An asylum seeker cut his throat and dozens more were on hunger strike at an northern Australian detention centre, refugee activists said, taking immigration protests into their fourth day. Two men had cut themselves, “one on his arm and one on his throat”, at the remote Scherger detention centre in northern Queensland state, said refugee activist Pamela Curr from [...]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard denied Friday that it shot down an unmanned US spy plane over a uranium enrichment site, saying that its air defenses had only hit a test target. The statement carried on the official IRNA news agency was in response to a claim earlier this week by Iranian lawmaker Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari, who [...]
A Cleveland jury on Friday found ex-Marine and convicted rapist Anthony Sowell guilty of the serial killing of 11 women whose decomposed remains were found in and around his home. Sowell, 51, faces the possibility of the death penalty. Many of the victims had histories of drug problems or were transients, and their disappearances were not [...]
Facebook Inc won a dismissal of a second lawsuit by the Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss seeking to boost their $65 million settlement with the company and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock in Boston dismissed litigation over the accord, three months after a federal appeals court in San Francisco turned aside a related lawsuit. The 2008 [...]
East Coast residents sought refuge on Friday from sweltering temperatures, flocking to beaches, pools and air-conditioned malls as the mercury climbed into the triple-digits along the U.S. Eastern seaboard. The temperature in Newark, New Jersey soared to 108 degrees, shattering an all-time high of 105 degrees recorded in 2001, according to AccuWeather.com. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor [...]
James Murdoch was under pressure Saturday over the extent of his knowledge of Britain’s phone-hacking scandal as accusations oftabloid wrongdoing spread beyond the felled News of the World. Prime Minister David Cameron, facing a rough ride over his appointment of former NotW editor Andy Coulson as his media chief, said Murdoch had “questions to answer” over claims of misleading [...]
They were calling for his head before the start of the season. Come big series, tough conditions, early wickets, and Kevin Pietersen scored his first home century in three years, going on to beat India to pulp, complete his third double, and set up a bold declaration about 40 minutes before stumps. It was his [...]
Silicon Valley’s old guard is waking up to the fact that the era of consumer PC may be in its twilight, accelerating the need to invest and adapt to rapidly changing tastes. This week’s earnings from the giants of technology had one thing in common: they underscored yet again how consumers are increasingly shunning desktop [...]
A U.N. food official says international sanctions against the government of Madagascar’s coup leader have left half of the population hungry. Olivier De Schutter also says nearly 70 percent of people living in the south of the island nation are food insecure and that the country has one of the world’s highest levels of child malnutrition. He [...]
The Norwegian man detained after twin attacks in Norway on Friday that killed at least 17 people has links to right-wing extremism, independent Norwegian television TV2 reported on Saturday, without disclosing its sources. Police were searching a flat in west Oslo where the man lived, TV2 said.
