Friday, November 23, 2012

Three children die in blast near Pakistan Shiite procession

Three children die in blast near Pakistan Shiite procession


Three children die in blast near Pakistan Shiite procession

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 10:18 PM PST

A bomb exploded near a Shiite religious procession in northwest Pakistan on Saturday killing three children and wounding more than a dozen people, police said. The roadside device was planted on th...


Fourteen killed in Chinese restaurant blast

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 08:42 PM PST

Fourteen people were killed and 47 injured when a blast tore through a restaurant in northern China, state media said Saturday, with initial investigations pointing to a gas leak as the likely cause.


Hijab makes a debut in British parliament

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 08:23 PM PST

A 16-year-old girl is thought to have become the first person to speak from the House of Commons despatch box in the British parliament while wearing a hijab, The Times newspaper reported Saturday.


Public inquiry into Savita Halappanavar's death not ruled out

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 08:08 PM PST

A senior Irish government official has not ruled out a public inquiry into the death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar who died due to pregnancy-related complications after being denied abortion i...


Black Friday creeps into Thanksgiving permanently?

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 07:48 PM PST

This season could mark the end of Black Friday as we know it. For decades, stores have opened their doors in the wee hours on the day after Thanksgiving. But this year, major chains such as Target ...


Thai police fire tear gas at political rally

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 06:52 PM PST

Thai police on Saturday used tear gas at an anti-government protest in the capital Bangkok, the scene of several outbreaks of violent unrest in recent years.


Clashes in Cairo after Mohamed Mursi seizes new powers

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 06:36 PM PST

Angry youths hurled rocks at security forces and burned a police truck as thousands gathered in central Cairo to protest at Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi's decision to grab sweeping new powers.


Ranbaxy Laboratories recalls generic Lipitor in United States

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 10:28 AM PST

Drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has recalled its generic version of Pfizer Inc's cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor in the United States after certain batches were found to contain glass particles.


Postcard mailed during World War II reaches New York home after 70 years

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 10:16 AM PST

A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it.


Gaza crowds surge at Israel border fence, one dead

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 10:01 AM PST

Israeli troops fired on Gazans surging toward Israel's border fence on Friday, killing one person but leaving intact the fragile two-day-old cease-fire between Hamas and the Jewish state.


WHO says four new cases of SARS-like virus found in Saudi, Qatar

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 09:49 AM PST

A new virus from the same family as SARS which was discovered and sparked a global alert in September has now killed two people in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the total number of cases has risen to six...


Blocking cell phone services cannot stop us: Pakistani Taliban

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 09:18 AM PST

The Pakistani Taliban on Friday ridiculed the government's move to suspend mobile phone services at select locations to prevent terror attacks, saying it would have no impact on their activities.


Bomb in Palestinian camp in Damascus kills four

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 09:10 AM PST

A bomb blast in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus killed four people and seriously wounded a member of a faction that has backed Syrian President Bashar Assad in the country's bitter civil war, a...


Black Friday kicks off the holiday shopping season

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 08:58 AM PST

Black Friday got off to its earliest start ever as the nation's shoppers put down their turkey and headed straight to the malls.


Naked man brings London to standstill

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 08:36 AM PST

A naked man brought parts of central London to a standstill on Friday after he installed himself on a statue near Prime Minister David Cameron's office for nearly three hours.


Congo rebels push on after repelling counter-attack

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 08:15 AM PST

Rebels in eastern Congo pushed south along Lake Kivu on Friday after repelling a counter-attack by government forces near the new rebel stronghold in the city of Goma on the Rwandan border


Pakistan arrests 24 Indian fishermen

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 07:32 AM PST

Pakistan has arrested 24 Indian fishermen and seized four of their boats on charges of illegally entering its territorial waters.


British post service bites back over dog attacks

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST

Britain's state-run postal service Royal Mail will take legal action against the owners of dogs that attack its staff and will consider suspending deliveries to their homes, it announced on Friday.


World War II pigeon message stumps UK's top decoders

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 06:47 AM PST

Britain's top code-breakers have been stumped by a secret code found on the leg of a dead pigeon with a message from World War II attached to it.


French police fire tear gas on squatters at airport site

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 06:31 AM PST

French policemen on Friday fired tear gas at protesting squatters during a drive to evict them from the site of a proposed new airport to be built on protected swampland.


Third Indian-origin man charged with attacking K. S. Brar in London

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 05:46 AM PST

A third man of Indian origin was on Friday charged with attacking 'Operation Blue Star' hero K S Brar in London, British police said, a day after announcing the arrest of two more people, including a ...


Muslim Brotherhood offices torched against President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 05:27 AM PST

Protesters torched Muslim Brotherhood offices on Friday, state media said, as supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi staged rival rallies across Egypt a day after he assumed sweeping powe...


California-Vegas party train could hit tracks in 2013

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:57 AM PST

As if a weekend in Las Vegas isn't wild enough for Southern Californians, a Nevada entrepreneur is about to add five more hours of party to either end.


Pussy Riot protester in single cell after tensions with inmates

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:33 AM PST

Jailed Pussy Riot punk protester Maria Alyokhina has been moved to a single cell at her own request because of tensions with fellow prisoners, Russia's federal penitentiary service said on Friday.


Home amid Chinese highway a symbol of resistance

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:45 AM PST

In the middle of an eastern Chinese city's new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, is a five-story row house with ragged edges. This is the home of the duc...


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