Man charged with attack on US jet

Man charged with attack on US jet

Man charged with attack on US jet

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:48 PM PST

A Nigerian man has been charged with attempting to destroy a plane after he allegedly tried to detonate explosives on a passenger jet arriving in the US.


Gaza - one year on

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:55 PM PST

It has been a year since Israel began an offensive against the Palestinian territory of Gaza. Paul Wood reflects on the last year.


Nigerian Charged in Bomb Attempt

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 11:03 PM PST

U.S. prosecutors charged a 23-year-old Nigerian man with attempting a terrorist bombing on a Northwest flight. The father of the accused man warned U.S. officials in Nigeria recently that he feared his son had been "radicalized."


Man charged with attack on US jet

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:48 PM PST

A Nigerian man has been charged with attempting to destroy a plane after he allegedly tried to detonate explosives on a passenger jet arriving in the US.


Gaza - one year on

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:55 PM PST

It has been a year since Israel began an offensive against the Palestinian territory of Gaza. Paul Wood reflects on the last year.


Croats start voting for new head of state

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:55 PM PST

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croats started voting for a new president on Sunday, with an opposition candidate who pledges to back the government's anti-corruption drive seen as favourite to win the first round.


Croats start voting for new head of state (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:16 PM PST

Reuters - Croats started voting for a new president on Sunday, with an opposition candidate who pledges to back the government's anti-corruption drive seen as favorite to win the first round.


Indian officials probe aircraft stowaway: report (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:31 PM PST

An Indian rides his cycle past an Air India plane at the airport in New Delhi in November 2007. Indian authorities are investigating how a man posing as a maintenance worker managed to board an Air India flight and hide inside the toilet undetected until after takeoff, a report said Sunday.(AFP/File/Raveendran)AFP - Indian authorities are investigating how a man posing as a maintenance worker managed to board an Air India flight and hide inside the toilet undetected until after takeoff, a report said Sunday.

Croats start voting for new head of state

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:16 PM PST

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croats started voting for a new president on Sunday, with an opposition candidate who pledges to back the government's anti-corruption drive seen as favorite to win the first round.

Three dead in new Philippine ferry disaster

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 04:23 PM PST

MANILA -At least three people died while 22 others were missing after a small inter-island ferry sank in waters south of the Philippine capital, the coast guard said Sunday, the second sea disaster in three days.

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Ferry sinks off Philippines, 4 dead, 21 missing

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:25 PM PST

MANILA (Reuters) - Rescue teams searched the waters off the central Philippines on Sunday for at least 21 people still missing from a ferry that sank, the second such accident in less than a week, officials said.


Bomb kills gov't official, family in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:36 PM PST

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands guard as another with a snuffer dog searches area ahead of Shiite Muslims procession on the eighth day of the mourning month of Muharram, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009 in Lahore, Pakistan. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar is observed around the world for ten days of mourning in remembrance of martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - A bomb ripped through a government official's house in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing him and his five family members in an attack that police said was in retaliation for military operations targeting Taliban in the area.

Uzbeks vote in parliamentary poll

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:11 PM PST

Election set to hand all the seats in parliament to supporters of the president.


Venezuelan seeks to revive anti-Chavez movement (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 09:01 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 5, 2009, Leopoldo Lopez delivers a speech during the launch of his political organization 'Popular Will' in Valencia, Venezuela. The popular ex-mayor is trying to mobilize Venezuelans to challenge President Hugo Chavez and supplant the traditional opposition. But like many of Chavez's opponents, Lopez can't hold public office because of a corruption probe against him, though no charges have been filed in the two years he has supposedly been under investigation. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - They range from wealthy businessmen to boisterous students and poor single mothers, jammed together 10,000 strong in a stadium, chanting "change is possible!" and shoving forward to greet the man who is challenging President Hugo Chavez's grip on power.

Taiwan's Ma urges Beijing on dissidents: report (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 09:03 PM PST

Taiwanese protesters wear masks of Chinese President Hu Jintao (left) and Taiwan's leader Ma Ying-jeou during a rally mocking growing ties between the two sides. Ma has called on Chinese authorities to AFP - Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou has called on Chinese authorities to "tolerate" political opponents after they jailed a leading dissident, it was reported Sunday.

College Football's Most Valuable Team

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 08:12 PM PST

The University of Texas Longhorns won't play for the national championship until Jan. 7, but when it


China introduces law to boost renewable energy

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 08:56 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal-dependent China.


Family of British death row inmate in China (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 09:25 PM PST

Handout photo issued by legal aid group Reprieve shows Akmal Shaikh, a British national who is facing the death penalty in China for possession of heroin. Shaikh's family members are set to arrive in China in a last ditch attempt to plead for his life.(AFP/HO/Reprieve/File)AFP - Family members of a British man due to be executed this week for drug trafficking are expected to arrive in China Sunday in a last ditch attempt to plead for his life, a rights group said.

Activist: US missionary crosses border into NKorea (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 08:24 PM PST

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, and released from Freedom and Life for All North Koreans, U.S. missionary Robert Park, a 28-year-old Korean-American, who crossed the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China on Christmas Day, is seen in a rally in Seoul, South Korea. The Christian missionary from the U.S. has entered North Korea carrying a letter to leader Kim Jong Il in order to call attention to the tens of thousands of political prisoners believed held in the communist state, an activist said Saturday. (AP Photo/ Freedom and Life for All North Koreans)AP - An American Christian missionary slipped into isolated North Korea on Christmas Day, shouting that he brought God's love and carrying a letter urging leader Kim Jong Il to step down and free all political prisoners, an activist said.

Japan PM says moving US base to Guam 'unreasonable' (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:03 PM PST

People stage a rally opposing the US military base Futenma on Japan's Okinawa island in early November. Relocating the contentious military facility in its entirety from southern Japan to Guam is AFP - Relocating a contentious US airbase from southern Japan to Guam is "unreasonable" from the standpoint of national security, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told a radio programme.

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