Australia's floods bill climbs and takes toll on PM

Australia's floods bill climbs and takes toll on PM

Australia's floods bill climbs and takes toll on PM

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:12 PM PST

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's floods disaster piled more pressure on government finances and the prime minister on Friday, after the hardest-hit state of Queensland cut its economic growth rate by more than half and confirmed a sharp slump in coal exports.

Death toll reaches 51 day after Iraq funeral blast (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:04 PM PST

Iraqis gather at the scene of a car bomb in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces were on alert Friday after the massive car bomb ripped through a funeral ceremony, killing 48 people in Iraq's bloodiest day in more than two months.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - Iraqi police and hospital officials say the death toll has reached 51 a day after the bombing of a Shiite funeral that triggered a near riot by Baghdad residents seething over security lapses.

5 years on, Morales' Bolivian revolution falters (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:07 PM PST

Bolivia's President Evo Morales holds a devil mask, traditionally used by carnival performers during the 'Diablada de Oruro' dance, as his Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, left, stands by at a celebration marking Morales' government's fifth anniversary and the first of his second term in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday Jan. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)AP - The fiery coca growers' union leader who rode discontent over his predecessor's pro-business policies to Bolivia's presidency is suddenly grappling with a sharp drop in popularity.

Samsung's 4th-quarter net profit rises 13 percent (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:04 PM PST

A man uses his mobile phone near the sign advertising Samsung Electronics Co's HD TV screen at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Samsung Electronics said net profit rose 13 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 amid higher sales of semiconductors and smartphones as the technology giant rounded out a record year for profits and revenue. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - Samsung Electronics, the world's largest manufacturer of computer memory chips and flat screen televisions, said net profit rose 13 percent in the fourth quarter amid higher sales of semiconductors and smartphones as the technology giant rounded out a record year for earnings and revenue.

The Life of Szeto Wah

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:47 PM PST

Mourners will commemorate the life of pro-democracy advocate Szeto Wah on Jan. 29. A look back at the life of the Chinese dissident who rallied for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.


Belgium's long wait for a government

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:48 PM PST

In Belgium, it has been 229 days since the country held parliamentary elections, and it still does not have a government.


UK police arrest WikiLeaks backers for Web attacks

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:29 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website.

UK police arrest WikiLeaks backers for Web attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:29 PM PST

Reuters - British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website.


US official in Pakistan shooting may face charges (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:29 PM PST

People look at blood stains at a roadside in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. A U.S. consular employee shot and killed two gunmen as they approached his vehicle in a congested street in Pakistan on Thursday, police said. A pedestrian was also killed by a speeding American car trying to help, an officer said. The U.S. Embassy said an American employee was involved in the incident in Lahore, but could not confirm details. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - A U.S. consular employee in Pakistan alleged to have shot dead two gunmen who may have been intent on robbing him could face criminal charges, police said Friday, in a case that may inflame anti-American anger in the country.

Trial of police official's son turns cause célèbre in China

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:18 PM PST

The Chinese public, especially those in the social networking community, are abuzz over the case of a man charged with killing a girl in a hit-and-run: He is the son of a local deputy police chief.

Nokia: The World's Slowest Growing Smart Phone Maker

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:06 PM PST

Nokia (NOK) remains the world?s largest mobile phone company. It is also one of the most clear


SAfrica says 'no need to panic' over Mandela (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:30 PM PST

Students from a school adjacent to the hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela, fondly known as 'Madiba', is said to be undergoing routine tests make their way past a giant get well card Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)AP - Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was starting his third day in a Johannesburg hospital Friday, but the South African government says there is no need to panic.

Nine Maoists killed in battle with Indian police (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:09 PM PST

Indian paramilitary soldiers on patrol inside a Maoist stronghold jungle close to West Bengal and Jharkhand states in April, 2010. Indian security forces killed nine suspected Maoist guerrillas Friday in a gunfight in eastern India during a search of the area for rebels, police said.(AFP/File)AFP - Indian security forces killed nine suspected Maoist guerrillas Friday in a gunfight in eastern India during a search of the area for rebels, police said.

Australian PM defends floods tax (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:52 PM PST

Flood waters engulf roads in the town of Horsham, Victoria. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Friday defended her plan for a one-off tax to pay for the flood disaster, insisting there was no AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Friday defended her plan for a one-off tax to pay for the flood disaster, insisting there was no "big pile of money" to pay for the rebuilding.

Robert Mugabe clamps down further in Zimbabwe (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:41 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In a normal country, preparations for an election look a bit like this: dozens of eager young activists put up posters, candidates meet with community leaders to seek their support, and middle-aged party members walk door-to-door to meet the voters.


Why Lebanon's Sunnis resent Hezbollah's new influence (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:06 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - At the entrance to the Sunni quarter of Tarek Jdeide, an armored personnel carrier with Lebanese soldiers sitting on top clattered down the darkened street. Its caterpillar tracks ground over the smoking embers of rubber tires set alight by Sunni protesters.


Avnet CEO Vallee Sees 5% IT Spending Growth In 2011

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:38 PM PST

Avnet (AVT) CEO Roy Vallee sits in one of the better perches for getting a reading on the overall he


Ireland's deficit-cutting budget passes Dail (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:37 PM PST

AP - Ireland's lower house of parliament has passed a deficit-cutting budget designed to comply with a massive international bailout's requirements, in a victory for the embattled minority government.


Obama ratchets up pressure on Egypt's Mubarak (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:13 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday to make "absolutely critical" reforms, ratcheting up pressure on a key U.S. ally in the face of street protests seeking his ouster.


Divisions over S. Lanka book festival boycott call (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:34 PM PST

A tourist attends the Galle Literature Festival on January 27. Does it make sense to defend freedom of speech by calling on writers not to speak at a literary festival? The question is being asked in Sri Lanka this week, after media freedom group Reporters Without Borders called on authors to boycott the Galle Literary Festival because of the country's human rights record.(AFP/Ishara S.Kodikara)AFP - Does it make sense to defend freedom of speech by calling on writers not to speak at a literary festival?
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