Dera Ismail Khan: Police say 150 Taliban fighters armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades have attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan, freeing hundreds of prisoners, including some suspected militants. Police officer Shafique Khan says the militants attacked the prison in the city of Bannu in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before dawn Sunday. They freed 380 prisoners. It's unclear how many of them were suspected militants. A Taliban spokesman, Asimullah Mehsud, claimed...
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Los Angeles: Suspense master Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980 but that hasn't stopped him from adding a new title to his filmography. 'The White Shadow', produced in 1924, is the earliest known film bearing his creative touch. The long lost film was unveiled to audiences on Thursday night at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills with a screening attended by the stars of two Hitchcock...
07:57 PM, Sep 25, 2011
Los Angeles: Harvard regained its top spot on a list of most talked-about US universities on the Internet, beating its rivals just in time for a return to fall studies, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Harvard conquered stiff competition from runners-up Northwestern University and the University of California, Berkeley based on the number of mentions it receives on the Web, according to the Global Language Monitor, which tracks...
12:19 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Portland: It was a typical early summer evening in Portland: cloudy skies threatening rain, temperatures in the mid-60s, and thousands of naked bicyclists gathered near the city's waterfront for a clothing-free night ride. The Portland version of the World Naked Bike Ride was about to begin. "It is the most liberating, natural feeling possible," said Brooklyn Jay, who came all the way from Phoenix for the ride. World Naked Bike...
02:36 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Islamabad: At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday when militants used a powerful car bomb to target a residential colony for police personnel at Kohat in northwest Pakistan, continuing a wave of terror strikes across the country. Attackers detonated the explosives shortly after 'iftar', the evening meal to break the fast during Ramzan. About 30 quarters in the colony, for low-ranking police personnel, collapsed due to the powerful...
09:26 PM, Sep 07, 2010
Beijing: At least 337 people have been killed and 1,148 others still missing in the rain-triggered mudslides in northwest China's Gansu province in Zhouqu town, an official said on Monday. Torrential rains on Saturday night prompted an avalanche of sludge and debris to crash down on Sunday morning, ripping houses off their foundations and tearing six-story apartment buildings in half,
Xinhua reported. A total of 218 people have received clinical...
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