VIDEO: Syria: Battle for Rastan heightens |
- VIDEO: Syria: Battle for Rastan heightens
- Taiwan nervous over US fighter jets snub
- Philippines mops up after two typhoons in a week
- The economics of happiness: a new film
- VIDEO: Denmark introduces 'fat tax'
- VIDEO: Tunisia election campaigning begins
- VIDEO: Second typhoon in days hits Philippines
- VIDEO: The most Scottish place in Italy?
- VIDEO: Lucky escape as plane hits funfair ride
- VIDEO: Dutch city bans 'drug tourists'
- VIDEO: Tunisia election campaigning begins
- VIDEO: Denmark introduces 'fat tax'
- Philippines struggles in typhoon aftermath
- APNewsBreak: Thai PM's Twitter account hacked (AP)
- Red Cross sends medical aid to Sirte
- Red Cross gets medicine into Libya's besieged Sirte
- Tunisia opens first election campaign since uprising
- Typhoons Leave 55 Dead in Philippines
- 2 powerful cartels dominate in Mexico drug war (AP)
- AP Enterprise: Global Islamic group rising in Asia (AP)
| VIDEO: Syria: Battle for Rastan heightens Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:39 PM PDT Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army has regained control of the central town of Rastan, according to state media.
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| Taiwan nervous over US fighter jets snub Posted: 01 Oct 2011 11:03 PM PDT Officials fear Chinese pressure may be behind US refusal to supply island with next-generation F-16s.
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| Philippines mops up after two typhoons in a week Posted: 01 Oct 2011 11:04 PM PDT MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities were struggling on Sunday to reach communities in northern provinces of Luzon island that were hit by two powerful typhoons in less than week, as concern grew about a third storm forming off the coast.
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| The economics of happiness: a new film Posted: 01 Oct 2011 10:36 PM PDT Watch this trailer and it?ll be a dazzling three plus minutes, I promise: I saw it after tooling around LA on errands all day and seeing mall after mall after ill-planned suburb, and it had particular resonance. (My last stop was at LA City Hall where an offshoot of the group sitting in on Wall ...
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| VIDEO: Denmark introduces 'fat tax' Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:49 PM PDT Denmark has become the first country in the world to introduce a tax on foods seen as being harmful to health.
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| VIDEO: Tunisia election campaigning begins Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:46 PM PDT The elections are the first since the revolution in January which inspired the Arab Spring - a wave of uprisings that swept North Africa and the Middle East.
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| VIDEO: Second typhoon in days hits Philippines Posted: 01 Oct 2011 06:29 PM PDT A third storm is developing out at sea and could hit the island later in the week.
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| VIDEO: The most Scottish place in Italy? Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:54 AM PDT Duncan Kennedy went to find out more about the place known by locals as "the most Scottish in Italy".
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| VIDEO: Lucky escape as plane hits funfair ride Posted: 01 Oct 2011 02:08 PM PDT People at a funfair in the small town of Taree in Eastern Australia had a lucky escape when a light aircraft crashed into a ferris wheel.
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| VIDEO: Dutch city bans 'drug tourists' Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:24 AM PDT A ban on most foreign visitors has come into force in the cannabis-selling coffee shops of the Dutch city of Maastricht.
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| VIDEO: Tunisia election campaigning begins Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:46 PM PDT The elections are the first since the revolution in January which inspired the Arab Spring - a wave of uprisings that swept North Africa and the Middle East.
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| VIDEO: Denmark introduces 'fat tax' Posted: 01 Oct 2011 08:49 PM PDT Denmark has become the first country in the world to introduce a tax on foods seen as being harmful to health.
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| Philippines struggles in typhoon aftermath Posted: 01 Oct 2011 10:59 PM PDT Hundreds of thousands displaced and many stranded on rooftops after two typhoons in a week batter country's main island.
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| APNewsBreak: Thai PM's Twitter account hacked (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2011 11:01 PM PDT AP - A mocking hacker took over the Twitter account of Thailand's recently elected prime minister on Sunday, questioning her ability to defend the country if she cannot even secure her own tweets.
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| Red Cross sends medical aid to Sirte Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:35 PM PDT Red Cross team delivers urgent supplies to Sirte's main hospital amid heavy fighting in Gaddafi's besieged hometown.
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| Red Cross gets medicine into Libya's besieged Sirte Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:51 PM PDT SIRTE (Reuters) - Aid workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) brought medical supplies into ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's besieged hometown of Sirte on Saturday as fears grew that a humanitarian disaster was unfolding there.
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| Tunisia opens first election campaign since uprising Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:49 PM PDT TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's cities were decorated with posters for hundreds of candidates from scores of new parties when campaigning began on Saturday for what is billed as the first free election in the country's history.
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| Typhoons Leave 55 Dead in Philippines Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:31 PM PDT Back-to-back typhoons have left at least 55 people dead and rescuers scrambling to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers marooned on rooftops for four days by floods in the northern Philippines.
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| 2 powerful cartels dominate in Mexico drug war (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:00 PM PDT
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| AP Enterprise: Global Islamic group rising in Asia (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:00 PM PDT
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