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05-09-2011
Samsung pulls tablet PC from trade show amid row[1,000 views]

SEOUL, September 5, 2011 - South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Monday it has withdrawn its new tablet computer from a major electronics fair in Berlin after a German court accepted a complaint from US rival Apple.
05-09-2011
China offered Kadafi weapons[1,225 views]

MONTREAL, September 5, 2011 - China offered huge stockpiles of weapons to Moamer Kadhafi during the final months of his regime and held secret talks on shipping them through Algeria and South Africa, The Globe and Mail reported.
03-09-2011
Gay military magazine coming to US bases[988 views]

WASHINGTON, September 3, 2011 - US officials have approved the distribution of a gay-themed magazine at Army and Air Force bases for the first time, coinciding with the end of a ban on openly gay troops, activists said Friday.
03-09-2011
Malaysia seizes 1,000 elephant tusks[1,132 views]

KUALA LUMPUR, September 3, 2011- Malaysia has seized more than 1,000 African elephant tusks in two separate shipments in the past two months, reports said Saturday.
02-09-2011
Annual Tidal Bore on the Qiantang River at Haining[1,194 views]

Every year, thousands of visitors and tourists gather to watch the soaring tide on the banks of Qiantang River in Haining, eastern China's Zhejiang province.
01-09-2011
Seven killed by WWII bomb in Myanmar[1,277 views]

YANGON, September 1, 2011 - Seven people died when an old World War II bomb exploded in western Myanmar, officials said Thursday.
01-09-2011
Tropical Storm Nanmadol weakens, hits China[922 views]

SHANGHAI, August 31, 2011 - Tropical storm Nanmadol made landfall in southern China early Wednesday, bringing heavy rain, the government said, but there were no reports of casualties.
31-08-2011
Pensioner impaled in the eye by handle of garden shears[2,158 views]

A pensioner is lucky to be alive after impaling himself in the eye with a pair of pruning shears after taking a tumble in the garden.
31-08-2011
Gaddafi and his sons ‘raped female bodyguards’[6,870 views]

Col Muammar Gaddafi raped members of his famous unit of "Amazonian" female bodyguards, it has been claimed.
31-08-2011
Father slit throats of girls raped by Gaddafi’s troops[5,727 views]

A father slit the throat of his three teenage daughters in an ‘honour killing’ after they were raped by Gaddafi loyalists during the siege of the port city of Misrata.
30-08-2011
Basketball coach facing life in prison after having sex with three of his students[1,845 views]

A high school basketball coach is facing life in prison after admitting having sex with three of his teenage students - including fathering a child with one of the girls.
30-08-2011
5 recipients got organs from HIV-infected donor[1,264 views]

TAIWAN - The National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) yesterday offered a public apology for mistakenly transplanting to five recipients the organs of an HIV-infected donor on Wednesday, putting them at a high risk of contracting AIDS.
30-08-2011
UN agency warns on mutant bird flu in China, Vietnam[842 views]

ROME, August 29, 2011- The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Monday warned about a new mutant strain of the deadly bird flu H5N1 virus in China and Vietnam, saying there could be a "major resurgence" of the disease.
30-08-2011
Pentagon under fire over war contracts[823 views]

WASHINGTON, August 30, 2011 - The Pentagon has wasted more than $30 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan due to shoddy management and a lack of competition, an independent inquiry said Monday.
29-08-2011
Lockerbie bomber comatose, near death[512 views]

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2011 - The only man convicted for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet which killed 270 people when it blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie is "comatose" and "near death" in Libya, CNN reported Sunday.
28-08-2011
Hurricane Irene surges ashore on track to New York[804 views]

NEW YORK, August 27, 2011 - Hurricane Irene clobbered the US east coast Saturday, killing at least three people and paralyzing air traffic before barreling north on course for a rare direct hit on New York City.
27-08-2011
Investigator gives hacking names to suspected victim[832 views]

LONDON, August 26, 2011 - A British private detective has passed the names of staff at the News of the World paper who instructed him to illegally access phone voicemails to the legal team of a suspected hacking victim, his lawyer said Friday.
27-08-2011
In US, world’s oldest person celebrates 115th birthday[762 views]

MIAMI, August 27, 2011 - Besse Cooper celebrated her 115th birthday as the world's oldest person in Monroe, Georgia, Friday, though there was no Elvis impersonator at the party like there was last year, reported local media.
26-08-2011
Sisters ‘abused for 41 years’ by Austrian father[1,053 views]

An Austrian man is being investigated after locking up his two daughters for 41 years and sexually abusing them in a case with chilling parallels to that of fellow countryman Josef Fritzl.
26-08-2011
About 40 dead in Mexico casino attack[784 views]

MEXICO CITY, August 26, 2011- An attack on a casino in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey sparked a massive fire and killed around 40 people, the state prosecutor said Thursday.