Friday, November 2, 2012

New York marathon cancelled amid rising tempers over storm damage

New York marathon cancelled amid rising tempers over storm damage


New York marathon cancelled amid rising tempers over storm damage

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:07 PM PDT

With the runners ready but ravaged residents still recovering from Sandy, this weekend's New York City Marathon was canceled Friday when Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed himself and yielded to mountin...


Museum to open balcony where Martin Luther King was shot

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 11:15 AM PDT

The motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee where US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 is being opened to the public, a spokeswoman said on Friday.


Mitt Romney, Barack Obama fight spiritedly into final weekend

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 10:38 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney fought spiritedly into the final weekend of the marathon and unpredictably close 2012 campaign on Friday, with sharpened closing arguments over ...


Remains of pigeon found carrying World War II message

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 09:55 AM PDT

Experts say the skeletal remains of a pigeon discovered in the chimney of a house in southern England carried a mysterious, long-forgotten message from World War II.


Polish woman arrested over deaths of her five babies

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 09:18 AM PDT

A Polish woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing at least five of her newborn babies, a prosecutor said on Friday.


Well-known Pakistani journalist Marvi Sirmed shot at

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 09:17 AM PDT

Unidentified gunmen today attacked prominent rights activist Marvi Sirmed in the Pakistani capital. She escaped unharmed.


Russian Prime Minister says Pussy Riot women should be freed

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 08:46 AM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday called for the release of the two members of punk band Pussy Riot after they began two-year terms in camps for hooliganism, saying they have already sp...


Pakistan 'blasphemy' teacher in hiding

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 08:17 AM PDT

A Pakistani teacher at the centre of a blasphemy row was in hiding on Friday as her school management denied all responsibility for the "dirty act" and called for her to be punished.


Van attack kills at least 18 in South West Pakistan: Officials

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:49 AM PDT

At least 18 people were killed on Friday in a huge blaze that erupted after gunmen opened fire on a passenger van at a petrol stall in restive southwest Pakistan, officials said.


Britain scrambles to contain deadly ash tree disease

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:12 AM PDT

The British government convened its emergency crisis committee on Friday to discuss how to contain a fungal disease threatening ash trees that has already wiped out swathes of woodland in Denmark.


Scope of Superstorm Sandy's devastation widens, tempers flare

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 06:45 AM PDT

Four days after superstorm Sandy smashed into the U.S. Northeast, rescuers on Friday were still discovering the extent of the death and devastation in New York and the New Jersey shore, and anger moun...


Nigeria military kills about 40 in northeast: Reports

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 06:22 AM PDT

Nigerian soldiers shot dead about 40 young men in the embattled northeastern city of Maiduguri during raids in four areas considered strongholds of an Islamist group, residents and a morgue attendant ...


Families await bodies after Pakistan factory fire

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 06:04 AM PDT

At the only morgue in Pakistan's largest city lie the blackened remains of 32 people killed in one of the worst industrial accidents in the country's history, wrapped in white plastic body bags waitin...


Second stealth jet puts China on path to top regional power, say experts

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:58 AM PDT

China's second stealth fighter jet that was unveiled this week is part of a programme to transform China into the top regional military power, an expert on Asian security said on Friday.


Malala Yousafzai stable, making good progress, say doctors

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:41 AM PDT

Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, continues to make good progress and remains in a stable condition, doctors sai...


Four Afghan police officers killed in insider attack

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:13 AM PDT

Afghan officials say four police officers have been shot dead in southern Helmand province in an insider attack by their colleagues.


Final 10-mile trek for space shuttle Atlantis

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 04:10 AM PDT

Space shuttle Atlantis' final journey to retirement is down broad industrial avenues, most of them off-limits to the public. So Friday's trek won't replicate the narrow, stop-and-go turns Endeavour en...


Malala's father may get job in Pakistan High Commission

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 01:01 AM PDT

The father of teenage rights activist Malala Yousafzai, currently being treated in UK after she was shot in the head by the Taliban, is likely to get a job in the Pakistani mission in London so that t...


Trick-or-treating kids given cocaine in UK

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:06 AM PDT

Children out trick-or-treating in northern England on Halloween got more than they bargained for when they were given bags of cocaine instead of sweets, police said on Thursday.


After storm hiatus, US presidential race is back in full swing

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:46 PM PDT

The two presidential campaigns roared back to life Thursday, ending a storm-imposed hiatus with urgent closing arguments and a flurry of cross-country rallies as Mitt Romney raced to overtake Presiden...


Prime Minister to visit Japan to discuss security cooperation

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:45 PM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will pay a four-day visit to Japan to discuss security cooperation in maritime and cyberspace with Japan Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affair...


New York Mayor, Starbucks CEO endorse Barack Obama

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:25 PM PDT

In a surprising development, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has endorsed Barack Obama in his bid to win US Presidential poll.


Superstorm Sandy: Gasoline runs short, adding woes to recovery

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Widespread gas shortages stirred fears among residents and disrupted some rescue and emergency services Thursday as the New York region struggled to return to a semblance of normalcy after being ravag...


China compensates man wrongly jailed for 11 years

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:59 PM PDT

A Chinese man who served 11 years of a life sentence for a wrongful conviction of check fraud was awarded a record state compensation of 825,000 yuan ($131,000) this week.


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