Saturday, July 21, 2012

From a dark theatre, tales of protection and loss

From a dark theatre, tales of protection and loss

From a dark theatre, tales of protection and loss

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 10:06 PM PDT

Movie screen superheroes never die. But there were superheroes present in a darkened movie theater at the Town Center at Aurora mall, and some of them did die, like Matthew Robert McQuinn, who threw h...

Men barred on Egyptian channel with veiled anchors

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 09:34 PM PDT

Maria TV, a new satellite news channel that only features women wearing the full Islamic veil, has been launched in Egypt. Men are banned from the show, a media report said on Saturday.

Batman shooting: Barack Obama to visit town where tragedy struck

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 08:54 PM PDT

President Barack Obama will Sunday visit the Colorado city of Aurora where 12 people were shot dead and dozens wounded during a screening of the new Batman film, the White House said.

Batman shooting suspect's home cleared of hazards: Police

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 08:41 PM PDT

US police said Saturday they had cleared "all hazards" from the booby-trapped apartment of James Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people at a Colorado screening of the new Batman film.

Rupert Murdoch resigns from boards of UK newspapers

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 08:39 PM PDT

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a number of News Corp. boards overseeing his Britain newspapers, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday. He also quit from some of the media company'...

Tanzania ferry mishap: 146 feared killed, rescue operation called off

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 06:47 AM PDT

Tanzania's government halted rescue operations for the ferry mishap near Zanzibar on Wednesday, in which 146 people are feared killed.

Woman minister gets wolf whistles in French parliament

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 06:10 AM PDT

37-year-old woman minister, who wore a knee-length floral summery dress and high heels to parliament, faced a barrage of wolf-whistles from male MPs when she stood up to give a speech.

'Batman' shooting survivor proposes after family escapes death

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 04:18 AM PDT

Surviving the deadly movie theatre shooting in a Denver suburb was one momentous event that Jamie Rohrs and Patricia Legarreta shared on Friday - the other came afterward when they got engaged to be m...

'Batman' shooting: Police to detonate devices in suspect's home

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 03:56 AM PDT

The apartment of the man suspected of killing 12 people in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area movie theatre on Friday has been so extensively booby-trapped that police have determined they cannot saf...

Polio health worker shot dead in Pakistan, setback for global eradication efforts

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Polio immunization efforts have been suspended in parts of Pakistan. This after the World Health Organization confirmed that a community health worker was shot dead in Karachi on Friday evening. In a ...

Respect Ramzan fast or be expelled, Saudi Arabia warns non-Muslims

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 01:05 AM PDT

Saudi authorities warned non-Muslim expatriates on Friday, the first day of Ramadan, not to eat, drink, or smoke in public until the end of the Muslim holy month's sunrise-to-sunset fast - or face exp...

'Batman' shooting suspect was brilliant science student

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 11:46 PM PDT

James Eagen Holmes came from a well-tended San Diego enclave of two-story homes with red-tiled roofs, where neighbours recall him as a clean-cut, studious young man of sparing words.
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