China railway construction workers killed in road accident

China railway construction workers killed in road accident

China railway construction workers killed in road accident

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:57 PM PDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Twenty-one people were killed and seven injured when a vehicle carrying railway construction workers overturned in northwest China's Gansu Province on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Arab League calls for end to Syria bloodshed

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Foreign ministers urge the government to protect civilians, after activists say dozens are killed in fresh protests.


Real life 'Slumdog Millionaire' wins jackpot

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:36 PM PDT

An office worker who earns $120 a month wins a $1 million on the Indian TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati.


Finally Pixar is Considering an 'Incredibles' Sequel

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:40 PM PDT

My favorite Pixar film ? hands down ? was The Incredibles, the story of a family of superheroes driven into hiding by an overly??litigious??society only to be brought back into the spotlight to save the world from a nerdy??megalomaniac. The movie has only improved with age. Once I became a father and now that I ...


Radio Americana: 'Lucky Now' by Ryan Adams

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:10 PM PDT

I really do love the new Ryan Adams record, Ashes & Fire, and not just because I love ampersands. It?s a return to his best work, his country Americana roots coming back into sharp focus ? thank goodness. I?m biased of course, but Ryan Adams is always at his best when he?s playing the music ...


Seven Billion People & Women's Rights: What is the Connection?

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:04 PM PDT

? At the end of October, the UN has projected that the world's population will reach 7 billion, a scary milestone amidst increasing global political and economic instability. More people will only place increased pressure on our environment, on the world's habitats, forests, and resources such as water. But how does investing in women's rights ...


Will MF Global Be Saved This Weekend?

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:16 PM PDT

No, it's not 2008, but there is a financial firm hoping to sell itself this weekend before it implodes.


Ask Why They Hired The Milkshake

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:05 PM PDT

Marketers often get caught up in a product?s features and specfications, without grasping the reason that people are buying the product in the first place. In this video clip produced by the University of Phoenix lecture series, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen (Forbes cover subject earlier this year) explains how he and his team ...


Egypt prison guards accused of torture death

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:32 PM PDT

Man's death after allegedly being filled with water from hoses raises comparison to case that helped spark revolution.


Syrian security forces fire on rallies, killing 30 (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:31 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 photo, crated rockets are seen in an unguarded storage facility in the desert, some 62 miles (100 kilometers) south of Sirte, Libya. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, that immediate U.S. concerns in Libya are focused on the possibility of providing medical assistance to Libya's wounded and preventing the proliferation of military weapons. (AP Photo/David Sperry)AP - Syrian security forces opened fire Friday on protesters and hunted them down in house-to-house raids, killing about 30 people in the deadliest day in weeks in the country's 7-month-old uprising, activists said.

Samsung Passes Apple in Smartphone Shipments According to New Report

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:23 PM PDT

According to a new report out from the research firm Strategy Analytics Samsung, maker of the Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets, has passed up Apple in smartphone shipments. This is not to say that Samsung has actually sold more units than Apple ? Samsung does not release its unit sales information ? only that ...


VIDEO: Statue of Liberty 125 years old

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:58 PM PDT

One of the most famous symbols of the United States, the Statue of Liberty, celebrated its 125th birthday on Friday.


VIDEO: Musicians in fight on fake drugs

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:02 PM PDT

A campaign to combat counterfeit medicines in Africa has gained the support of two of the continent's biggest musical stars, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Youssou N'Dour.


China Cautious on Europe Aid

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:58 PM PDT

Chinese and European officials sought to play down expectations about when and how China may deploy its vast financial resources to help bail out indebted countries in Europe.


VIDEO: Statue of Liberty 125 years old

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:58 PM PDT

One of the most famous symbols of the United States, the Statue of Liberty, celebrated its 125th birthday on Friday.


Bank of America Rethinking Controversial Debit Card Fees

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:39 PM PDT

Bank of America is reconsidering its plan to charge $5 monthly debit card fees after public outrage has caused several other large banks to drop their own plans to charge similar fees. Bank of America is reconsidering its controversial move to charge monthly debit card fees after a wave of other big banks have dropped ...


Flooded Bangkok's defences hold

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:43 PM PDT

High tide on Saturday was lower than expected, and authorities say they expect waters to begin receding soon.


Death sentence for Morocco bomber

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:40 PM PDT

Mastermind of a deadly bomb attack on a Marrakesh cafe in April has been sentenced to death.


Commonwealth leaders raise polio vaccine spending (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:58 PM PDT

Queen Elizabeth arrives for a dinner at the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Perth, Australia Friday Oct .28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)AP - Commonwealth government leaders meeting in Australia agreed Saturday to step up efforts to eradicate polio worldwide, despite the Afghanistan war setting back vaccination efforts there and in neighboring Pakistan.

Magnitude-6.9 quake strikes Peru coast

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:32 PM PDT

Earthquake rattles buildings 300km away in Lima, but no damages, injuries or tsunami warnings have been reported.


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Car bomb kills senior Yemen policeman: official

Car bomb kills senior Yemen policeman: official

Car bomb kills senior Yemen policeman: official

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:32 PM PDT

ADEN (Reuters) - A senior Yemeni police commander was killed in a car bomb attack in south Yemen on Friday, a security official said, the latest in a series of attacks in the volatile region during nine months of mass protests against the president.

The Lede Blog: Protests Turn Violent in Tunisian Town That Sparked the Arab Spring

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Anger over a local election led to violent protests on Friday in the Tunisian town seen as the birthplace of the Arab Spring.

Fraud trial of Croatia's former PM postponed

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:11 PM PDT

Judge reschedules trial for next week after Ivo Sanader complains of heart problems minutes after hearing begins.


Magnitude 6.9 quake shakes buildings in Peru capital

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:30 PM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck southern Peru on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital Lima, but there were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.

Ireland president: Your choices

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:41 AM PDT

Voters in the Republic of Ireland presidential election explain their choices.


Sports of The Times: World Series: As Game 6 Echoes, Here Comes Game 7

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:49 AM PDT

In 1975 and 1986, the teams that won the classic sixth games had to try doing it all over again in the seventh game, with mixed results.

Rule of Male Succession to British Monarchy Is Abolished

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:29 AM PDT

The 16 countries that recognize the British monarch as head of state have abolished male precedence in the order of succession.

Another Scandal Unsettles Corporate Japan

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:57 AM PDT

Coming on the heels of charges of improper payments made by Olympus, revelations at Daio Paper raised new questions about corporate governance.

Sgt. on trial for alleged sport killings

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:58 AM PDT

Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs is facing a military court martial for the murder of three Afghan civilians. He is the highest ranking soldier charged in what prosecutors say was a rogue "kill squad."

Saving mothers and their babies

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:21 AM PDT

Robin Lim is helping thousands of low-income women in Indonesia have a healthy pregnancy and birth.

Horror of S. Africa's 'corrective rape'

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:44 AM PDT

In South Africa, activists are trying to get 'corrective rape,' where men rape lesbians believing it can turn them straight, made a hate crime.

Former Guantanamo inmates tell of 'torture'

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:16 AM PDT

Guantanamo detainees tell CNN how they were tortured by U.S. interrogators into making false confessions.

Explosion hits Kenyan security forces vehicle

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:46 AM PDT

ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan security forces vehicle was attacked with a makeshift bomb Friday, wounding four, a day after the first serious clash between Kenyan soldiers and Somali militants inside the neighboring nation, police said.

Morocco court sentences Marrakesh bomber to death

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:41 AM PDT

SALE, Morocco (Reuters) - A Moroccan judge sentenced Adel Othmani to death Friday for plotting and carrying out an April 28 bomb attack on a cafe in Marrakesh that killed 17 people, including eight French nationals.

Hitches Signal Difficulties Ahead for the Euro Zone

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:12 PM PDT

Markets take heed as Italy's borrowing costs rise and an Austrian bank posts a big loss.

City Room: Occupy Wall Street Struggles to Make 'the 99%' Look Like Everybody

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:25 PM PDT

At the beginning, there was a visible scarcity of blacks and other minorities among the protesters at Zuccotti Park, which was jarring to people of color who considered joining. Getting the movement to be more diverse has become a priority in recent days.

Sale may lead to Scottish airline

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:34 AM PDT

Scotland could soon have a new airline, based in Aberdeen, BBC Scotland understands.


SeeSaw video website shut down

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:36 AM PDT

The owners of the television internet service pull the plug after failing to agree terms with content providers.


Parents prayed for child's killer

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:16 PM PDT

The parents of a murdered child have said they will not allow killer to embitter them and steal their lives.


Whirlpool shares hit by job cuts

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:23 AM PDT

Shares in Whirlpool fall sharply after the US appliance giant announced 5,000 job cuts and slashed its full-year profit forecast.


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