Passenger held on Detroit flight

Passenger held on Detroit flight


Passenger held on Detroit flight

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 12:49 PM PST

A man is arrested on a flight to Detroit two days after a failed attack on the same flight, which prompted a security review.


Pakistan president slams critics

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 11:35 AM PST

Zardari in defiant speech on second anniversary of wife Benazir Bhutto's murder.


Florida’s Meyer Will Take Leave, Not Resign

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 11:42 AM PST

Florida Coach Urban Meyer told his team he would not step down but would take an indefinite leave of absence.


Anti-government protests held in Iraq

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 10:32 AM PST

By Qais Mizher KARBALA --A group of 5,000 Iraqi Shiite protesters in Karbala turned the religious festival of Ashura into a political protest against the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, while a leading Shiite cleric and rival to the prime minister criticized the current government as c


China's Take on How It Saved Climate Talks

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 11:13 AM PST

China's official account of the Copenhagen climate talks describes its leader's acumen and President Obama's awkwardness.


Opposition ahead in Croatia vote

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 11:01 AM PST

Exit polls hint at presidential run-off though Social Democrat nominee wins most votes.


Cameron urges 'good clean fight'

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 11:50 AM PST

Tory leader David Cameron uses his new year message to call for the general election campaign to be a "good clean fight".


Man Utd hold off battling Tigers

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:59 AM PST

Man Utd move within two points of Premier League leaders Chelsea after edging past Hull City in an error-strewn game.


Incident on Another Amsterdam-to-Detroit Flight

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 12:24 PM PST

The pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit — the same flight involved in Friday's terrorism attempt — requested emergency assistance upon landing.


South Korea wins nuclear contract

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:48 AM PST

A South Korean consortium wins a contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates.


Accidental soldier

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:47 AM PST

The mountaineer caught up in Soviet-Afghan war


Pope on first visit since attack

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:38 AM PST

The Pope visits a soup kitchen in Rome in his first journey outside the Vatican since being attacked during Christmas Eve.


South Korea wins nuclear contract

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:48 AM PST

A South Korean consortium wins a contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates.


For Homeless Families, Christmas at the Temple

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 12:00 PM PST

Homeless families in the Bay Area are being shuffled from one house of worship to another.


Bomber Kills 5 at Event in Pakistan

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 08:59 AM PST

A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a large gathering of Shiite Muslims in the capital of Kashmir on Sunday, killing five people and wounding 80, police said.


Holiday in Iraq Is Largely Peaceful

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 10:24 AM PST

A bomb killed four people in northern Iraq, but a massive deployment of security forces kept the culmination of the Shiite observance of Ashura largely peaceful.


Thailand Prepares to Send 4,000 Hmong to Laos

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 11:23 AM PST

The Thai military is preparing to forcibly return 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers to Laos in a lingering echo of the Vietnam War, observers said.


Families of Americans held in Iran hire Iranian lawyer

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 10:00 AM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The families of three Americans charged with espionage in Iran after straying over the border from northern Iraq in July said on Sunday they have secured an Iranian lawyer to try to get them released.


Briton 'not told execution date'

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 07:41 AM PST

Briton Akmal Shaikh, who faces execution in China, does not know he is to be killed within days, it has emerged.


Plant chemical 'manipulates' ants

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:20 AM PST

Acacia plants have chemical control over the armies of ants that guard them, scientists discover.


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