Thursday, February 16, 2012

Watch: Now out-sourced to India, the music video

Watch: Now out-sourced to India, the music video


Watch: Now out-sourced to India, the music video

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:12 PM PST

The video is one example of the breadth of outsourcing, which has come to include the kind of highly specialized skills - like microchip design, which IBM contracted to an Indian company in 2005 - tha...


In Afghanistan, girls pay for elders' misdeeds

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:34 PM PST

Shakila, eight at the time, was drifting off to sleep when a group of men carrying AK-47s barged in through the door. She recalls that they complained, as they dragged her off into the darkness, about...


Syria: UN General Assembly wants Assad out

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:09 PM PST

The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for a resolution backing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and strongly condemning human rights viol...


Nigerian underwear bomber faces life sentence

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:28 AM PST

At least five passengers were expected to speak today at the sentencing of a Nigerian man who admitted trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner at Christmas 2009.


After Iran's nuclear show, it is ready for talks

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:04 AM PST

Iran has told world powers it is ready to resume talks as soon as possible over its disputed nuclear program, according to a letter obtained on Wednesday by The Associated Press, an offer that could r...


Iran nuclear standoff: Aggressive acts signal pressure on leadership, say observers

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:04 AM PST

A string of aggressive gestures by Iran this week — assassination attempts on Israelis living abroad that were attributed to Tehran, renewed posturing over its nuclear program and fresh threats of e...


Man next to crying child opens plane's emergency exit

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:46 AM PST

A mom with a screaming child wanted a quick getaway from a plane on the tarmac in Vietnam and asked for help. The man next to her obliged by opening the emergency exit and triggering the escape slide....


Arrests in Bangkok blast may help with leads in Delhi's sticky-car-bomb case: Sources

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:21 AM PST

Bangkok's police chief said the Iranians who were arrested after accidentally setting off explosives at their rented home in Bangkok were plotting to attack Israeli diplomats. Sources have told NDTV t...


Fake Putin arrest video becomes online hit

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:47 AM PST

A fake news report depicting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the dock has become an online hit, getting nearly 3 million views in just three days.


Maid kills Singaporean widow after being called stupid

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:32 AM PST

A teenage Indonesian maid is facing a long jail term after pleading guilty to hitting and strangling an 87-year-old Singaporean widow who called her stupid, a report said on Thursday.

Forex trading is 'haram', says Malaysia's Fatwa Council

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:13 AM PST

Malaysia's National Fatwa Council has ruled that foreign exchange trading is forbidden or 'haram' for Muslims as it was against the Islamic Sharia law.


Italy cruise tragedy: A month later Indian still missing; family says he'll come back

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:39 AM PST

Three days back, in a local church on the small island of Giglio in Italy, congregated a crowd of people for a prayer service. Exactly a month ago, they had seen the Italian luxury cruise liner Costa ...


California man cooks and eats cats

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:23 AM PST

A California man is has been jailed for allegedly cooking and eating cats, a case that has shocked even investigators. Jason Louis Wilmert is being held at the Kern County Jail on charges of animal cr...


Teen allegedly starved, imprisoned in basement since 2006

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:09 PM PST

A severely malnourished Wisconsin teenager found walking barefoot in pyjamas outside in the cold last week had been forced to stay in an unfinished basement for years and an alarm would sound if she w...


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