Pakistan mulls deploying air defenses to border (AP)

Pakistan mulls deploying air defenses to border (AP)

Pakistan mulls deploying air defenses to border (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 11:13 PM PST

Pakistanis take part in an anti NATO rally in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Hundreds Pakistanis from different groups rallied in the capital Islamabad to condemn NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops. The placard and banner in center reading as 'there is only one treatment for American aggression holy war holy war' and completely stop the NATO supplies route . (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Pakistan may deploy air defense weapons to the Afghan border to prevent future NATO airstrikes such as the ones last month that the Pakistani military claims were pre-planned and that killed 24 of the country's soldiers, a senior lawmaker said Friday.

VIDEO: Iran shows off captured US drone

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 05:46 PM PST

Iranian TV has shown the video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed late last week.


Dozens killed in India hospital blaze

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 11:35 PM PST

At least 46 people die in Indian city of Kolkata after fire guts five-storey medical facility.


VIDEO: What if the euro collapses?

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:42 PM PST

Five people speculate on what could happen if the euro collapses.


VIDEO: Two shot dead at Virginia Tech

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 04:44 PM PST

Officials at Virginia Tech university have lifted a lockdown on campus after a police officer and another person were shot dead.


Hospital fire kills at least 40 in eastern India (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:42 PM PST

Reuters - Fire swept through a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Friday, killing at least 40 people, most of them patients, officials said.


Panasonic to launch smartphones in Europe in March (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:43 PM PST

Reuters - Panasonic Corp said on Friday it would launch a smartphone in Europe in March, the first step of a global rollout targeting 15 million unit sales worldwide in the year to March 2016, nine million of them overseas.


UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrives in Mogadishu (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:54 PM PST

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Somalia's seaside capital on Friday, the first visit in years by the U.N.'s top leader to a city known for a seemingly perpetual state of war.


Hospital fire kills at least 40 in eastern India

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:42 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fire swept through a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Friday, killing at least 40 people, most of them patients, officials said.

Europeans request UN rights briefing on Syria

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:31 PM PST

France, Britain and Germany call for UN human rights chief to brief UN Security Council on situation in Syria.


Africa reacts to Obama's pro-gay rights foreign policy (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:29 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The enshrinement of equal rights for homosexuals into US foreign policy activities has drawn quick ire from African nations, with one senior figure saying the notion is “abhorrent†across the continent. 


Asian stocks fall on fears over European crisis (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 09:34 PM PST

Christmas ornaments hang from a Christmas tree outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York December 8, 2011. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)AP - Asian stocks tumbled Friday as investors grew increasingly pessimistic that European leaders would conclude a crucial summit without finding a solution radical enough to fix the continent's debt crisis.

Dutch state apologizes for 1947 Indonesia massacre (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 09:27 PM PST

AP - After six decades of waiting, relatives of men killed in a notorious massacre during Indonesia's bitter struggle for independence finally got what they wanted: An official apology from the Dutch state.


Palestinian dies in Israeli air raid on Gaza

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 09:51 PM PST

Civilian killed and at least 13 injured in air strike on Gaza City, a day after two fighters died in Israeli air raid.


For India's Lowest Castes, Path Forward Is 'Backward'

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 09:29 PM PST

India is trying to lift its poor through a vast affirmative-action program based on caste—the social hierarchy long viewed as one of the great evils of Indian society.


Analysis: Behind India's reform fiasco, a party in crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:56 PM PST

Reuters - Returning to India from a summit in Bali last month, Manmohan Singh was cheerful and determined: once dubbed "the leader other leaders love," he'd enjoyed meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Barack Obama, one of his biggest admirers.


What If Fracking Did Pollute Wyoming Water?

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:54 PM PST

An EPA report blames fracking for water pollution.


Analysis: Behind India's reform fiasco, a party in crisis

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:56 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Returning to India from a summit in Bali last month, Manmohan Singh was cheerful and determined: once dubbed "the leader other leaders love," he'd enjoyed meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Barack Obama, one of his biggest admirers.

Nobel winners urge China to release Liu Xiaobo (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:43 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken in April 2008, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo poses for a photographer in China. Five Nobel Peace Prize winners have launched a campaign urging the release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu, a fellow Nobel recipient, a statement from the group said Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - Five Nobel Peace Prize winners have launched a campaign urging the release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, a fellow Nobel recipient, a statement from the group said Friday.

An Interview with Dell's Procurement Director on Environmental Sustainability

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:17 PM PST

Building upon the Opportunity Green Business Conference held in November, I interviewed Oliver Campbell, Director of Procurement at . We discussed sustainable packaging, their recent partnership with EcoCradle Mushroom Packaging, doing good as good business, and much more. Oliver has served as the Procurement Director of Packaging and Packaging Engineering at since 2006 and is ...


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