FACTBOX - Comments from world leaders on Norway attacks |
- FACTBOX - Comments from world leaders on Norway attacks
- Six killed in Texas roller rink shooting
- Clinton urges Indonesia to reduce trade barriers
- Hong Kong scientists 'show time travel is impossible'
- Fringe group barred suspected Norway killer from forum
- Workers search for survivors after China high-speed train crash kills 35
- God, not Internet, holds key to Malawi protests
- Pope urges Norwegians to reject hatred and conflict
- Myanmar minister to meet Suu Kyi - official
- Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran - report
- Chavez back in Venezuela after cancer treatment
- Boy, 13, charged with drink driving in Australia
- Third Thai helicopter crash kills three
- 35 dead after Chinese high-speed trains collide
- Six killed in Texas shooting
- VIDEO: Norway 'left numb by atrocity'
- Pacific's Niue looks to tourism to grow population
- After the ash, Icelandic volcano becomes tourist magnet
- Canadians bid farewell to Afghan hockey rink
- Norway killer attacked multicuturalism, Islam online
| FACTBOX - Comments from world leaders on Norway attacks Posted: 24 Jul 2011 12:10 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Here are some comments made by politicians and world leaders about the attack on a Norwegian youth summer camp by a suspected far-right gunman which killed 85 people, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo. 
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| Six killed in Texas roller rink shooting Posted: 24 Jul 2011 12:10 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a family birthday party at a Texas roller skating rink late on Saturday, killing five people and wounding four before turning the gun on himself, police said. 
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| Clinton urges Indonesia to reduce trade barriers Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:02 PM PDT US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday urged Indonesia to cut tariffs, saying trade between the two countries lagged behind others in Southeast Asia.
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| Hong Kong scientists 'show time travel is impossible' Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:57 PM PDT Hong Kong physicists say they have proved that a single photon obeys Einstein's theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light -- demonstrating that outside science fiction, time travel is impossible.
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| Fringe group barred suspected Norway killer from forum Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:39 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - A fringe European anti-Islamist lobby group said on Saturday the man suspected of Norway's gun and bomb massacre had tried to join their Facebook group on the Internet but had been rejected over his apparent neo-Nazi links. 
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| Workers search for survivors after China high-speed train crash kills 35 Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:39 PM PDT WENZHOU, China (Reuters) - Rescue workers on Sunday dug through the tangled wreckage after a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in eastern China, killing at least 35 and injuring 210 in China's deadliest train disaster since 2008. 
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| God, not Internet, holds key to Malawi protests Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:09 PM PDT LILONGWE (Reuters) - Unlike the Internet-based popular protests that have swept North Africa and the Middle East, the biggest threat to embattled Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika may be from Christian churches. 
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| Pope urges Norwegians to reject hatred and conflict Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:09 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict expressed sympathy on Saturday for the victims of a suspected right-wing zealot who killed up to 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack and urged Norwegians to reject hatred and violence. 
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| Myanmar minister to meet Suu Kyi - official Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:09 PM PDT YANGON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will meet with a Myanmar minister next week, an official said on Saturday, the first known contact between the Nobel laureate and the new army-backed civilian government. 
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| Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran - report Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:38 PM PDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian physicist was shot dead by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Saturday and Iran's student news agency ISNA quoted an unnamed police official as saying the man was a nuclear scientist. 
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| Chavez back in Venezuela after cancer treatment Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:38 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela on Saturday a week after leaving for chemotherapy in Cuba, saying no malignant cells were found and that he was arriving home in better health than when he left. 
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| Boy, 13, charged with drink driving in Australia Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:54 PM PDT A 13-year-old boy has been charged with drink driving after police pulled him over for his erratic behaviour on the road, authorities said Sunday.
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| Third Thai helicopter crash kills three Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:52 PM PDT Three military men were killed and a fourth injured on Sunday in the third Thai army helicopter crash in little over a week, a force spokesman said.
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| 35 dead after Chinese high-speed trains collide Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:51 PM PDT At least 35 people were killed in a collision between two high-speed trains in eastern China, state media said Sunday, as the government ordered an "urgent" overhaul of national rail safety.
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| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:40 PM PDT A gunman opened fire at a skating rink in the town of Grand Prairie, Texas, Saturday, killing at least five people and injuring four others before committing suicide, police said.
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| VIDEO: Norway 'left numb by atrocity' Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:42 PM PDT The main suspect in the attacks in Norway is reported to have admitted his guilt, but described them as "gruesome but necessary".
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| Pacific's Niue looks to tourism to grow population Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:17 PM PDT In a once-thriving village on the Pacific island of Nuie, homes lie abandoned, their stucco-clad walls mildewed and crumbling as the jungle slowly reclaims them.
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| After the ash, Icelandic volcano becomes tourist magnet Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:16 PM PDT (Iceland-AFP) - VIDEO: Last year it spewed a column of ash nine kilometres into the sky and caused the biggest air space closure since World War II, impacting more than eight million passengers, but today Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano is paying its dues, drawing tourists from around the world eager to see the source of the all the chaos. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.
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| Canadians bid farewell to Afghan hockey rink Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:08 PM PDT Oblivious to warning sirens and the dull thuds of possible mortar fire, Canadian troops battle it out for a tinfoil cup at their last hockey tournament under the sweltering Afghan sun.
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| Norway killer attacked multicuturalism, Islam online Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:07 PM PDT OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian charged with going on a killing spree in which at least 91 people died is a former member of a populist anti-immigration party who wrote blogs attacking multiculturalism and Islam. 
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