Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Pak International Airlines fined by US for stranding passengers

Pak International Airlines fined by US for stranding passengers


Pak International Airlines fined by US for stranding passengers

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 10:59 PM PDT

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has been slapped with a fine of USD 150,000 by US authorities for keeping passengers aboard a plane during an extended ground delay last year. This is the ...


Ronald Reagan shooter's freedom on hold

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 09:41 PM PDT

A US federal judge refused to rule on Wednesday on whether the man who opened fire at President Ronald Reagan should be freed, ordering a psychiatric hospital to submit a new plan.


Italy court upholds American convictions

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 09:17 PM PDT

Italy's highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition progr...


Actress sues California man behind anti-Muslim film

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:45 PM PDT

An actress in an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world sued a California man linked to its production on Wednesday for fraud and slander, saying she had received deat...


Danish magazine to publish topless Kate photos

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:34 PM PDT

A Danish magazine was set on Thursday to publish pictures of Prince William's wife Catherine sunbathing topless, despite the British royals' legal moves in France to stop the spread of the photos.


Aung Suu Kyi meets Barack Obama, receives medal from Congress

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:02 PM PDT

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met President Barack Obama at the White House and received the highest congressional award on Wednesday.


Mars rover to launch first rock study

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 07:43 PM PDT

The science team plans to have Curiosity pause for a few days in order to perform the mission's first "contact science" by using instruments on the vehicle's robot arm to photograph and analyze a pyra...

New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 07:36 PM PDT

France stepped up security on Wednesday at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly revived a formula that it has already used to capture attention: Publishing crude, lewd...


U.S. official says Benghazi consulate was 'terrorist attack'

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 07:21 PM PDT

The assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a "terrorist attack" that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top U.S. counterterrorism official told Congre...


French magazine hands over topless Kate pics after ruling, says source

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 10:37 AM PDT

The French magazine that published topless photos of Prince William's wife Catherine handed over files with the images on Wednesday to the couple's representatives, a source close to the matter said. ...


France braces for Mohammed cartoons backlash

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 09:55 AM PDT

France was braced for a backlash on Wednesday as a satirical weekly magazine that published cartoons featuring crude depictions of the Prophet Mohammed flew off the shelves. Embassies, consulates, cul...


Monica Lewinsky set to embarrass Bill Clinton in tell-all book

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 09:50 AM PDT

Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is reportedly going to pen a tell-all book about her affair with Bill Clinton which may reveal her intimate love letters and how the ex-US president had an in...


Indian programmer charged with hacking Toyota website

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:57 AM PDT

A computer programmer from central Kentucky who once did contract work for Toyota has been charged with hacking into and damaging computers used by the automobile maker.


French court rules for UK royals in topless photos

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:53 AM PDT

A French court has ordered the publisher of a gossip magazine to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge and blocked the further publication of the images.

Syrian president Assad says 'war targets resistance axis': State media

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:08 AM PDT

President Bashar al-Assad told Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday that the war engulfing Syria is targeting not just it but the "resistance axis," state news agency SANA reported. President Assad's ...

Pakistani accused of blasphemy over Prophet film

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 07:46 AM PDT

Pakistani officials have said that they have opened an investigation into a businessman who has been accused of blasphemy after refusing to join protests over an anti-Islam video and allegedly trying ...


Man missing in Alps signals SOS with tree branches

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 07:34 AM PDT

A British adventurer who remained missing for three days while participating in the extreme sport of speed flying in the Swiss Alps was rescued from a gorge after he used tree branches to seek a searc...


Suu Kyi gets historic Washington welcome

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 06:58 AM PDT

Washington rolled out a red-carpet welcome on Wednesday for Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who was to hold talks with President Barack Obama and finally receive Congress's highest honor.


UK phone hacking probe: Sun journalists, police officer arrested for corruption

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 06:52 AM PDT

A British police officer and two journalists from Rupert Murdoch's The Sun tabloid newspaper were arrested on suspicion of corruption on Wednesday as part of investigations into illegal payments and p...


Danish magazine says to publish topless Kate photos on Thursday

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 06:22 AM PDT

Danish celebrity magazine Se og Hoer plans to publish topless pictures of Prince William's wife Catherine in a 16-page spread on Thursday, it said on its website on Wednesday.


Bomb kills nine in Pakistan's Peshawar: Officials

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 05:03 AM PDT

A bomb ripped through a van in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding more than 20, officials said. Officers said it was not immediately clear whether ...


Beijing demonstrators damage US ambassador's car

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:34 AM PDT

A car carrying the US ambassador to China was mildly damaged after becoming the target of boisterous anti-Japan demonstrators who were expressing outrage over a territorial dispute and marking the 81s...


Rise in complaints against Indian doctors in UK

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:08 AM PDT

There has been a record rise in complaints by patients against doctors during 2011, including a rise of nearly 19 per cent in complaints against Indian doctors working in the National Health Service, ...


France to close its embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday fearing Prophet Mohammed cartoon backlash

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:55 AM PDT

France stepped up security and appealed for calm Wednesday after a weekly published naked cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that risked fanning outrage in the Islamic world. Security was reinforced ...


What your email style says about you

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:51 AM PDT

The way you engage with email - checking, reading and responding - tells a lot about you, according to researchers who believe that the patterns can be matched to bird-like behaviour.


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