Police say suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 14 (AP)

Police say suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 14 (AP)

Police say suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 14 (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday Sept. 4, 2010, Pakistani villagers walk along a flooded road as floodwaters slowly recede at the mostly agricultural lands of Shah Jamal village, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan. The flooding destroyed 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres) of maize, rice, sugar cane and cotton crops and killed 1.2 million livestock and 6 million poultry, according to preliminary estimates by the U.N. and Pakistan government. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - A suicide car bomb attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan killed at least 14 people Monday and wounded about 40, police said.

NKorea's party members gathering for meeting (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:19 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Pyongyang citizens head home after attending a celebration ceremony rehearsal for the upcoming Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. North Korea is preparing its largest political meeting in 30 years, and leader Kim Jong Il is expected to appoint a son to a key Workers Party position in what would be the strongest sign yet of a succession movement in the secretive communist country. The exact date of the political gathering, set for 'early September,' has not been announced, but analysts have said it could open as soon as Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gao Haorong) ** NO SALES **AP - North Korea's ruling communist party members gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their largest political conference in 30 years, state media reported Monday, amid predictions that leader Kim Jong Il would use the meeting to give a key ruling party position to one of his sons.

Scandal-hit Pakistan cricket team beaten by England (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:10 PM PDT

Pakistan's Umar Akmal plays a shot during the first Natwest International Twenty20 match against England at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Pakistan's latest match in their controversial tour of Britain ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England at Sophia Gardens here on Sunday.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Pakistan's latest match in their controversial tour of Britain ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England at Sophia Gardens here on Sunday.

Suicide car bomber kills 14 in NW Pakistan: police (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:12 PM PDT

The death toll from an attack Monday by a suicide car bomber on a police post in northwest Pakistan has risen to 14, with 34 wounded, police said.(AFP)AFP - The death toll from an attack Monday by a suicide car bomber on a police post in northwest Pakistan has risen to 14, with 34 wounded, police said.

Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:31 PM PDT

NAHUALA, Guatemala -- Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala - some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.


Guatemala - Mudslide - Central America - State of emergency - Mexico


Rwanda after the election

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:14 PM PDT

Officials from the Commonwealth say last month's presidential election in Rwanda was conducted peacefully but there were areas of concern.


Basque separatists ETA declare ceasefire (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:46 PM PDT

A screen grab taken from the website of pro-independence Basque newspaper Gara shows an image of ETA members declaring a ceasefire in the northern Spanish town of Guernica. ETA declared the ceasefire in their flagging 42-year campaign for a homeland independent of Spain.(AFP/BBC/GARA)AFP - Basque separatist fighters ETA declared a ceasefire in their flagging, decades-long campaign of bombing and shooting for a homeland independent of Spain.

China allows insurers to invest in PE, property (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:46 PM PDT

Reuters - China will allow insurers to broaden their investment channels into private equity and real estate, a long-awaited move that could unleash as much as $100 billion worth of fresh funding into unlisted firms and the property sector.


German nuclear reactors to stay

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:15 PM PDT

Politicians and industrialists in Berlin have agreed to extend the life of Germany's nuclear power stations - some of them until 2030 and beyond.


Deaths in attack on Pakistan police

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:57 PM PDT

Bomb-laden vehicle driven into police post in Lakki Marwat in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.


China praises 'sound, stable' relationship with US (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:20 PM PDT

AP - A top Communist Party official said Monday that China's relationship with the U.S. was "sound," but noted there were some difficulties earlier this year that leaders of the countries have pledged to overcome.


Japan fattens textbooks to reverse sliding rank (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken on May 11, 2010, teacher Kazuyo Arai, background standing, and her class listen to a student speaking at Honmoku Elementary School in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is adding about 1,200 pages to elementary school textbooks, bringing the total to nearly 6,100. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - When Mio Honzawa starts fifth grade next April, her textbooks will be thicker.

Wait, you're saying that newspapers track readers online?

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:46 PM PDT

With a more obvious story than I thought possible, the NYT delves into the data action at big news W


Eight policemen dead in Pakistan suicide attack

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:31 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least eight policemen were killed and 13 wounded in a suspected suicide attack on a police station in northwestern Pakistan Monday, police said, the third such attack in the country within a week.

Eight policemen dead in Pakistan suicide attack (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:16 PM PDT

Pakistanis help injured blast victims at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Quetta on September 3. Anti-terror police were on high alert in Pakistan on Saturday as mass burials took place for the victims of a suicide bomber who killed at least 59 people at a Shiite Muslim rally.(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)Reuters - At least eight policemen were killed and 13 wounded in a suspected suicide attack on a police station in the northwestern Pakistani town of Lakki Marwat on Monday, police said.

NZ extends state of emergency

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 07:58 PM PDT

Troops take over southern city of Christchurch as authorities launch cleanup operation after major earthquake.


The Bettencourt Scandal Puts Sarkozy in Growing Peril (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 08:15 PM PDT

Time.com - As the scandal surrounding the L'OrÉal billions further entwines Eric Woerth, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's support for his labor minister could cost him the next election


How Pakistan's Floods Have Made Women Dangerously Visible (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 07:15 PM PDT

Time.com - The public mixing of the genders is leading to enormous tension and fear that violence may break out as men try to defend conservative ideas of honor


Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks (Sept. 6)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 07:13 PM PDT

Investors and traders in China's main financial district in Shanghai are talking about the following


Pakistani refugees showing some can-do spirit

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:59 PM PDT

IN SUKKUR, PAKISTAN As ruined lives and landscapes threaten Pakistan's fragile government, another dismal reality might help save it: The refugees from this summer's catastrophic floods have profoundly low expectations of their leaders.



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