Last speaker of Scots dialect dies |
- Last speaker of Scots dialect dies
- Floods wash crocs into homes
- Behind the Turkey-Syria tensions
- Dissident Cuban blogger arrested
- Landslide buries students
- Thousands protest for political change in Jordan
- Video: Syrian rebels vow to kill hostages
- President issues 'state apology' in Tunisia police rape case
- Dissident Cuban blogger arrested, colleagues say
- 'Shoe bomber' leader extradited to U.S.
| Last speaker of Scots dialect dies Posted: 05 Oct 2012 03:42 PM PDT The Cromarty fisherfolk dialect appears to be the only descendant from the Germanic linguistic world in which no "wh" pronunciation existed. "'Where' would just be 'ere'," according to linguist Robert Millar.       |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2012 05:22 PM PDT Ravaging floods killed dozens in Nigeria and displaced tens of thousands of residents as crocodiles, hippos and other water animals washed into homes.    |
| Behind the Turkey-Syria tensions Posted: 05 Oct 2012 08:00 AM PDT After Syrian attack on Turkish town, Turkey's parliament OKs cross-border military operations. Ivan Watson reports.    |
| Dissident Cuban blogger arrested Posted: 05 Oct 2012 08:19 AM PDT Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was arrested as she traveled to cover the vehicular homicide trial of a Spanish politician for a Spanish newspaper, a human rights activist told CNN.    |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2012 08:00 AM PDT A landslide buried 18 Chinese elementary school students and a villager in southwest China, state media said Thursday.    |
| Thousands protest for political change in Jordan Posted: 05 Oct 2012 09:08 AM PDT Several thousand protesters gathered in downtown Amman, Jordan, on Friday to demand political change.    |
| Video: Syrian rebels vow to kill hostages Posted: 05 Oct 2012 03:12 AM PDT Syrian rebels said they will start executing a group of about 48 Shiite pilgrims from Iran if Tehran does not comply with their demands, according to a video posted on YouTube this week.    |
| President issues 'state apology' in Tunisia police rape case Posted: 05 Oct 2012 05:38 AM PDT Tunisia's president has formally apologized to a woman charged under an indecency law after being raped by two police officers, the state news agency reported Friday.    |
| Dissident Cuban blogger arrested, colleagues say Posted: 05 Oct 2012 08:19 AM PDT Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was arrested as she traveled to cover the vehicular homicide trial of a Spanish politician for a Spanish newspaper, a human rights activist told CNN.   |
| 'Shoe bomber' leader extradited to U.S. Posted: 05 Oct 2012 05:17 PM PDT The High Court in London ruled Friday that extremist Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other men will be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges, bringing to an end a years-long legal battle.    |
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