Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Caught on camera: Judge in Breivik trial plays Solitaire in court

Caught on camera: Judge in Breivik trial plays Solitaire in court


Caught on camera: Judge in Breivik trial plays Solitaire in court

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 10:44 PM PDT

One of the five judges in the trial against Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in twin attacks in Norway last year, was caught on camera playing solitaire online during proceedings on Monday...


Leon Panetta meets AK Antony; China likely on agenda

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 10:42 PM PDT

A day after he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta will meet Defence Minister AK Antony today.


Happily ever, after we split

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 10:20 PM PDT

My family respects marriage deeply: we keep breaking up mediocre ones in pursuit of a better match.


Venus' transit through NASA's eyes

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 09:47 PM PDT

In a rare celestial phenomenon, planet Venus is passing between the sun and the Earth today, appearing as a small dot on the surface of the sun. It is the last transit of the century, and the next Ven...


SM Krishna to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in China today

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 09:29 PM PDT

External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is in Beijing to participate in the 12th summit of the China-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in which India is an observer.


Canada mailed body parts case: Human remains delivered to two schools

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 09:28 PM PDT

Packages containing a human foot and hand were discovered at two schools in Vancouver on Tuesday, in what could be the latest gruesome twist in the case of a Canadian porn actor suspected of dismember...


Drone strike: Furious Pakistan summons US envoy

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 08:28 PM PDT

A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed Al Qaeda's second-in-command, officials from both countries confirmed on Tuesday, the most significant victory so far in the controversial bombing ...


Venus transits across the sun: A once-in-a-lifetime event

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:55 PM PDT

From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. ...


Rare Venus transit: A once-in-a-lifetime event

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 02:21 PM PDT

Astronomers around the world will train their telescopes on the skies Tuesday to watch Venus pass in front of the Sun, a once-in-a-lifetime event that will not be seen for another 105 years.


Al Qaeda No 2 killed in drone strike: US official

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 01:34 PM PDT

In what US officials described as major blow to Al Qaeda, the group's second-ranking leader, a militant known as Abu Yahya al-Libi, was killed in a strike by a missile fired from a US-operated drone, ...


Briton beats wife for breaking the rules of slave and sex agreement

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 12:55 PM PDT

A 44-year-old Briton is facing jail after he savagely beat up his wife for breaking the rules of a bizarre slave and sex agreement they had entered into to save their 15-year-old marriage. Scott We...


Pak summons US envoy; lodges protest over drone strikes

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 12:44 PM PDT

Pakistan has summoned the acting US ambassador and lodged a protest over the continued CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) drone strikes in its tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, saying that the attacks...


UK Queen gives thanks to end rapturous jubilee party

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 12:11 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth waved from her Buckingham Palace balcony to the cheering masses on Tuesday and thanked millions of well-wishers at the end of four days of spectacular Diamond Jubilee celebra...


How to parent a Spelling Bee champion? NDTV talks to Snigdha Nandipati's father

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:49 AM PDT

When Snigdha Nandipati won this year's Spelling Bee she maintained a record. For the past 5 years in a row, Indian American's have won the Spelling Bee. 10 of the last 14 winners are Indian Americans....


That dot slowly moving across the Sun? It's Venus

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:13 AM PDT

Stargazers around the world are setting up special telescopes and passing out cardboard eclipse glasses to view the once-in-a-lifetime celestial cameo of Venus passing in front of the sun.


US confident of killing top Al Qaeda strategist

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:13 AM PDT

The United States is highly confident that the Al Qaeda's Number two Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, in what an official described on Tuesday as a "major blow" to the g...


US thought Taliban had nuclear bomb in 2009: Book

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 09:54 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama confronted the ultimate security nightmare early in his administration -- the possibility that the Taliban had acquired a nuclear bomb, according to a new book published on T...


Disney to stop some junk-food ads on kids' TV, websites

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 08:34 AM PDT

Walt Disney, owner of the ABC broadcast network and a suite of cable channels, will stop accepting some junk-food ads on TV programs, radio shows and websites aimed at children, according to sources w...


Queen's grand carriage procession at final jubilee festivities

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:45 AM PDT

Queen Elizabeth II led a grand carriage procession through London to mark her diamond jubilee on Tuesday but faced the crowning moment of the festivities without her ill husband Prince Philip.Cheering...


Top Al Qaeda strategist may have been killed in Pakistan

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:22 AM PDT

If his death is confirmed it would be the biggest blow to Al Qaeda since US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in a secret raid in Pakistan in May 2011.The CIA's drone campaign in Pakistan, stepped...


China says foreign embassies should not report on Beijing air quality

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:08 AM PDT

China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smogg...


Judge changed for the fifth time in 26/11 trial

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 05:35 AM PDT

Anti-terrorism Court Judge Shahid Rafique who was conducting the trial of the LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other Pakistani suspects, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks has be...


Japan agency sorry for comparing radiation to wife

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 04:51 AM PDT

A government-backed nuclear research agency has apologised for comparing radioactive material on its website to an "angry wife" in a quarrel with her husband, news reports said on Tuesday.The Japan At...


Woman faces caning in Singapore for graffiti

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 04:34 AM PDT

Police in Singapore said that a 25-year-old woman has been arrested for painting graffiti and placing stickers on public property. If convicted she could be beaten with a cane.Graffiti and other forms...


US ends funding for Pakistani Sesame Street over corruption allegations

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 04:27 AM PDT

The US Embassy in Pakistan says that it terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a local version of Sesame Street amid reports of corruption.The organization in question is the Rafi Pee...


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