Monday, April 30, 2012

Woman sells her eight-month-old baby for $2,500

Woman sells her eight-month-old baby for $2,500

Woman sells her eight-month-old baby for $2,500

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:42 PM PDT

Dominican police are looking for a woman who sold her eight-month-old baby for 100,000 pesos ($2,500), authorities said Monday.

Obama and Romney in war of words over Osama

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gave a steely defence of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his re-election credentials a year later, saying Monday that it is app...

French Presidential race to overshadow May Day

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:02 PM PDT

France's increasingly fraught Presidential race is to overshadow May Day celebrations on Tuesday, with right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy staging a rally on a day traditionally dominated by unions.L...

Colombia: 13 killed in military helicopter crash

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:37 PM PDT

A Colombian air force helicopter has crashed near the Caribbean coast and all 13 people aboard have been killed, officials said.Atlantico State Civil Defence Director Jorge Fernandez said that the air...

Hillary Clinton begins three-nation Asia tour with China

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:14 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has left for a three-nation Asia tour beginning with Beijing where the top American diplomat hoped to have a wide range of discussions with the Chinese leadership...

With an asterik, World Trade Centre is back on top in New York

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:27 PM PDT

One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erected...

UK lawmakers to give verdict on Murdochs

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:08 PM PDT

Committee members have said that they were obstructed and put under surveillance by Murdoch's News Corp during their five year investigation into the hacking of the phones of celebrities, murder victi...

Pakistan army believes in 'strong democratic system': General Kayani

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Monday waded into a standoff between the government and judiciary, saying the country's development and welfare depend on state institutions funct...

Israel elections to be announced in coming days: Defence Minister Barak

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:40 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday looked set to call early elections, and Defence Minister Ehud Barak said he expected parliament to name a date within days. Mr Netanyahu, said to fa...

Sikh group launches mobile app to check racial profiling in US

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:29 AM PDT

A US-based Sikh rights group has launched a unique mobile application that would help users report in real-time instances of racial profiling at airports across the country, bringing such complaints t...

With an asterisk, World Trade Centre is back on top in New York

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:27 AM PDT

One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday. Wo...

Heathrow airport delays give 'terrible impression' of UK, says London Mayor

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:24 AM PDT

London Mayor Boris Johnson has said that two-hour immigration queues at Heathrow Airport were giving a "terrible impression" of Britain as the furore escalated on Monday, just weeks before the Olympic...

London apartments set to host missiles for Olympics

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Residents of some of the London apartments will get troops and surface-to-air missiles on their rooftops for the Summer Olympics to help combat airborne terror threats to the Olympic Games, which will...

Pakistan summons US diplomat to protest fresh drone strike

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:34 AM PDT

Pakistan on Monday summoned a senior US diplomat to protest against a drone strike that killed four militants in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Political Counsellor Jonathan Pratt of the US Em...

Pakistani women who received 'blood money' killed

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:58 AM PDT

The widow of one of the Pakistani men shot dead by CIA contractor Raymond Davis was murdered on Monday along with her mother in Lahore following a family dispute over the blood money and her desire to...

Eleven killed in suicide blast in Nigeria

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:45 AM PDT

At least eleven people were killed and 26 others were injured in a suicide attack on a police convoy in eastern Nigeria on Monday. The latest attack comes a day after gunmen attacked Christian worship...

From 'Yes, we can' to 'Forward': Obama's new slogan

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 06:55 AM PDT

President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan: "Forward." Obama's re-election team unveiled its new motto in a video released on Monday morning. The seven-minute video begins by recalling the grim ...

Opposition leaders charged with Bangladesh blasts

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 06:19 AM PDT

Bangladesh police charged 28 opposition officials on Monday over a series of bomb explosions in the capital Dhaka, as a nationwide strike again paralysed the country. Police said that they had raided ...

Cable TV digitisation: Top 10 facts

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 06:18 AM PDT

In December last year, the Lok Sabha passed a Bill to make digitisation of cable television mandatory in India, starting with the top metros on or before June 30, 2012 and pan-India by 2014. Household...

First woman convicted of war crimes in Bosnia

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:42 AM PDT

A Bosnian Muslim former soldier on Monday became the first woman to be convicted of war crimes by a local court after admitting killing Croat civilians and prisoners during the 1990s war."Rasema Handa...

Blasts kill more than 20 in Syria's Idlib: NGO

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT

Explosions killed more than 20 people on Monday when bombers targeted security buildings in Syria's northwestern city of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Most of those killed were ...

Sarkozy to sue the website that claimed Gaddafi financed campaign

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:51 AM PDT

Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday to sue a website that claimed that Moamer Gaddafi had financed his 2007 Presidential election, seeking to spin the charge in the crucial final week before France goes t...

Pak PM offers moderate criticism after new US drone attack

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:28 AM PDT

Pakistan's prime minister struck a moderate tone Monday amid criticism of the U.S. for carrying out its first drone strike in the country since parliament demanded that Washington end the attacks two ...

Nepal bomb blast kills four

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:50 AM PDT

Four people were killed and more than 20 wounded when a bomb attached to a motorbike went off near a crowd of protesters in southern Nepal on Monday, police said.The group of 150 demonstrators had bee...

Romney urges US to protect China activist

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:37 AM PDT

White House hopeful Mitt Romney on Sunday urged the US officials to do all they can to protect a Chinese activist who is said to have fled to the US embassy and has vowed to confront Beijing over huma...
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