Friday, January 11, 2013

Mammoth dust storm

Mammoth dust storm

Mammoth dust storm

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:58 AM PST

Amazing visuals show a mammoth dust storm passing over Western Australia after a large storm near Onslow.

Syrian rebels capture key military base

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 01:21 PM PST

Syrian rebel fighters say they have captured a strategic northern military base used by the government to bomb opposition strongholds.

Duchess' first portrait is ... well ...

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:45 AM PST

The first official portrait of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, has been unveiled at London's National Portrait Gallery -- but has met with a mixed reaction from art critics and the public.

Photos: Fires across Australia

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 05:24 AM PST

Who will win battle for the new Tunisia?

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 05:29 AM PST

When artist Nadia Jelassi exhibited work in Tunis last year, she hoped the piece would prove a talking point.

How Paris killings could renew flashpoint

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:07 AM PST

Three Kurdish women political activists were found dead with gunshots to the head early Thursday, police in Paris said, in an unexplained act of violence that has shocked the Kurdish community. CNN's Ivan Watson explains what the impact of the killings is likely to be, and how the conflict between Kurdish nationalists and Turkey affects the rest of the world.

Mammoth dust storm in Australia

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 06:07 AM PST

Amazing visuals show a mammoth dust storm passing over Western Australia after a large storm near Onslow.

France taking on Islamist gangs in Mali

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:34 AM PST

French troops, on the ground and in the air in dusty and dangerous Mali, are taking the fight to radical Islamists there, French President Francois Hollande said Friday.

Obama, Karzai meet

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 01:19 PM PST

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai sits down with President Obama today at the White House to hammer out a deal for the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014.

Spain: Nuclear items for Iran seized

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:36 AM PST

It was not a routine traffic stop.

Police: TV host sexually abused hundreds

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 12:37 PM PST

Britain's late TV presenter and radio host Jimmy Savile sexually abused hundreds of people and carried out more than 30 rapes, police said Friday, as they unveiled a report exposing "vast, predatory and opportunistic" abuses across six decades.

Nearly 100 killed in bomb blasts

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 07:59 AM PST

A three-day mourning period began Friday in a southwestern Pakistani province where a series of bomb blasts killed nearly 100 people a day earlier.

How Paris killings could renew Kurdish flashpoint

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:07 AM PST

Three Kurdish women political activists were found dead with gunshots to the head early Thursday, police in Paris said, in an unexplained act of violence that has shocked the Kurdish community. CNN's Ivan Watson explains what the impact of the killings is likely to be, and how the conflict between Kurdish nationalists and Turkey affects the rest of the world.

Moscow: Americans can adopt Russian kids until 2014

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:10 AM PST

The Russian law that bans adoptions by U.S. families will take effect in one year instead of this month, Russia's semiofficial news agency RIA Novosti reported Thursday.

Kenyan lawmakers vote themselves a hefty bonus, again

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 09:35 AM PST

Kenyan legislators voted to give themselves send-off bonuses of $110,000 each, despite the president's veto of their earlier attempt at another hefty payoff.
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