more European countries

Iran says may cut oil to more European countries


Iran says may cut oil to more European countries

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:02 PM PST

Tehran is considering extending an oil embargo on France and Britain to other European countries, a semi-official Iranian news agency reported on Monday.


Strauss-Kahn to be questioned in prostitution case

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:21 PM PST

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be questioned on Tuesday by French police investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring. Police have questioned prostitutes who said they had sex with ...


Why can't Mitt Romney lock in the Republican nomination

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:55 PM PST

His credentials are impeccable. The son of former Michigan Governor George W Romney, Mitt has a law degree and an MBA from Harvard. In 1984, he founded private equity firm Bain Capital, which went on ...


Iran holds anti-air exercises defending nuclear sites

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:36 AM PST

Iran's military announced on Monday it has launched four days of manoeuvres in the south of the country aimed at boosting anti-air defences protecting nuclear sites.


Advertisements trick women into sex work in Malaysia

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:19 AM PST

Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda's capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender. Instead many are forced to be...


Woman leaves trail of fake pregnancies

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:09 AM PST

Barry and Rebecca Vest are the latest victims of a woman known to Pennsylvania authorities as 32-year-old Amy Slanina, who, according to court records and interviews, pretends to be pregnant so infert...


This couple threw maid from their car, drove over her

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:02 AM PST

A court has sentenced a Kuwaiti couple to death for beating and then murdering their Filipina domestic helper, newspapers in the Gulf state reported on Monday. The criminal court found the disabled hu...


At a rape trial, two views of a prince's wealth

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 10:02 AM PST

In a trial that featured lurid and clinical details of a rape at the Plaza Hotel, a different sort of story line emerged: the tremendous wealth and opulent lifestyle of an unnamed Saudi prince. A mem...


Man survives two months in car in -30C

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:00 AM PST

A Swedish man was pulled out of a snow-covered car after having survived two months in sub-zero temperatures.


Norway custody row: Mother was depressed, needed help with children, says report

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:41 AM PST

The children of the Indian couple fighting for their custody in Norway were taken away and put in a foster home as a Norwegian court had found the mother Sagarika Bhattacharya to be clinically depress...


World War II: 'Hitler had planned to set up headquarters in UK'

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:56 AM PST

Adolf Hitler had plans to set up his headquarters in the English Midlands if the Nazi invasion of Britain had been successful during World War II, say historians. According to them, Hitler had, in fac...


Iran raid seen as a huge task for Israeli jets

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 12:07 AM PST

Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its pilots would have to fly more than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran's air defenses, attack multip...


Zimbabwe teenager to be caned over Facebook slur

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 11:50 PM PST

A court in Zimbabwe has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to be caned after he posted a picture of a woman on Facebook with a caption that called her a prostitute, state media said on Monday.


Suicide car bomb hits Afghan police in Kandahar

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 11:23 PM PST

A suicide car bomber on Monday rammed the gate of a police station in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, unleashing a powerful blast that killed at least one policeman, officials said.


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