VIDEO: How do you round up a camel herd?

VIDEO: How do you round up a camel herd?

VIDEO: How do you round up a camel herd?

Posted: 18 May 2013 04:36 PM PDT

Australia is home to the world's largest camel herd, but it is causing environmental problems. Simon Reeve is shown how one cattle ranch owner deals with the animals - by rounding them up and selling them for meat.

VIDEO: Pakistani politician is shot dead

Posted: 18 May 2013 05:31 PM PDT

A senior female Pakistani politician has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.

Evening primrose oil found ineffective in treating eczema

Posted: 18 May 2013 11:55 PM PDT

If you suffer from eczema, a new study finds that applying evening primrose oil and borage oil, commonly used alternative treatments, won't do you much good.

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India's weakened Congress wondering if early elections will help

Posted: 18 May 2013 09:43 PM PDT

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Congress party is debating holding a general election in November, six months ahead of schedule, senior party leaders said, reflecting an internal discussion over whether to pull the plug on the shaky ruling coalition or have it serve a full term.

Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older

Posted: 18 May 2013 09:19 PM PDT

QIANTUN, China (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager - washing his clothes, bringing meals to his bed, and keeping him company - a routine he'll keep up until he himself needs the type of care he is now giving.

VIDEO: A call from the top of the world

Posted: 18 May 2013 09:01 PM PDT

British explorer Daniel Hughes has reached the summit of Mount Everest in an attempt to raise £1m for the charity Comic Relief.

Assad: Little chance peace talks would succeed

Posted: 18 May 2013 08:04 PM PDT

LIMA, May 19 — Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb "terrorism" in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would succeed, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper yesterday. Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and ...
    

US Airways plane makes unusual belly landing at Newark airport

Posted: 18 May 2013 07:18 PM PDT

NEWARK, May 19 — A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early yesterday after the plane's landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three ...
    

British police identify new leads in Madeleine McCann case

Posted: 18 May 2013 06:57 PM PDT

LONDON, May 19 — British police said on Friday they had identified people they want to question about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the three-year-old who went missing in Portugal six years ago. Madeleine disappeared from her room at a holiday resort in the Algarve, Portugal, on May 3, 2007, as her parents dined at a nearby restaurant, ...
    

Dozens injured as car plows through parade in Virginia

Posted: 18 May 2013 06:23 PM PDT

RICHMOND, May 19 — A car driven by an elderly man who may have lost consciousness plowed through a small-town parade of hiking enthusiasts in southwestern Virginia yesterday, injuring dozens of people, nine seriously enough to be sent to hospitals, authorities said. The incident occurred in the Appalachian town of Damascus at the start of the ...
    

Two men charged with killing Malcolm X grandson

Posted: 18 May 2013 06:05 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY, May 19 — Two men arrested in the fatal beating of the grandson of US civil rights activist Malcolm X were sent to prison yesterday to await trial, a Mexico City court spokesman said. David Hernandez and Manuel Perez, waiters at the Palace nightclub near Mexico City's popular Garibaldi Square, face charges of murder and robbery, the ...
    

Gunmen kill senior woman member of Pakistani party

Posted: 18 May 2013 05:35 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD, May 19 — Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan yesterday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. Around 150 people were killed in the run-up to national elections held last week, which handed a ...
    

France detains suspect in Toulouse killings investigation

Posted: 18 May 2013 05:10 PM PDT

PARIS, May 19 — French anti-terror judges ordered the detention yesterday of a man on suspicions he aided an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman prepare for a shooting spree last year, a judicial source said. Mohamed Merah killed four Jews and three soldiers in and around the southern city of Toulouse in March last year before he was shot dead by ...
    

Church must help the poorest, not dissect theology

Posted: 18 May 2013 04:41 PM PDT

VATICAN CITY, May 19 — Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people yesterday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks my heart" that the death of a homeless person is not news. Francis, who has made straight talk and simplicity a hallmark of his papacy, made his unscripted ...
    

North Korea fires three short-range missiles

Posted: 18 May 2013 04:20 PM PDT

SEOUL, May 19 — North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast yesterday, South Korea's Defence Ministry said, prompting Western powers to urge Pyongyang to exercise restraint. Launches by the North of short-range missiles are not uncommon but, after recent warnings from the communist state of impending nuclear war, such actions ...
    

VIDEO: Anti-austerity protests in Rome

Posted: 18 May 2013 06:47 PM PDT

Thousands of protesters have marched through Rome in a demonstration against Italy's recently-elected coalition government.

VIDEO: France gay marriage signed into law

Posted: 18 May 2013 06:46 PM PDT

France's president has signed into law a controversial bill making the country the ninth in Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay marriage.

Two men charged with killing Malcolm X grandson

Posted: 18 May 2013 06:01 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two men arrested in the fatal beating of the grandson of U.S. civil rights activist Malcolm X were sent to prison on Saturday to await trial, a Mexico City court spokesman said.

Gunmen kill senior woman member of Pakistani party led by Imran Khan

Posted: 18 May 2013 04:38 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties.

Regional force boosts troop numbers in Central African Republic

Posted: 18 May 2013 03:09 PM PDT

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African military chiefs agreed on Saturday to more than double the size of a regional peacekeeping force deployed in Central African Republic, where authorities have struggled to contain violence after a rebel takeover.

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