Australia flood clean-up starts, tough task ahead

Australia flood clean-up starts, tough task ahead

Australia flood clean-up starts, tough task ahead

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:37 PM PST

BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) - Australia's third-largest city started cleaning up stinking mud and debris on Friday after some of the country's worst floods on record, but in a sign of the task ahead, it could take six months to pump flood waters out of Queensland's coal mines.

U.S. again urges North Korea to meet its obligations

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:42 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday held out the possibility of a resumption of six-party talks if North Korea ceases provocations and meets international obligations, but said there no was sign of it changing its ways.

Gates Calls For North Korea To Change

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:27 PM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Gates said talks between North and South Korea were possible, but reiterated the U.S.' frequent warning that Pyongyang must end its belligerent behavior.


Australia doubles troops for floods

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:42 PM PST

PM deploys more forces as receding waters reveal mountains of muddy wreckage in Australia's third largest city.


Thieves make BMW hottest car at Detroit auto show (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:32 PM PST

Reuters - When carmakers like BMW say they hope people find their next car at auto shows like the one in Detroit this week, this wasn't exactly what they meant.


Tiny Tuvalu imposes emergency after public protest (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:31 PM PST

AP - Emergency rule has been imposed in the tiny South Pacific nation of Tuvalu after protesters marched through the capital demanding the resignation of the country's finance minister.


Kazakh MPs back referendum to extend leader's rule

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:30 PM PST

ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's parliament on Friday voted unanimously in favor of a referendum to extend President Nursultan Nazarbayev's term for a third decade, a move that would allow the veteran leader to bypass an election in 2012.

Fiscal hawk joins Japan cabinet

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:15 PM PST

Prime minister announces new ministers in reshuffle as part of bid to revive the country's struggling economy.


Female police officer shot dead in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 09:49 PM PST

Pakistani security personnel in Quetta in December 2010. Tribal rebels blew up a gas pipeline in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwestern province of Baluchistan early Thursday, cutting supplies to several areas in cold weather, officials said.(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)AP - Police say gunmen have killed a female police officer and four of her relatives in northwest Pakistan.

Tunisians cautious on concessions

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 09:45 PM PST

After president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's speech, media freedoms felt immediately, but police still shoot at protesters.


Genitalia calendar whips up storm in Italy (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 09:29 PM PST

Oliviero Toscani stands in front of his picture AFP - For shock photographer Oliviero Toscani it captures unkempt beauty but a publicity calendar he launched this week made up entirely of close-ups of women's groins has whipped up a storm in Italy.

Obama hosts Chinese rights advocates at White House (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 09:33 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama met on Thursday with five advocates for human rights in China ahead of a state visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao next week, a White House spokesman said.


UK's Lib Dems suffer poll setback

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 09:04 PM PST

Coalition partner's popularity loss evident as Labour widens margin of victory in contest for empty parliamentary seat.


Labour deals by-election blow to government (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 08:50 PM PST

Prime Minister David Cameron (L) campaigns with local candidate Kashif Ali (C) in the Shaw area at Oldham East and Saddleworth on January 6. Labour won a convincing victory on Friday in the first by-election test since the general election, dealing a blow to the coalition government.(AFP/Pool/File/Charlie Bibby)AFP - Labour won a convincing victory on Friday in the first by-election test since the general election, dealing a blow to the coalition government.

Nigerian president wins primary election (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:01 PM PST

President Goodluck Jonathan arrives for the ruling party primary in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. Delegates of Nigeria's ruling party began voting Thursday night to pick its presidential candidate, choosing between honoring a power-sharing agreement by selecting a Muslim or endorsing the oil-rich nation's current Christian leader. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - President Goodluck Jonathan, who became leader of oil-rich Nigeria only after the death of its elected president, handily won the endorsement of the country's ruling party Friday morning, making him the overwhelming favorite to win April's presidential election.

Japan PM to add new faces to cabinet (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 08:46 PM PST

Japan's cabinet resigned, members said, ahead of a reshuffle in which Premier Naoto Kan (pictured) was expected to appoint several new ministers to help him push fiscal reforms and free trade policies.(AFP/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - Prime Minister Naoto Kan is set to add some new faces to his cabinet to help him restore Japan's tattered public finances and open the nation up to free trade policies to spur growth.

Argentine President's Staffer Robbed Ahead of Middle East Trip

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 08:33 PM PST

A member of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's staff was robbed while taking a bundle of cash to his home in the city's trendy Palermo Soho neighborhood.


Pakistan: Why Religious Extremism Unnerves Secular Leaders (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:05 PM PST

Time.com - While the fundamentalist parties' share of the vote is small, the religious attitudes in the mainstream of Pakistani society were sympathetic to the murder of a politician who challenged blasphemy laws


Oil falls to near $91 on weak US jobs market (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 08:23 PM PST

Oil prices rallied for a third straight day Wednesday, climbing in London to more than two-year highs, as the key Alaskan pipeline remained shut following a weekend leak.(AFP/DDP/File/Norbert Millauer)AP - Oil prices fell to near $91 a barrel Friday in Asia as traders mulled whether demand in a slowly recovering U.S. economy will be enough to push crude above $100 soon.

What Google Knows is True

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 08:12 PM PST

Google famously describes itself as on a mission "to organize all the world's information." That sou


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