Honduran coup officials may get US visas back (AP)

Honduran coup officials may get US visas back (AP)

Honduran coup officials may get US visas back (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:03 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. State Department is offering visas again to Honduran officials who had them revoked after taking part in a June 2009 coup that deposed former President Manuel Zelaya, a U.S. Embassy official confirmed Tuesday.


Heavy equipment tycoon tops China rich list (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:15 PM PDT

AP - A maker of pile drivers and other heavy machinery tops a list of China's billionaires.


Man faces Australian court over bomb hoax siege (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:02 PM PDT

A man believed to be holding a child hostage gestures after smashing a window at a lawyers office in suburban Sydney, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Australian police cordoned off a Sydney building Tuesday in a tense standoff with the man who claimed to have a bomb, smashed a window and issued threats from the lawyer's office where he holed up with his teenage daughter. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - A man who triggered a 12-hour standoff with police after marching into a law office with his daughter and claiming he had a bomb demanded several thousand dollars and access to a lawyer during the crisis, court documents revealed Wednesday.

VIDEO: Fighting erupts in Sudan border region

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:21 PM PDT

Violence has flared once again in the capital of Sudan's Blue Nile border state, raising concerns over the continuing lack of humanitarian access there.


VIDEO: Gaddafi still elusive as loyalists flee

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:18 PM PDT

Col Muammar Gaddafi's security chief is among several former Libyan officials who have arrived in the capital of Niger, Niamey, according to officials there.


Blast Outside Delhi High Court

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:27 PM PDT

Delhi Police reported a blast Wednesday morning outside the Delhi High Court, in the heart of the Indian capital.


Briefcase bomb at High Court in India capital kills 9 (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:15 PM PDT

Reuters - A powerful bomb placed in a briefcase outside the High Court in New Delhi killed at least nine people and injured 45 on Wednesday, a senior official said, prompting the Indian government to put the capital on high alert.


Suicide bombing in Pakistan kills 14 people (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:41 PM PDT

A woman passes the house AP - A suicide bomber attacked Pakistani troops near a government building in the southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people, including several soldiers, officials said.

Kiribati ponders floating island to fight sea rise (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:33 PM PDT

AP - The president of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati is so worried about climate change wiping out his country that he's considering ideas as strange as building a floating island.


German court to rule on eurozone rescue

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:14 PM PDT

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Soccer fans, police clash in Egypt

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:22 PM PDT

At least 130 people were injured in clashes that erupted Tuesday night between soccer fans and police in Cairo, Egypt's state-owned news agency said, citing officials from the ministry of health.

Explosion outside high court in New Delhi

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:26 PM PDT

At least nine people killed and dozens injured in explosion just before court opened for hearings in Indian capital.


7 missing in Nepal landslide triggered by monsoon (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:11 PM PDT

AP - Officials say at least seven people are missing and presumed dead after a landslide swept away the hut in which they were sheltering in a mountain village in western Nepal.


Conrad Black goes back to jail (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:49 PM PDT

Reuters - Former media mogul Conrad Black returned to prison on Tuesday in Florida to finish serving a sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman said.


Briefcase bomb at High Court in India capital kills 9

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:15 PM PDT

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A powerful bomb placed in a briefcase outside the High Court in New Delhi killed at least nine people and injured 45 on Wednesday, a senior official said, prompting the Indian government to put the capital on high alert.

The Right Way to Come Back From Vacation

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:45 PM PDT

?Daddy, come look at our island! Quick! Before it disappears!? We were in Bluffton, South Carolina playing on a sandbar that emerges only at low tide. The sun was barely up ??? we had woken early to watch the sandbar disappear as the tide rose ??? and now my wife Eleanor and I were relaxing ...


Here Comes the 2011 Forbes China Rich List

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:30 PM PDT

Forbes Asia and Forbes China, our licensed Chinese-language edition, are once again ready to unveil one of our most closely followed reports every year, the Forbes China Rich List. The 2011 edition will be announced at a press conference in Shanghai on Sept. 8. A decade ago, mainland China barely had any billionaires. Following a ...


Avoiding the Dreaded Decision Fatigue

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:23 PM PDT

Have you ever made an important business decision late in the day, only to look back on it a day or two later and wonder, "What was I thinking?" It turns out the problem may not have been so much what you were thinking as when. A recent New York Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=willpower&st=cse relates the ...


Suicide bombers kill 20 in Pakistan's Quetta (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Rescue workers and security officials assist a wounded soldier to an ambulance at the site of a double suicide bombing in Quetta on September 7, 2011. Two suicide bombers targeting a senior security official struck near government offices in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people, a police official said. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)Reuters - Two suicide bombers targeting a senior security official struck near government offices in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing 20 people, a police official said.

Mexico ruling party asks mayor, governor step down (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:32 PM PDT

AP - Mexico's ruling party on Tuesday asked the governor of Nuevo Leon state and the mayor of its capital city to step down temporarily while police investigate an arson that killed 52 people and a casino corruption scandal.


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