TIMESCAST: TimesCast | September 19, 2011

TIMESCAST: TimesCast | September 19, 2011


TIMESCAST: TimesCast | September 19, 2011

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:58 PM PDT

President Obama vows to veto deficit-reduction plans that don't increase taxes; violence escalates in Yemen's capital; and the United Nations General Assembly begins.


Media Decoder Blog: Netflix Strategy Prompts Backlash

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:53 PM PDT

The company's decision to split into two businesses has customers complaining that it is treating them badly.


Popularity May Have Doomed Chinese TV Talent show

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:54 PM PDT

In the end, it was not the overabundance of sequins or the cringe-worthy ballads that doomed "Super Girl," one of China's most popular televised talent extravaganzas.


Jose Padilla’s Prison Sentence Too Short, Appeals Court Says

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:47 PM PDT

One of the first Americans designated an "enemy combatant" in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Jose Padilla was sentenced to 17 years, 4 months.


"Random" Egypt arrests after Israel embassy attack

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:38 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian rights groups have accused Egyptian authorities of carrying out random arrests after this month's attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo, citing it as another example of a return to the ways of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.


Anti-Gaddafi forces move on Sabha

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:31 PM PDT

Anti-Gaddafi forces have captured two key positions close to the southern city of Sabha, says a spokesman for Libya's transitional authorities.


Medics battled to save Raoul Moat

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 09:53 AM PDT

An inquest hears that medics battled to save the gunman Raoul Moat's life


Stocks Slide as Greek Talks Drag On

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:57 PM PDT

Investors shed risky assets in the United States and Europe on Monday in a sign of increasing pessimism about Greece's debt crisis.


Syrian forces kill eight near Homs: activists

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:08 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead at least six villagers and two rebel soldiers on Monday, in a sweep of countryside north of the city of Homs, one of the most defiant regions in pro-democracy protests, activists and residents said.


Abbas: 'All hell let loose' over UN state bid

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 11:39 AM PDT

Palestinian president describes reaction to push for full membership as he arrives in New York.


Experts: Pirates hold English tourist in Somalia

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:09 AM PDT

An English tourist kidnapped from a remote Kenyan resort is being held by pirates in a remote corner of Somalia, according to experts and security analysts in Nairobi.


Norway killer gets 4 more weeks in solitary

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:31 AM PDT

Anders Breivik, who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway in July, will remain in solitary confinement for another four weeks, a judge ruled Monday.


Abbas to go ahead with statehood bid at U.N.

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:26 PM PDT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that he still intends to submit an application for statehood to the United Nations Security Council, according to U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky, despite a rising tide of controversy that accompanies the measure.


Senior policeman survives Pakistan suicide blast, 8 dead

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:30 PM PDT

KARACHI (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed, including six policemen, after a Taliban suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car into the home of a senior police official in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi on Monday.


Titanic necklace stolen from show

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 11:22 AM PDT

A necklace that belonged to a passenger on the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic has been stolen from a temporary exhibition in Copenhagen.


Death Toll in Air Race Crash Rises

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:05 PM PDT

A 10th person died from injuries suffered when a modified World War II-era plane crashed into spectators during an air race in Reno, Nev.


Gunmen From Congo Kill 36 at Pub in Burundi

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 01:01 PM PDT

Armed men from Congo burst into a pub in the central African nation of Burundi and killed 36 people, an official said Monday.


On the Runway Blog: Catch Tom Ford but Don't Miss Thomas Tait During London Fashion Week

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:43 AM PDT

On Sunday evening, Tom Ford held another of his intimate shows that causes everyone to panic about missing it or feel bitter about being left out in the first place. But attention should also be paid this season in London to Thomas Tait, whose spring clothes were imaginative and inspiring.


Heavy security for Zambia polls

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 11:06 AM PDT

Thousands of policemen have been deployed in Zambia to prevent violence in Tuesday's fiercely contested elections, the police chief says.


Profiles in Science | Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawkins, an Original Thinker Who Bashes Orthodoxy

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 01:06 PM PDT

The Oxford don, a liberal atheist who is arguably the world's most influential evolutionary biologist, continues to turn the prevailing view of evolution and natural selection on its head.


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