US study finds link between HPV and heart disease |
- US study finds link between HPV and heart disease
- Rich nations should offer zakat to poor nations: Mahathir
- Fitch sees no slowdown in Macau's gaming market
- China beefs up counter-terrorism laws
- Thai soldiers held over deaths of Chinese sailors
- Thai PM says floods to ease as river defences hold
- Qantas grounds entire fleet in 'unbelievable' step
- Queen wraps up rapturous Australian tour
- EU emergency fund says all 3 agencies confirm its AAA rating
- Japan, India to accelerate joint rare earth development
- Samsung ordered to compensate local designer for copyright infringement
- Thai PM says Bangkok flood threat receding
- Abbas faults Arab refusal of 1947 UN Palestine plan
- Generators taken from New York anti-Wall St protesters
- Magnitude 6.9 quake rattles Peru’s southern coast
- Syrian forces kill 40, protesters urge protection
- Turkey’s post-quake relief races against winter
- Thai flooding disrupting hard drive supplies
- Boy rescued after 108 hours under Turkey quake rubble
- G20 must remove obstacles to growth: Cameron
| US study finds link between HPV and heart disease Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:59 AM PDT US researchers have found evidence of a link between human papillomavirus infection and heart disease in women who have no other risk factors, said a first-of-its-kind study published Monday.
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| Rich nations should offer zakat to poor nations: Mahathir Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:40 AM PDT Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has suggested that a small fraction of the zakat money from rich Muslim nations be set aside to help poor countries or poor people in other countries.
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| Fitch sees no slowdown in Macau's gaming market Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:21 AM PDT Ratings agency Fitch said Saturday Macau's casinos were showing no signs of a slowdown despite China's economic growth cooling, as the territory cements its role as the world's biggest gambling hub.
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| China beefs up counter-terrorism laws Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:20 AM PDT China's parliament passed legislation Saturday beefing up the nation's counter-terrorism laws, while also ordering finger prints to be added to all national identity cards.
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| Thai soldiers held over deaths of Chinese sailors Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:18 AM PDT Police in Thailand have detained nine soldiers suspected of killing 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong river in early October, authorities in the kingdom said Saturday.
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| Thai PM says floods to ease as river defences hold Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:17 AM PDT Floods engulfing parts of the Thai capital should start to recede soon, the prime minister said Saturday after barriers along Bangkok's swollen main river prevented a disastrous overflow.
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| Qantas grounds entire fleet in 'unbelievable' step Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:16 AM PDT Australian flag carrier Qantas on Saturday took the "unbelievable" step of grounding its entire domestic and international fleet indefinitely in an escalating industrial dispute.
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| Queen wraps up rapturous Australian tour Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:12 AM PDT Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Saturday wrapped up an immensely successful tour of Australia in which tens of thousands flocked to catch a glimpse of their monarch, perhaps for the last time.
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| EU emergency fund says all 3 agencies confirm its AAA rating Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:11 AM PDT The European Financial Stability Facility said Saturday that all three ratings agencies -- Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch -- have confirmed its AAA rating.
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| Japan, India to accelerate joint rare earth development Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:10 AM PDT The foreign ministers of Japan and India agreed Saturday at a meeting in Tokyo to accelerate a joint development of rare earth mineral deposits in the South Asian country.
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| Samsung ordered to compensate local designer for copyright infringement Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:08 AM PDT Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea's electronics giant, has been ordered to compensate a local designer for illegally using the designer's flower pattern creation on its refrigerator models, court records showed on Saturday.
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| Thai PM says Bangkok flood threat receding Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:33 PM PDT BANGKOK, Oct 29 — Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the prime minister said today, but a rise in coastal high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city's flood defences. "If things go on like this, we expect floodwater in Bangkok to recede within the first week of November," Prime ... 
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| Abbas faults Arab refusal of 1947 UN Palestine plan Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:40 PM PDT JERUSALEM, Oct 29 — Arabs made a "mistake" by rejecting a 1947 UN proposal that would have created a Palestinian state alongside the nascent Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview aired yesterday. Palestinian leaders have always insisted that General Assembly Resolution 181, which paved the way for Jewish statehood in ... 
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| Generators taken from New York anti-Wall St protesters Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:07 PM PDT NEW YORK, Oct 29 — Anti-Wall Street protesters' plans to camp in a New York park throughout the city's harsh winter were dealt a blow on Friday when the fire department confiscated generators and fuel because they posed a danger. With the first snow forecast to fall on Saturday, the Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality lost the ... 
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| Magnitude 6.9 quake rattles Peru’s southern coast Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:35 PM PDT LIMA, Oct 29 — A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of southern Peru yesterday, shaking buildings in Lima and injuring 16 people near the city of Ica. Officials said there were no deaths or major damages, though at least two adobe brick homes were knocked down. The US Geological Survey said the quake, initially reported to have a ... 
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| Syrian forces kill 40, protesters urge protection Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:20 PM PDT AMMAN, Oct 29 — Syrian forces shot dead at least 40 civilians yesterday when they fired on demonstrators demanding international protection from President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on pro-democracy protests, activists and residents said. Tens of protesters were also wounded and hundreds arrested in one of the bloodiest days in seven months of ... 
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| Turkey’s post-quake relief races against winter Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:38 PM PDT ERCIS, Turkey, Oct 29 — Authorities overseeing relief efforts after Turkey's biggest earthquake in over a decade were confident emergency needs for tens of thousands made homeless would be met by torday in hardest hit urban areas. Search and rescue operations continued at nine sites in Ercis, a town of nearly 100,000 that suffered the most damage ... 
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| Thai flooding disrupting hard drive supplies Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:51 PM PDT The massive flooding in Thailand is disrupting supplies of hard disk drives (HDDs) for the world's personal computer makers, according to companies and market intelligence firms.
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| Boy rescued after 108 hours under Turkey quake rubble Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:50 PM PDT Rescuers Friday pulled a 12-year-old boy from the rubble of Turkey's earthquake after being trapped for 108 hours, as the death toll in the disaster rose to 576.
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| G20 must remove obstacles to growth: Cameron Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:49 PM PDT British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday reminded G20 leaders they must do everything in their power to remove obstacles to world growth and avoid slipping back into protectionism.
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