Sunday, August 19, 2012

A media personality, suffering a blow to his image, ponders a lesson

A media personality, suffering a blow to his image, ponders a lesson


A media personality, suffering a blow to his image, ponders a lesson

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:13 PM PDT

When Lynda and Stewart Resnick, the Beverly Hills entrepreneurs who founded POM Wonderful, wanted to host a dinner at their Aspen home in 2006 to talk about the Iraq war, they assembled a list of 22 A...


Michelle Obama finds George Clooney cute

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 10:06 PM PDT

President Barack Obama says actor George Clooney is a good friend and a good person who is sensitive about protecting that friendship.


Top Gun director Tony Scott dies after jumping off bridge

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 09:46 PM PDT

Tony Scott, director of Hollywood blockbusters such as Top Gun, Days of Thunder and Beverly Hills Cop II, has died after jumping from a Los Angeles County Bridge.


Dogs give emotional boost to sick kids in Quito

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 09:44 PM PDT

Every Wednesday, Lancelot and Juci scamper into a special mission: nudging and pawing youngsters into smiles at the only hospital in Ecuador's capital that treats children with cancer.


New Zealand flags early Afghan exit after three killed

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 09:16 PM PDT

New Zealand pledged on Monday to withdraw from Afghanistan as quickly as possible after three of its troops were killed in a roadside bomb attack, but insisted it will not "cut and run" from the confl...


Cellular services suspended in four Pakistan cities over terror threat

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:13 PM PDT

Cellular services were on Sunday night suspended in four major Pakistani cities, including Lahore and Karachi, to prevent terrorist attacks using bombs triggered with mobile phones, Interior Minister ...


6.2-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea: USGS

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:48 PM PDT

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.


China defers death penalty for disgraced official's wife

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:36 PM PDT

A Chinese court on Monday handed Gu Kailai, the wife of a disgraced Communist Party leader, a suspended death sentence for killing a British business associate who she reportedly feared was plotting t...


The night-life lawyer

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 06:43 PM PDT

In a decade as a lawyer, Mr. Strazzullo, 40, has earned a reputation for taking care of the boldface celebrities - and lesser lights of the pleasure-seeking set - who get themselves in trouble after d...


Rising extremism in Pakistan: Hindus a target?

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 01:18 PM PDT

Bustling with life till recently, the streets of Jacobabad in Pakistan's Sindh province now wear a forlorn look. The town, which is home to 90 per cent of the country's Hindu population, has witnessed...


Syria's Assad makes rare public appearance

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:26 AM PDT

Syrian President Bashar Assad attended prayers in a Damascus mosque to mark the start of a Muslim holiday on Sunday, his first appearance in public since the bombing last month that killed four of his...


Suicide bomber kills seven in Russian Caucasus: official

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 06:13 AM PDT

A suicide bomber killed seven policemen on Sunday in the volatile Russian North Caucasus at the funeral of their colleague, hours after masked gunmen opened fire in a mosque, wounding eight.


Yemen southern separatist leader freed

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 05:57 AM PDT

Yemeni authorities have freed a leading southern separatist days after he was arrested on his arrival in Aden after spending several years in self-imposed exile, an official said on Sunday.


Julian Assange asks US to renounce witch-hunt against WikiLeaks

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 05:47 AM PDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on President Barack Obama to end a so-called "witch hunt" against his secret-spilling website, appearing in public Sunday for the first time since he took refug...


Sudan minister killed in plane crash: official media

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:20 AM PDT

A Sudanese cabinet minister was killed on Sunday when an airplane went down in war-torn South Kordofan state, official media said.


Philippine minister feared dead in plane crash

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 12:09 AM PDT

Helicopters and divers were searching on Sunday for one of the most powerful Philippine ministers who was missing and feared dead after a light aircraft he was travelling in crashed into the sea.


Japan's 'Last Ninja' is a 63-year-old engineer

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 11:42 PM PDT

A 63-year-old former engineer may not fit the typical image of a dark-clad assassin with deadly weapons who can disappear into a cloud of smoke. But Jinichi Kawakami is reputedly Japan's last ninja.


Twin blasts kill two in Libya capital: security official

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 11:23 PM PDT

Twin blasts near security force buildings in the Libyan capital early on Sunday killed two people and wounded several more as Mulims marked the start of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, a security official sa...


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