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Drone strikes are legal and extend to US citizens as well, says Obama

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:41:57 -0400

WASHINGTON - In a major counter-terrorism speech, President Barack Obama Thursday defended the covert US drone program and stressed that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save lives. He also said the use of lethal force extends to U.S. citizens as well. This disclosure comes a day after his administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that four US ...

Two civilians among 13 dead in Pakistan car bomb

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:37:50 -0400

QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 13 people, including two civilians, were killed in a car bomb targeting a police vehicle in western Pakistani city of Quetta Thursday, police officials said. The bombing also injured at least 20 people in the capital of Baluchistan province, riven by Islamist militancy and a violent separatist insurgency. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the ...

Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:37:23 -0400

JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials but appeared doubtful about his success on getting the two warring sides back to peace negotiations. This is Kerry's fourth trip to the Middle East in as many months of his assuming the office of the top US diplomat. He was been trying to revive a peace process that has been ...

Meeting of Syrian opposition leaders begins in Istanbul

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:33:08 -0400

ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition leaders Thursday began their three-day meeting in this Turkish capital city to decide on their participation in talks aimed at end the civil war in the country. As the meeting began in Istanbul a prominent Syrian figure in the opposition proposed a transition plan for the country that requires President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to a senior aide and leave ...

T20s wont hamper Windies chances in CT Ramdin

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:40:01 -0400

Vice-captain Denesh Ramdin has backed the West Indies to make a smooth transition to the 50-over format when they open their campaign in the ICC Champions Trophy starting next month. Several leading members of the squad have been campaigning in the Indian Premier League over the last six weeks but Ramdin said here Thursday he expected no fallout from this. In fact, he contended that the IPL ...

Seven Cubans to participate in World Judo Masters

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:30:02 -0400

Five female and two male Cuban judokas will participate in the 2013 World Judo Masters tournament, to be held in Russia's Tuymen city. The team is led by Idalis Ortiz, 2012 Olympic champion in the over 78 kg category, as well as London 2012 silver medallists Yanet Bermoy (52 kg category) and Asley Gonzalez (90 kg), reports Xinhua. Ortiz is ranked world No.1 in her class, while Gonzales is ...

Ecuadorian footballer feels it is best to ignore racism in Russia

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:30:01 -0400

Lokomotiv Moscow forward Felipe Caicedo has said that he tries to block out racist chants at Russian football stadiums. "I try not to notice these things, not to react in any way," the 24-year-old Ecuadorian told R-Sport Thursday. "It's not easy because you are agitated during the game and the smallest thing can throw you off the balance, but I try so it doesn't bug me." Caicedo is completing ...

Nicole Richie spends wisely on clothes

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:30:01 -0400

Actress and designer Nicole Richie, who has seen and worn it all, doesn't like to waste money on clothes. "I've gone through every phase - a "Punky Brewster" phase, where I wore a red sock and a green sock with a black shoe and a white shoe, and a grunge Nirvana phase in the early 1990s," usmagazine.com quoted the 31-year-old as saying. After experimenting a lot, she now buys clothes that have ...

India lose to Chinese Taipei AFC Cup dream ends

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:20:02 -0400

The Indian women's football team's dream of qualifying for the AFC Cup fell by the wayside as they went down fighting 1-2 to Chinese Taipei, who notched their second consecutive win, in a group D encounter at the Faisal Al Huseni Stadium here. Yu Hsiu Chin and Lai Li Chin scored either side of a fine set-piece equaliser from Sasmita Malik in the 53rd minute to secure the win for Taipei Thursday. ...

Alice Eve believes in aliens

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:20:01 -0400

Actress Alice Eve says she believes aliens are real and astronauts have seen them. The actress said her "Star Trek Into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams was once told by an astronaut that he had come across extra terrestrials in space. "JJ said he sat next to an astronaut once who had told him that he had seen 'forms or shapes' that make him believe in alien life which you know is really scary. ...

I dont trust anyone Justin Beiber

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:50:01 -0400

Pop star Justin Bieber distrusts people so much that he reportedly wants guests to sign a confidentiality agreement before attending his parties. Apparently the guests at his parties will be sued for $5 million if they talk about it in public or on social-networking sites. "Now I just don't trust anybody. Literally, my phone never rings. I only have, like, four people that I keep in contact ...

Non-invasive technique to detect oral cancer developed

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:30:03 -0400

Scientists have come up with a non-invasive and more effective way to detect oral cancer, says a study. The imaging technique, which is detailed in the Journal of Biomedical Optics, has been developed by Kristen Maitland, assistant professor at the department of biomedical engineering of Texas Aamp;M University. The non-invasive system combines two separate technologies -- confocal microscopy ...

Pakistan releases 45 Indian fishermen

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:10:01 -0400

Pakistan Friday freed 45 India fishermen as a goodwill gesture, officials said. Pakistan caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso decided last week to release the Indian fishermen who have already served their sentence. The authorities released a group of 45 prisoners from a Karachi prison. They later boarded a bus that will bring them to the eastern city of Lahore where they will be ...

Big undersea quake off Russia

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:10:01 -0400

An 8.2-magnitude earthquake under the Sea of Okhotsk was recorded early Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The temblor was at a depth of 601.80 km, reported Xinhua. The epicentre was located nearly 360 km southwest of Esso, a town in Russia's Kamchatka Krai region. The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center of the US said in a statement that no tsunami is expected due to the depth of ...

EU regulators seek tax transparency from companies

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:40:01 -0400

The European Commission said Thursday that it is working on a proposal to require corporate giants with operations in the European Union to publicly report profits, taxes paid and subsidies received on a country-by-country basis. Representatives of the 27 member-states agreed to seek ways to prevent multinationals from avoiding their obligations by channeling profits through subsidiaries in ...

Mexican woman gets first transplant of ovaries in Latin America

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:20:01 -0400

A Mexican woman received Latin America's first transplant of ovaries in a hospital in the western city of Guadalajara, the director of the Mexican Infertility Institute, Luis Arturo Ruvalcaba, announced. Ruvalcaba told EFE by telephone that the patient is a 32-year-old women who had developed cervical and uterine cancer that was detected and treated in France. "The ethics committee of the ...

Brazil to hold oil auction

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:10:01 -0400

Brazil's first auction of contracts to develop offshore oil and gas reserves in the pre-salt region will be held in October, or earlier than previously scheduled, the government said Thursday. The government's National Council for Energy Policy authorized the change. Rights to develop blocks in the Libra field, which is estimated to hold between 8-12 billion barrels of recoverable oil, will be ...

Five Venezuelan cops die in chopper crash

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:02 -0400

Five members of Venezuela's PNB national police force died Thursday when the helicopter they were using to pursue a group of kidnappers in a rural part of Caracas crashed, PNB director Luis Karabi said. The helicopter crashed in an uninhabited area near the Antimano neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the capital in conditions of very low visibility due to a thick fog that covered the city ...

Lis visit went beyond symbolic Pakistani daily

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:01 -0400

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's two-day Pakistan visit "went beyond the symbolic", said a daily which noted China is a wealthy neighbour that "does not hand out free lunches". Li's visit "went beyond the symbolic - significant because he was here at a crucial time in our political history, with the process of transition from one government to another now in train," said an editorial in the News ...

Ecuadors Correa wont run again in 2017

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:20:01 -0400

On the eve of his inauguration for another four-year term, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said Thursday that he will not run again in 2017. "We are all necessary, but nobody is indispensable," the 50-year-old head of state said in a television interview, expressing confidence that his Alianza Pais movement will have found a new leader by the time the next presidential election rolls around. ...

Singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki dies

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:10:02 -0400

Singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki died Thursday in the French Mediterranean city of Nice, his family said. He was 79. A Greek native, Moustaki grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and arrived in Paris in 1951. He began performing at nightclubs and came to know masters of the "chanson franaise" such as Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg. Moustaki met Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and ...

Ecuadorian satellite escapes collision with Russian rocket

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:40:01 -0400

Ecuador's first satellite avoided a direct collision with the remains of a Russian rocket, but whether the device is still operating remains unclear, the head of the country's EXA space agency told EFE. The US-based Joint Space Operations Center, which had alerted EXA to the possible threat to Pegaso, informed the Ecuadorian agency Thursday that the Russian wreckage did not hit the satellite ...

When travelling at least try to get to correct continent

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:20:02 -0400

Being in the travel trade sucks. You won't BELIEVE the fuss passengers make, just because some tiny mistake has been made which has led to them being taken to, say, the wrong country. Why quibble? Countries are countries. Variety is the spice of life, as the Bible says. Or was it Rod Stewart? Anyway, news broke last week about a pair of holidaymakers who were mistakenly flown to the wrong ...

History maker Sri Srinivasans feat hailed widely

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400

History-making Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan's unanimous Senate confirmation as the first South Asian judge on the powerful appeals court for the American capital has been widely hailed. Senate Judiciary Committee's Democratic Chairman Patrick Leahy, welcomed Srinivasan's confirmation, but criticised "Republican efforts to delay a floor vote of the highly qualified ...

Taliban influence in Afghanistan to grow Russian agency

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:01 -0400

The Taliban influence in Afghanistan may grow after international coalition forces pull out, while rising radicalism in Syria could lead to the country's disintegration, Russian military intelligence agency GRU has said. GRU chief Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun said the situation in Afghanistan poses a "serious challenge to international stability" and that the withdrawal of the International Security ...

Trailblazer Sri Srinivasan creates history as top US judge

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:20:02 -0400

Chandigarh-born "trailblazer" Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan has made history with the US Senate unanimously confirming him as the first South Asian judge on the powerful appeals court for the American capital. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US, was Thursday confirmed by the Senate by a 97 to 0 vote, as a judge on the US Court of ...

Pope hopes Chinas Catholics can pray without fear

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:50:01 -0400

Pope Francis hopes Chinese Catholics would be able to practise their faith freely and without fear, inviting them to stay loyal to the Vatican, whose authority is challenged by China's Communist rulers. "Let them live daily lives practising their faith... without being afraid to speak of Jesus," the pontiff said. Pope Francis said he prayed that China's Catholics would receive "the grace to ...

Bullets mailed to Berlusconi prosecutor

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:30:01 -0400

Two bullets and written threats were mailed to magistrate Ilda Boccassini, prosecutor in the sex trial of former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, Milan's chief public prosecutor said. Dubbed "Ilda the Red" due to her flaming red hair, Boccassini has also prosecuted Berlusconi in earlier cases. "In recent weeks, a growing number of letters with serious threats have been sent to Boccassini. She ...

Hashish from India seized in Germany

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:20:01 -0400

A parcel containing two kg of hashish reportedly sent from India has been seized in Germany. The substance was found hidden inside beach tennis rackets mailed to an address in Italy, police said. Police sniffer dogs detected the haul of so-called "black bombay" hashish, estimated at 20,000 euros, during a routine check at Germany's Frankfurt airport. The parcel arrived onboard a flight from New ...

Rare birth of mega-galaxy captured by space telescope

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:01 -0400

Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said. "Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," scientists ...

Italian man immolates himself after losing home

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:01 -0400

An unemployed 64-year-old labourer in Italy's Sicily island died after setting himself alight, when he failed to repay a 10,000 euro loan and lost his home. Giovanni Guarascio, from Vittoria village, sustained severe burns to 60 percent of his body when he doused himself with petrol and lit a match May 14 at the run-down cottage where he and his family lived. The cottage was sold at an auction ...

Russia to build new parliament compound

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:50:02 -0400

A new Russian parliamentary centre will be built in central Moscow, that will house both the upper and lower houses as well as their administrative and support services, an official said. The idea of building such a parliamentary compound has been considered for a while. The upper and lower houses, their administrative and support services are currently scattered around Moscow at over 10 ...

Berlusconi at centre of massive tax fraud says court

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:50:02 -0400

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi played a key role in a "massive" fraud by his media group, appeals judges in Milan have said. The 76-year-old Berlusconi had appealed against his four-year conviction and a five-year ban from politics for tax fraud in a film-rights case involving his Mediaset television company. Explaining why the court upheld his four-year prison term, the judges ...

Taylor Swift likes smart comfortable wear

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:01 -0400

Singer Taylor Swift likes to wear clothes which exude style, but still don't restrict her movement on stage. The 23-year-old, who is on Red World Tour, looks for smart yet practical clothes, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "For performance, I'm not only looking for something that looks cool in front of 20,000 people but it's also about the functionality of it, can I run around in it? Can I throw my ...

Man held in Italy for exploiting prostitute

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:01 -0400

A man was arrested in the southern Italian city of Naples on suspicion that he was "exploiting" a Romanian prostitute on the pretext of regularly driving her to work. In exchange for the lift to the eastern Poggioreale district, the 28-year-old Romanian woman allegedly had to pay the man a "fare" of 20 euros and also have sex with him, police said. The 30-year-old man was previously known to ...

Sale of Russian weapons to Syria destabilising Kerry

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:30:01 -0400

The sale of S-300 air defence systems by Russia to Syria would be "destabilising" for the region, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. "S-300 missiles coming from Russia, or other countries, Iranian missiles, are destabilising to the region," Kerry said. "The United States is committed, not only in its defence of Israel, but in its concerns for the region to try to address this issue." ...

Jennifer Love Hewitt enjoys being in own skin

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:00:01 -0400

Jennifer Love Hewitt feels people will never stop commenting - whether you're thin or voluptuous. But she says it is more important to feel good in your skin, and she does so with her regular dose of running, yoga and Pilates. "I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say ...

New Russian spacecraft reusable for up to five flights

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:00:01 -0400

Russia's new reusable spacecraft being developed by the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will be able to make up to five space flights, the rocket maker said. The spacecraft's technical design has been finalised but is yet to be officially approved, Energia deputy general designer Alexander Chernyavsky said. The new reusable craft is to replace the Soyuz carrier rocket and is expected to ...

The Hangover franchise over say actors

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:00:01 -0400

For Comedian Ed Helms and actor Bradley Cooper, actors of the successful "The Hangover" films, the franchise is "over". Cooper, who essays the role of Phil Wenneck, said: "It's over. It's done. Yeah, it's done." "It would take peace in the Middle East for me to do 'Hangover IV'," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Helms as saying. Helms plays Stuart "Stu" Price in the movie. The first two films in the ...

New light rocket Angara ready for launch

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:00:01 -0400

Russia's first light-class modification Angara 1.2PP carrier rocket is ready for its maiden launch, its manufacturer Khrunichev Center said. The first Angara will be sent to the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia later this month, the manufacturer said in a statement, but did not give a precise launch date. Meanwhile, the first heavy-class Angara-A5 has been completed and will soon be ...

On US request Russian arms dealer held in Lithuania

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:50:02 -0400

Lithuanian security services have arrested a Russian national at the request of the US Justice Department, which suspects him of smuggling export-restricted military equipment. Dmitry Ustinov, 46, was detained over a month ago at Vilnius airport in Lithuania, after he arrived from the US to allegedly negotiate a sales deal for night vision equipment used by the US military, the Delfi news portal ...

Cruise liner captain to stand trial over shipwreck

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:50:02 -0400

The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that hit rocks and sank off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people, will go on trial in July. Francesco Schettino faces criminal charges including multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship before all the 4,229 passengers had been evacuated. The trial will open July 9 in Grosseto, the city nearest to the site of the wreck. Schettino is accused of ...

Russell Brand kissed Sheridan Smith

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:01 -0400

Actor-comedian Russell Brand was reportedly spotted kissing actress Sheridan Smith after a recent show here. The BAFTA winning actress was also said to be spotted hanging out with Brand at a food festival last week. However, she has denied having any romantic link with the actor. "Just had dinner with lovely friends. And yes they're wrong yet again. He's one of my best mates," Smith posted on ...

Eva Longoria gets her Masters degree

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:01 -0400

Actress Eva Longoria gladly flaunted a graduation gown after picking her Master's degree from the California State University. The 39-year-old star qualified in Chicano studies from the university. The "Desperate Housewives" star took to Twitter to share her joy, and wrote: "Big day today! Very excited to graduate for my Master's degree in Chicano Studies! You're never too old or too busy to ...

Obama to curtail drones in focused war on terror

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:40:01 -0400

Making a shift from a boundless "global war on terror", US President Barack Obama Thursday announced a new counter-terrorism policy narrowing the use of drones that has put it at odds with key allies like Pakistan. "Today, the core of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on a path to defeat. Their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us," ...

Senate confirms Chandigarh-born as top US judge

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:40:01 -0400

Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan made history Thursday as the US Senate confirmed his nomination as a top US judge in a 97 to 0 vote. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US, would be the first judge of South Asian descent on the powerful appeals court for the American capital, often called the nation's second-highest court. ...

UAE issues stamp to commemorate satellite

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:30:02 -0400

Emirates Post has issued a stamp to showcase the UAE's achievement in the field of science and technology, and to commemorate the "Y1A", the first multipurpose satellite by Yahsat. The satellite, a milestone for the nation, is designed to provide advanced satellite services to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central and South West Asia. The stamp is available in a denomination of four dirhams, ...

Bid to smuggle African ivory foiled in Dubai

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:30:01 -0400

Dubai Customs has foiled a bid to smuggle 259 pieces of ivory that arrived from Africa at its Jebel Ali Customs Centre. The ivory items fall under the endangered fauna and flora category, in which international trade is prohibited by the CITES Convention. Dubai Customs inspectors seized the shipment "using advanced inspection techniques", an official said. "The smugglers tried to pass the ...

Amanda Seyfried was happy with big bosom

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:02 -0400

Actress Amanda Seyfried feels she looked better with bigger breasts, but she says she had to lose a bit of overall weight for her Hollywood journey. "I looked way better when I was 15. I had beautiful huge breasts and then I came to Hollywood and I was like, 'I got to lose weight. I got to look thin and fit.' And I lost them a little bit," femalefirst.co.uk quoted the 27-year-old. Seyfried ...

Jennifer Aniston to play stripteaser in Were The Millers

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:01 -0400

Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston is ready to perform a striptease act in her forthcoming film "We're The Millers". The 44-year-old plays a drug smuggling lap dancer in the comedy film, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, reports thesun.co.uk The star cast also includes Emma Roberts, Ed Helms and Jason Sudeikis. The film will hit screens in Britain Aug ...

China seeks closer ties enhanced strategic cooperation with Pakistan Li

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:50:02 -0400

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday urged China and Pakistan to nurture even closer ties, and enhance comprehensive strategic cooperation while addressing Pakistan's parliament. In a speech titled "Let all-weather China-Pakistan friendship bear new fruits," Li said peace, development and cooperation is the theme of the times, and Asia has become one of the most dynamic and most visible areas ...

25 killed 30 injured in suicide attacks in Niger

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:20:21 -0400

At least 25 people were killed and 30 got injured after two suicide bomb attacks Thursday at a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, reported Xinhua. A total of 20 Nigerien soldiers and 5 assailants died in twin suicide attacks against a military barracks in Agadez, the main town in northern Niger, and another one at a factory owned by Somair, a ...

Syrias Assad stresses resolve to keep fighting terrorism

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:01 -0400

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stressed Thursday his resolve to continue fighting "terrorism" in tandem with efforts for a political solution to the country's 26-month-old crisis, reported Xinhua citing state-run SANA news agency. Assad made the remarks while meeting with a Tunisian delegation, to whom he said his administration will keep fighting "terrorism" and "those who back it" in ...

Eisenberg imbibes stage confidence from mother

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:50:01 -0400

Hollywood actor Jesse Eisenberg, who plays a magician in forthcoming film "Now You See My", says he imbibed the confidence to perform from his talented mother. "My mother was like a hippy clown. She did folk songs at children parties. She was like a great performer and I grew up in a house of somebody who was like a confident performer. She was really great in front of an audience and my ...

Obesity in children linked to parents marital status

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:50:01 -0400

A new study by US researchers shows that children living with married parents are less likely to be obese. "Childhood obesity is a significant public health issue in our country with nearly one-third of all US children aged 2-17 overweight or obese," said Rachel Kimbro, study co-author and associate professor of sociology at the Rice university. "Despite this, very little research has been ...

Pakistani umpire Rauf withdrawn from Champions Trophy

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:40:01 -0400

The International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday withdrew Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf from next month's Champions Trophy in England and Wales after his name cropped up in the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal. ICC said it took the decision after media reports indicated that the 57-year-old umpire was under investigation by Mumbai Police. Rauf, who is an ICC Elite Panel umpire, has ...

Saudi company to hire 5000 Nitaqat-hit Indians

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:30:01 -0400

A company in Saudi Arabia's eastern province has said it will hire 5,000 Indian workers affected by that country's new labour policy. The Nasser S. Al-Hajri Corp (NSH) is holding a two-day recruiting drive in Riyadh Thursday and Friday, the Arab News reported Thursday. "We plan to recruit 27 categories of workers, ranging from technicians to project managers," a company spokesman was quoted as ...

Players recovery is of paramount importance Barua

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:02 -0400

Recovery of players is one of the key factors to success in tournaments like the AFC Cup where you play every alternate day, Indian women's football team coach Anadi Barua said Thursday. Three high-intensity matches in five days is bound to take a toll on any footballer. "If my player is not fit, I won't get the best from her. Our physiotherapist stresses on the importance of warm-up before ...

Indian flight attendant jailed in Dubai

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:02 -0400

A court here has sentenced a male Indian flight attendant of Emirates airline to six months in jail for stealing credit cards from two passengers and using them to buy mobile phones. The criminal court also ordered the 28-year-old man, identified only by his initials DT, to pay 6,000 dirhams to the passengers he stole from, The National reported Thursday. According to the report, the flight ...

London attack Hunt on for terror clues

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:01 -0400

A Londoner of Nigerian descent was identified Thursday as one of the two suspects who decapitated a British soldier. The terror strike prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to go into a huddle with top officials and the military put in place additional security measures. Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death the British ...

Golfer Sharmila set for Deloitte Ladies Open

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:10:01 -0400

Indian golfer Sharmila Nicollet is raring to go at the Deloitte Ladies Open after her recent success at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open at Antalya, where she finished tied 17th. Sharmila, the only Indian at the Ladies European Tour (LET), is playing in the prestigious tour for a second successive year and will compete against some of the top lady golfers in the world. The 250,000 euro ...

Ex-Malaysian Indian lawyer three others get death

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:01 -0400

A former Malaysian Indian lawyer and three others were sentenced to death Thursday in the high profile murders of a Malaysian businesswoman and three others in 2010. The high court in Shah Alam, the capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, sentenced former lawyer N. Pathmanabhan, 43, and farm hands T. Thilayalagan, 21, R. Matan, 22, and R. Kathavarayan, 33, for the murders of cosmetics ...

China to support Pakistan for stability development Li

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:01 -0400

The Chinese government will unswervingly stick to its friendly policy toward Pakistan and support the South Asian nation in realising stability and better development, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Thursday. Li was speaking during a meeting with Pakistani military leaders, including chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Khalid Shameem Wynne, army chief General ...

London attack victim was a serving soldier

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:50:02 -0400

British police confirmed Thursday the man killed in Southeast London was a "serving soldier". "We can confirm that the man who died in Woolwich yesterday (Wednesday) is a serving soldier. In line with the wishes of his family we will not be releasing his identity at this stage," London Metropolitan Police said in a short statement through twitter. The man was hacked to death by two attackers ...

Londoner of Nigerian descent suspect in terror attack

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:40:02 -0400

Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death a British soldier in London, a media report said Thursday. The two terror suspects are being held under armed guard at hospitals in London and one of them has been named by Sky News sources as Adebolajo. The vicious attack on the soldier took place Wednesday in Woolwich, southeast ...

Indian-origin mans death in custody classified as murder

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:40:01 -0400

The death of a 32-year-old Indian-origin man while in police custody in Malaysia has now been classified as a murder. N. Dharmendran had died Tuesday while he was in a lock-up at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters. According to city police chief Mohmad Salleh, the post-mortem report showed that Dharmendran might have been murdered while in police custody, local media reported Thursday. "The ...

I learnt magic tricks from mother Jesse Eisenberg

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:20:02 -0400

Hollywood actor Jesse Eisenberg says he got confidence to perform the tricks of an illusionist in his forthcoming film "Now You See Me" by watching his mother. "My mother was like a hippy clown. She did folk songs at children parties. She was like a great performer and I grew up in a house of somebody who was like a confident performer. She was really great in front of an audience and my ...

London attack British PM holds crisis meeting

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:10:01 -0400

British Prime Minister David Cameron Thursday chaired crisis talks following a terror attack here that left a soldier dead. The government and security officials are racing to respond to the killing of a British soldier, an act that shocked the country. Cameron held a meeting of the emergency response committee Cobra Thursday morning after coming back to London from France, reported Sky News. ...

Madonna recalls meeting Kim Kardashian as a baby

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:10:01 -0400

Singer Madonna remembers meeting her fan Kim Kardashian when the reality TV star was a kid. In fact, the 54-year-old singer even gave Kim her accessories as souvenir, reports dailystar.co.uk. "I met her years ago when she was a little girl, believe it or not. She told me she was a huge fan, and it was during the time I was wearing all of the rubber bracelets on my arms," said Madonna. "I took ...

China central bank switches to liquidity injection

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:50:02 -0400

The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, swung back to liquidity injection this week with 128 billion yuan ($20.9 billion) being pumped into the banking system through its regular open market operations. The PBOC move marked a turn-around in the central bank's open market operations last week when it drained 35 billion yuan from banks in the open market after hedging the ...

China hasnt used Pakistan against India Daily

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:40:01 -0400

China has played a positive role in the continuous easing of the relationship between India and Pakistan, said a state-run daily which added, "China has not played balancing strategy, using one country against the other." An article in the Global Times said that when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his entourage flew from India to Pakistan Wednesday for a two-day visit, his plane was escorted by ...

Katherine Heigl happy being away from limelight

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:40:01 -0400

Actress Katherine Heigl, who moved with her family to Utah, is leading a non-glamorous life, but she is enjoying it. "Our house is in the mountains where I can enjoy being a mother and wife. Our dogs love roaming - every time I try to leave they bark and jump on me," femalefirst.co.uk quoted her as saying. "Everything is much easier. I'm happy arranging barbecues with neighbours and drinking ...

Indian-origin actor honoured in New Zealand

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:30:02 -0400

Indian-origin actor Jacob Rajan has been made a member of New Zealand Order of Merit for his contributions to theatre. Rajan was honoured Thursday at an investiture ceremony by New Zealand Governor General Sir Jerry Mataparae at Government House here, local media reported. Rajan is a founding partner of the Indian Ink theatre company. He is known for collaborating with his partner in Indian ...

Indian Caribbean Museum in Nat Geo list of 500 sacred places

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:10:02 -0400

The Indian Caribbean Museum, described as "a national treasure, a window to the past, and an opportunity to see history come alive", has been cited by a National Geographic publication that showcases 500 of the world's most powerful and spiritual places and guides travellers who wish to visit them. "This is a fitting recognition in just seven years of our existence, especially as we celebrate ...

ICC launches Champions Trophy website

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:50:01 -0400

The International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday launched the official event website for the Champions Trophy, which will be held in England and Wales June 6-23. The site will be accessible at www.icc-cricket.com. The site will have short-form highlights from all tournament matches as well as exclusive behind-the-scene content. The official match centre will be informative and interactive, ...

India to train 500 Nigerians in vocational skills

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:40:01 -0400

India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country's human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev. "Bilateral cooperation in education has had a proud history and remains a priority. A generation of Nigerians have fond ...

`Ageing Asia to strain worlds long-term economic growth

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:40:01 -0400

The Asia-Pacific region will continue to power global economic growth in 2013, but the region's increasing ageing population will cast a shadow on the long-term development, according to a Canadian think-tank. "Productivity gains and a large, young working-age population have done much to boost Asian economic growth over the past three decades. But Asia's demographic dividend is quickly coming ...

Gwyneth Paltrow pockets millions for fragrance campaign

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:30:03 -0400

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly earned $2 million for the campaign of Hugo Boss's latest scent - Boss Jour Pour Femme. The ads will not be aired in the US and Paltrow will be flying from London to Spain for the launch, a source told eonline.com. The "Iron Man 3" actress might have earned a lot from the brand's campaign but she likes to stock up her closet with numerous perfumes. "I am one ...

Retail sales in South Korea fall

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:30:02 -0400

Retail sales in South Korea decreased last month as domestic demand remained in the doldrums amid the sluggish economic recovery, a government report showed Thursday. Total sales at three major discount outlets, including E-Mart, Lotte Mart and Homeplus, declined 9.8 percent in April from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Combined sales at three major ...

Brazil announces $13 bn budget cut for 2013

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:30:02 -0400

The Brazilian government has announced a curtailment of 28 billion reais ($13.65 billion) in the 2013 federal budget. The budget cut aims to help the government achieve the primary surplus goal, which was established at 155.9 billion reais ($76 billion) for the year under review, which represents 3.2 percent of Brazil's GDP, Planning and Budget Minister Miriam Belchior said. The cut falls ...

Singapores exports continue to fall

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:30:02 -0400

Singapore's external trade continued to fall in the first quarter of this year, with declines for total trade, non-oil domestic exports (NODX) and non-oil re-exports (NORX), the city-state's trade promotion agency, International Enterprise Singapore, said Thursday. This is the third consecutive quarter of decrease for both total trade and NODX. According to the data, the NODX, a key gauge of the ...

GM recalls nearly 20000 new Cadillac SRX SUVs

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:30:02 -0400

General Motors Corporation said it is recalling nearly 20,000 new Cadillac SRX SUVs for faulty wheel lug nuts, according to a Detroit News report. The Detroit automaker told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration it is recalling 18,871 2013 SRX SUVs in the US and nearly 1,000 in Canada over concerns that a wheel could eventually fall off, reported Xinhua. GM has been investigating ...

Chinas manufacturing slows HSBC

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:30:01 -0400

China's manufacturing activity fell into contraction for the first time since October, a preliminary survey from the HSBC showed. The HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for May fell to 49.6 in May, dropping under the boom-bust line of 50 for the first time since October, according to figures released by HSBC Thursday. Qu Hongbin, chief economist of the HSBC China, said ...

Australia looks into allowing Sikhs to wear turban at work

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:10:01 -0400

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that she would look into the issue of allowing Sikhs in her country to wear the turban while at work and also while riding motorcycles. "We will work with your community to help make the necessary changes requested on cultural and religious grounds," the Blacktown Sun quoted her as saying Thursday during a visit to Gurdwara Sahib in the Sydney ...

Suicidal jumper’s fall kills girl in South Korea

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:06:56 -0400

South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a five-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside an apartment ...

Cannes festival hit by second suspected jewellery heist

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:06:56 -0400

The Cannes film festival was hit by a second suspected jewellery heist after a diamond necklace worth EUR2 million disappeared during a star-studded party, according to upmarket jeweller De ...

Woolwich Terror Attack Moment Suspects Shot

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:04:51 -0400

Amid the soldier's death in Woolwich, the Met Police issued a statement setting out when they received the first emergency call - following claims it had taken them a long time to ...

Woolwich Murder Offensive Tweets Arrests

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:04:50 -0400

Two men have been arrested for making alleged offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. The 25-year-old serving British soldier was brutally killed in an attack on a street in London on Wednesday. Avon and Somerset Police have received complaints from members of the public about remarks that appeared on the social networking website, which were of a racist or ...

Syria govt to take part in peace conference

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:02:13 -0400

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's foreign ministry says the Syrian government has agreed to a conference on the country's future proposed by Russia and the United ...

China says hopes visit of North Korean envoy can ease tension

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:08 -0400

Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, walks with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai (2nd R) before departing Pyongyang airport for China, in this May 22, 2013 picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in ...

Bridge collapse in Washington raises construction fears – video

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:58:08 -0400

Rescuers check water beneath a four-lane highway bridge that collapsed halfway between Seattle and Vancouver, British Colombia, on Thursday. The accident on the Skagit River bridge sent vehicles and people into the water, leaving three injured. Questions are being raised about safety measures around the US's infrastructure, as the bridge had a sufficiency rating of just 57.4 out of ...

Man held hostage for a month in New York

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:58:06 -0400

A businessman was snatched from a City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid while his kidnappers demanded a $3m ransom that his family ...

Niger suicide attacks fuel fears Mali conflict could spread

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:56:16 -0400

There are fears that militant violence in West Africa is spreading after a double suicide attack in Niger which left more than 20 people dead, mostly soldiers. They are the first such attacks experienced by the country which is involved in a French-led offensive in neighbouring Mali against Islamist rebels. At Agadez in the north, around 20 troops were killed and 16 others injured when the ...

Police seek reinforcements to help end Sweden riots

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:14:53 -0400

About 30 cars burned overnight in Stockholm's western and southern suburbs as unrest that started in Husby, north of the capital, continued for a fifth night, police spokesman Kjell Lindgren. Schools were also set on fire, he said. Rioters are showing their anger over a police shooting more than a week ago of a 69-year-old local resident, according to Megafonen, a group that says it ...

Briton John Steele found hanged in French jail

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:14:36 -0400

John Steele, 38, was found by prison guards hanging in his cell on Tuesday, four days after he was remanded in custody. Steele, who had lived near Paris for some years, was believed to be behind a scheme which took more than 1 million in loans from French banks. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of the death of a British national in France on 21 May and we stand ready to ...

Eurozone crisis live Japan closes higher after wild day of trading

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:05:51 -0400

The Japanese market suffered another turbulent session after Thursday's dive - dropping as much as 3.5% in the afternoon - but stabilised to close 0.9% ...

Syria needs Britains help but it does not need our weapons

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:05:49 -0400

William Hague this week in the House of Commons, this policy is as follows. The government has not decided to send arms to the "good guys" among the rebels, but it wants the flexibility to do so and in the meantime it believes that not to renew the EU embargo would send a powerful signal to President Bashar al-Assad.Like many fallacies it is superficially attractive, especially when ...

Fear and anger in southeast London after murder of British soldier

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:04:09 -0400

On the streets of Woolwich in south-east London, a heavy police presence remains after the brutal murder of a British soldier in broad daylight on Wednesday. Locals fear the repercussions of the events for their communities as terrorism and Islamist extremism are back in the UK spotlight. Reactions range from fear to anger. ';As it is for the black community we are really, really angry ...

US President Obama pledges to limit drone strikes

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:04:09 -0400

US President Barack Obama has promised to limit the use of controversial drone strikes. He faces criticism for the policy which poses legal and ethical problems with unintended civilian casualties. In a speech at the National Defence University, he outlined the rationale behind the use of lethal unmanned drone aircraft as part of a ‘just war’ against militants. ';America does ...

UK police arrest two new suspects in soldier murder

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:04:09 -0400

Two new suspects have been arrested by police investigating the violent killing of a British soldier in London on Wednesday. A man and a woman, both 29, were being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, as the investigation widens to consider whether the Woolwich attack was part of a larger plot. Six residential addresses are being searched: five in London and one in Lincoln. Simon ...

Extra UN troops for D R Congo

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:04:08 -0400

Peace may finally be on the way for the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon announced 3000 more UN troops will be deployed in the area, during a visit to the eastern city of Goma. He said their mandate will now allow them to enforce peace if necessary. ';The intervention brigade will address all this violence and will try their best to ...

IMF chief is back in court over 2007 payout to a French tycoon

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:04:07 -0400

IMF chief Christine Lagarde is back in court today facing more questions over her role in a controversial payout made to a French businessman. If the judges feel she has a case to answer she will be placed under formal investigation and could lose her current job. Although she’s not being accused of benefiting from the 400 million euro payout, she is being questioned over an alleged ...

Cannes thefts comebacks and lesbian love scenes

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:04:07 -0400

Cannes has become a victim to its glamour once again, as a second suspected jewellery theft of a diamond necklace worth almost 2 million euros was reported on Thursday. Despite heavy security, it disappeared from a hotel during a star-studded event, according to jeweller De Grisogono. Lightening up the red carpet, actor Jerry Lewis made his comeback at the premiere for his latest film in 18 ...

Earthquake hits Russias Far East

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:50:24 -0400

Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said Friday the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter ...

5 climbers feared dead on worlds 3rd highest peak

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:55 -0400

KATMANDU, Nepal — A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain. The five disappeared Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching the base camp. Mountaineering Department official Dipendra Poudel said Friday the climbers were descending from the summit when they were believed ...

WikiLeaks releases transcript of critical US film

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:29:02 -0400

WikiLeaks has released an annotatedversion of what it said is a leaked transcript of a documentary that takes acritical look at the anti-secrecy group ahead of the film's US premiere ...

Egypts cash-strapped rulers woo former regime tycoons

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:29:01 -0400

Almost three years after an uprising fuelled bythe old regime's venality, Egypt's cash-strapped Islamist government is makingamends with businessmen who offer to pay their way back into the ...

Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual US war on terror

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:26:15 -0400

Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign ...

Pope Francis Being an atheist is fine as long as you do good

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:23:52 -0400

Pope Francis has said that atheists should be seen as good people as long as they do good, in a move to urge people of all religions - or no religion at all - to get ...

North Korea agrees to return to nuclear talks under pressure from China

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:31 -0400

Liu Yunshan (right), a senior Communist party official, poses for the cameras with North Korean envoy Choe Ryong-hae on Thursday. Photograph: China ...

Muhammad Yunus Business is a beautiful mechanism to solve problems | Liz Ford

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:30 -0400

Muhammad Yunus: 'We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.' Photograph: David Levene for the ...

Martin Luther King unmoved by death threats - from the archive 24 May 1961

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:29 -0400

United States that the Negroes' leader in Montgomery, Alabama, during the present crisis is a scholarly Baptist minister whose hero is Mahatma Gandhi. He might well have been a black Huey Long or some such political boss of the kind who tries to hold hate-the-white demonstrations in Harlem (and - luckily again - finds little support there). That he is the ...

Obama redefines war on terror

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:14:03 -0400

President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a fresh bid to close Guantanamo, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be self-defeating. Obama told Americans their country was at a crossroads, and must move on from the counterterrorism policies deployed after the 11 September attacks to confront a new era of diverse global threats and ...

Manila less than thrilled at Dan Browns Inferno

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:41:47 -0400

Dan Brown has annoyed leaders of Manila in the Philippines with his hellish description of the city in his latest book, Inferno. Photograph: Jim ...

Major highway bridge collapses in US

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:38:41 -0400

A bridge carrying a freeway over a riverin the northwestern US state of Washington partially collapsed on Thursday,sending cars and people plunging into the water below, police ...

Scouts vote sends confused message

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:38:41 -0400

>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a human rights and social change columnist at CNN Opinion. E-mail him at CTL@CNN.com or follow him on Twitter (@jdsutter), Facebook or Google+.(CNN) -- When the Boy Scouts of America found out den leader Jennifer Tyrrell is a lesbian, the organization's Ohio River Valley Council sent her a letter saying "you must immediately sever any relationship you may ...

Schools shops close after Rio drug dealers order curfew

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:36:09 -0400

Brazil arrests third suspect in rape, kidnap of foreign student Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro have ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics. Shops were shuttered and more than 5,400 children were turned away from school ...

Brown gets a griller in Manila

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:33:39 -0400

Manila , Francis Tolentino, wrote an open letter to the American author, saying that while Inferno is fiction, "we are greatly disappointed by your inaccurate portrayal of our beloved metropolis".Mr Tolentino objected to the "gates of hell" phrase and to Manila being defined by what he calls terrible descriptions of poverty and pollution. He said that the novel fails to ...

River drama as bridge collapses

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:33:38 -0400

In this photo provided by NWCN, people look on after the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed over the Skagit River in Skagit County, Wash., Thursday, May 23, 2013. The four-lane bridge over the Skagit River collapsed about 7 p.m., Trooper Mark Francis said. There was no immediate estimate of how many people were in the water or whether there were any injuries or deaths, he said. (AP Photo/NWCN, Selina ...

Bailiff Boom As Council Tax Benefit Cuts Bite

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:31:18 -0400

Bailiffs are profiting at the expense of struggling families because of cuts to council tax benefits, according to Citizens Advice. The debt advice charity also warned that "many more" vulnerable people were in danger of being pushed into the hands of bailiffs, which it said often overstated their powers, acted aggressively and piled on excessive fees. It claimed the number of ...

US Alarm As Bridge Across River Collapses

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:31:18 -0400

A four-lane bridge across the Skagit River in the US state of Washington has collapsed, throwing people and vehicles into the water. Police said they had no idea how many people were in the river or if any had been injured or killed. The Interstate 5 bridge came down near Mount Vernon, about half way between Seattle and the Canadian city of Vancouver. It is not known what caused it to ...

5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:24:26 -0400

GREENVILLE, Calif. – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Northern California Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage. The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National ...

I-5 bridge collapse in Washington state sends cars people into water

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:53:40 -0400

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said. The four-lane bridge over the Skagit River collapsed about 7 p.m., Trooper Mark Francis said. There was no immediate estimate of how many people were in the water or whether there were any injuries or deaths, he ...

Cars plunge into river after Washington bridge collapse

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:47:45 -0400

Source: Twitter Part of a four-lane freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state has collapsed, sending vehicles and people into the water below, authorities said. The collapse on Interstate 5 happened around 7pm local time in Mount Vernon, 88km north of Seattle, Washington, State Patrol spokesman Trooper Mark Francis said. "I've got reports of vehicles and people in the ...

Stage boss My fears for Jackson

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:45:13 -0400

A stage manager who worked on Michael Jackson's ill-fated This Is It concert warned an AEG executive days before the star's death that the megastar was in physical and mental decline and needed help, according to an email shown to ...

Boat Tragedy Mum And Daughter Killed By Fumes

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:43:14 -0400

A woman and her 10-year-old daughter died on a motor cruiser on Lake Windermere after being poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes, an investigation has found. The fumes, from a generator whose improvised exhaust and silencer system had become detached, spread into the aft cabin where Kelly Webster, 36, and Lauren Thornton, were asleep. "The boat's carbon monoxide sensor system did not ...

What Mattered in Obamas Speech Today Ending the Open-Ended War on Terror

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:35:18 -0400

my profile of Jerry Brown! And I didn't expect anyone to listen to me read my article aloud. Also, I am not going to deal with the part of the speech that has been most thoroughly discussed: changes, or not, in the administration's drone policy.Instead I'll focus on a part of the speech that I think matters even more: his argument that the time has come to end the "war on ...

Venezuela prosecutor to open probe over leaked recording

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:34:54 -0400

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's prosecutor's office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new ...

Bridge collapses in Washington state sending cars into river

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:34:54 -0400

(Reuters) - Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher ...

Chinese media North Korea envoy offers talks

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:19:37 -0400

BEIJING (AP) -- A North Korean envoy, on the second day of his fence-mending visit to ally China, heeded Beijing's wishes by offering to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media ...

BREAKING I-5 Bridge Collapses over River in Washington Vehicles People in Water

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:00:04 -0400

File Photo MOUNT VERNON, Washington (KCPQ)- Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapsed Thursday, sending vehicles and people into the water below, the Washington State Patrol said. There was no immediate word on injuries. Both the northbround and southbound lanes of the northern section of the bridge collapsed, said Gina Cole of the Skagit County Herald. For more on this developing ...

Stockholm riots continue for a fifth night

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:57:07 -0400

At least nine cars, twoschools and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early Friday for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters ...

John F Kennedy was a fan of Hitler and Nazi Germany diaries reveal

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:51:25 -0400

John F Kennedy openly admired Nazi Germany when he toured the country as a young man, according to a new book marking the 50th anniversary of his historic 1963 visit to Cold War West ...

Warning Over Kids Raised On Diet Of Porn

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:49:25 -0400

Children who access pornography are more likely to have sex at a younger age and engage in "risky" sexual behaviours, a report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner has warned. The report also found that access to porn can influence children's sexual beliefs, developing unrealistic attitudes about sex, bad attitudes towards relationships and beliefs that women are ...

Scouting’s Half-Turn From Bigotry

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:56:28 -0400

voted on Thursday to reject discrimination halfway. They will now allow openly gay boys to be scouts. But they will still forbid openly gay and lesbian adults to be scout leaders. With the decision, made by about 1,400 delegates attending a national convention in Grapevine, Tex., one of the country's oldest and most influential youth organizations has ducked the chance for a principled ...

Life-or-death retrial for Arias

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:54:00 -0400

24 May 2013 The judge in a murder trial that riveted Americans with its details of sex and violence has declared a mistrial in the life-or-death penalty phase after the jury said it could not reach a ...

Police probe Manson disciple tapes

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:53:59 -0400

Texas ruled in March that Charles "Tex" Watson waived his right to lawyer-client privilege when he allowed his lawyer to sell the eight cassette tapes to an author nearly 40 years ago for a book on his life.The tapes, which were converted to electronic audio files, are being reviewed to determine whether there is evidence that could resolve unsolved murders.Watson, who sought to prevent ...

UN anger at throw out case plea

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:53:58 -0400

Kenya 's argument that it should be allowed to work out its own problems, and that the ICC was obsessed with bringing cases against African rulers and politicians."We have asked that these proceedings be terminated as soon as possible," Macharia Kamau, Kenya's UN ambassador, said. "Clearly they need to end because they are not consistent with peace and justice in our ...

Arrest warrant for dead rapper

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:53:57 -0400

burial site and sparse obituary information has led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own ...

Scouts to admit gay youngsters

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:53:56 -0400

Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has thrown open its ranks to gay Scouts but not gay adult Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organisation and lead to mass ...

We are the champions but we Germans need Europe as much as Europe needs us

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:53:54 -0400

Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund players celebrate on the last occasions they won the Uefa Champions League in 2001 and 1997 respectively. Photographs: ...

Cabinet office to fly rainbow flag during Pride week

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:43:10 -0400

Francis Maude is to show the government's commitment to the equality agenda by allowing the rainbow flag to be flown from the cabinet office in Whitehall during Pride week next month.David Cameron has faced criticism for attempting to distance the Tory leadership ...

US Senate approves first India-born senior judge

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:02:26 -0400

The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved Srikanth Srinivasan as the most senior US judge of South Asian descent, amid speculation that he may one day be tapped for the Supreme ...

TV Soap Characters Promoting Bad Health

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:59:59 -0400

Leading characters in TV soaps are promoting unhealthy lifestyles with too much drinking, a poor diet and an almost total lack of exercise, according to an academic study. Several actors are portrayed drinking alcohol in at least a third of the scenes they appear in, while others are shown eating chips, cake and fry-ups. The two-week study by Liverpool John Moores University Business School ...

Boy 9 brings crowd to its feet at school closing rally

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:59:27 -0400

Source: YouTube Footage of a nine-year-old boy delivering a speech slamming the Mayor of Chicago's plan to shut down his school has gone viral. Asean Johnson, who fans hope will be president one day, attends Marcus Garvey Elementary School which had been slated for closure by the Chicago Public School administration. In a speech at a rally against the closures of 50 schools in Chicago, ...

Man arrested for London decapitation from devoutly Christian family

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:40 -0400

Michael Adebolajo, with bloodied hands, speaks into a phone camera following the killing in Woolwich, London, of Drummer Lee Rigby on Wednesday. Photograph: ...

Obama defends drone strikes ‘in last resort’

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:39 -0400

A demonstrator adjusts a sign reading "Stop Killer Drones" hung on a mock drone at the gates of Fort McNair where US president Barack Obama spoke yesterday. Photograph: Kevin ...

Woolwich’s mixed community in shock as it tries to make sense of brutal murder

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:39 -0400

Members of the Sikh community wait to lay flowers yesterday close to the crime scene in Woolwich, London, where 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby was murdered on Wednesday. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ...

Dutch anxiety over ‘Sharia triangle’ police no-go area in The Hague

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:38 -0400

The leader of the Dutch far-right Party for Freedom Geert Wilders speaks to the press during his visit to the Schilderswijk district in The Hague. Photograph: Martijn Beekman/AFP/Getty ...

Propaganda of the deed

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:37 -0400

Yet, taking the long view, the propaganda of the deed has to be seen in its historical context as an expression not of the strength of the social forces who turn to it as a tactic, but of their marginalisation and weakness. It receded as an anarchist tactic after the first world War at a time when mass action became a real alternative to them, and returned to favour in the 1970s ...

Peace plan for Syria includes call for Assad to step down and exit country

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:37 -0400

Former Syrian opposition National Coalition president Moaz al-Khatib yesterday called on President Bashar al-Assad to step down and leave the country as fighting between pro-government forces and rebels continued in the besieged Syrian town of ...

Tea Party stirs in wake of tax controversy

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:36 -0400

Tea Party movement sprang to life at grassroots rallies, a spontaneous protest against government overreach that grew and grew until it stunned Democrats and many moderate Republicans in the 2010 midterm ...

Muslim Britain a community viewed through prisms of security and paranoia

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:35 -0400

Calling for war on the streets of Britain, Michael Olumide Adebolajo, born in East London to Nigerian parents, told a passer-by: "We apologise that women had to see this today but in our lands our women have to see the ...

Two arrested over Woolwich killing

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:34 -0400

Two people have been arrested and six homes raided by British police investigating the brutal killing of a British soldier on the streets in east London by Muslim ...

John Kerry reaches out in effort to restart Middle East peace talks

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:34 -0400

US secretary of state John Kerry greets workers as he visits a restaurant in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. Photograph: Jim ...

Maureen O’Hara says Wayne birthplace visit to be her final public appearance

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:33 -0400

She announced the end to her public life as her family said they had hired new Irish lawyers to seek more information about her finances and assets, in Ms O'Hara's and her family's long-running dispute with her former personal assistant Carolyn ...

Chirstine Lagarde may be subject to criminal investigation

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:32 -0400

criminal investigation on suspicion of being an accessory to fraud and the misuse of public funds when she completes two days of questioning by a French court today. Ms Lagarde is not suspected of personal enrichment, but of incompetence, negligence or having been instrumentalised by the former president Nicolas Sarkozy to reward a political ally, the businessman and ...

London killing dishonours Islam say Muslim groups

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:32 -0400

The brutal killing of a British soldier in Woolwich has been condemned by leading Muslim organisations in Britain, who said the perpetrators had dishonoured ...

Extremist group’s teachings changed lives of British Muslims

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:31 -0400

It has been known by a myriad of names, but the reach of the banned Islamic organisation al-Muhajiroun has changed the lives utterly of a generation of young British ...

EU threatens action over Bangladesh working conditions

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:30 -0400

Bangladesh unless it sees an improvement in the country's working conditions following the collapse last month of a building housing a number of garment ...

Proposal to ban use of refillable olive oil vessels in restaurants slips from European Commission agenda

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:29 -0400

EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos yesterday confirmed the European Commission was withdrawing the proposal to regulate how olive oil is served and presented in restaurants, recognising that it had not garnered "widespread ...

William Hague Israel Losing Support In UK

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:54:15 -0400

Britain's Foreign Secretary has brushed aside an Israeli minister's allegation that anti-Israeli sentiment was growing in the United Kingdom - by agreeing with him. William Hague's comments come after Yuval Steinitz, a close confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said perceptions of Israel were more negative in Britain than in other countries. ...

Obama shifts U.S. from perpetual war-footing limits drone strikes

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:49:53 -0400

1 of 12. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about his administration's counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University at Ft. McNair in Washington, May 23, ...

The oddly calm scene

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:47:33 -0400

>Are you from the area affected, or London in general? What is your reaction to the incident? Send us your images, video and experiences. London (CNN) -- Why did Lee Rigby have to die?That's what people around Britain -- its officials, its authorities, its citizens -- asked themselves Thursday, a day after the soldier was hit with a car, then hacked to death on a London street in broad ...

Will New Yorkers want a Mayor Weiner

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:29:59 -0400

>Editor's note: Errol Louis is the host of "Inside City Hall," a nightly political show on NY1, a New York City all-news channel.(CNN) -- Anthony Weiner's long-anticipated official announcement that he's running for mayor of New York City began with a slight glitch this week: A video announcing his candidacy was posted on YouTube in the middle of the night, then yanked off the site -- and ...

SNC-Lavalin sought Ottawas help to give Gadhafi’s son vice-president’s job

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:02:28 -0400

Canada's flagship engineering company hoped to persuade Ottawa officials to let a Libyan dicator's son come to Canada as a temporary foreign worker, newly unsealed court documents show.In 2008, Saadi Gadhafi, the 40-year-old son of Moammar Gadhafi, was being touted as a potential "Vice-President Maghreb" for SNC-Lavalin, with the multinational's executives stating that ...

Barred from election former president slams Iranian leadership

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:02:26 -0400

Former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has accused Iran's leadership of incompetence and ignorance just days after he was barred from standing in an election next month, the opposition Kaleme website reported on Thursday.Mr. Rafsanjani's comments appeared to add to the political conflict between those loyal to the leadership and opposition groups who have been marginalized since ...

U.S. Boy Scouts to permit gay members

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:02:25 -0400

The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 per cent supported the proposal.Under the proposal drafted by the Scouts' governing board, gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout ...

Canada disapproves new meat labeling rules

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:45 -0400

TORONTO -; Canada said Thursday that it is considering retaliatory measures against the United States in a dispute over meat-labeling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider ...

US Boy Scouts to allow gay youths not leaders

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50:23 -0400

The Boy Scouts of America said Thursday it will allow openly gay youths to join the organisation but maintain a ban on gay adult leaders, after a vote at its annual meeting in ...

IRS suspends division chief after agency scandal

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50:22 -0400

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) placed the head of its tax-exempt organisations division Lois Lerner on administrative leave, according to an IRS statement Thursday, after she refused to testify about a scandal at the tax ...

US Atlantic braces for active hurricane season

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50:21 -0400

The United States is gearing up for more Atlantic hurricanes than usual this year, triggered by warmer water temperatures than average, US forecasters said ...

UPDATE 3-Former Goldman banker settles SEC pay-to-play charges

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:38:09 -0400

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker has agreed to a five-year securities industry ban and a record fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he broke rules against influence peddling to win bond underwriting business in ...

IRS replaces Lois Lerner amid controversy over Tea Party targeting

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:35:22 -0400

refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted Tea Party groups.Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday that he had selected a new acting head of the division.Ken Corbin will be the acting director of the agency's ...

Senator West Point case shows military has sexual harassment problem

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:35:20 -0400

Kirsten Gillibrand said the US military 'did not understand how to handle this problem of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct'. Photograph: Rick Gargiulo/The ...

Teacher confronted terrorists