Thursday, September 20, 2012

Watch: Gangnam Style video

Watch: Gangnam Style video


Watch: Gangnam Style video

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:02 PM PDT

The 'Gangnam Style' music video by Park Jae-sang, popularly known as PSY (short for Psycho) has more than 220 million views on YouTube and several parodies themselves have gone viral.


UN asks Pak about hundreds of missing people

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:52 PM PDT

The United Nations on Thursday stepped up pressure on Pakistan over the fate of hundreds of people who have disappeared into the illegal custody of the country's powerful intelligence and law enforcem...


'Gangnam Style' video gets propaganda treatment

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:17 PM PDT

While ordinary North Koreans are unlikely to have seen the video (access to the Internet is severely limited), Gangnam Style is a big enough hit that even reclusive apparatchiks know of it.


Woman stabs boyfriend to death over pet rat

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:48 PM PDT

A woman in Russia stabbed her boyfriend to death in a quarrel over a pet rat, officials said.


iPhone 5 launch draws crowds at Apple stores

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 08:34 PM PDT

Eager buyers formed long lines at Apple Inc. stores in Australia and Japan to be the first to get their hands on the latest version of the smartphone. In Hong Kong, buyers had to sign up online for th...


Anti-Islam film controversy: US turns to TV ads to spread message in protest-hit Pakistan

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 07:50 PM PDT

The United States has paid Pakistani television stations to run advertisements featuring President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, hoping to soothe public opinion in a country hit...


Long queues greet Apple's iPhone 5

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 07:38 PM PDT

The new phone - which was unveiled last week - went on sale first in Australia, where long lines formed for the opening of the California company's Sydney store at 8 a.m. local time (2200 GMT, Thursda...

US warns its citizens from travelling to Pakistan

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:08 PM PDT

As a wave of anti-US protest raged in Pakistan, America on Thursday asked its citizens to defer all non-essential travel to that country.


Somali Shebab supporters kill 14 in double suicide attack

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Supporters of Somalia's Al Qaeda linked Shebab killed 14 people and wounded 20 more in a double suicide attack in the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, in one of most deadly attacks for several months.


California judge denies bid to remove anti-Islam film from YouTube

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:45 AM PDT

A California judge denied a request by an actress on Thursday to remove an anti-Islam film from YouTube that has spawned violent protests across the Muslim world.


US Deputy Secretary of State in Libya

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:02 AM PDT

The US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met Libya's foreign minister in the capital Tripoli on Thursday. Ashour Ben Khayil welcomed Mr Burns and a delegation of US officials to the foreign offi...


Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai sacks key ally of the West

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 08:43 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sacked five provincial governors, including a key Western ally in one of the most turbulent battlegrounds of the south, officials said on Thursday. Government insider...


Expenses scandal engulfs Silvio Berlusconi's rudderless party

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 08:32 AM PDT

The party of power less than a year ago, Italy's People of Freedom founded by Silvio Berlusconi is being convulsed by a series of scandals including the latest over lavish spending by its elected offi...


Anti-Islam film protest turns violent in Islamabad

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 07:17 AM PDT

Up to 50 people were injured on Thursday as police clashed with thousands of protesters, some carrying the banners of extremist groups, demonstrating in Islamabad against an anti-Islam film.


Stuck on amusement park ride for four hours

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 06:04 AM PDT

Amusement park goers seeking a thrill in California ended up getting stuck high above the ground for hours on Wednesday.


Islamabad police clashes with thousands of anti-Islam film protestors

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 05:28 AM PDT

The Interior Ministry called on the Pakistan Army here on Thursday as thousands of enraged protesters attempted to reach Islamabad's heavily-guarded diplomatic enclave in a bid to register their prote...


A year later, military says gay policy is working

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 05:17 AM PDT

Every Tuesday and Friday morning in a dining area tucked behind Dunkin' Donuts in the Pentagon's main food court, a gay coffee group meets to talk, do a little business and tell a few jokes.

Students protest against anti-Islam film in Pakistan

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:36 AM PDT

Police fired live rounds and tear gas on Thursday to break up a crowd of around 1,000 students, many armed with wooden clubs, protesting in Islamabad against a US-made anti-Islam film. The demonstrato...


Israeli strike on Iran may wreck Arab treaties: US

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:21 AM PDT

Quoting a high-level Israeli official, Yediot Aharonot said Washington had warned the Jewish state that Arab leaders would not be able to control an angry public backlash if Israel were to mount an at...

South African police kill two more in crackdown on striking miners

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:20 AM PDT

South African police have killed two more people in a crackdown on striking miners, labour advocates said on Thursday, with the victims being a ruling party municipal councillor who died of injuries f...


Monica Lewinsky to publish secret love letters to Bill Clinton?

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:57 AM PDT

Monica Lewinsky is set to write a tell-all book about her torrid affair with Bill Clinton, including her intimate love letters to the US ex-president. Lewinsky, Clinton's favourite White House inte...


Woman discovers that her husband was actually her father

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:38 AM PDT

In a shocker, a 60-year-old US woman has discovered that her late husband was in fact her father. The truth was revealed to her by an uncle.


Rebels shoot down helicopter in Syria

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:46 AM PDT

Rebel fighters shot down a helicopter in a battleground town near Damascus on Thursday, a watchdog said, as Syria's opposition declared parts of the capital a "disaster area."

Seven die in Philippines boat accident

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:29 AM PDT

Seven people died, including two children, and five were left missing after a small ferry sank off the southern Philippines, the civil defence office said on Thursday.

Singapore asks Google to block access to Islam film

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 11:57 PM PDT

Google on Thursday blocked YouTube users in Singapore from viewing clips of an anti-Islamic film that has incited violent protests across the Muslim world, acting on a request by city authorities.

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