Hong Kong selects new leader after tumultuous contest |
- Hong Kong selects new leader after tumultuous contest
- Senegal set to vote in presidential runoff
- Australia's ruling Labor Party crushed in state polls
- Obama visits Korea’s demilitarized zone
- Obama Visits Korea DMZ
- Leung Chun-Ying Wins Hong Kong Election
- Guatemala proposes legalisation of drugs
- Hong Kong's elite heed Beijing, pick Leung leader
- NKoreans honor Kim Jong Il as mourning period ends
- Santorum wins Louisiana Republican primary
- VIDEO: Pope: Mexico close to my heart
- Hong Kong elites heed Beijing, pick Leung leader
- Hong Kong pick Leung Chun-ying as leader as thousands protest
- German entrepreneur makes millions in E.U. through parallel pharmaceutical trade
- Canada's NDP elects new leader, urges unity
- Say Hello! to Pakistan's glamorous side
- Chavez travels to Cuba for radiation treatment
- Escape from a North Korean Prison
- Obama Visits Seoul for Nuclear Talks
- France Eases Terror Alert
| Hong Kong selects new leader after tumultuous contest Posted: 25 Mar 2012 10:47 PM PDT After a boisterous but highly undemocratic contest featuring feuding tycoons, dark rumors of closet communism and a host of scandals over sex, gangsters and an illegal wine cellar, Hong Kong elites on Sunday selected a wealthy, China-backed populist as the new leader of this former British colony. Read full article >>   
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| Senegal set to vote in presidential runoff Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:06 PM PDT Voters to choose between incumbent Abdoulaye Wade and challenger Macky Sall in second round ballot.
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| Australia's ruling Labor Party crushed in state polls Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:55 PM PDT PERTH (Reuters) - Australia's ruling Labor Party has suffered a crushing defeat in an election in the state of Queensland, handing the conservative Liberal National coalition the biggest majority in the state's history.
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| Obama visits Korea’s demilitarized zone Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:10 PM PDT CAMP BONIFAS, S. Korea — President Obama made his first visit to Korea's demilitarized zone Sunday, telling U.S. troops that the contrast between South and North Korea "could not be starker." Addressing 50 U.S. soldiers in the mess hall at this U.N. command post, Obama thanked them for their service at "freedom's frontier" on the divided peninsula. Read full article >>
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| Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:38 PM PDT President Barack Obama made his maiden visit to the demilitarized zone dividing the Korean peninsula, pledging U.S. solidarity with South Korea as he gazed across the heavily fortified border to the north.
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| Leung Chun-Ying Wins Hong Kong Election Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:27 PM PDT Hong Kong's elites chose Leung Chun-ying, a former cabinet member with close ties to China's Communist Party, as the city's next leader, ending months of mudslinging between the two pro-Beijing frontrunners.
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| Guatemala proposes legalisation of drugs Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:39 PM PDT President says war on drugs has failed and region must look at ways to regulate production, transit and consumption.
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| Hong Kong's elite heed Beijing, pick Leung leader Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:25 PM PDT
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| NKoreans honor Kim Jong Il as mourning period ends Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:26 PM PDT North Korea urged its people to rally behind new leader Kim Jong Un as tens of thousands gathered Sunday in a central square to observe the end of a 100-day mourning period following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il.
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| Santorum wins Louisiana Republican primary Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:32 PM PDT Conservative standard bearer picks up another southern state, continuing to thwart Romney's efforts to claim nomination.
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| VIDEO: Pope: Mexico close to my heart Posted: 24 Mar 2012 09:38 PM PDT Pope Benedict XVI has told Mexicans their country is 'close to his heart'. The BBC's Will Grant reports.
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| Hong Kong elites heed Beijing, pick Leung leader Posted: 24 Mar 2012 09:44 PM PDT
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| Hong Kong pick Leung Chun-ying as leader as thousands protest Posted: 24 Mar 2012 09:38 PM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - An election committee of 1,200 Hong Kong notables picked Beijing-loyalist Leung Chun-ying as the city's next leader on Sunday following an election campaign marred by scandals and a tide of public discontent at a high degree of perceived interference from Beijing over the "small circle" poll.
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| German entrepreneur makes millions in E.U. through parallel pharmaceutical trade Posted: 24 Mar 2012 07:49 PM PDT Andreas Mohringer owes his success to a bottle of Benadryl. On vacation in England in the early 1970s, the Austrian entrepreneur caught a cold and bought some of the cough syrup, manufactured in those days by Parke-Davis. Read full article >>
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| Canada's NDP elects new leader, urges unity Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:47 PM PDT
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| Say Hello! to Pakistan's glamorous side Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:58 PM PDT
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| Chavez travels to Cuba for radiation treatment Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:38 PM PDT
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| Escape from a North Korean Prison Posted: 24 Mar 2012 06:16 PM PDT Shin Dong-hyuk is the only person known to have been born in a North Korean prison camp and escaped to the West. Blaine Harden details his unlikely flight.
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| Obama Visits Seoul for Nuclear Talks Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:05 PM PDT President Obama is opening his pitch for faster work to lock down nuclear material that could be used by terrorists with an up-close look at the nuclear front lines along the heavily militarized border with volatile North Korea.
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| Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:33 AM PDT France downgraded a maximum 'scarlet' terrorism alert that had been in effect in Toulouse since a shooter attacked a Jewish school Monday. French prosecutors are investigating whether the alleged killer had any accomplices.
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