Car bomb kills 7, wounds 20 in central Iraq: police

Car bomb kills 7, wounds 20 in central Iraq: police


Car bomb kills 7, wounds 20 in central Iraq: police

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:10 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb in a parked car killed seven people and wounded 20 on Friday when it exploded in the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, police and hospital sources said.


Sagan triumphs after Tour pile-up

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 08:36 AM PDT

Slovakian Peter Sagan beats Andre Greipel in a sprint finish to claim his third stage win of this year's Tour de France.


Crash parents and child critical

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:07 PM PDT

A mother, father and two-year-old-child are critically ill in hospital after two cars crashed in Devon.


Student leaders arrested in Myanmar

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:36 PM PDT

Wave of arrests on eve of rally to commemorate crackdown on 1988 student movement.


Afghan bureaucrat tasked with recovering millions in bad loans

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:38 PM PDT

KABUL — Abdullah Dowrani's obscure government office didn't even exist during the early years of Kabul Bank's meteoric rise, when the bank took advantage of a fast-and-loose wartime boom and political connections to lavish illegal loans on its shareholders and attract depositors with lucrative lotteries.

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Fukushima: A leadership lesson

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 09:19 AM PDT

Seijiro Takeshita: Can the Japanese move away from consensus decision-making process and governance?


Myanmar: Ai workers detained

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:34 PM PDT

About 10 aid workers, some of them from the United Nations, are being held by authorities in an area of western Myanmar where sectarian clashes killed scores of people last month, the U.N. office in the country said Friday.


Mystery illness killing Cambodian kids

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:51 PM PDT

Dozens of Cambodian children have died of an illness that doctors are trying to diagnose. "They die because their lungs are destroyed," one doctor says. Most of the children have been younger than 3.


Tutu: End the suffering in the Sudans

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:53 AM PDT

In the coming days I will be in Juba and Khartoum, the capitals of South Sudan and Sudan.


U.N. aid workers detained in Myanmar

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 08:57 AM PDT

About 10 aid workers, some of them from the United Nations, are being held by authorities in an area of western Myanmar where sectarian clashes killed scores of people last month, the U.N. office in the country said Friday.


Libya to vote amid fear of violence

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Polls set to open on Saturday morning as federalist protesters threaten to violently disrupt key elections.


Gunmen kill 18 in Pakistan atttack

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 11:40 AM PDT

Attackers killed 18 people traveling by vehicle to Iran in Pakistan's Balochistan province, a city official in Turbat told CNN.


UN debate diverted from whaling

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:43 PM PDT

An attempt to take whale conservation to the UN General Assembly fails at the International Whaling Commission after criticism from hunting nations.


A New York Voice at New York Intersections

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:33 PM PDT

Dennis Ferrara of Brooklyn, a Transportation Department employee, provides the authentic New York voice for many "accessible pedestrian signals" aiding the visually impaired to cross intersections.


Greek PM promises focus on growth

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 11:12 AM PDT

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras promises to focus on reforms and measures to restore economic growth in Greece, in his first major speech to parliament.


Zimmerman released on second bail

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:28 PM PDT

George Zimmerman, the US man charged with second-degree murder over the Florida shooting of Trayvon Martin, is released on a second bail of $1m.


Real-time flood map goes online

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 08:58 AM PDT

A map charting areas of the UK at imminent risk of flooding has proved popular as heavy rain continues.


'Presumed dead' certificate plan

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 07:24 AM PDT

A "certificate of presumed death" could be introduced in England and Wales as part of efforts to provide more help to relatives of missing family members.


Gunmen kill 18 bus passengers in Pakistan: police

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:38 PM PDT

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a bus in southwestern Pakistan near the Iranian border on Friday, killing 18 people and wounding two, Pakistani police said.


Facebook-Yahoo 'patent row ends'

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:25 PM PDT

Facebook and Yahoo have dropped their patent lawsuits against each other without an exchange of cash, say reports.


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