Airlines Count Down to Safest Year on Record

Airlines Count Down to Safest Year on Record


Airlines Count Down to Safest Year on Record

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:56 PM PST

This year appears set to eclipse the postwar record low rate of passenger deaths—one per 6.4 million passengers.


Witnesses: Security forces shooting Syrian protesters

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:25 AM PST

Syrian authorities are firing bullets and tear gas at demonstrators. "I saw several get shot and I ran," an activist told CNN.


Putin ejects Kremlin "puppet master" after protests

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:51 PM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The architect of Vladimir Putin's tightly controlled political system became one its most senior victims on Tuesday when he was shunted out of the Kremlin in the wake of the biggest opposition protests of Putin's 12-year rule.


Democratic Senator Nelson to quit

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST

Democratic Senator Ben Nelson announces he will not seek re-election next year - a decision that could cost Barack Obama's party control of the chamber.


Tensions simmer as Iraqi leaders try resolve crisis

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's courts should decide the charges against a vice president accused of running death squads, Iraq's Kurdish president and the Sunni speaker of parliament said on Tuesday in a bid to defuse the country's worst political crisis in a year.


Pakistan marks anniversary of Bhutto murder

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:49 PM PST

President Asif Ali Zardari tells mourners best way to honour his wife, Benazir Bhutto, is "to protect democracy".


Sources: Israeli airstrike kills 1 in Gaza

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:48 AM PST

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza Tuesday killed one Islamic Jihad militant and injured three others, sources said.


U.S. decision on Yemen risks worsening violence

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:10 PM PST

Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will be allowed to come to the United States for medical treatment in New York, a senior Obama administration official said Tuesday.


The meaning of debt

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:12 AM PST

Why the true meaning of being in debt goes beyond money


City Room: Tentative Deal May Avert Nurses' Strike at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:04 PM PST

The deal would avoid a nurses' strike and would allow both sides to claim victory.


IMF says expects January talks with Egypt

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:06 PM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it planned to meet with Egyptian authorities to discuss the country's economic problems but added that any funding would have to be based on benchmarks that had broad political support.


Israel rally against segregation

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:56 AM PST

Thousands rally in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh against ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremism, prompted by attacks on "immodestly" dressed women.


Security forces fire on protesters in Homs, witnesses say

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:47 AM PST

Syrian authorities are firing bullets and tear gas at demonstrators. "I saw several get shot and I ran," an activist told CNN.


Trial of accused spy begins in Iran

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST

A man accused of being an American spy in Iran told a judge Tuesday that his mission was to deliver information to Iranian intelligence circles, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.


India Ink: India Takes First Steps to Create New Anticorruption Agency

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:10 AM PST

The vote is the first step to creating a new law.


Daily Stock Market Activity

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:13 PM PST

Home prices in the United States fell by more than 1 percent in October, a private survey showed on Tuesday, and analysts expect the downward trend will continue in the months ahead.


Zardari criticises chief justice

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:58 AM PST

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said the country's top judge has ignored the murder of his wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.


Obama to Nominate Economics Professor and Ex-Treasury Official to Fed Board

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:16 PM PST

President Obama will nominate a Harvard economist, Jeremy C. Stein, and a former private equity executive, Jerome H. Powell, to the Federal Reserve board of governors.


Foul Play Ruled Out in Fire That Killed 5 in Connecticut, Mayor Says

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:27 AM PST

Mayor Michael Pavia of Stamford, Conn., said foul play had been ruled out in the blaze that killed three children and their grandparents on Sunday.


Kim Jong Il funeral set for Wednesday

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:01 AM PST

Thousands of people likely will file past a glass case housing the body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his funeral Wednesday to pay respects to the dictator, revered as a godlike "dear leader" by his people.


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