Thursday, October 4, 2012

Laila Haidari, 'mother' of Afghan drug addicts

Laila Haidari, 'mother' of Afghan drug addicts

Laila Haidari, 'mother' of Afghan drug addicts

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 10:27 PM PDT

She has known terrible torment, but talks about it with a smile. Married off at 12 and a mother at 13, Afghan divorcee Laila Haidari now lives to help drug addicts in Kabul, who call her mother.

Aung San Suu Kyi's haunted personal history

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 09:48 PM PDT

A month before Aung San Suu Kyi was born, on June 19, 1945, her family moved into a two-story mansion near Kandawgyi Lake in Myanmar's largest city Yangon. Built on a small hill, it resembles the hous...

Swimming the hard way in Japan: In samurai armour

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 09:36 PM PDT

Walking or running in a full suit of samurai armour is not the easiest thing in the world. Swimming in it is even harder, but that's exactly what some in Japan are doing. For fun.

US backs Turkey, hopes Syria dispute doesn't escalate

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 09:14 PM PDT

The United States expressed hope on Thursday that Turkey's border clash with Syria does not escalate further, but stood by its NATO ally's right to defend itself against aggression spilling over from ...

All 18 children confirmed dead in China landslide

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:50 PM PDT

Rescuers have found the bodies of all 18 children buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in China as they made up classes lost due to recent deadly earthquakes, state media said on Frid...

SM Krishna meets families of US gurduwara shooting victims

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:01 PM PDT

External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Thursday met the family members of the victims of Oak Creek Gurduwara shooting and said India and the US stand united against those who perpetrate a culture of ...

No mid-life crisis for 007 as Bond films turn 50

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 07:25 PM PDT

He's come a long way in the 50 years since the release - on October 5, 1962 - of a modestly budgeted spy movie called "Dr. No." It introduced a dapper but deadly secret agent who wore Savile Row suits...

Remembering Steve Jobs on his first death anniversary

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 07:10 PM PDT

He helped change computers from a geeky hobbyist's obsession to a necessity of modern life at work and home, and in the process he upended not just personal technology but the cellphone and music indu...

Team Obama fights to keep lead after Romney shines in debate

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:56 AM PDT

President Barack Obama's backers scrambled to keep his edge in the presidential race on Thursday after rival Mitt Romney's aggressive debate performance put his campaign on a more positive footing fol...

US Air Force launches latest GPS satellite into orbit

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:46 AM PDT

The US Air Force has launched a satellite to be part of the existing navigation system for the military. It includes an improved military signal that is more resistant to signal jamming in hostile env...

Social media renders rapid judgment on US Presidential debate

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 06:42 AM PDT

Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Facebook during the first debate of the 2012 Presidential contest. While millions turned on their televisions to watch the 90-minute showdown, a ...

Raunchy video creates stir in Ivy League university

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 05:49 AM PDT

A top American university has slammed an amateur porn model for performing a solo sex act in a law school's library and filming it. The video was later posted on a college message board to be viewed b...

US crackdown on online fraud schemes from India

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 05:19 AM PDT

Several online fraud schemes, mainly operating from India, that duped people in countries like the US, UK and Canada into paying to clean their computers of bogus virus infections, have been shut down...

Facebook reaches one billion monthly active users in September

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 04:42 AM PDT

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday the social media company reached the one billion active monthly users threshold last month.

Drone strike kills five Al Qaeda suspects in south Yemen

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 04:12 AM PDT

A drone air strike blasted two cars carrying suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen in the southern Yemen province of Shabawa on Thursday, killing five of them, a tribal chief and witnesses said.

Former Philippine president arrested in corruption case

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 03:21 AM PDT

Police arrested former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Thursday and temporarily detained her in a hospital on corruption charges, in her third indictment and second detention since ste...

Four dead from rare meningitis in US, more cases expected

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 02:59 AM PDT

Health officials are expecting to find more cases of a rare and deadly form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five states in the US. Four have died.

Couples want to include 'no online flirting' in wedding vows

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 02:56 AM PDT

Most modern couples believe a vow to avoid online flirting should be a matrimonial promise, while 34 per cent refuse to say the traditional "till death do us part" at the altar, a new Australian surve...

Schoolgirl has higher IQ than Einstein, Stephen Hawking

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 02:30 AM PDT

With an IQ of 162, a 12-year-old schoolgirl in UK has been rated brainier than even Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, has been accepted into Mensa, the largest and o...

Nepal avalanche: Body of missing French climber found, claims trek organiser

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 02:06 AM PDT

Nepalese rescuers have found the body of a missing French climber in a crevasse on Mount Manaslu a week after an avalanche killed him and at least eight other mountaineers, the expedition organiser sa...

Hamid Karzai pledges new Afghan president in 2014

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 01:52 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged on Thursday that he would step down as required by the constitution at the end of his second term in 2014 and that nothing would prevent presidential elections be...

Turkey renews artillery strikes on Syria

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 01:43 AM PDT

Turkey fired on Syrian targets for a second day on Thursday but said it has no intention of declaring war, despite tensions after deadly shelling from Syria killed five civilians in a Turkish border t...

US presidential debate: For Obama, words not said in debate spoke the loudest

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:09 AM PDT

During their 90-minute debate on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama talked four minutes longer than Republican challenger Mitt Romney. But when the debate was over, it was what Obama didn't say tha...

New York police watching Facebook to fight gang bloodshed

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:07 AM PDT

Police investigating two gangs called the Very Crispy Gangsters and the Rockstarz didn't need to spend all their time pounding the pavement for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and follow...

Killers barbecued and curried their victim: reports

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 11:02 PM PDT

Three men who barbecued and curried the remains of their victim were being held by authorities in Japan, police and reports said on Thursday.
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