TIMESCAST: TimesCast | October 12, 2011

TIMESCAST: TimesCast | October 12, 2011


TIMESCAST: TimesCast | October 12, 2011

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 01:08 PM PDT

The Nigerian who tried to down an airliner with an underwear bomb pleads guilty; Myanmar begins releasing some political prisoners; and a breakthrough for phone-based voice recognition.


VIDEO: 'About turn' in Jackson trial

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 01:01 PM PDT

The legal team representing Michael Jackson's personal doctor has dropped its claim that the pop star swallowed a fatal dose of the anaesthetic Propofol while the medic was not looking.


Families prepare for Hamas-Israel swap deal

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:54 PM PDT

Relatives prepare for homecoming of 1,027 Palestinians in Israel's jails and the return of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.


Royal succession changes proposed

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:40 PM PDT

Changes to the rules on succession to the throne move closer as David Cameron shares his plans with the 15 other countries who have the Queen as their monarch.


Murray drops Jackson drug claim

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Defence lawyers for Dr Conrad Murray, on trial for the death of Michael Jackson, dropping a claim that the singer swallowed a fatal dose of propofol.


VIDEO: 'Underpants bomber' pleads guilty

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:18 AM PDT

A Nigerian accused of trying to bomb a US-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009 has told his trial in Detroit that he is pleading guilty to all charges


Quake debris clean-up at halfway point in Haiti: U.N.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:45 PM PDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Workers have removed about half of the twisted piles of concrete, steel and other debris that have clogged Haiti's capital and surrounding areas since its huge earthquake in January 2010, the United Nations said on Wednesday.


Fed Committee Even More Divided, Minutes Show

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:38 PM PDT

The Federal Open Market Committee is increasingly divided between advocates for stronger steps to boost the economy and dissenters who see risks in such efforts.


Florida Man Indicted in Celebrity Phone Hacking

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:40 AM PDT

The actresses Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis were among the victims of a phone hacker who stole personal information, including revealing photographs, from celebrities, an F.B.I. source confirmed Wednesday


Slovak Deal Revives Hope for Euro Rescue Fund

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:03 PM PDT

Politicians in Slovakia struck a deal that should permit the expansion of a rescue fund for the euro a day after the governing coalition fell in a no vote on the rescue fund.


Sahara buys into Force India team

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:30 AM PDT

Indian conglomerate Sahara Group announces a deal to buy a 42.5% stake in the Force India Formula 1 team for $100m.


VIDEO: Five dead in 51 car pile-up

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:01 PM PDT

At least five people have been killed in a massive car pile-up in Chile.


U.N. investigator wants more freed in Myanmar

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:05 PM PDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - Myanmar's release of political prisoners on Wednesday is a sign of change, but the U.N. rights investigator for the isolated country wants many more freed before the end of the year.


Israeli-Palestinian Prisoner Swap Rattles Regional Politics

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:57 PM PDT

One result of the deal could be a more confrontational, Hamas-imbued Palestinian movement that could reshape regional relationships and pose a challenge to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.


Franklin Kameny, Gay Rights Pioneer, Dies at 86

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:23 PM PDT

Mr. Kameny transformed his 1957 arrest as a "sex pervert" and his subsequent firing from the Army Map Service into a powerful animating spark of the gay rights movement.


US man 'spied for Syrian agency'

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:31 AM PDT

A Syrian-born American is charged with spying on US activists attending rallies to oppose the regime in Damascus.


Study Points to Heavy-Handed Repression of Tibetan Area in China

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 10:56 AM PDT

Expenditures on security-related activity in Aba prefecture have been growing since 2002, Human Rights Watch reported, rising to well above the average for non-Tibetan parts of Sichuan.


Serbia wins qualified EU invite, Turkey criticized

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:48 AM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission recommended on Wednesday that Serbia become a candidate to join the European Union as a reward for democratic reforms and the capture of war crimes fugitives, but expressed concern that Turkey's membership drive had stalled.


'Two hit men killed wrong target'

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:25 AM PDT

A jury hears two hit men displayed "staggering incompetence" by repeatedly stabbing the wrong target, a Cardiff teenager, at his home.


VIDEO: Mid-East prisoner swap 'welcomed'

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:34 AM PDT

Israelis and Palestinians have welcomed the announcement of a deal to free captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.


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