Thursday, January 10, 2013

Hugo Chavez's silence spoke loudest of all

Hugo Chavez's silence spoke loudest of all


Hugo Chavez's silence spoke loudest of all

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:33 PM PST

President Hugo Chavez is famous for speeches that last for hours, and Thursday should have been a special day for the loquacious socialist to let loose. But even with a parade of foreign dignitaries i...


US student held for threatening to bring gun to school

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:01 PM PST

An 11-year-old school student in the US state of Texas has been arrested after he allegedly threatened to bring a gun to school, media reports said on Friday.


White House sees assault gun ban as one part of plan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:54 PM PST

While President Barack Obama pledged to crack down on access to what he called "weapons of war" in the aftermath of last month's schoolhouse massacre, the White House has calculated that a ban on mili...


Bin Laden movie excuses torture, say ex-Gitmo inmates

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 08:16 PM PST

Two former Guantanamo detainees on Thursday condemned "Zero Dark Thirty," a film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden whose brutal interrogation scenes have sparked a discussion over the use of extreme ...


Six dead in Philippines hotel fire

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 08:00 PM PST

Foreigners are believed to be among six people who died on Friday when a fire razed a small hotel near a former US naval base in the Philippines, rescue officials said.


China's little emperors are no risk takers: study

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 07:36 PM PST

China's one-child policy has produced less trusting, less trustworthy and less competitive children compared to the generation born before the policy was introduced, a study has found.


US, Afghanistan discuss 'last chapter' in war aims: Leon Panetta

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 07:22 PM PST

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed on Thursday the "last chapter" in building a sovereign Afghanistan that can provide its own security, including the nature...


Colorado judge orders accused movie theater gunman to stand trial

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:57 PM PST

A Colorado judge on Thursday ordered accused movie theater gunman James Holmes to stand trial on charges he killed 12 people and wounded dozens more in a shooting rampage at a midnight screening of a ...


Captain blames faulty brakes, motor for New York ferry accident

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:50 PM PST

The captain of a packed ferry that crashed into a New York City pier injuring 74 people blamed malfunctioning brakes and a faulty motor for the accident, US investigators said on Thursday.


Passengers amazed as Australian snake clings to plane

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:39 PM PST

It was not quite a "Snakes on a Plane" scenario, but passengers on a Qantas jet watched in amazement as a three-metre (nine feet) python clung to the outside of their aircraft during a flight.


America's first black president criticised for white male cabinet

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:27 PM PST

The first black US president is coming under fire from some of his own Democratic Party for naming a stream of white men to key cabinet and leadership posts in his second administration.


115 killed, over 200 injured in four blasts in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:17 PM PST

A series of bombings killed 115 people across Pakistan on Thursday, including 81 who died in twin blasts on a bustling billiards hall in a Shiite area of the southwestern city of Quetta.


California teen planned attack on classmates: sheriff

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:07 PM PST

Authorities say a boy who fired on classmates and wounded one at a rural California high school had planned the attack and targeted students he felt had bullied him for more than a year.


Bombings kill 103 people in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:19 AM PST

A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials sa...


British detective found guilty in hacking scandal

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:41 AM PST

A top counterterrorism detective was found guilty on Thursday of trying to sell information to a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, becoming the first person to be convicted on charges related to Britain's phone...


Teen entrepreneurs tap their mothers' Facebook connections

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:02 AM PST

When mother of three Angela Allyn takes to Facebook, it's usually not to post pictures of her latest party, but to drum up business for her entrepreneurial teenage son, Alec.


One dead in German helicopter crash on highway

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST

A helicopter crashed on a highway in southwestern Germany on Thursday, killing the pilot, after the aircraft got caught in high-voltage power lines and exploded, police said.


Shooting at school in California, two people shot at: reports

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:57 AM PST

Gunfire erupted on Thursday at a California high school in inland Kern County in a shooting in which two people were injured, county officials said, and media reports indicated the assailant had been ...

52 killed in billiard hall bombing in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:51 AM PST

Police say the death toll from a twin bombing at a billiard hall in southwest Pakistan has risen to 52.


Bombs kill 17 at a billiards hall in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:33 AM PST

Police say two bombs exploded minutes apart at a billiards hall in southwest Pakistan, killing 17 people.


Supporters rally in show of support for Hugo Chavez

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 08:21 AM PST

Thousands of cheerful supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rallied outside his presidential palace on Thursday in an alternative inauguration for a leader too ill to return home for the real...


Bomb, drone attack kill 17 people in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 08:16 AM PST

A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed 12 people in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, while five suspected militants died in a U.S. drone strike in the country's northwest, officials said.


Barack Obama to use two Bibles when he takes oath of office

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 07:05 AM PST

President Barack Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not on a single Bible, but two, one owned by Martin L...

Earthquake measuring 6.0 hits Indonesia

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:43 AM PST

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday. There was, however, no immediate report of damage or casualty, Xinhua reported.


Three Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris as Turkey seeks peace

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:21 AM PST

Three female Kurdish activists including a founding member of the PKK rebel group were shot dead in Paris overnight in execution-style killings condemned by Turkish politicians trying to broker a peac...


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