Beirut: In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday. The assault in Homs, which has been one of the main flashpoints of opposition during the uprising, comes as the UN Security Council prepares to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for...
11:39:40 AM Feb 04, 2012
Salt Lake City: Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous. Breaches were reported this week in Boston, Syracuse, New York, Salt Lake City and Greece. Hackers gained access to the Salt Lake City Police Department website that gathers citizen complaints about drug and other crimes, including phone numbers, addresses...
10:25:56 AM Feb 04, 2012
Las Vegas: A Las Vegas couple who married in 1933 recently celebrated their 78th wedding anniversary with an unexpected present. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter says Wilbur and Theresa Faiss have been married longer than any other couple in the world. Theresa was not well enough to talk, but Wilbur was full of advice. He says marriage is all about give and take, and compromise. Even US President Obama took notice...
09:57:55 AM Feb 04, 2012
Washington: Seeking strong ties with both India and China, the United States has said that its relations with the two Asian giants are not a zero-sum game. "We have a strong bilateral relationship with India. The United States is in the midst of our Asia pivot, we are strengthening our interactions with Asian nations, especially with emerging powers like India and China," US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. These...
09:34:55 AM Feb 04, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama has said country's economy is growing strong and recovery is speeding up. Obama's remarks on the state of the economy came hours after latest report showed that unemployment rate has dropped to 8.3 per cent as added more than 2.4 lakh new jobs in January. "This morning, we received more good news about our economy. In January, American businesses added another 257,000 jobs. The unemployment...
08:53:50 AM Feb 04, 2012
There seems to be no end in sight to tensions in Egypt with the protesters now demanding an end to the country's military rule. ...
08:46:17 AM Feb 04, 2012
Tripoli: Slain dictator of Libya, Moammer Gaddafi's bloodied shirt and wedding ring have been put up for $2 million (Rs 10 crore) auction. The disgraced dictator was wearing the silver ring and bloodied beige shirt when he was dragged from a drainpipe near his home town of Sirte before being beaten and shot. Libyan national Ahmed Warfali is apparently asking for $2 million (Rs 10 crore) for the items after...
08:26:43 AM Feb 04, 2012
Cairo: Protesters filled the streets and clashed for a second day on Friday with police who fired tear gas and birdshot in Cairo, as a deadly soccer riot focused rising public anger over lawlessness and collapsing security a year after Egypt's uprising. Six people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured in the latest bloodshed that followed a violent melee and stampede after a soccer game Wednesday in the...
08:25:07 AM Feb 04, 2012
Las Vegas: Mitt Romney, heavily favored to win Nevada's presidential caucuses Saturday, focused on the state's unemployment rate " which is well above the national average " rather than campaigning against chief Republican rival Newt Gingrich. Campaigning throughout Nevada on Friday, Romney sought to convince weary voters that he alone had the prescriptions for what ails the country " even as the government reported that a quarter-million Americans streamed back...
08:04:49 AM Feb 04, 2012
Washington: Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar wrote to US President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan, current and former US officials told The Associated Press. The letter purportedly from Omar was unsigned. It was passed through a Taliban intermediary in July and intended for the White House. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the letter and its...
07:49:49 AM Feb 04, 2012
Washington: The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama. Nonfarm payrolls jumped 243,000, the Labor Department said on Friday, as factory jobs grew by the most in a year. The jobless rate fell to 8.3 per cent - the lowest since February 2009 - from 8.5...
05:46:02 AM Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: Big decisions on warplane purchases by Japan and India have intensified competition in the multi-billion-dollar global market, with Western defense firms scrambling for orders in Asia and the Middle East as their home-country budgets shrivel. Growing international unease over China's military build-up and ongoing tensions between Iran and Western allies in the Gulf, coupled with the deep pockets of nations basking in high commodity prices, have sparked a...
04:46:09 AM Feb 04, 2012
London: Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on the call too - and now so is the rest of the world. Anonymous published the roughly 15-minute-long recording of the...
03:02:39 AM Feb 04, 2012
Vienna: Iran's apparent reluctance to let UN inspectors visit a military site near Tehran underlines the uphill task they face in convincing the Islamic state to address suspicions it may be seeking to develop nuclear weapons, Western diplomats say. They say the UN nuclear watchdog sought access to the Parchin complex during three days of talks in the Iranian capital, so far without any sign that Iran would agree to...
02:14:08 AM Feb 04, 2012
Brussels: NATO's top official said on Friday that the alliance expects regional powers to contribute to a multibillion dollar fund to finance the Afghan army and police after they assume full responsibility for the war in 2014. Since Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest nations cannot foot the estimated $ 6 billion annual bill, NATO nations will have to pay the bulk of it. But austerity measures and budgetary cuts...
11:24:10 PM Feb 03, 2012
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