Pakistan block of NATO supplies to continue

Pakistan block of NATO supplies to continue


Pakistan block of NATO supplies to continue

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 10:49 PM PST

Prime minister says suspension may remain in place for several weeks, as tensions between Islamabad and US remain high.


Fukushima Ocean Radiation Was 50 Million Times Above Normal, But No Threat: Scientists

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 10:06 PM PST

? Radioaction Still Leaking Into Ocean ? Unknown Effects on Marine Sediments Last April, about a month after the Fukushima nuclear accident, concentrations of cesium-137 in the ocean near the plant peaked at 50 million times above normal levels, according to a study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Society. Last May, Woods Hole senior scientist??Ken ...


Researchers Build A One Particle Steam Engine

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:59 PM PST

Researchers have developed a steam engine that's only a few micrometers wide. It works - although it does sputter a bit.


VIDEO: 'We do not trust each other'

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:31 PM PST

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani has said his country does not trust the United States, and the feeling is mutual.


Gambia's Bensouda set to be next ICC chief

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 10:37 PM PST

Fatima Bensouda, International Criminal Court's deputy, expected to be elected body's chief prosecutor in vote at UN.


Defense urges acquittal in Malaysia Anwar sex case (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 10:06 PM PST

AP - Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's defense lawyers have urged Malaysia's High Court to acquit him on sodomy charges because they claim the man who accused him is a liar.


Is it Atherosclerosis for Ma Bell's Management, Arrogance or Both?

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:41 PM PST

Is it Atherosclerosis for Ma Bell's Management? Its failed takeover of T Mobile cost it $3 billion in cash and it is also giving away spectrum valued at $1 billion. The stated point of the deal was it didn't have enough spectrum to meet its future needs for deploying LTE so why would you offer to give any away if the deal failed to gain approval? Doesn't even look good for the regulators.


VIDEO: 'We do not trust each other'

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:31 PM PST

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani has said his country does not trust the United States, and the feeling is mutual.


Arab uprisings also reshape map of US influence (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:00 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, from left, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Barack Obama, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah II walk to East Room of the White House before making statements on the Middle East peace negotiations in Washington. The case is often made that Washington was caught flatfooted by the Arab Spring and now must adapt to diminished influence in the Middle East. But declaring a twilight for America in the Mideast ignores a big caveat: The deep U.S. connections in the Persian Gulf have so far ridden out the upheavals and are increasingly flexing their political clout around the Arab world. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - About 18 months before the Egyptian uprising that would doom Hosni Mubarak, a U.S. diplomatic cable was sent from Cairo. It described Mubarak as the likely president-for-life and said his regime's ability to intimidate critics and rig elections was as solid as ever.



Peru's president in major shake-up of Cabinet (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:20 PM PST

AP - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala replaced more than half his Cabinet on Sunday, a day after accepting its chief minister's resignation in a move widely interpreted as signaling less tolerance for social protests.


PM: Pakistan's president may be out for 2 weeks (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:19 PM PST

In this picture taken on Aug. 15, 2010, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari listens to a reporter at a press conference in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Zardari traveled to Dubai for medical tests on his heart after falling ill, officials and associates said on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, describing his condition as not life-threatening. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Pakistan's prime minister says that President Asif Ali Zardari may need two weeks to rest in Dubai following medical treatment there before he returns home.



South Korean Officer Dies in Boat Clash

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:11 PM PST

Chinese fishermen stabbed two South Korean Coast Guard officers early Monday, killing one, when the officers tried to stop them from fishing in South Korean waters, a Coast Guard spokesman said.


Rise in Organ Trafficking Seen in Egypt

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:09 PM PST

Egypt's year of political upheaval has left a shortfall in some law enforcement, and that has been a boon for criminal organizations that traffic in human organs, a human-rights group says.


Voters Reject Proposal to Divide Brazilian State

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 04:03 PM PST

Voters in Pará, the country's second-biggest state, rejected a referendum Sunday proposing a division of the state into three.


Poland Gives Arab Nations Lessons

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:42 PM PST

Poland is sharing the hard-won lessons of its jarring 1989 shift to democracy from communism in an effort to ease political transitions in the countries of the Arab spring.


China, India, U.S. Take Steps Toward Emissions Deal

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:27 PM PST

Major industrial and emerging economies set a course to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions over the next decade and beyond, breaking a logjam between China, India and the U.S. that has stymied international climate talks.


Pakistani government denies talks with Taliban (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:41 PM PST

Reuters - Pakistan's interior minister and prime minister have both denied the government is holding peace talks with its homegrown Taliban, according to media, saying it would do so only if the militants first disarmed and surrendered.


Pakistani government denies talks with Taliban

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:42 PM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's interior minister and prime minister have both denied the government is holding peace talks with its homegrown Taliban, according to media, saying it would do so only if the militants first disarmed and surrendered.


De Villepin launches French presidential bid

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:37 PM PST

Conservative politician to run against Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012, possibly diluting support amongst incumbent's base.


South to the Pole: Leadership Wins the Race

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:08 PM PST

? On December 14, 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen, and a small team of four others, accomplished what no one else had ever done before: they reached the South Pole. At the time, this was truly terra incognito: one of the most dangerous and forbidding destinations that could be imagined. Cold and uncharted, ...


Ivory Coast polls see low voter turnout

Ivory Coast polls see low voter turnout


Ivory Coast polls see low voter turnout

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:41 PM PST

The country's first legislative elections in a decade pass without incident, but are overshadowed by opposition boycott.


Israel moves to curb African migrants

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 10:59 AM PST

Cabinet approves $167 million plan to stem flow through its porous border with Egypt.


North Korea warns South over Christmas lights

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:07 PM PST

Pyongyang calls Seoul's plans to light three Christmas trees along the contested border "psychological warfare".


North Korea warns South over Christmas lights

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:07 PM PST

Pyongyang calls Seoul's plans to light three Christmas trees along the contested border "psychological warfare".


Villepin to stand for president

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:27 PM PST

French former prime minister and conservative politician Dominique de Villepin announces he will stand for president in the 2012 election.


Two men charged over Lewis death

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:23 PM PST

Police charge a second man over the death of 16-year-old Liam Aitchison on the Isle of Lewis.


Israel blames Palestinians for spurning peace talks

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:24 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel blamed the Palestinians Sunday for rejecting a call to hold face-to-face peace talks when representatives of Middle East power brokers visit the region later this week.


Congo opposition plans protest over election results

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:49 AM PST

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's opposition will call for peaceful demonstrations across the country early next week to protest against Joseph Kabila's disputed election victory, a situation France's foreign minister Alain Juppe described Sunday as explosive.


Egypt liberal calls for shift in tactics

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:43 AM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian liberals trailing Islamists in a parliamentary election must close ranks and tone down their anti-Islamist fears if they are to succeed, one of the country's most influential liberals said Sunday.


Georgian business tycoon launches opposition movement

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:16 AM PST

TBILISI (Reuters) - Several thousand people gathered in the Georgian capital Tbilisi Sunday to attend the first public meeting of a new movement led by billionaire and aspiring opposition politician Bidzina Ivanishvili.


Amy Winehouse tops UK album chart

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:00 AM PST

Amy Winehouse's posthumous album, Lioness: Hidden Treasures, tops the UK album chart in its first week of release.


Bayrou closes on 3rd place in French 2012 race: poll

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:08 AM PST

PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential candidate Francois Bayrou has almost doubled his support since saying Wednesday he would run for office, a poll showed on Sunday, marking him out as a key figure both left and right will seek to woo in next year's election.


A Wanderer, the Singer Dion Returns to the Bronx

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 08:17 PM PST

Dion DiMucci, who has been collaborating on a play called "The Wanderer" about his life and music, returned to his old Bronx neighborhood with the play's director.


Ivory Coast Voting Ends Peacefully

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 10:51 AM PST

Voting closed in Ivory Coast in the first elections since last year's presidential poll that ended in violence and the deaths of at least 3,000 people. Reports suggested the parliamentary vote was generally peaceful, but an opposition boycott reduced turnout.


X Factor hopefuls set for final

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 07:41 AM PST

X Factor finalists Marcus Collins and Little Mix are set to go head to head in the final of the reality singing competition later.


Sunderland 2-1 Blackburn

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST

Sebastian Larsson's late strike earns a dramatic victory for Sunderland against Blackburn in Martin O'Neill's first game in charge.


German police arrest suspect in neo-Nazi cell probe

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 10:44 AM PST

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police arrested a man Sunday they suspect of assisting in six murders and one attempted murder committed by a neo-Nazi cell uncovered last month, a case that has renewed debate about banning a far-right party.


Medvedev Facebook post draws ire

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:00 PM PST

Russian Facebook users pour scorn on a promise by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to investigate reports of widespread electoral fraud.


Stoke 2-1 Tottenham

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:56 AM PST

Tottenham's 11-match unbeaten league run ends as Matthew Etherington scores twice against his old club to hand Stoke a third straight league win.


Big business deeply troubled by Cameron's veto

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:24 AM PST

UK business troubled by the PM's euro move, says Robert Peston