'Frankenstorm' barrels towards US

'Frankenstorm' barrels towards US

'Frankenstorm' barrels towards US

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT

Hurricane Sandy could merge with a winter storm to create what they have dubbed "Frankenstorm" as it bears down on the US, forecasters warn.


VIDEO: Malala will 'rise again' says father

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT

The father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban, has said his daughter is recovering well in the UK.


VIDEO: Bloodshed in Syria despite truce

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:27 PM PDT

The Syrian capital Damascus has been hit by a car-bomb attack, shattering a four-day ceasefire that had begun hours earlier to mark an Islamic holiday.


VIDEO: Malala will 'rise again' says father

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT

The father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban, has said his daughter is recovering well in the UK.


Love or nothing: The real Greek parallel with Weimar

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Paul Mason on the real Greek parallel with Weimar


Dozens Dead in Myanmar as Sectarian Violence Erupts Again

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

A week of violence between Muslims and Buddhists has left at least 60 dead in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar, a local official said.

Small fire breaks out near Khartoum arms factory

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:17 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A small fire broke out on Friday near Sudan's biggest arms factory in the capital Khartoum, a witness and state media said, two days after Sudan accused Israel of bombing the site.

F.D.A. Finds Unsanitary Conditions at New England Compounding Center

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:49 PM PDT

The agency said its inspectors found mold, bacteria and dirty equipment at the company where the drug implicated in the national meningitis outbreak was manufactured.


Dozens Dead in Myanmar as Sectarian Violence Erupts Again

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:25 PM PDT

A week of violence between Muslims and Buddhists has left at least 60 dead in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar, a local official said.


How bad is Hurricane Sandy? A distressing photo from Haiti

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:52 PM PDT

Hurricane Sandy, currently approaching the U.S. East Coast, tore through theCaribbean this week. It killed 11 in Cuba, making it the deadliest storm there since 2005. Above is a photo showing some of its impact in Haiti, where it killed 16. Officials there have evacuated more than 1,000 people from the internal displacement camps that have held thousands of Haitians since the 2010 earthquake.

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'Relief' at Olympic medal return

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT

TeamGB hockey player Hannah Macleod says it is a "huge relief" as her Olympic bronze medal - one of two stolen at a London nightclub - is returned.


DealBook: Man Claiming Facebook Ownership Arrested on Fraud Charges

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Federal prosecutors say that Paul Ceglia filed a sham federal lawsuit claiming to have been promised a 50 percent share of Facebook, and then doctored, fabricated and destroyed evidence to support his allegations.


Qatars foray into Gaza politics: Bad for Iran, good for Israel?

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 11:26 AM PDT

The monarch of oil-rich Arab gulf nation Qatar,Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, this week became the first foreign head of state to visit Gazas militant Islamist rulers since they won power over the Palestinian territory in 2007. The emir, who has long deployed Qatars astounding energy wealth toward outsized international influence, also handed over $400 million in Gazan reconstruction aid. Hamas, long seen as an ally of Iran, opposes Israel, sometimes violently.

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Merkel's conservatives reach three-year high in key opinion poll

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:05 PM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives climbed to their highest level in more than three years in a leading opinion poll published on Friday, but the results pointed to no outright winner emerging from next September's election.

Romney promises US 'real change'

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT

Mitt Romney promises "real change" against President Obama's "status quo", in a speech following better-than-expected US economic figures.


Iranian dissidents win Sakharov Prize

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and jailed lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh awarded EU prize for human rights and freedom of thought.


Tagg Romney Follows in His Father’s Footsteps, but Probably Not Into Politics

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:51 PM PDT

Tagg Romney says he has no interest in working in a Romney administration and no intention of carrying on the political tradition that began with his grandfather, George.


FiveThirtyEight: The State of the States

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:32 AM PDT

Thursday's polls served to clarify that Barack Obama maintains a narrow lead in states that would get him to 270 electoral votes.


‘Back to Blood,’ by Tom Wolfe

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:41 AM PDT

Tom Wolfe's new novel is built around the gaudy clash of Miami's different ethnic and financial populations.


I'm not retiring yet - Ecclestone

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 11:11 AM PDT

Bernie Ecclestone says he has no plans to step down as Formula 1 boss, suggesting he may continue for three more years.


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