Thai PM sounds Bangkok inundation warning

Thai PM sounds Bangkok inundation warning

Thai PM sounds Bangkok inundation warning

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:55 PM PDT

Locals residents scramble for safety as experts pin the Thai capital's fate on dykes along the Chao Phraya River.


Police arrest dozens of Oakland protesters

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 06:29 PM PDT

At least 85 "Occupy Wall Street" protesters are picked up as police clear encampment after facing a two-week standoff.


Afghan officials: Truck bomb kills 5, wounds 45 (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:59 PM PDT

Graphic shows military women killed in the wars in Iraq and AfghanistanAP - A bomb hidden inside a fuel truck in a central Afghan province exploded as scores of people gathered around the vehicle to collect fuel that was leaking, killing at least five in a blast that shattered a period of relative quiet in the war-ravaged nation, officials said Wednesday.

VIDEO: Eurozone rescue plan faces delay

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:43 PM PDT

European leaders gather in Brussels on Wednesday for emergency talks on the financial crisis gripping the eurozone, but a vital finance ministers' meeting has been postponed.


Liberian opposition to boycott run-off

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Opposition threatens to pull out out of run-off unless "free, fair and transparent electoral process" is put into place.


Fuel-tanker blast kills Afghan civilians

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:43 PM PDT

At least three deaths reported after hidden bomb explodes in the northern Parwan province.


Teenager pulled out of Turkish quake rubble (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:32 PM PDT

AP - Turkey's state-run news agency says an 18-year-old university student has been pulled out injured but alive from the ruins of an apartment building 61 hours after a devastating earthquake struck.


Nation of Islam leader slams Gadhafi's death (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:24 PM PDT

AP - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Tuesday that those rejoicing in the death of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will come to sorrow and predicted that the U.S. was unprepared for the looming backlash from his overthrow.


China official approves of Taiwan peace accord vow (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:27 PM PDT

AP - A Chinese official says Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's call for a cross-strait peace accord is "in the interest of the Chinese race."


Red Cross Doctors Did Not Examine Gilad Shalit Before Controversial Egyptian TV Interview

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:41 PM PDT

By Richard Behar Established journalists are loath to criticize their own: with jobs scarce, cowardice proves the better career path, especially when too many reporters sit blindfolded inside their own glass houses. Add in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the media community goes into a collective coma. Such is the case in the aftermath of last ...


Criminal Charges For Ex-Goldman Sachs Director

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:38 PM PDT

Raj Gupta, a former Goldman director, will surrender to the FBI Wednesday to face criminal insider trading-related charges.


AP Exclusive: Members flee Legion as reforms stall (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:00 PM PDT

In this Aug. 25, 2011 photo, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, papal delegate for the Legionaries of Christ, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Vatican City. When Pope Benedict XVI took over the disgraced Legionaries of Christ last year, expectations were high that heads would roll over one of the greatest frauds of the 20th century Roman Catholic Church. One year later, none of the religious order's superiors have been held to account for having enabled the crimes of late founder Rev. Marciel Maciel, a drug addict who sexually abused seminarians, fathered three children and created a cult-like movement that damaged some of its members spiritually and emotionally. Significantly, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis also ruled out any further investigation into the crimes of Maciel, who as a favorite of Pope John Paul II, had been held up as a living saint by the Vatican and the order despite well-founded allegations he was a pedophile. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)AP - When Pope Benedict XVI took over the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order last year, expectations were high that heads would roll over one of the greatest scandals of the 20th century Roman Catholic Church.

A tale of new cities: India's push to industrialize (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:14 PM PDT

Reuters - Chotubhai Raghani's fields in a dry, salty strip of Indian coastline on the Arabian Sea never yielded much wheat but he feels like a lucky man now he's started selling them at a juicy markup.


A tale of new cities: India's push to industrialize

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:14 PM PDT

DHOLERA, India (Reuters) - Chotubhai Raghani's fields in a dry, salty strip of Indian coastline on the Arabian Sea never yielded much wheat but he feels like a lucky man now he's started selling them at a juicy markup.

Ex-Goldman Sachs director 'to face charges'

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:40 PM PDT

Rajat Gupta, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Raj Rajaratnam insider trading case, expected to surrender to the FBI.


Growing flood alarm in Bangkok after Thai PM warning (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:29 PM PDT

An elderly flood victim sits outside an evacuation center at an unused airport terminal at Dan Mueang Airport in Bangkok October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Bazuki MuhammadReuters - Fears of flooding across the Thai capital grew on Wednesday after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra warned parts of Bangkok could face inundation for up to a month, with authorities calling a special five-day holiday to allow people to leave.

Asian shares down ahead of Europe debt plan (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:28 PM PDT

An exchange of opinions between a supporter of the Occupy Wall Street protests, right, and passersby attracts attention at Zuccotti Park in New York on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. Some businesses and residents are losing patience with the protesters in the park, the unofficial headquarters of the movement that began in mid-September. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Asian shares were lower Wednesday as traders awaited details of a plan to contain Europe's sovereign debt crisis that would limit damage to the continent's banks.

Growing flood alarm in Bangkok after Thai PM warning

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:29 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Fears of flooding across the Thai capital grew on Wednesday after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra warned parts of Bangkok could face inundation for up to a month, with authorities calling a special five-day holiday to allow people to leave.

Run With It: Sports, Races and Taxes

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:06 PM PDT

Over the weekend, I ran my first ever half marathon. I?m not gonna sit here and say it was easy. It was not. It was hard (note to self: When the web site warns, ?Our course is not considered easy and fast,? pay attention.) But I finished in a quite respectable 2:18. So why did ...


World waits for Saudi king to announce new heir (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:54 PM PDT

Security guards make a human chain blocking people as the airplane carrying the body of Saudi Crown Prince, Sultan bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, who died in the U.S. on Saturday, arrives at Riyadh Military Air Base in Saudi Arabia, October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Hamad I MohammedReuters - The world's eyes are on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Wednesday to make the widely expected choice of veteran Interior Minister Prince Nayef as his new heir, a decision that would emphasize stability in the top oil exporter.
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