New year marked around the globe |
- New year marked around the globe
- Car bomb hits church in Egypt, 21 killed
- Rousseff takes over booming Brazil, tests await
- Americans resolve to tighten belts, quit smoking in 2011
- Moroccan writer Taia challenges homosexual taboo
- 21 killed in Egypt church attack
- Happy New Year
- Rousseff takes over booming Brazil, tests await
- Floods strike Australian area bigger than France+Germany
- Prominent Indian university calls to protect Muslim character
- Car bomb hits church in Egypt, nine dead
- New York cheers in the 2011 ball drop
- Japan's DoCoMo aims to take on iPad with new tablet
- Brazil bids goodbye to Lula, hello to female president
- Global party, Africa violence mark 2011 start
- Bomb kills at least four in Nigerian capital
- North Korea cargo ship sinks; 2 dead, 15 missing
- Earthquake hits Chinese region of Xinjiang
- US jobs data -- first Wall Street test in 2011
- Tornado kills six in southern US
| New year marked around the globe Posted: 31 Dec 2010 11:49 AM PST The new year has been welcomed in with glittering fireworks displays in major world cities.
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| Car bomb hits church in Egypt, 21 killed Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:42 PM PST CAIRO, Jan 1 – A car bombing outside a church killed 21 people in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year, security and medical sources said today. The Interior Ministry earlier said 24 people were also wounded in the bombing, which prompted hundreds of Christians to take to the streets in protest. Some ...
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| Rousseff takes over booming Brazil, tests await Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:41 PM PST BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Dilma Rousseff is sworn in on Saturday as Brazil's next president, she will take the reins of an emerging giant with a booming economy, vast new oil reserves and growing international diplomatic clout. 
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| Americans resolve to tighten belts, quit smoking in 2011 Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:54 PM PST WASHINGTON, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- Quitting smoking and tightening belts around their waists and on the household budget top the list of Americans' new year's resolutions for 2011.
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| Moroccan writer Taia challenges homosexual taboo Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:53 PM PST TANGIERS, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- Novelist Abdellah Taia, who has won acclaim in France and readers abroad, has challenged a taboo in his native Morocco and won't back down: he is the first writer to come out as gay in a country that bans homosexuality.
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| 21 killed in Egypt church attack Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:50 PM PST CAIRO, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- At least 21 people were killed in a car bomb attack on a Christian church in the northern city of Alexandria, a health ministry official told AFP providing the latest toll.
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| Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:38 PM PST Confetti flies through the air in New York's Times Square just after the annual ball drop on the New Year day. The 11,875-pound Waterford crystal ball descended a 141-foot tall flagpole to mark the beginning of 2011.
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| Rousseff takes over booming Brazil, tests await Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:24 PM PST BRASILIA, Jan 1 — When Dilma Rousseff is sworn in today as Brazil's next president, she will take the reins of an emerging giant with a booming economy, vast new oil reserves and growing international diplomatic clout. But for Brazil to remain one of the world's hot spots, the former Marxist guerrilla must trim a costly state budget, cut red tape ...
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| Floods strike Australian area bigger than France+Germany Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:08 PM PST QUEENSLAND, Jan 1: A massive logistical operation is under way across Queensland to evacuate thousands of people and deliver emergency supplies.
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| Prominent Indian university calls to protect Muslim character Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:57 PM PST JUBAIL (Saudi Arabia), Jan 1: Two prominent representatives of India's Muslim community have called for a sustained campaign to protect the unique character of their most important seat of learning.
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| Car bomb hits church in Egypt, nine dead Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:32 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a church and killed nine people in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year. 
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| New York cheers in the 2011 ball drop Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:57 PM PST NEW YORK, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- An estimated million people, monitored by a high-tech police force, crammed into New York's Times Square to watch the traditional ball drop at the start of 2011.
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| Japan's DoCoMo aims to take on iPad with new tablet Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:56 PM PST TOKYO, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- Japan's top carrier NTT DoCoMo is to launch a tablet computer running Google software to challenge Apple's hot-selling iPad, a report said Saturday.
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| Brazil bids goodbye to Lula, hello to female president Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:55 PM PST BRASILIA, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- Brazil's hugely popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to step down Saturday, in a lavish ceremony ushering in his successor and protegee, Dilma Rousseff.
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| Global party, Africa violence mark 2011 start Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:53 PM PST NEW YORK, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- About a million people crammed Saturday into New York's Times Square to greet 2011 in a global New Year's party featuring spectacular fireworks but marred by bloodshed in Africa.
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| Bomb kills at least four in Nigerian capital Posted: 31 Dec 2010 07:49 PM PST ABUJA (Reuters) - A bomb at a crowded market in Nigeria's capital Abuja killed at least four people and injured more than a dozen during New Year's Eve celebrations late on Friday. 
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| North Korea cargo ship sinks; 2 dead, 15 missing Posted: 31 Dec 2010 07:49 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - Two sailors were killed and 15 are missing after a North Korean-registered cargo ship sank in the Yellow Sea on Friday, state news agency Xinhua reported late on Friday. 
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| Earthquake hits Chinese region of Xinjiang Posted: 31 Dec 2010 08:37 PM PST BEIJING, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- A moderate quake with a magnitude of 5.2 hit the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Saturday, seismologists said.
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| US jobs data -- first Wall Street test in 2011 Posted: 31 Dec 2010 08:36 PM PST NEW YORK, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- US stocks enter 2011 at two-year highs, facing a crucial reading next week on the health of the US economy: the monthly unemployment and job creation data.
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| Tornado kills six in southern US Posted: 31 Dec 2010 08:35 PM PST CHICAGO, Saturday 1 January 2011 (AFP) -- Tornados tore through parts of the US states of Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois on Friday, killing at least six people and leaving damage and power outages in its wake, authorities said.
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