Obama aides were divided on Osama bin Laden raid |
- Obama aides were divided on Osama bin Laden raid
- Tornado tears through NZ's largest city - two dead
- Indonesia boosts security after bin Laden death
- Bangladesh approves first pornography law
- India hikes key interest rates by 50 basis points
- FACTBOX - The future of nuclear fusion
- Acupuncture needle found in ex-S.Korea president's lung
- Embarrassed Pakistan says not part of U.S. operation to kill Osama
- Tornado tears through Auckland, 2 dead
- Obama aides were divided on bin Laden raid
- Searchers find second Air France crash black box
- Acupuncture needle found in ex-S.Korea president’s lung
- Pakistan media: Bin Laden killing will embarrass authorities
- Conservatives romp to crushing Canadian election win
- Bin Laden kill may reopen CIA interrogation debate
- Leading activist seized in Syrian roundup
- The myth of two-party system
- One dead as tornado hits New Zealand city
- Japan police plan DNA database to identify tsunami dead
- Harper wins majority in Canada poll: projections
| Obama aides were divided on Osama bin Laden raid Posted: 03 May 2011 12:14 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama held a crucial meeting last week in which his advisers debated three options for dealing with top-secret information about a luxury compound in Pakistan where they thought Osama bin Laden might be hiding. 
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| Tornado tears through NZ's largest city - two dead Posted: 03 May 2011 12:14 AM PDT WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A tornado tore through New Zealand's largest city Auckland on Tuesday, killing two people, sending cars flying through the air and ripping roofs off buildings. 
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| Indonesia boosts security after bin Laden death Posted: 03 May 2011 12:17 AM PDT Indonesia is beefing up security on the holiday island of Bali following the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, an official said Tuesday.
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| Bangladesh approves first pornography law Posted: 03 May 2011 12:11 AM PDT Bangladesh's cabinet has approved the country's first ever pornography law after public scandals over a string of celebrity sex tapes, an official said Tuesday.
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| India hikes key interest rates by 50 basis points Posted: 03 May 2011 12:05 AM PDT India's central bank on Tuesday raised lending rates by a bigger-than-expected 50 basis points, its ninth hike in 15 months to curb inflation, and warned that the move could slow economic growth.
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| FACTBOX - The future of nuclear fusion Posted: 02 May 2011 11:44 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China is one of a number of countries pursuing technologies that could provide the ultimate solution to the world's energy needs -- nuclear fusion. 
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| Acupuncture needle found in ex-S.Korea president's lung Posted: 02 May 2011 11:44 PM PDT Local media reports said Roh, 78, was released from Seoul National University Hospital on Monday after surgery to remove the 6.5 cm needle. 
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| Embarrassed Pakistan says not part of U.S. operation to kill Osama Posted: 02 May 2011 11:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON/ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's president acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that his security forces were left out of a U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden, but he did little to dispel questions over how the al Qaeda leader was able to live in comfort near Islamabad. 
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| Tornado tears through Auckland, 2 dead Posted: 02 May 2011 11:04 PM PDT WELLINGTON, May 3 — A tornado tore through New Zealand's largest city Auckland today, killing two people, sending cars flying through the air and ripping roofs off buildings. The tornado struck the northern suburb of Albany at about 3.15pm (11.15am Malaysian time) with damage centred on a shopping mall before it moved south, leaving a five-km ... 
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| Obama aides were divided on bin Laden raid Posted: 02 May 2011 10:47 PM PDT WASHINGTON, May 3 — US President Barack Obama held a crucial meeting last week in which his advisers debated three options for dealing with top-secret information about a luxury compound in Pakistan where they thought Osama bin Laden might be hiding. At a two-hour meeting in the ultra-secure White House Situation Room, the team discussed the pros ... 
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| Searchers find second Air France crash black box Posted: 02 May 2011 10:34 PM PDT PARIS, May 3 — Search parties scouring the sea bed off Brazil's northeast coast have recovered the second of two flight recorders from the Air France aircraft that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, investigators said today. The discovery of the audio recorder, two days after the flight data recorder was fished up, brings investigators even closer ... 
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| Acupuncture needle found in ex-S.Korea president’s lung Posted: 02 May 2011 10:20 PM PDT SEOUL, May 3 — Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo was admitted to hospital with a bad cough and ended up on the operating table to remove an acupuncture needle from his right lung. Local media reports said Roh, 78, was released from Seoul National University Hospital yesterday after surgery to remove the 6.5 cm needle. Doctors are puzzled ... 
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| Pakistan media: Bin Laden killing will embarrass authorities Posted: 02 May 2011 09:39 PM PDT ISLAMABAD, May 3 — Pakistani media today said the killing of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in a US commando raid would heap embarrassment on authorities hard pressed to explain how he had been able to live in the country undetected for years. Some commentators suggested Washington would take action to show its displeasure with the ... 
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| Conservatives romp to crushing Canadian election win Posted: 02 May 2011 09:20 PM PDT OTTAWA, May 3 — Canada's ruling Conservatives won a crushing victory in yesterday's federal election, as the left wing vote split between two parties and the separatist Bloc Quebecois faded to almost nothing. Still provisional results showed the Conservatives had 167 seats in Parliament, well above the 155 they needed to transform their minority ... 
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| Bin Laden kill may reopen CIA interrogation debate Posted: 02 May 2011 08:54 PM PDT WASHINGTON, May 3 — The possibility that US spies located Osama bin Laden with help from detainees who'd been subjected to "enhanced interrogation" techniques seems certain to reopen the debate over practices that many have equated with torture, security experts said yesterday. One of the key sources for initial information about an al Qaeda ... 
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| Leading activist seized in Syrian roundup Posted: 02 May 2011 08:31 PM PDT AMMAN, May 3 — Security forces yesterday rounded up hundreds of pro-democracy sympathisers, including prominent human rights campaigner Diana Jawabra for the second time during Syria's uprising, witnesses said. The arrests came in the wake of the shelling of Deraa, cradle of the unrest, by a force led by President Bashar al-Assad's feared brother ... 
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| Posted: 02 May 2011 10:21 PM PDT The two-party system allows checks and balances and healthy competitions among political parties while meeting the demands of the people.
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| One dead as tornado hits New Zealand city Posted: 02 May 2011 10:11 PM PDT A tornado hit New Zealand's largest city Auckland on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring dozens more as the twister ripped the roof off a suburban shopping mall.
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| Japan police plan DNA database to identify tsunami dead Posted: 02 May 2011 10:10 PM PDT Japanese police are to set up a DNA database to help identify the bodies of those killed in the March earthquake and tsunami, reports said Tuesday.
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| Harper wins majority in Canada poll: projections Posted: 02 May 2011 10:09 PM PDT Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won re-election Monday at the head of an elusive majority government, the first for his Conservative Party since 1988, television projections showed.
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