Mexico police arrested over torture video

Mexico police arrested over torture video

Mexico police arrested over torture video

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:57 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities arrested five policemen on Monday on suspicion of torture after a video was made public showing police officers submerging a detainee's head in a bucket of water.

Al-Qaida in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad blasts (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:39 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announces a new new home financing package for Illinois veterans in military families at a news conference in Chicago. As younger military veterans stream back into Illinois from Iraq and Afghanistan, Illinois faces a challenge as it tries to make them more of a priority in a time of desperately tight budgets. The state has been increasing the amount it spends on veterans services in recent years. But the bulk of that money is spent on older veterans while many younger soldiers and National Guard troops are returning to a difficult economy looking for help with jobs and training. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)AP - An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks that rocked Baghdad last Thursday and killed 69 people.

India activist fasts to call for tougher graft law (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:03 PM PST

AP - An Indian activist began a three-day hunger strike Tuesday calling for Parliament to pass a tougher version of an anti-corruption bill than the one lawmakers are preparing to debate.


North Korea prepares for Kim's funeral

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:10 PM PST

Hundreds of thousands of mourners expected to be mobilised for Wednesday's event, from which foreign guests are barred.


Philippine flood death toll surges

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:22 PM PST

Figure jumps to nearly 1,500, and likely to rise further, as many bodies remain buried in the debris in country's south.


VIDEO: Ultimate thrills from around the world

Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:36 AM PST

A taste of the ultimate adrenaline rushes experienced by Fast Track's reporters over the past year.


China GPS System Begins Service

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 09:05 PM PST

A Chinese rival to the U.S. global positioning system network has started providing services in China and the surrounding area.


Swedish journalists await Ethiopia sentence

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 09:44 PM PST

Two Swedish journalists who were found guilty in Ethiopia of supporting terrorism were expected to be sentenced Tuesday.

Asia stocks lower on concern about US, Europe (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST

In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, Jean Ashton, left, library director at the New-York Historical Society, and Matthew Murphy, the library's head of cataloging, display part of an ongoing collection of Occupy Wall Street items, in New York. More than a half dozen major museums and organizations from the Smithsonian Institution to the New-York Historical Society have been avidly collecting materials produced by the Occupy movement for preservation. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Asian stock markets were mostly lower Tuesday amid worries about weak Christmas sales in the United States and Europe and a warning by Japan's central bank about possible risks from the European debt crisis.

5 die of food poisoning at Mexican rehab center (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:01 PM PST

An armed policeman stands at the entrance to the La Perla drug rehabilitation center in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico Monday Dec. 26, 2011. Medical officials say five recovering drug addicts died and dozens of others were sickened by soy sausage served for Christmas dinner at the rehab center and police are investigating whether the poisoning at the center was accidental or intentional. (AP Photo/Bruno Gonzalez)AP - Medical officials say five recovering drug addicts died and dozens of others were sickened by soy sausage served for Christmas dinner at a rehabilitation center in western Mexico.

Nigeria to change tactics against Boko Haram

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:19 PM PST

Interior minister pleges to secure "the lives of Nigerians" after deadly Christmas bombings by Islamist group.


VIDEO: Fires blaze in Italy's Liguria region

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:47 PM PST

The fire service in north-west Italy has evacuated hundreds of people from their homes as smoke from forest fires chokes the air.


VIDEO: Fires blaze in Italy's Liguria region

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:47 PM PST

The fire service in north-west Italy has evacuated hundreds of people from their homes as smoke from forest fires chokes the air.


The Rise of Mobile and the Return of Neolithic-Style Hunter Gatherers

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:35 PM PST

The proliferation of mobile devices, from smart phones to variously sized tablets, is clearly one of the year?s big cultural stories. But beyond the battles between , , Facebook and Amazon, the rise of the mobile mindset points to something new???or perhaps very, very old???in the nature of humanity. The ?Neolithic revolution? that marked the ...


VIDEO: Palm oil 'threat to orangutans'

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:15 PM PST

Orangutans are believed to be increasingly under threat from palm oil plantations in Indonesia.


VIDEO: Palm oil 'threat to orangutans'

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:15 PM PST

Orangutans are believed to be increasingly under threat from palm oil plantations in Indonesia.


Gingrich in 2006: Romneycare is 'Exciting' and 'Has Tremendous Potential'

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:41 PM PST

Newt Gingrich may bash Romneycare today, but he was for it before he was against it. In an April 2006 newsletter from Newt Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation, Gingrich writes that "the most exciting development of the past few weeks is what has been happening up in Massachusetts. The health bill that Governor Romney signed into law this month has tremendous potential to effect major change in the American health system."


HP Releases Firmware Update To Prevent Printer Hacking

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:30 PM PST

Hewlett Packard has released a firmware update to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in some laser printers.


India and Pakistan hold arms talks

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 07:33 PM PST

Representatives of India and Pakistan on Tuesday will hold the second day of two-day talks on conventional and nuclear weapons, Indian officials said.

Battle for Control of Satellite TV in Iran's Skies

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:55 PM PST

Iran jams channels like the BBC on Western satellites even as Iran's state media company broadcasts pro-government news on some of the same satellites, and at times has aired forced confessions of political detainees.


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