Monday, April 2, 2012

80-year-old woman lands plane with pilot unconscious

80-year-old woman lands plane with pilot unconscious


80-year-old woman lands plane with pilot unconscious

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:20 PM PDT

An 80-year-old woman was able to successfully land a twin-engine airplane in north eastern Wisconsin after her husband became unconscious at the controls and died. Door County Sheriff Terry Vogel says...


US investigates possible internet threat to New York City

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:20 PM PDT

US law enforcement and counter terrorism officials are trying to figure out the significance of recent occurrences on websites believed to have close links to Al Qaeda, including a graphic some fear c...


Driver survives 200 feet truck plunge in Norway

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:31 PM PDT

Police say a Lithuanian truck driver suffered broken bones but survived after his vehicle tumbled 60 meters (200 feet) down a snow-covered cliff in Central Norway, bringing a tow truck with it.The tow...


South Korean arrested for girlfriend's 'live octopus' death

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:32 PM PDT

The suspect, now 31, checked into an Incheon motel with his girlfriend in April 2010 after buying two live octopuses from a local restaurant.The man later called reception to say his girlfriend had co...


Man kills 7, wounds 3 at California Christian college

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:47 PM PDT

A 43-year-old former student of a small Christian university opened fire at the school on Monday, killing at least seven people and setting off an intense, chaotic manhunt that ended with his capture ...


Syria accepts peace plan deadline, says special envoy Annan

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:05 AM PDT

UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on Monday said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed on a deadline to start implementing a peace plan, as the Red Cross chief began a new humanitarian mission the...


Israel's naval chief in trouble over April Fools' prank

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:23 AM PDT

Israel's navy commander is in hot water over an April Fools' Day prank. Vice Admiral Ram Rothberg thought it would be funny to instruct his top commanders to prepare for a 10-day naval exercise in Ita...


'Dead' Australian fights for life in hospital

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:49 AM PDT

An investigation was under way on Monday after a man declared dead by Australian paramedics following a car crash was found to be alive around an hour later.


Aussie PM jokes with Obama on prejudices: Report

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:38 AM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard enjoys joking with President Barack Obama that she faces more prejudices as a childless, unmarried, atheist woman than he does as an African-American, a newspap...


Soil which Mahatma fell on after assassination to be auctioned

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Mahatma Gandhi's round-lensed spectacles, a personal prayer book and the soil upon which he fell when he was assassinated are among an incredible lot of items that will be sold at an auction in Britai...


Norwegian gunman plotted to kill Obama: Reports

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:05 AM PDT

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik had planned to assassinate US President Barack Obama with a car bomb when he went to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 2009, the Daily Mail report...


Caught on CCTV: Thief attacks woman till cops intervene

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:34 AM PDT

A man was caught on camera thrashing a woman in Beijing while trying to mug her. The man saw the woman walking alone in the dark and tried to snatch her handbag. Luckily, her cries were heard by two c...


Suu Kyi's party wins Myanmar by-election landslide

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:15 AM PDT

Aung San Suu Kyi's party won Myanmar's by-elections in a landslide, the country's Election Commission said on Monday, a victory she hoped would mark the start of a new era after a historic vote that c...


Tibetan immolations among history's biggest waves of suicide-by-fire

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:05 AM PDT

Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames explode from within, in one of the biggest waves of political ...


Pak court sentences Osama's three widows, two daughters to 45 days in prison

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 03:25 AM PDT

A Pakistani court convicted Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters of illegally entering and living in the country on Monday and sentenced them to 45 days in prison, with credit for t...


Dubai-based shutterbug offers a peep into streets of India

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 02:47 AM PDT

Offering a peep into the portrayal of street life in India, a Dubai-based Austrian photographer has compiled a unique collection of pictures which are on display at a hotel in Dubai until April 11.

Top Obama campaign donor accused of fraud

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 02:31 AM PDT

A major contributor to President Barack Obama's re-election effort is accused of defrauding a businessman and impersonating a bank official. Donor Mr Abake Assongba gave more than USD 50,000 to Obama ...


Woman finds live maggots in airplane snack

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 01:38 AM PDT

An Australian woman told on Monday how she was horrified to discover live maggots in a snack she was eating while on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne.


Aung San Suu Kyi makes victory speech

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:34 AM PDT

Ms Suu Kyi spoke to thousands of cheering supporters who gathered outside her opposition party headquarters a day after her party claimed she had won a parliamentary seat in the closely watched vote.


Qatar: Iraq's fugitive VP arrives on 'official visit'

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:24 AM PDT

Fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has travelled to Qatar on what the Gulf nation's state news agency called an "official visit." The trip could deepen tensions between Baghdad's Shiite-le...


Angry Birds moves to space now

Posted: 01 Apr 2012 11:40 PM PDT

As you're reading this, people next to you on the bus or the subway platform are playing Angry Birds. The game, launched by a tiny Finnish company two years ago, has transfixed the world with its angr...


Rights groups attack Britain's snooping plans

Posted: 01 Apr 2012 11:27 PM PDT

Rights groups today slammed British government plans to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits. Under the new legislation, internet companies would be instructed to install ha...


Too early to say if democracy in Burma is irreversible: Suu Kyi to NDTV

Posted: 01 Apr 2012 11:19 PM PDT

Myanmar's charismatic leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi, who claimed her party's landslide victory in the country's historic elections, hopes that democracy will win.


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