Thursday, August 30, 2012

Did Clint Eastwood lose the plot at Mitt Romney's convention?

Did Clint Eastwood lose the plot at Mitt Romney's convention?

Did Clint Eastwood lose the plot at Mitt Romney's convention?

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:22 PM PDT

Republicans may have made Mitt Romney's day with the presidential nomination he long sought, but it was Dirty Harry himself who nearly hijacked the show with a rambling diatribe against President Bara...

Crime-fighting software used by govts to spy on political dissidents

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:09 PM PDT

Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveilla...

Reality show to offer one-way tickets to Mars

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 08:45 PM PDT

As the world marvels at the latest US Mars landing, a Dutch start-up is aiming to beat NASA at its own game by sending the first humans to the red planet, and film it all as a reality show. The big...

Second Chinese flight returns after security scare

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 08:06 PM PDT

In a second such incident within a week, a Chinese flight was diverted to an airport in central Wuhan city after receiving a threatening message during the flight, the carrier said. Shenzhen Airlines ...

Waning Isaac heads north but eyes turn to stricken dam

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:49 PM PDT

Torrential rain dumped by Hurricane Isaac threatened to burst a dam in Mississippi on Thursday, triggering the mass evacuation of local residents, while large areas of the region were still flooded an...

US threatens legal action over SEAL's Osama book

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:02 PM PDT

The Pentagon on Thursday threatened legal action against the former Navy SEAL who has written a book recounting his role in the May 2011 raid that killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Rescues continue as Hurricane Isaac floods Louisiana, Obama declares federal emergency

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:52 AM PDT

Isaac dropped unrelenting rain Thursday, flooding areas north and south of New Orleans, and officials had to scramble to evacuate and rescue people as waters quickly rose. Inside the city, there were ...

Kate to make first speech abroad on Malaysia visit

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Prince William's wife Catherine will make her first speech in a foreign country when the couple visit Southeast Asia and the South Pacific next month to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 60-year reign.

98-year-old message in bottle sets world record

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:03 AM PDT

It was scooped up from the sea after 98 years, and now officials say a message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a world record.

Earthquake strikes off Greenland's east coast, no injuries reported

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:48 AM PDT

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the east coast of Greenland on Thursday, the US Geological Survey reported, but there were no reports of injuries or damage on Greenland or nearby Norwegian islan...

Iran doubles underground nuclear capacity: IAEA

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:51 AM PDT

Iran has doubled the number of uranium enrichment machines it has in an underground bunker, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Thursday, showing Tehran's defiance towards Western pressure to stop its ato...

Chief of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi arrested in Pakistan

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Pakistani police on Thursday arrested Malik Ishaq, chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, as he returned to the country after performing the Umra pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia by violating his bail, offi...

Hurricane Isaac: Dam in danger of falling, Louisiana orders evacuation

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Louisiana officials have ordered evacuation of low-lying, sparsely-populated areas along the Tangipahoa River because an Isaac-hammered dam at a state park lake in southwest Mississippi near the Louis...

Isaac heads north after soaking US Gulf, New Orleans

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 08:52 AM PDT

Search-and-rescue operations around New Orleans resumed on Thursday after Hurricane Isaac brought heavy flooding, but relieved residents and authorities said the storm's destruction was nothing like t...

NAM Summit: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pak President Asif Ali Zardari

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:38 AM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today began a key meeting in Tehran, amid clear indications that terrorism will be the prime focus of the Indian side. President Z...

World's richest woman pens column to those 'jealous' of the wealthy

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:18 AM PDT

The world's richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, urged those "jealous" of the wealthy to "spend less time drinking" in a piece the government described as "insulting" on Thursday. ...

Postcard from Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:13 AM PDT

While owning Persian carpets represents oriental luxury at its best in the West, here in Tehran their traders are finding it tough to put food on the table every day. Their market, made up mainly of f...

Sunita Williams to take spacewalk to fix up space station

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:35 AM PDT

Two astronauts - an American and Japanese - are taking a spacewalk to replace failed equipment at the International Space Station.

Moscow's Hotel Metropol sold at auction

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:08 AM PDT

Michael Jackson slept there. Vladimir Lenin harangued Bolsheviks there. Over the past century, the Hotel Metropol has seen the extremes of Russian life, from austere revolutionary fervour to flashy po...

UN chief slams Iran over Holocaust, anti-Israel remarks

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:56 AM PDT

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday reprimanded Iran for "outrageous" comments denying the Holocaust and Israel's right to exist, and called on the two arch-nemeses to drop threats against each other.

NASA launches twin satellites to radiation belts

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:57 AM PDT

NASA has launched twin satellites to study Earth's radiation belts. An unmanned rocket blasted off early on Thursday from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Radiation Belt Storm Probes. It's the first ti...

Colorado shooting suspect may have called university before rampage

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:40 AM PDT

Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes may have phoned a University of Colorado operator just nine minutes before the shooting at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" that killed 12 people, a...

2,000 students at risk of deportation from UK

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:17 AM PDT

More than 2,000 foreign students face possible deportation from Britain after their university was stripped of its right to authorise visas.

Activists demand release of Pakistani girl in blasphemy case

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:18 AM PDT

A Pakistani court adjourned on Thursday a bail hearing for a Christian girl accused of defaming Islam, prompting human rights activists to make fresh calls for her release in a case that has drawn ren...

Voice of developing nations should increase globally, says PM at the NAM Summit: Full speech

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:55 AM PDT

Amidst Western efforts to isolate Iran over its nuclear programme, the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement opened in Tehran today with issues like Syrian crisis and Palestine statehood set to domi...
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