Thursday, March 29, 2012

Osama lived in five safe houses in Pakistan, says his wife

Osama lived in five safe houses in Pakistan, says his wife

Osama lived in five safe houses in Pakistan, says his wife

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 10:59 PM PDT

In one of the most detailed accounts of Osama bin Laden's life on the run, his youngest wife has told Pakistani investigators that the Al-Qaeda leader lived in five safe houses as he travelled across ...

NRI honeymoon murder: Top 10 developments

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 01:53 PM PDT

New BBC CCTV footage has raised doubts over Bristol-based wealthy NRI businessman Shrien Dewani's role in the murder of his wife Anni, an engineering graduate of Indian-Ugandan descent, on their honey...

Robo-readers, teachers' new helpers in US

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:34 AM PDT

American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Automated essay grading was first proposed in the 1960s, but computers back then wer...

Spain faces general strike, march over work reforms, cuts

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Spaniards staged a general strike and took to the streets on Thursday in anger at labour reforms, spending cuts and soaring unemployment, prompting scuffles with police.

Two journalists killed in Syria: Reporters Without Borders

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:26 AM PDT

Two freelance journalists, including a Briton of Algerian origin, have been killed at the Syrian-Turkish border, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said today.

Manmohan Singh, Hu Jintao agree to expand talks

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 09:44 AM PDT

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and China's President Hu Jintao have agreed to expand talks on areas which are being wooed by both countries. These include central Asia, the middle-east and Africa.

Rocket explodes as Baghdad Arab summit begins: Source

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 06:36 AM PDT

A rocket exploded on the edge of the fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, where an Arab League summit attended by nine heads of state was taking place, a senior security source said....

NRI honeymoon murder: New CCTV footage emerges

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:56 AM PDT

New CCTV footage has raised doubts over the claims made by investigators against Indian-origin British businessman Shrien Dewani's role in the murder of his wife while on honeymoon in South Africa in ...

Star-struck Japan PM befriends Facebook's Zuckerberg

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:27 AM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda frequently entertains dignitaries from all over the world, but he was a touch star-struck on Thursday when he hosted a young billionaire with a whiff of celebrit...

Indian elephant in Ireland runs around cars in shopping centre

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:01 AM PDT

"Baby", a 40-year-old Indian elephant with an Irish circus, escaped its handlers and ran on the streets near a busy shopping centre in Cork. She was allegedly agitated by attempts to hose her down. He...

BRICS summit defends dialogue for Syria, Iran

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 04:14 AM PDT

The world's biggest emerging powers on Thursday said dialogue was the only answer to the crises in Syria and Iran, seeking to buttress their economic heft with a unified diplomatic clout.

Indian sailors without money stranded in Oman

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 03:57 AM PDT

Five Indian sailors have been stranded for the last five months on an oil tanker without salary and basic amenities in Oman, a media report said. The situation, according to the report, is so dire tha...

French 'Big Bang' scientist on trial for alleged terror plot

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 03:55 AM PDT

A week after police shot dead Franco-Algerian Mohamed Merah for killing seven people in and around Toulouse, Adlene Hicheur goes on trial charged with criminal association as part of a terrorist enter...

Pakistan sacks doctor who helped track Bin Laden

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:47 AM PDT

Doctor Shakeel Afridi was sacked on disciplinary grounds by the government in Northwest province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Bin Laden was killed during a clandestine US raid last May that humiliated Pa...

BRICS nations to pressure West over imbalances

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PDT

The BRICS group of emerging market nations will look at ways of pressuring the West to redress global economic imbalances amid growing frustration at the pace of change in institutions such as the IMF...

Why rest of world says BRICS is far from delivering

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 12:20 AM PDT

As the shock waves of the global recession convulsed Europe and the United States three years ago, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China gathered for a meeting that seemed to signal a new era...

Yale University brings Hindi debating to America

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 12:08 AM PDT

Students from America's top universities like Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia are all set for a debate on the theme of "Higher education is not worth it" -- in Hindi! The fourth edition of the Y...

International media on Tibetan protests in Delhi

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:56 PM PDT

With President Hu Jintao of China arriving here for a diplomatic summit meeting, the Indian authorities sought on Wednesday to prevent Tibetans from staging anti-China protests, as paramilitary office...

"What does a Pope do?" Fidel Castro asks Benedict

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:51 PM PDT

Pope Benedict and Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, both octogenarians, joked about their age in a brief meeting on Wednesday and then Castro popped the question: so what do you do?The two worl...
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