Monday, October 22, 2012

US Presidential debate: Obama's 'horses and bayonets' remark goes viral

US Presidential debate: Obama's 'horses and bayonets' remark goes viral


US Presidential debate: Obama's 'horses and bayonets' remark goes viral

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:42 PM PDT

Cavalry comments galloped online as a shot by President Barack Obama about "horses and bayonets" became the most talked about moment of the final presidential debate on Twitter.


US Presidential debate: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney say China needs to play by the rules

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:24 PM PDT

The presidential candidates sparred over China during a debate on foreign policy on Monday but as usual the focus was less on the Asian giant's rise as a world power than its impact on the American ec...


Italy orders jail terms for 7 who didn't warn of deadly earthquake

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:21 PM PDT

Seven prominent Italian earthquake experts were convicted of manslaughter on Monday and sentenced to six years in prison for failing to give adequate warning to the residents of a seismically active a...


US Presidential debate: Mitt Romney backs drones, aid conditions in Pakistan

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:58 PM PDT

White House hopeful Mitt Romney said on Monday he would maintain drone strikes in Pakistan if he defeats President Barack Obama and impose conditions on aid to the nuclear-armed nation.


Unseen, but looming over the race- George W. Bush

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:57 PM PDT

He does not speak on the stump or appear in television ads. Campaign audiences rarely hear his name.


On offence, Obama says Romney is 'all over the map'

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:50 PM PDT

President Obama and Mitt Romney wrapped up a series of defining debates on Monday night with a bristling exchange over America's place in the world as each sought to portray the other as an unreliable...


US Presidential debate: Romney dismisses prospect of China trade war

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:28 PM PDT

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday dismissed suggestions that he would start a trade war with China as he and President Barack Obama both vowed a firm line with Beijing.


Taiwan hospital fire kills 12, injures 60: Officials

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:11 PM PDT

At least 12 people were killed and 60 injured when a blaze tore through a hospital in southern Taiwan on Tuesday, health authorities said.


BBC chief to be grilled over Savile scandal

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 08:47 PM PDT

The BBC's chief faces a grilling from legislators on Tuesday, a day after one of his editors -- who had dropped an investigation into sex abuse claims against a top BBC star -- stepped aside.


Britain to double number of drones in Afghanistan: Report

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 08:03 PM PDT

Britain is to double the number of armed drone aircraft flying combat and surveillance operations in Afghanistan, the Guardian reported on Tuesday.


Barack Obama, Mitt Romney battle over foreign policy in final US presidential debate

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 07:41 PM PDT

A feisty President Barack Obama ridiculed Mitt Romney as "all over the map" Monday on foreign policy, accusing him of telling untruths and backing "wrong" policies in their fiercely fought final debat...


Barack Obama mocks Mitt Romney with 'horses and bayonets'

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 07:27 PM PDT

Barack Obama aimed to belittle rival Mitt Romney's commander-in-chief credentials on Monday, accusing him of not understanding a military that had moved on from "horses and bayonets."


Barack Obama says reports Iran, US agreed to hold talks 'not true'

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 07:21 PM PDT

President Barack Obama said on that Monday that newspaper reports that Iran and the United States had agreed to hold one-on-one talks on Tehran's nuclear programme were "not true."


Romney, Obama clash on Middle East in last debate

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 06:40 PM PDT

Republican Mitt Romney warned on Monday that Islamic extremism was not on the run, faulting President Barack Obama's leadership on the Middle East in their final White House debate.


US can't kill its way out of this mess: Mitt Romney on terror

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 06:27 PM PDT

White House challenger Mitt Romney warned on Monday that US President Barack Obama's policy of deploying deadly force against Islamist militants would not be enough to end the extremist threat.


Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney in final US presidential debate: Quotes

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 05:42 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney met on Monday in Boca Raton, Florida, for the third and last presidential debate, focused on foreign policy, ahead of the November 6 el...


Foreign jihadists pour into northern Mali

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:51 AM PDT

Hundreds of jihadists poured into northern Mali over the weekend to help armed Islamist groups hang on to the territory as the country's neighbours speeded up efforts to wrest control of the vast dese...


Afghan man stabs wife to death for wanting to do a job

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:28 AM PDT

A man in a western Afghan city has confessed to stabbing his wife to death to prevent her from taking a job outside the home, police said Monday.


'Kidnapped' Russian opposition activist 'admits riot plot'

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:17 AM PDT

Russian investigators said on Monday that an opposition activist had turned himself in and confessed to plotting mass riots while the activist himself claimed he had been kidnapped from Ukraine and to...


Suspected spa gunman pleaded for help to leave Wisconsin

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:59 AM PDT

The man suspected of killing three women and wounding four others in a shooting rampage at a Milwaukee-area spa where his estranged wife worked had recently posted pleas for help "to get out of Wiscon...


Adultery site barred from posting French presidents in advertisements

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:55 AM PDT

French police on Monday blocked a Canadian adultery website from posting spoof ads casting presidents Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande as womanisers, the site...

Pakistanis make world's largest human flag

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:47 AM PDT

More than 24,000 Pakistanis on Monday formed the world's largest "human national flag" in the eastern city of Lahore, smashing a five-year-old record set in Hong Kong, officials said.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney meet for final debate as race remains tight

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:35 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off in front of the cameras for a final time on Monday in what could be their last, best chance to win over the small sliver of voters...


Finnish Prime Minister unhurt after knife attack thwarted

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 08:59 AM PDT

Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen was unhurt after a man tried to attack him with a knife on Monday, his aides said.


Pippa Middleton in book talks about famous bum

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 08:55 AM PDT

Kate Middleton's younger sister Pippa describes her stardom -- and the attention paid to her behind -- after last year's royal wedding as "startling", in a book to be released this month.


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