Friday, January 11, 2013

China's new leader - harbinger of reform or another conservative?

China's new leader - harbinger of reform or another conservative?

China's new leader - harbinger of reform or another conservative?

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 10:09 PM PST

When Xi Jinping became the new leader of China's Communist Party two months ago, hopes were high for reform in the giant nation. But despite what appears to be sensitive handling of a strike by journa...

Nepal bus crash kills 29: police

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:57 PM PST

At least 29 people were killed and 12 injured when a bus veered off a narrow mountain road in thick fog in western Nepal on Saturday, a police officer said.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon dismayed by Saudi beheading of Sri Lanka maid

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:11 PM PST

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed dismay on Friday at the execution of a Sri Lankan housemaid in Saudi Arabia over the death of an infant in her care.

Critics divided over Kate Middleton's portrait

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 07:51 PM PST

The Duchess of Cambridge seems to like her first official portrait, which is lucky for the artist. Many critics don't.

In gun debate, video game industry defends itself

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 07:40 PM PST

The video game industry, blamed by some for fostering a culture of violence, defended its practices Friday at a White House meeting exploring how to prevent horrific shootings like the recent Connecti...

Malian army drives back Islamist rebels with French help

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 07:09 PM PST

Malian government troops drove back Islamist rebels from a strategic central town after France intervened on Friday with air strikes to halt advances by the militants controlling the country's desert ...

US Superstorm Sandy turns airport into vast used-car godown

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 06:55 PM PST

Mother nature in all her fury tossed them about like toys. Now they fill two airport runways -- parked, obedient and damaged -- as they await nibbles from buyers.

Victim's dad tells accused Colorado gunman to 'Rot in hell'

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 06:31 PM PST

Emotions boiled over on Friday at a court hearing for James Holmes, the man charged with shooting 12 people to death and wounding dozens more at a Batman movie, when the father of one victim shouted, ...

US accelerates Afghan withdrawal, endorses Taliban talks

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 06:22 PM PST

American President Barack Obama has announced a faster than planned withdrawal of the 66,000 U.S troops from Afghanistan. President Obama made it clear that American troops would not be part of 'most'...

Miss America contestant pursuing double mastectomy

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 10:22 AM PST

Win or lose on Saturday, Miss America contestant Allyn Rose will have conveyed a message about breast cancer prevention using her primary tool as a beauty queen: her body.

Afghan troop levels top agenda in Barack Obama-Hamid Karzai talks

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 09:35 AM PST

President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai began a crucial round of talks on Friday that are expected to help determine how fast the United States withdraws troops from Afghanistan and w...

It's official: Indian students shunning Britain

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 09:32 AM PST

There has been a 24 per cent drop in the number of Indian students coming to Britain to study during the 2011-12 academic year, latest official figures show, reflecting concerns generated due to visa ...

Indian-born lottery winner's body to be exhumed

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:37 AM PST

A judge has granted authorities permission to exhume the body of an Indian-born lottery winner who was fatally poisoned with cyanide just as he was about to collect his $425,000 payout.

Ohio schools to arm janitors after Newtown shooting

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:21 AM PST

A rural Ohio school district plans to arm its janitors with handguns as a means of protecting students in the wake of the horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school last month.

Heat, flood or icy cold, extreme weather rages worldwide

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 07:22 AM PST

Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to have been all too predicta...

US to review Boeing 787 safety issues

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 07:05 AM PST

Federal authorities Friday ordered a review of electrical systems in Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner following a spate of incidents, including a battery fire earlier this week in Boston, 15 months after t...

First royal portrait of Kate Middleton unveiled

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 06:14 AM PST

The first official portrait of Prince William's wife Catherine was unveiled Friday at a London gallery where it was hailed by its subject as "amazing" but slammed by some critics.

Prince William's wife Kate gets official portrait

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 05:24 AM PST

Royalty has many perks. There are titles, guards, and palaces. As the former Kate Middleton has discovered, you also get portraits.

Astronomers spot biggest structure in Universe

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 05:05 AM PST

Astronomers on Friday said they had observed the largest structure yet seen in the cosmos, a cluster of galaxies from the early Universe that spans an astonishing four billion light years.

Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai meeting to discuss ending Afghan war

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 05:02 AM PST

Charting the course for a war's end, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai meet Friday at the White House to discuss the future of the U.S. role in Afghanistan and the 66,000 Americ...

David Cameron likely to visit India next month

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 04:25 AM PST

British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to visit India next month during which defence, trade ties and tougher student visa restrictions will top the agenda.

Russia to allow 'some orphans' to be adopted in US

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 04:16 AM PST

Russian children whose adoptions have already been approved by courts will go to the United States despite a blanket ban on all American adoptions, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday.

Jimmy Savile report details child sex abuse cases above 200

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 04:13 AM PST

British police say the late entertainer Jimmy Savile committed more than 200 sex crimes over more than half a century, with most victims being children and teens who were assaulted across the length a...

Fresh firing by Pakistani troops on five Indian posts, say sources

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 04:09 AM PST

There has been fresh firing on the Line of Control (LoC) at five posts in the Krishna Ghati and Sona Gali sectors of Jammu and Kashmir, sources in the Indian Army have said. They said there was firing...

Syrian rebels seize key air base, activists say

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 04:08 AM PST

Islamic militants seeking to topple President Bashar Assad took full control of a strategic northwestern air base on Friday in a significant blow to government forces, activists said.
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