Thanksgiving parade

Thanksgiving parade

Thanksgiving parade

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 12:13 AM PST

The 86th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

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Afghanistan truck bomb kills 2, foreign troops among 70 wounded

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:35 PM PST

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomb killed two people and wounded more than 70 in volatile eastern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, with several foreign troops among those injured.

Philippine massacre clan jostling for power again

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 12:02 AM PST

Dozens of members of a clan whose leaders are on trial for the Philippines' worst political massacre are candidates in 2013 elections, some for the president's party, media and rights groups said Friday.

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China sacks official after sex-tape shots appear online

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:08 PM PST

SHANGHAI, Nov 23 — China sacked today a district Communist Party official after images of him having sex with his mistress were splashed across microblog websites. The case highlights the influence of China's fast-growing microblogging community, and the ruling Communist Party's growing sensitivity and responsiveness to public anger against abuse ...

Church of England will have women bishops, says new Anglican head

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:26 PM PST

ABUJA, Nov 23 — The next archbishop of Canterbury is confident he will consecrate a female bishop, he said yesterday, two days after the Church of England voted against allowing women to become bishops. Bishops and clergy on Tuesday in the General Synod, the Church legislature, comfortably backed the change but lay members were four votes short of ...

Japan knifeman held by police after bank hostages freed, says Kyodo

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:06 PM PST

TOKYO, Nov 23 — A Japanese man holding five people hostage at a bank was arrested today after police stormed the building by breaking through a window, Kyodo news reported. All the hostages were freed. Koji Nagakubo, 32, took the hostages at knifepoint yesterday at a bank in Aichi prefecture in central Japan, demanding the resignation of Prime ...

NZ joins Australia in court against Japanese whaling

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 08:33 PM PST

WELLINGTON, Nov 23 — New Zealand has joined Australia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said today. McCully said New Zealand would support Australia's case in the ICJ after diplomatic initiatives have failed to halt Japanese whaling in the ...

Boehner comments show tough road ahead for ‘fiscal cliff’ talks

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 08:16 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Nov 23 — New comments from top Republican lawmaker John Boehner slamming health care reforms illustrate how hard it will be for Washington to reach a deficit reduction deal when talks resume next week, analysts said yesterday. President Barack Obama and the US Congress will begin negotiating next week on a plan that could avert tax ...

Gunmen kill 7 in Guatemala in attempted hit on drug dealer

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 08:10 PM PST

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 23 — Gunmen dressed as police officers shot dead seven men at a Guatemalan health clinic yesterday in a brazen attempt to kill an alleged drug trafficker, who managed to escape the firefight, the government said. Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez told reporters a gang of men entered the clinic in an upper-class neighbourhood of ...

Pakistan ID cards remove ghost voters, target poor for aid

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 07:26 PM PST

ISLAMABAD, Nov 23— Elderly men wait patiently, carefully combing their hennaed beards, while a guitar-playing student entertains the long queue of Pakistanis lined-up to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned inside a crowded office in the capital Islamabad. This is the unlikely setting for possibly one of Pakistan's few success stories — a ...

Iran says blogger may have died as a result of ‘shock’, says report

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 06:53 PM PST

DUBAI, Nov 23 — Iran said yesterday a blogger who died while in police custody may have lost his life as a result of a form of shock, the official IRNA news agency reported, adding that investigations were not yet concluded. In a case that has sparked international outrage, 35-year-old Sattar Beheshti (picture) who wrote a blog critical of the ...

NATO, Russia clash over missile deployment in Turkey

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 06:44 PM PST

MOSCOW, Nov 23 — NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen rejected Russian criticism yesterday of the alliance's possible deployment of Patriot missiles near Turkey's border with Syria. Russia said earlier it opposed the deployment of the surface-to-air missiles, which Ankara has asked NATO for because it fears spillover from the civil war in its ...

Colombia FARC rebels free 4 Chinese captives held since 2011

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 06:14 PM PST

BOGOTA, Nov 23 — Colombia's FARC rebels freed three captive Chinese oil workers and their translator after holding them in jungle camps for more than a year, the Defence Ministry said yesterday, an apparent goodwill gesture as the rebels seek to negotiate a peace accord to end five decades of war. The captives, who worked for a contractor hired by ...

France indicates support for Palestinian UN vote

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 05:40 PM PST

PARIS, Nov 23 — France yesterday indicated it would support efforts by the Palestinians to secure a diplomatic upgrade at the United Nations in a quest for greater international recognition. Frustrated that their bid for full UN membership failed in the UN Security Council last year amid US opposition, the Palestinians have launched a watered-down ...

Mursi draws fire with new Egypt decree

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 05:25 PM PST

CAIRO, Nov 23 — Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi triggered controversy yesterday by issuing a decree likely to lead to retrials of Hosni Mubarak and his aides but which was compared to the ousted leader's autocratic ways. As well as ordering retrials for Mubarak-era officials responsible for violence during the uprising against his rule, the ...

Thanksgiving Day marked with parades, feasts in wake of Sandy

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 05:13 PM PST

NEW YORK, Nov 23 — Americans celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with parades and sumptuous feasts, some sharing the bounty at East Coast emergency shelters to express gratitude for what they still had after Superstorm Sandy caused widespread damage throughout the region. "We're trying to do it Pilgrim style," said Louis DeCarolis, 51, who was ...

Mercedes S-Class 2014: a preview of the new tech features

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:15 PM PST

The next Mercedes S-Class will be packed with driving assistance features and shock prevention systems thanks to its impressive array of cameras, a mix of specs the carmaker has dubbed "Intelligent Drive".

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Steam gaming network at 50 million users

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:14 PM PST

Several impressive numbers concerning PC gaming network Steam were divulged Wednesday at the London Games Conference by Sega's VP of Digital Distribution, noting that total users number 50 million, with 5 million of them online at any one time.

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Facebook banks on default https for safer data transfer

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:12 PM PST

Facebook is transferring all the accounts of its US users to the safer HTTPS protocol. Up until now, users had to opt in to benefit from the extra safety provided by this type of connection.

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China sacks official after sex-tape shots appear online

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:04 PM PST

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China sacked on Friday a district Communist Party official after images of him having sex with his mistress were splashed across microblog websites.

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