Airlines Count Down to Safest Year on Record |
- Airlines Count Down to Safest Year on Record
- Witnesses: Security forces shooting Syrian protesters
- Putin ejects Kremlin "puppet master" after protests
- Democratic Senator Nelson to quit
- Tensions simmer as Iraqi leaders try resolve crisis
- Pakistan marks anniversary of Bhutto murder
- Sources: Israeli airstrike kills 1 in Gaza
- U.S. decision on Yemen risks worsening violence
- The meaning of debt
- City Room: Tentative Deal May Avert Nurses' Strike at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals
- IMF says expects January talks with Egypt
- Israel rally against segregation
- Security forces fire on protesters in Homs, witnesses say
- Trial of accused spy begins in Iran
- India Ink: India Takes First Steps to Create New Anticorruption Agency
- Daily Stock Market Activity
- Zardari criticises chief justice
- Obama to Nominate Economics Professor and Ex-Treasury Official to Fed Board
- Foul Play Ruled Out in Fire That Killed 5 in Connecticut, Mayor Says
- Kim Jong Il funeral set for Wednesday
| Airlines Count Down to Safest Year on Record Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:56 PM PST This year appears set to eclipse the postwar record low rate of passenger deaths—one per 6.4 million passengers.
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| Witnesses: Security forces shooting Syrian protesters Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:25 AM PST Syrian authorities are firing bullets and tear gas at demonstrators. "I saw several get shot and I ran," an activist told CNN.      
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| Putin ejects Kremlin "puppet master" after protests Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:51 PM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - The architect of Vladimir Putin's tightly controlled political system became one its most senior victims on Tuesday when he was shunted out of the Kremlin in the wake of the biggest opposition protests of Putin's 12-year rule.    
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| Democratic Senator Nelson to quit Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST Democratic Senator Ben Nelson announces he will not seek re-election next year - a decision that could cost Barack Obama's party control of the chamber.
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| Tensions simmer as Iraqi leaders try resolve crisis Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's courts should decide the charges against a vice president accused of running death squads, Iraq's Kurdish president and the Sunni speaker of parliament said on Tuesday in a bid to defuse the country's worst political crisis in a year.   
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| Pakistan marks anniversary of Bhutto murder Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:49 PM PST President Asif Ali Zardari tells mourners best way to honour his wife, Benazir Bhutto, is "to protect democracy".
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| Sources: Israeli airstrike kills 1 in Gaza Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:48 AM PST An Israeli airstrike in Gaza Tuesday killed one Islamic Jihad militant and injured three others, sources said.   
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| U.S. decision on Yemen risks worsening violence Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:10 PM PST Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will be allowed to come to the United States for medical treatment in New York, a senior Obama administration official said Tuesday.   
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| Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:12 AM PST Why the true meaning of being in debt goes beyond money
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| City Room: Tentative Deal May Avert Nurses' Strike at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:04 PM PST The deal would avoid a nurses' strike and would allow both sides to claim victory. 
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| IMF says expects January talks with Egypt Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:06 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it planned to meet with Egyptian authorities to discuss the country's economic problems but added that any funding would have to be based on benchmarks that had broad political support.   
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| Israel rally against segregation Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:56 AM PST Thousands rally in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh against ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremism, prompted by attacks on "immodestly" dressed women.
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| Security forces fire on protesters in Homs, witnesses say Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:47 AM PST Syrian authorities are firing bullets and tear gas at demonstrators. "I saw several get shot and I ran," an activist told CNN.  
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| Trial of accused spy begins in Iran Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST A man accused of being an American spy in Iran told a judge Tuesday that his mission was to deliver information to Iranian intelligence circles, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.   
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| India Ink: India Takes First Steps to Create New Anticorruption Agency Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:10 AM PST The vote is the first step to creating a new law. 
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| Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:13 PM PST Home prices in the United States fell by more than 1 percent in October, a private survey showed on Tuesday, and analysts expect the downward trend will continue in the months ahead. 
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| Zardari criticises chief justice Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:58 AM PST Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said the country's top judge has ignored the murder of his wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
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| Obama to Nominate Economics Professor and Ex-Treasury Official to Fed Board Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:16 PM PST President Obama will nominate a Harvard economist, Jeremy C. Stein, and a former private equity executive, Jerome H. Powell, to the Federal Reserve board of governors. 
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| Foul Play Ruled Out in Fire That Killed 5 in Connecticut, Mayor Says Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:27 AM PST Mayor Michael Pavia of Stamford, Conn., said foul play had been ruled out in the blaze that killed three children and their grandparents on Sunday. 
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| Kim Jong Il funeral set for Wednesday Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:01 AM PST Thousands of people likely will file past a glass case housing the body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his funeral Wednesday to pay respects to the dictator, revered as a godlike "dear leader" by his people.   
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