Tuesday, April 3, 2012

From landfill to green solution

From landfill to green solution


From landfill to green solution

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:02 PM PDT

Engineers in Malaysia turn an old landfill into a green energy model for the future.

Prince rescues polo player

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:44 PM PDT

Pictures show Prince Harry helping a fellow polo player after the man blacked out when two horses collided.

Bin Laden wife talks life on the run

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:50 AM PDT

Osama bin Laden spent years on the run in various parts of Pakistan after the 2001 terrorist attacks, moving from one safe house to another and fathering four children, and at least one was born in a government hospital, his youngest widow has told Pakistani investigators.

African Union adds to sanctions in Mali

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:50 PM PDT

Global pressure built for leaders of the military group that seized power last month from Mali's democratically elected president to restore civilian rule.

Muslim Brotherhood in U.S.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:42 PM PDT

Some denounce the Muslim Brotherhood as a quasi-terrorist organization. Others say it fills a needed gap for Egypt's professional middle class. But one thing is certain: The group wields a strong strategic influence.

Olympic first: Female Afghan boxer

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:49 AM PDT

An arena where the Taliban used to execute women provides a chilling and incongruous setting for one teen girl's unlikely Olympic dream.

Transgender contestant back in Miss Universe

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:18 PM PDT

After initially disqualifying a transgender contestant, organizers of the Miss Universe beauty pageant have reversed course saying she can participate.

Pageant reverses transgender DQ

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:18 PM PDT

After initially disqualifying a transgender contestant, organizers of the Miss Universe beauty pageant have reversed course saying she can participate.

$10 million bounty on Mumbai suspect

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:05 AM PDT

The United States is offering as much as $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, a Pakstani man accused of masterminding the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai that killed 166 people.

Olympic first: Female Afghan boxer

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:48 AM PDT

An arena where the Taliban used to execute women provides a chilling and incongruous setting for one teen girl's unlikely Olympic dream.

Muslim Brotherhood comes to U.S.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:09 AM PDT

Sondos Asem has butterflies, formulating answers to questions she expects to be asked and practicing her diction with the devotion of a high school debate champion. The gentle 24-year-old graduate student at the American University in Cairo Asem has emerged as an unlikely unofficial spokeswoman for the Muslim Brotherhood, helping to run the its English-language Twitter feed and in turn revamp the group's image in the West.

Syria crackdown 'escalating' despite pullout promise

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Clashes and shelling reverberated across Syria on Tuesday despite a promise by Bashar al-Assad's government to withdraw its forces from population centers by next week.

Iran bars Reuters over ninja 'assassin' error

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:54 AM PDT

Iran revoked the press cards of Reuters staff in the country after the news agency ran a mistaken headline saying Iran was training female Ninja assassins, Iran's official news agency reported Tuesday.

U.S. offers $10 million bounty on Mumbai attacks suspect

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:56 AM PDT

The United States is offering as much as $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, a Pakstani man accused of masterminding the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai that killed 166 people.

Prosecutor: Radicals plotted jihad in France

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:08 AM PDT

Radical Muslims detained in France were preparing for holy war, a French prosecutor said Tuesday as the country widens a clamp down on suspected extremists in the wake of a deadly shooting spree last month.

Netanyahu wants to postpone eviction of Hebron settlers

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested that the country¹s Defense Ministry postpone a planned eviction of Israeli settlers who occupied a home in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.

Dozens injured as rival fighters clash in Libya

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:49 AM PDT

At least four people were killed and dozens more injured in heavy fighting around the coastal Libyan city of Zuwara on Tuesday, a city official said.

United goes five points clear

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:05 AM PDT

Manchester United went five points clear at the top of the English Premier League on Monday night after a 2-0 win against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.

Comaneci: The first perfect 10

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:07 AM PDT

Nadia Comaneci will forever be remembered as the first gymnast to achieve the perfect score of 10 in Olympic competition on the way to winning three gold medals at the 1976 Montreal Games.

Djokovic retains Miami title

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:08 AM PDT

Novak Djokovic retained his Miami Masters 1000 title with an emphatic 6-1 7-6 final victory over Britain's Andy Murray Sunday.

France deports 2 Islamic radicals

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT

The French Interior Ministry announced Monday it has deported two Muslims and plans to expel three more in a crackdown after the killing of seven people by a suspected Islamic extremist.

Brazil unveils tax cuts, credits

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:11 PM PDT

Brazil on Tuesday unveiled a package of tax cuts and growth incentives to give the world's sixth-largest economy a jolt and protect struggling manufacturers.

West African states sanction Mali

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT

West African countries slapped Mali's ruling military junta with threatened economic sanctions Monday, saying steps toward restoring democratic rule announced over the weekend weren't enough.

HIV in South Africa's deaf community

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:05 AM PDT

It's been 11 years since John Meletse, a deaf, gay South African man, first learned he was HIV positive.

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