Monday, January 14, 2013

Smog cloud blankets Beijing

Smog cloud blankets Beijing

Smog cloud blankets Beijing

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:49 AM PST

Schoolchildren were ordered to halt outdoor sports activities until Tuesday this week, as a dirty cloud of smog continued to shroud China's capital.

Dozens die in landslide

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:28 AM PST

Burrowing by hand and machines, Chinese soldiers and emergency crews toiled on steep, frigid slopes looking for the few missing after a devastating landslide killed dozens of villagers.

Playtime that protects the planet

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 12:26 AM PST

CNN's Pauline Chiou goes to Hong Kong's annual toy fair to find out about the growing market for eco-friendly toys.

'Is there a worse way to live than this?'

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 08:56 AM PST

Sharifa lost her foot when Syrian jets fired missiles at her house. Now, she's growing up fast and confused in a camp. She's one of the casualties of what the IRC is calling a "regional humanitarian disaster."

Looser travel rules for Cubans

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:22 AM PST

Mileidy Ramayo hasn't seen her father since he left Cuba on a raft but is hoping the loosening of travel restrictions might help bring that reunion closer to taking place.

UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:33 PM PST

Do you know where this photo was taken?

'Is there a worse way to live?'

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 07:30 AM PST

Sharifa lost her foot when Syrian jets fired missiles at her house. Now, she's growing up fast and confused in a camp far from home. She's one of the casualties of what the IRC is calling a "regional humanitarian disaster."

French rally: No to same-sex marriage

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:21 AM PST

Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday decrying the French president's plan to legalize same-sex marriage and adoptions.

Looser travel rules for Cubans

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:22 AM PST

Mileidy Ramayo hasn't seen her father since he left Cuba on a raft but is hoping the loosening of travel restrictions might help bring that reunion closer to taking place.

UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:33 PM PST

Do you know where this photo was taken?

France strikes Islamist rebels in Mali

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:48 AM PST

The U.N. Security Council will discuss the conflict in Mali on Monday as a military offensive to wrest Islamic militants' control over part of the country rages on.

U.S. supported France's failed hostage rescue in Somalia

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:10 AM PST

U.S. troops lent "limited technical support" in France's bloody and unsuccessful bid in Somalia to rescue an intelligence agent who'd been held hostage for years, President Barack Obama said Sunday.

Cleric promises a Pakistani 'Tahrir Square'

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 09:40 AM PST

He's a well-known Muslim cleric who has returned home promising a Pakistani equivalent of Egypt's Tahrir Square protests. And much of Pakistan was watching with bated breath Monday as thousands of people, led by Tahir ul Qadri, headed toward Islamabad, the capital city.

Protesters rally against same-sex marriage in France

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:16 AM PST

Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday decrying the French president's plan to legalize same-sex marriage and adoptions.

Saudis defend maid's beheading execution

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 05:20 AM PST

Saudi Arabia on Sunday defended its execution of a Sri Lankan maid for the death of an infant in her care and hit back at international criticism of last week's beheading.

Exotic dancer doesn't testify at Berlusconi trial

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 09:32 AM PST

It has all the trappings of a trashy romance novel -- a flamboyant billionaire media tycoon enthralled by a leggy Moroccan exotic dancer nicknamed "Ruby Heartbreaker."

Paris rally against same-sex marriage

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 07:04 AM PST

Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday decrying the French president's plan to legalize same-sex marriage and adoptions.

Police: TV host abused hundreds

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:32 AM 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.

Venezuela: Chavez is improving

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 07:04 AM PST

A lung infection afflicting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is controlled, and his health is progressing positively, the government said Sunday.

Free English classes for prostitutes

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:24 AM PST

Taxi drivers and bellboys aren't the only ones going back to school to learn a little English ahead of the 2014 World Cup to be hosted in various cities across Brazil.

U.N. decries Bahrain court decision

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:38 AM PST

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said he "deeply regrets" a recent decision by Bahrain's highest court to uphold the verdicts against 13 activists convicted of plotting to overthrow the government.

Nigeria nabs top Boko Haram figure

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 07:04 AM PST

Nigeria's military says it's questioning a leader of Boko Haram, the Islamic militant group blamed for the killings of hundreds of civilians, after capturing him in the country's northeast early Sunday.
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