« Home page »

2010-09-02 23:02

US 'milkshake murder' convict seeks case dismissal (AP)

AP - The expatriate American housewife who won a retrial after being convicted of murdering of her banker husband in Hong Kong with a drugged milkshake and a blow to the head will ask a judge to dismiss the case against her, a lawyer said Thursday.

2010-09-02 23:02

Indonesia urged to increase anti-piracy patrols (AP)

AP - An international maritime group urged Indonesia on Thursday to increase patrols in the South China Sea after pirates attacked nine vessels in less than three weeks.

2010-09-02 23:02

(AP)

AP - Defense Secretary Gates is in Afghanistan for talks with Karzai, Petraeus.

2010-09-02 17:02

Pakistan army cancels US trip amid search dispute (AP)

AP - Pakistan's military canceled a trip by officers to an annual meeting at U.S. Central Command after they were taken off a plane and subjected to "unwarranted security checks" in Washington, an army spokesman said.

2010-09-02 17:02

Australian school drops 'gay' from classic song (AP)

In this photo taken June 18, 2004, an Australian Kookaburra  sits on a branch in Sydney, Australia. An Australian school principal has asked students to stop using the word 'gay' when singing a classic children's campfire song trying to keep the kids from laughing. Principal Garry Martin of Le Page Primary School in Melbourne said he instructed students to substitute the line 'Fun your life must be' for the original 'Gay your life must be' when singing 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.' (Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - An Australian school principal has asked students to stop using the word "gay" when singing a classic children's song, but said Thursday no offense was intended — he was simply trying to keep the kids from laughing.


2010-09-02 17:02

Black box recovered from Nepal plane crash site (AP)

Nepalese soldiers carry the remains of plane crash victims in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain Tuesday near Shikharpur village, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Katmandu, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)AP - Nepalese investigators have found the flight data recorders from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed last week en route to the Mount Everest area, killing 14 people including six foreigners, officials said Thursday.


2010-09-02 11:00

Cambodia boasts plans for Asia's tallest building (AP)

AP - Impoverished Cambodia plans to build a 1,820-foot (555-meter) skyscraper, its prime minister said Wednesday, a feat that would give one of the region's least-developed capitals the tallest building in Asia.

2010-09-02 11:00

3 Oxfam workers killed in northeastern Afghanistan (AP)

AP - Aid group Oxfam has suspended operations in an increasingly dangerous northeastern Afghan province after two of its staff members and a community volunteer were killed there last week, the aid agency said.

2010-09-02 11:00

Afghan refugees forced to start over after floods (AP)

An Afghan refugee whose house was demolished by heavy flooding, looks for his belongings amid rubble in Azakhel near Peshawar, Pakistan Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Thousands of  Afghan refugees here are struggling to recover from a double tragedy, seeing their homes across the border engulfed by war and then their refugee camps here demolished by floods.( AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - After fleeing the Soviet invasion of his country with nothing, Afghan refugee Ziarat Gul spent three decades building a new life in neighboring Pakistan.


2010-09-02 04:47

NKorea forges trade docs to dodge sanction: report (AP)

AP - North Korea has changed the names of its trading companies and falsified trade documents to avoid international sanctions and continue exporting weapons, a news report and an intelligence official said Wednesday.

2010-09-02 04:47

Afghan school poisonings linked to toxic chemicals (AP)

AP - Blood samples taken from Afghan schoolgirls who collapsed in apparent mass poisonings showed traces of toxic chemicals found in herbicides, pesticides and nerve gas, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.

2010-09-02 04:47

Indonesian police kill 5 villagers ransacking post (AP)

AP - Police killed five villagers as dozens of people ransacked a station in central Indonesia to protest a person's death in custody.

« Home Page »

Others

<< September 2010 >>
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
2627282930  

Recomended