Search after swimmer goes missing

Search after swimmer goes missing


Search after swimmer goes missing

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 12:28 PM PDT

An air and sea search is carried out after a swimmer goes missing off Fistral Beach in Cornwall.


G20 close to deficit cut deal

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 12:13 PM PDT

Leaders of industrialised nations agree on principles of deficit reduction plans.


C.I.A. Chief Sees Taliban Power-Sharing as Unlikely

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:22 AM PDT

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, expressed strong skepticism about the prospects for an Afghanistan deal being pushed by Pakistan.


Germany 4, England 1: Germany Tops England After Another Missed Call

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:58 AM PDT

Germany sent England out of the World Cup with a resounding victory, aided in part when the referee waved off an obvious goal.


Summer Rituals | Unprepared for Takeoff: Passports Just in Time for Boarding

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 07:50 AM PDT

For one couple, the last minute realization that a passport needs renewal prompts an urgent trip to the New York Passport Agency.


Syria wants Brazil to help Mideast peace: report

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:53 AM PDT

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has invited Brazil to help negotiate peace in the Middle East, a sign that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has strengthened his country's standing abroad.


Bolivia mountain bus crash kills 26: report

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:31 AM PDT

LA PAZ (Reuters) - At least 26 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus plunged off a Bolivian mountain road on Sunday, the latest in a series of deadly accidents in the impoverished Andean nation.


C.I.A. Chief Sees Taliban Power-Sharing as Unlikely

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:22 AM PDT

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, expressed strong skepticism about the prospects for an Afghanistan deal being pushed by Pakistan.


Family of Captured Israeli Soldier Presses for Deal

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:50 AM PDT

The family of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who has been held captive by Hamas for four years, is pressing the government to make a deal for his release.


McChrystal, loose lips and the media

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:31 AM PDT

For a cerebral president intent on projecting a united front of seriousness to the public, the story couldn't have been further off message. The general leading Obama's grim war presented himself not as a hardened warrior-scholar but as the military's most decorated consumer of Bud Light Lime.


Stanley McChrystal - Rolling Stone - Media - Barack Obama - Business


England seal series win over Australia

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:26 AM PDT

England weather a dramatic late collapse to beat Australia by one wicket with five balls remaining and seal the one-day series.


Rawlinson ponders switch to GB

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:48 AM PDT

Australia's double world 400m hurdles champion Jana Rawlinson has informally approached UK Athletics about changing national eligibility, BBC Sport understands.


Toronto police fire tear gas on G20 protesters

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 12:21 PM PDT

TORONTO (Reuters) - Police in Toronto fired tear gas on protesters for a second straight day on Sunday as new violence surrounding the G20 summit erupted and the arrest tally climbed above 500.


Global Migration: A World Ever More on the Move

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:40 AM PDT

Pick almost any headline in the news, and between the lines, there is a chapter in the story of global migration.


Kyrgyz Voting Appears Calm

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:36 AM PDT

Voters in Kyrgyzstan cast ballots in a constitutional referendum that proceeded calmly, though the country was wracked by ethnic violence just two weeks ago.


Panetta: Afghan war has 'serious problems'

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 08:29 AM PDT

CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that the war in Afghanistan had "serious problems," but the U.S.-led mission was making progress.


Pope deplores raid in Belgium

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 08:37 AM PDT

A raid at the headquarters of the Catholic Church in Belgium by police investigating child abuse was "deplorable," Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday.


160 arrested in Bangladesh strike

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:41 AM PDT

More than 160 protesters were arrested Sunday during a violent opposition strike in Bangladesh, police said.


Pope condemns Belgian raid

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:46 AM PDT

Police raid on bishops'meeting in connection with paedophilia probe criticised.


Kyrgyz Voting Appears Calm

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:36 AM PDT

Voters in Kyrgyzstan cast ballots in a constitutional referendum that proceeded calmly, though the country was wracked by ethnic violence just two weeks ago.


No comments:

Post a Comment