Saturday, 22 December 2012
Hazarjoft, Dec 23 : The villages and fields of
Garmsir lie like a snake across the deserts of southern Afghanistan, the head a
cluster of mud houses, irrigation canals and bazaars around the district...
Afghanistan: An army prepares
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Washington, Dec 23 : The US
military has an expression – no man gets left behind. But with the withdrawal of
coalition combat troops from Afghanistan in 2014 drawing closer, the men of the
Afghan...
State: Big surge in Calif. smokeless tobacco sales
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Sacramento, Dec 23 : While cigarette sales have plunged, sales of smokeless tobacco
products have surged in the past decade in California, with use among high
school students especially leaving state...
News Analysis: Harsh winter adds to Afghans' economic woes
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Kabul, Dec 23 : The worsening economy and the continuing threat by militant groups
have dampened the Afghan spirit to fight back and rebuild their country,
particularly now that they are experiencing...
Newtown massacre: Teacher kept kids calm
Saturday, 22 December 2012
New York, Dec 23 :
There was so much gunfire rocking the Sandy Hook Elementary school that one
teacher doubted that she and her young students, locked in a bathroom, were
going to survive.
A third...
The longest war: The shooting at a Connecticut school shows, once again, that there’s no end in sight to our lethal way of life
Saturday, 22 December 2012
New York, Dec 23 : Sometime between the shootings in Columbine in 1999 and at a Tucson
supermarket with Gabby Giffords in early 2011, Americans stopped uttering the
pieties about “Never again.”
Now...
Principal among victims in Conn. shooting rampage
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Newtown, Dec 23 : The principal at the Connecticut elementary school where a gunman
opened fire in a rampage, killing 26 people including 20 children and then
himself, was identified as one of the...
20 children died in Newtown, Conn., school massacre
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Washington, Dec
23 : Twenty children died when a heavily armed man invaded a Newtown,
Conn., elementary school and sprayed staff and students with bullets.
The
gunman, identified as Adam Lanza, 20,...
Substitute teacher becomes heir to gold fortune
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Carson City, Dec 23 : A substitute teacher from California was found to be the only heir to
a fortune of gold coins discovered by a cleaning crew in the home of a reclusive
cousin who quietly stashed...
Microsoft, Motorola file to keep patent case details private
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Seattle, Dec
23 : Microsoft Corp and Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit have
requested a federal judge in Seattle to keep secret from the public various
details from their recent trial concerning...
What future for Afghan woman jailed for being raped?
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Kabul, Dec 22 : Two high profile cases of violence have sparked domestic and
international outcry over the treatment of Afghan women, but campaigners fear a
winding down of the military campaign will...
New details emerge regarding death of Afghan health worker
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Kabul, Dec 22 : When a young Afghan health worker was shot dead last week by armed
men in eastern Afghanistan, suspicion immediately fell on the
Taliban.After all, the hard-line Islamist group has...
A changed way of war in Afghanistan’s skies
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Kabul, Dec 22:
Cmdr. Layne McDowell glanced over his left shoulder, through the canopy of a
Navy F/A-18, to an Afghan canyon 9,000 feet below. An American infantry company
was down there.The soldiers...
A mother fought to end a destructive path and reunite her family
Saturday, 22 December 2012
New
York, Dec 22: Julie Rodriguez, at home with her daughter, Elissa, 8,
and her son Brandon, 11, says she wants to counsel troubled youths.The
Neediest CasesFor the past 100 years, The New York Times...
Florida won't restore rights to famed jewel thief
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Tallahassee, Dec 22 : Jack Roland Murphy, the famed jewel thief and surfer known as "Murph
the Surf," has spent the last quarter-century going into prisons and telling
inmates that they could...
Inquest: Nurse in British royal hoax found hanging
Saturday, 22 December 2012
London, Dec 22 : A nurse was found hanging in her room three days after she had been
duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of
Cambridge, a U.K. inquest was told. The case...
How did right-to-work law pass in union-friendly Michigan?
Saturday, 22 December 2012
New York, Dec
22 : How did a right-to-work law pass in the union stronghold of
Michigan?Media credits a rookie Republican state legislator, who began
his uphill battle nearly two years ago to pass...
Charges upgraded to first degree murder in shooting of Florida teen
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Jacksonville, Dec 22: A grand jury indicted a Florida man
for first degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed, black high school
student last month after an argument over loud rap music.Software...
Texas boy with pentagram carved back discharged
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Richland Hills, Dec 22 : A 6-year-old Texas boy whose father allegedly carved a pentagram on
the child's back is out of the hospital and doing well given the circumstances,
police said.The boy...
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