Friday, June 22, 2012

Shooting sparks fire in Utah; 2300 homes evacuated

Shooting sparks fire in Utah; 2300 homes evacuated

Shooting sparks fire in Utah; 2300 homes evacuated

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:16 PM PDT

Residents of at least 2,300 homes in northern Utah were being evacuated on Friday after high winds kicked up a fire started by target shooters.

Syria says it shot down Turkish air force jet

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 08:22 PM PDT

Syria said Friday it shot down a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian air space, and Turkey vowed to "determinedly take necessary steps" in response. It was the most clear and dramatic escala...

Pakistan hits back on US diplomat harassment claim

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:12 PM PDT

Pakistan is responding to US complaints that diplomats are being harassed by the government, saying that all diplomats in the country are treated in accordance with international law.

Google doodles a Turing Machine

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:09 PM PDT

Google is celebrating mathematician Alan Turing's 100th birthday with a Turing Machine as a Google doodle. That's the latest in the list of honours for a man who was a World War II code-breaker driven...

Witnesses describe brazen attack on resort hotel near Kabul

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:44 PM PDT

A minivan pulled up to the entryway of the Spozhmai Hotel just before midnight on Thursday, and what appeared to be seven Afghan women in characteristic head-to-toe blue burqas piled out.

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is Pakistan's new Prime Minister

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:48 AM PDT

Pakistan's parliament elected former water and power minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf as the new prime minister on Friday after the incumbent was disqualified by the Supreme Court.

Video: Bus Monitor Karen Klein bullied by school children

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:42 AM PDT

This video of four US seventh-grade boys mercilessly taunting 68-year-old Karen Klein, a bus monitor in New York state, went viral and has turned her into an international fundraising juggernaut and o...

Who is Raja Pervaiz Ashraf?

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 08:10 AM PDT

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was elected the 25th Prime Minister of Pakistan on Friday.

Frustrated US mulls new covert raids in Pakistan

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 07:57 AM PDT

US military and intelligence officials are so frustrated with Pakistan's failure to stop local militant groups from attacking Americans in neighbouring Afghanistan that they have considered launching ...

Anish Kapoor's house in London occupied by protesters

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 07:37 AM PDT

A house in London owned by Indian-origin artist Anish Kapoor, who designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower for the Olympics, was on Friday occupied by a group of protesters to hold an art event for a da...

Pakistani in London jailed for raping girl 30 times: Report

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 05:56 AM PDT

A 59-year-old Pakistani, ringleader of an Asian sex gang that preyed on white schoolgirls, has been convicted by a British court of raping a minor Asian girl 30 times in 10 years. Shabir Ahmed, a fath...

Syrian TV says gunmen kidnapped and killed 25

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 05:34 AM PDT

A video emerged on Friday showing more than a dozen bloodied corpses in Syria, some of them piled on top of each other and in military uniforms, in what the government said was a "massacre" by rebels ...

Video of woman being bullied by children creates outrage

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 05:20 AM PDT

A video of four US seventh-grade boys mercilessly taunting a 68-year-old bus monitor in New York state that went viral has turned the victim into an international fundraising juggernaut and opened her...

People cash in as ATM in UK pays out double by mistake

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 05:09 AM PDT

An ATM in London started dispensing twice the amount users asked for, due to a human error, and hordes of people benefited from the unexpected windfall till it lasted.

Fan dies after watching football for 11 nights

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:49 AM PDT

A die-hard Chinese fan of the England football team died at his home in Changsha in Hunan province after continuously watching games for 11 nights since the start of Euro 2012.

300 obese Pakistani cops removed from field jobs

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:18 AM PDT

A total of 324 policemen having a waistline of more than 38 inches will no longer be allowed to carry out field jobs in Pakistan's Punjab province and have been transferred to police lines. A police r...

Pakistan Peoples Party announces Raja Parvez Ashraf as Prime Ministerial nominee

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 03:16 AM PDT

Pakistan's ruling party named a new candidate for prime minister on Friday, the latest developments in political turmoil triggered by the ouster of the ex-premier by the Supreme Court.

Nearly 170 Syrians killed in clashes on Thursday: Observers

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 03:12 AM PDT

Clashes in Syria killed nearly 170 people, mainly civilians, the deadliest day since a ceasefire came into force, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

26 die as Afghan forces fight Taliban at hotel near Kabul

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:53 AM PDT

At least 15 civilians were killed when seven Taliban militants shot their way into a popular lakeside resort here and took scores of hostages, Afghan officials said on Friday. The seven attackers, a p...

An unlikely incubator of Olympic talent

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:33 AM PDT

The table tennis club was built by Indian immigrants who made their fortunes in Silicon Valley. Its coaches were imported from around the world. And its star players were born to immigrant parents fro...

Kabul hotel standoff over, all attackers dead: Government

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 11:53 PM PDT

A Taliban assault on a hotel on the outskirts of Kabul is over, an Afghan interior ministry spokesman said on Friday, almost 12 hours after it began.
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