VIDEO: Two-year-old sandwich served fresh

VIDEO: Two-year-old sandwich served fresh

VIDEO: Two-year-old sandwich served fresh

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:07 PM PST

Dr George McGavin travels to the USA to find out how the army are battling against food decay.


Panel clears Olympus of organised crime links

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:54 PM PST

Investigative panel find no links between global tech giant's accounting scandal and Japanese crime bosses.


Indian state offers prizes for sterilisation

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:35 PM PST

Women in Rajasthan offered chance to win food processors and cars in controversial effort to slow baby boom.


China braces as European crisis adds to strains (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:24 PM PST

AP - Europe's festering debt crisis is adding to strains on China just as the country is pricking its property bubble and facing a manufacturing downturn, limiting the ability of the world's No. 2 economy to prop up global growth.


US officials say Pakistan leaving liaison centers (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:41 PM PST

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani gestures during an interview with The Associated Press at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Gilani says his country wants to rebuild ties with the United States despite Islamabad's ongoing retaliation for deadly airstrikes on its troops by the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - Pakistan is pulling its troops out of at least two of the three centers meant to coordinate military activity across the Afghan border in apparent retaliation for NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, U.S. military officials said.

Thousands Occupy Russian Square in Public Protest of Putin (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:20 PM PST

Time.com - In the biggest expression of public anger at Vladimir Putin, thousands gather in a Moscow square, suddenly venting in public what they have been spewing in the blogosphere


Former Hewlett-Packard Chair Patricia Dunn Dies At 58

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:50 PM PST

Former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn died Sunday at her home in Orinda, California. She was 58. Her husband, William Jahnke, said the cause was ovarian cancer, the New York Times reports. The story noted that Dunn had been treated for three types of cancer since 2002. As the Times notes, Dunn rose from a secretary ...


VIDEO: Anti-Putin rally held in Moscow

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:41 PM PST

Several thousand people have taken to the streets of Moscow shouting "down with Putin" as international observers in Russia's parliamentary elections speak of flagrant violations.


VIDEO: Ratings agency warns euro nations

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:21 PM PST

Ratings agency Standard and Poor has put almost the entire eurozone, including Germany and France, on "credit watch" due to fears over the impact of the debt crisis.


VIDEO: Shia Muslims 'killed in Pakistan'

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:07 PM PST

Security is tight in Pakistan ahead of the Day of Ashura, which is the climax of a period of remembrance for Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.


VIDEO: Anti-Putin rally held in Moscow

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:41 PM PST

Several thousand people have taken to the streets of Moscow shouting "down with Putin" as international observers in Russia's parliamentary elections speak of flagrant violations.


VIDEO: Ratings agency warns euro nations

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:21 PM PST

Ratings agency Standard and Poor has put almost the entire eurozone, including Germany and France, on "credit watch" due to fears over the impact of the debt crisis.


VIDEO: Shia Muslims 'killed in Pakistan'

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:07 PM PST

Security is tight in Pakistan ahead of the Day of Ashura, which is the climax of a period of remembrance for Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.


Afghan policemen killed in fight with Taliban (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:03 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with delegates from an Afghan women's civil society during an international conference on the future of Afghanistan, in Bonn December 5, 2011. Foreign governments pledged on Monday to support Afghanistan long after allied troops go home, with or without a political settlement with insurgents once seen as the best way to prevent a new civil war. REUTERS/J. Scott Applewhite/Pool (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY)AP - Afghan police say an unspecified number of policemen have been killed and wounded in a gunbattle with insurgents in the country's northeast.

2nd tobacco company fights Australian logo ban (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:02 PM PST

AP - A second major tobacco company has gone to Australia's High Court to argue that new laws banning logos from cigarette packs are unconstitutional.


Belgium finally gets new government

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:26 PM PST

Francophone Socialist leader Elio Di Rupo to head six-party coalition almost 18 months since country's last elections.


StumbleUpon Rebrands, Launches Brand Channels

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:19 PM PST

StumbleUpon, the site for finding new websites and online content, has redesigned its website and rebranded as it preps to go after international markets.


Did NASA Find A Habitable Planet? Maybe.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:53 PM PST

NASA has announced that its Kepler mission has found a planet whose temperatures can theoretically support Earth-like life.


Corzine Rebuffed Internal Warnings on Risks

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:23 PM PST

MF Global Holdings' executive in charge of controlling risks raised serious concerns several times last year to directors at the securities firm about the growing bet on European bonds by his boss, Jon S. Corzine, people familiar with the matter said.


Australian Central Bank Braces for Global Slowdown

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:14 PM PST

The Reserve Bank of Australia announced its second interest-rate cut in as many months, moving to brace the commodity-based economy against growing fears the euro-zone debt crisis will spread its tentacles deeper into Asia.


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