Taiwan baby dies as parents play web games: report (AFP)

Taiwan baby dies as parents play web games: report (AFP)

Taiwan baby dies as parents play web games: report (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:38 PM PST

Photo illustration shows young people playing online games at a coffee shop in Taiwan. A young couple from the island have been accused of letting their baby girl starve to death because they were obsessed with playing games online and forgot to feed her regularly, police have said.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AFP - A young Taiwanese couple have been accused of letting their baby girl starve to death because they were obsessed with playing games online and forgot to feed her regularly, police said Friday.

VIDEO: Critic's tips on how to win an Oscar

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:57 PM PST

Charles Gant, film editor for Heat Magazine, explains how to win an Oscar.


VIDEO: Ireland general election underway

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:39 PM PST

More than three million voters in the Republic of Ireland are set to go to the polls later in the country's first general election since it was bailed out by the EU and the IMF.


Pakistan puts American CIA contractor on trial for murder

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:46 PM PST

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan on Friday put on trial an American CIA contractor charged with killing two Pakistanis despite U.S. demands for his release, complicating a case that is straining a relationship crucial to ending the war in Afghanistan.

Gaddafi blames al-Qaeda for revolt

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:23 PM PST

Embattled Libyan leader says protesters being manipulated as pro- and anti-government forces clash across the country.


"Jasmine" protests greet Chinese envoy in Taiwan

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:22 PM PST

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwanese protesters threw flowers at a motorcade carrying China's top envoy to the island and tried to deliver plastic jasmine flowers and jasmine juice to him as he visited Taiwan's strongly pro-independence south.

China's web police block US ambassador's name (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:14 PM PST

AP - China is widening its Internet policing following online calls for protests like those in the Middle East, with social networking site LinkedIn and searches for the U.S. ambassador's name both blocked.


London fashion buzzing over Kate's dress designer (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:59 PM PST

Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton (L) pose for a photograph in St. James's Palace, central London in a November 16, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettReuters - It was on everyone's lips at London Fashion Week: Who will make the dress that transports Kate Middleton from regular gal to real-life royalty?

Canada pulls 200 from Libya in scrambled rescue (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:56 PM PST

Photo taken from a taxi on the way to Tripoli airport on February 21 as people try to leave thr country in turmoil. Canada managed to evacuate some 200 of its citizens from Libya after a private insurer nixed a charter flight from Rome, leaving Ottawa scrambling to find alternatives, officials said.(AFP/File)AFP - Canada managed to evacuate some 200 of its citizens from Libya after a private insurer nixed a charter flight from Rome, leaving Ottawa scrambling to find alternatives, officials said.

Philippines marks 25 years since 'People Power' (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:55 PM PST

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, center, Vice-President Jejomar Binay, left, and former President Fidel Ramos, right, link arms as they sing a patriotic song to celebrate the 25th People Power Anniversary Friday Feb. 25, 2011, at the People Power Monument along EDSA highway at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Ramos was one of the leaders of the near bloodless four-day people power revolution 25 years ago that ousted the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos from 20-year-rule and helped install Aquino's mother Corazon 'Cory' Aquino to the presidency. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - Philippine President Benigno Aquino III says the struggle for good governance and the fight against the corruption that characterized the brutal regime of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos continues 25 years after his ouster in the "People Power" revolution.

Debt crisis looms over Ireland vote

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:47 PM PST

Anger over shattered economy expected to trigger a backlash against ruling Fianna Fail party at the ballot box.


Fears mount for yacht trio missing in Antarctica (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:15 PM PST

Fears mounted Friday for three people who were on a yacht missing in Antarctica after searchers found the boat's only life raft damaged and covered in ice, but unoccupied.(AFP/File/Rodrigo Arangua)AFP - Fears mounted Friday for three people who were on a yacht missing in Antarctica after searchers found the boat's only life raft damaged and covered in ice, but unoccupied.

South Korean farmers assess fallout of major outbreak of foot and mouth disease (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:28 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Just over a year ago, Lim Eun-hee saw her husband's pig farm in this rural region northeast of Seoul decimated in one fell swoop. 



Silenced for decades, crowds in 'Liberated Libya' berate Qaddafi (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:08 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk â€" part of what some are calling “Liberated Libya†â€" a flood of criticism of Muammar Qaddafi, his sons, and the vicious tactics he’s long used on his own people pours out of locals at the slightest prompting. Many are worried that with Col. Qaddafi surrounded by still-loyal troops in Tripoli, their unfinished revolution could still fail.


Anxious vigil in NZ for the missing

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:16 PM PST

Hopes fading of finding more survivors as Christchurch earthquake toll climbs to 113.


Boeing Bid Beats Europe for Tanker

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:26 PM PST

The Pentagon awarded Boeing a contract worth more than $30 billion for aerial refueling tankers, closing a chapter in a controversial and tortured bidding contest, but potentially launching a fresh trans-Atlantic political controversy.


Huawei's Open Letter To U.S. Investigators

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:25 PM PST

China's telecom giant seeks to squelch the rumors by requesting the government to investigate its op


Irish vote in poll dominated by economic woes (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:51 PM PST

Leader of Fine Gael Enda Kenny (L) holds his final formal press conference at the party's headquarters in Dublin. Irish voters are set to oust their government Friday in elections dominated by the collapse of the economy and a widely hated bailout, which would make Dublin the first to fall victim to an EU debt crisis.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Irish voters are set to oust their government Friday in elections dominated by the collapse of the economy and a widely hated bailout, which would make Dublin the first to fall victim to an EU debt crisis.

China sends navy ship to protect Libya evacuees (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:54 PM PST

AP - China has dispatched a navy ship to protect its citizens who are being evacuated from conflict-ridden Libya.


Witness: Cash hauled to Guatemalan then president (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:15 PM PST

AP - A witness in Guatemala's embezzlement trial of former President Alfonso Portillo says millions of dollars were hauled from a state-owned bank to the leader when he was in power.


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