Officials: suicide blast outside a key U.S. military base kills 3 Afghans

Officials: suicide blast outside a key U.S. military base kills 3 Afghans

Officials: suicide blast outside a key U.S. military base kills 3 Afghans

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 10:23 PM PST

KABUL – A suicide bomb attack near a key U.S. military base in Afghanistan killed three Afghan civilians on Wednesday, according to officials.

At least seven Afghans were wounded in the strike outside the Chapman base in southeastern Khost province near the border Pakistan, but there were no immediate reports of casualties among the foreign troops.

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Chinese Tourist Travel To Hong Kong Bulges In November

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:32 PM PST

China's economic growth may be easing this year compared with 2011, but visits by mainlanders to Hong Kong are booming. The number of tourist arrivals in Hong Kong by mainland Chinese in November increased by 29.7% from a year earlier to 3.04 million, according to figures from the Hong Kong Tourism [...]

Doctor Who 7.06: Winter Is Coming

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:23 PM PST

"The Snowmen," also known as the 2012 Christmas special, is the beginning of a new chapter in Doctor Who, with a new enemy to chase down and a new companion to chase with. But actually, the new enemy hails from a story from 1967, "The Abominable Snowman." And the companion we meet in the episode is not the one we'll be traveling with on our journey through season seven (or thirty four, depending on how you count).

Google Wants To Grab 90% Of Office Users From Microsoft

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:20 PM PST

2012 was a big year for enterprise software, as companies began to more readily adopt technology to more effectively communicate and collaborate.  It looks like 2013 may be an even bigger year, as in an interview with AllThingsD, Amit Singh, a Google VP and head of its Enterprise unit, said "Our goal [...]

Shinzo Abe elected as Japan's prime minister

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 10:00 PM PST

TOKYO (AP) — The lower house of Parliament has named conservative Shinzo Abe (shin-zoh ah-bay) as Japan's new prime minister.

Japan's Abe gets second term as PM

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 10:19 PM PST

Lower House formally elects conservative leader as prime minister after he led LDP to landslide victory.

The Most Misunderstood Aspect Of Great Leadership

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:07 PM PST

I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leadership great? What immediately came to mind is not only misunderstood, but it also happens to be the most often overlooked element of leadership, and the one which also affords [...]

Three Afghans dead in new blast at U.S. base in Afghan east

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:48 PM PST

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the same base that is believed to be used by the CIA and which a suicide bomber attacked three years ago killing seven CIA employees. The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the eastern town of Khost, saying they had sent a suicide bomber driving a van packed with explosives to the base. "The target was those who serve Americans at that base," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. ...

8 dead in Christmas Day fires, riot in Philippines

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:26 PM PST

Filipino men cut electric lines from a post after a fire hit a slum area in suburban San Juan, east of Manila, Philippines on Christmas day Tuesday Dec. 25, 2012. Fire Officer 2 Noel Binwag said about 2,000 families were left homeless during the fire. Six people also died when a row of apartments went up in flames in a separate fire in suburan Quezon city. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Angry residents beat a man to death and threw rocks at firefighters after a shantytown fire left thousands of people homeless, and another Christmas Day blaze in the Philippine capital left seven people dead, officials said Wednesday.

Afghan bomber attacks near major US base; no dead

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:22 PM PST

Afghan policemen stand guard outside of Kabul police headquarters, where a an American advisor was killed, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 24, 2014. An Afghan policewoman killed an American adviser at the Kabul police headquarters on Monday, a senior Afghan police official said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A vehicle apparently driven by a suicide bomber exploded at the gate of a major U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, with initial reports indicating some Afghans were injured but no one was killed, a NATO command spokesman said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

VIDEO: All aboard the samba train in Brazil

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:19 PM PST

The month of December in Brazil has become a time for celebrating the roots of samba music, and the ''samba train'' has become a popular tradition.

Three Afghans dead in new blast at U.S. base in Afghan east

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 09:48 PM PST

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the same base that is believed to be used by the CIA and which a suicide bomber attacked three years ago killing seven CIA employees.

VIDEO: All aboard the samba train in Brazil

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:19 PM PST

The month of December in Brazil has become a time for celebrating the roots of samba music, and the ''samba train'' has become a popular tradition.

VIDEO: Midnight's Children adapted for film

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:20 PM PST

A cinema adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, will be released in Europe on Wednesday.

U.S. moves to sell advanced spy drones to South Korea

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:14 PM PST

An undated U.S. Air Force handout photo of a RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraftWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration formally proposed a controversial sale of advanced spy drones to help South Korea bear more of its defense from any attack by the heavily armed North. Seoul has requested a possible $1.2 billion sale of four Northrop Grumman Corp RQ-4 "Global Hawk" remotely piloted aircraft with enhanced surveillance capabilities, the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement dated on Monday and distributed on Tuesday. South Korea needs such systems to assume top responsibility for intelligence-gathering from the U.S. ...

Let China's Most Famous Artist Inspire The Rebel Entrepreneur In You

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 03:33 PM PST

Video You need to watch Never Sorry, the documentary about artist-activist-dissident Ai Weiwei. I saw it this summer; it's inspiring. The film depicts his open defiance of the government, leading to an 81-day incarceration. He experiments with his art and searches for answers. He's not afraid to ask questions that others won't. His passion for freedom is contagious. [...]

VIDEO: 'Mourning but thinking of God'

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:46 PM PST

Christmas services have been held in Newtown in Connecticut, where 20 children and six members of staff were shot dead at a local elementary school.

VIDEO: China's child trafficking raids

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:45 PM PST

Chinese authorities say they have rescued 89 children and arrested hundreds of suspects following a crackdown on trafficking rings across the country.

VIDEO: Midnight's Children adapted for film

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:20 PM PST

A cinema adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, will be released in Europe on Wednesday.

Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:01 PM PST

Japan's prime-minister-to-be Shinzo Abe arrives at the parliament for the special diet session in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Capitalizing on the Democrats' failure to improve the economy and its perceived lack of strong leadership, Abe led the Liberal Democratic Party to victory in parliamentary elections Dec. 16. Abe was to be named prime minister later Wednesday. He was also prime minister in 2006-2007. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCETOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet resigned Wednesday to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install the nation's new leader, Shinzo Abe, a conservative whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors.

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