Monday, November 9, 2009

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Japan police hunt Hawker murder suspect: report (AFP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 07:42 AM PST


Japan police hunt Hawker murder suspect: report (AFP)



Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:22 AM PST
Japanese police handout shows what they believe is the face of murder suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi after undergoing plastic surgery. The only suspect in the murder of a 22-year-old British woman in Japan worked on a building site for over a year to pay for plastic surgery, according to a news report citing investigation sources.(AFP/JIJI Press/Police Ho)AFP - The only suspect in the murder of a 22-year-old British woman in Japan worked on a building site for over a year to pay for plastic surgery, a news report citing investigation sources said Monday.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:19 AM PST
Pakistani soldiers secure an area near Kotkai village in the south of Waziristan in October 2009. Militant attacks killed six troops in Pakistan's tribal belt, where soldiers backed by warplanes and helicopter gunships are pressing a major anti-Taliban offensive, officials said Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - Militant attacks killed six troops in Pakistan's tribal belt, where soldiers backed by warplanes and helicopter gunships are pressing a major anti-Taliban offensive, officials said Monday.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:07 AM PST
Reuters - China on Monday praised a U.S. trade panel's decision to reject an investigation into imports of Chinese steel fasteners, saying it was the "correct judgment."
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:04 AM PST
A Pakistani security official examines the wreckage of a rickshaw at the site of a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.  A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:49 AM PST
AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il — known for shunning air travel — has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday.
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:39 AM PST
Pakistani policemen remove the wreckage of an auto-rickshaw in Peshawar, where a suicide bomber has killed three people in the second attack in 24 hours as militants step up their bloody campaign.(AFP/A Majeed)AFP - A suicide bomber killed three people on Monday in the second attack in the Pakistani city of Peshawar in 24 hours as militants stepped up efforts to avenge a major offensive against the Taliban.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:35 AM PST
A Sri Lankan worker at a garment factory in Maharagama in October 2009. The IMF on Monday warned Sri Lanka against issuing government bonds to build up foreign currency reserves after it released the second instalment of a 2.6-billion-dollar bailout.(AFP/File/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)AFP - The IMF on Monday warned Sri Lanka against issuing government bonds to build up foreign currency reserves after it released the second instalment of a 2.6-billion-dollar bailout.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:28 AM PST
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, greets Buddhist devotees before preaching in Tawang, in the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state, India, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Clearly uneasy about the Dalai Lama's weeklong visit to Arunachal Pradesh state, at the heart of a border dispute with neighboring China, Indian officials on Monday clamped down on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's visit. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)AP - Indian officials clamped down Monday on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's trip to a disputed border area in an apparent effort to minimize tensions with neighboring China.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:15 AM PST
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani. Indian refining giant Reliance Industries is in talks with stricken US petrochemicals group Lyondell-Basell to buy some of its US assets, a source told AFP Monday.(AFP/File/Sam Panthaky)AFP - Indian refining giant Reliance Industries is in talks with stricken US petrochemicals group Lyondell-Basell to buy some of its US assets, a source told AFP Monday.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:15 AM PST
In this photo made Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, specialists Scott Wetzel, Michael Bonnano and Peter Gaicchi, left to right, and Gennaro Saporito, foreground right, work at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Asian stock markets rose Monday as investors took a surprisingly weak U.S. jobs report as a sign that interest rates in the world's largest economy will stay low longer than expected. European shares opened higher.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:36 AM PST
AP - Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:31 AM PST
AP - A day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's weeklong trip to Asia:
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:30 AM PST
Residents raise slogans during a rally, protesting against relocating Futenama Marine airfield on the southern island of Okinawa, in Ginowan, Japan, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Sunday that no deal on relocating U.S. troops on the Japanese island can be expected during President Barack Obama's visit this week, saying the issue needs more time to resolve. The banner reads: 'Oppose relocation within the prefecture (state).' (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:18 AM PST
An exhibit on climate change in Mexico City?s Papalote children?s museum aims to raise awareness of global warning in one of the world?s top oil producers. Although Mexico has led global efforts to combat climate change, the issue is still new at home. Duration: 01:40(AFPTV)AP - Oil prices climbed toward $79 a barrel Monday in Asia as Hurricane Ida threatened oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:17 AM PST
AP - About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:01 AM PST
AP - A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such alcohol poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business work, an official newspaper reported Monday.
Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:32 PM PST
In this file picture, an armed policeman is deployed along a road in Indanan town in southern Jolo island. The severed head of a school principal who was abducted by Islamic militants in the troubled southern Philippines was dumped at a petrol station on Monday, authorities said.(AFP/File/Therence Koh)AP - The Philippine government on Monday promised to hunt down al-Qaida-linked militants suspected of beheading a schoolteacher whose family failed to raise a ransom demanded by his kidnappers.

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 07:55 PM PST
A teacher points at her school building damaged by a strong earthquake in Bima in Indonesia's West Nusatenggara province November 9, 2009. A strong earthquake struck Indonesia's Sumbawa island early on Monday morning, killing at least one person and injuring around 80 after damaging homes, school and mosque, a police official said.   REUTERS/Stringer   (INDONESIA DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) QUALITY FROM SOURCEAP - A strong undersea earthquake killed two people and damaged buildings on the remote island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, officials said Monday.

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 05:15 PM PST
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai arrives at Ataturk International airport for the 25th Meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Istanbul November 8, 2009. REUTERS/Osman OrsalAP - The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration — a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government.

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:14 AM PST
Pakistani tribesmen, who fled from South Waziristan due to military offensive, wait for their turn to receive relief supplies in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. The operation in South Waziristan, the main Taliban and al-Qaida sanctuary in Pakistan, has sparked a wave of retaliatory attacks that have killed about 300 civilians and security forces in the past month.(AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)AP - As Pakistan's army plows ahead with its offensive in South Waziristan, its success is at risk because the government has yet to come up with a plan to run and rebuild the lawless territory so that the Taliban and al-Qaida don't re-emerge.

China praises U.S. trade panel for rejecting probe (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 07:42 AM PST


China praises U.S. trade panel for rejecting probe (Reuters)


    Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:07 AM PST
    Reuters - China on Monday praised a U.S. trade panel's decision to reject an investigation into imports of Chinese steel fasteners, saying it was the "correct judgment."
    Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:01 AM PST
    AP - A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such alcohol poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business work, an official newspaper reported Monday.
    Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:26 PM PST
    A just-married Chinese couple walk past a General Motors Cadillac car, in Hangzhou in October. US auto giant General Motors said Monday it had extended its record sales streak in China, selling more than 1.5 million units this year in contrast to weak sales at home since exiting bankruptcy.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - US auto giant General Motors said Monday it had extended its record sales streak in China, selling more than 1.5 million units this year in contrast to weak sales at home since exiting bankruptcy.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:23 PM PST
    File photo of top Communist party official in China Li Changchun, who has urged the country's state media to expand its footprint overseas and called on journalists to do more to burnish the image of the nation's leaders.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - A top Communist party official in China has urged the country's state media to expand its footprint overseas and called on journalists to do more to burnish the image of the nation's leaders.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2009 05:22 PM PST
    A pupil receives a H1N1 vaccine injection at a school in Chenzhou, Hunan province October 29, 2009. REUTERS/China DailyReuters - Construction worker Li Fuxing had been in the wealthy Chinese city of Hangzhou for less than a month when a falling beam smashed his knee, landing him with hospital bills equivalent to half a year's wages.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2009 03:57 PM PST
    Employees work at the Nile Textile Group factory in the free zone of Port Said, 220 kms northeast of Cairo. With cheap labour, investment incentives and unrestricted exports, one Chinese textile group has turned to Egypt as an ideal location to produce its ready-made garments, beating stiff competition at home.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)AFP - With cheap labour, investment incentives and unrestricted exports, one Chinese textile group has turned to Egypt as an ideal location to produce its ready-made garments, beating stiff competition at home.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:49 AM PST
    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao talks at a session of the 4th Ministerial Conference of the Sino-African Forum in Egypt at in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - China hopes that the United States will keep its deficit to an appropriate size to ensure basic stability in the U.S. dollar exchange rate, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:56 AM PST
    Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao -- pictured at the opening session of the fourth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh -- has pledged to give Africa $10 billion in loans, brushing off criticism of AFP - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Sunday pledged to give Africa 10 billion dollars in loans, brushing off criticism of "neo-colonialism" as China boosts its presence on the continent.

    Men jailed for £15 debt murders

    Posted: 09 Nov 2009 07:42 AM PST


    Men jailed for £15 debt murders


      Posted: 09 Nov 2009 07:06 AM PST
      Two men who started a fire that killed a teenager and her grandmother in east London are each jailed for a minimum of 25 years.
      Posted: 09 Nov 2009 03:35 AM PST
      David Haye hopes to defend his WBA heavyweight title at a major London venue in early 2010 and Wembley Stadium is on the agenda for a summer bout.
      Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:56 AM PST
      The Queen Mary departs London for France and the site of the old Savoy pier is revealed.
      Posted: 09 Nov 2009 05:57 AM PST
      A council in north-west London denies a plan for residents to report petty crime is a snoopers' charter.
      Posted: 09 Nov 2009 05:42 AM PST
      Four people are stabbed when a group of Asian students is attacked by a gang wielding metal poles and bricks in a suspected race attack in north London.
      Posted: 09 Nov 2009 06:06 AM PST
      Thousands of passengers are affected by a strike by drivers of 750 buses, which halts 43 routes in east London and the City.
      Posted: 09 Nov 2009 04:55 AM PST
      One Londoner recalls a remarkable episode when he flew over the Berlin Wall in a hot air balloon as a mark of protest.
      Posted: 08 Jun 2009 02:40 AM PDT
      Jumoke presents Inspirit, London's best insight into spirituality in the capital with news from London's religious communities and songs to lift the spirit each Sunday morning.
      Posted: 09 Nov 2009 05:43 AM PST
      QPR sign Peterborough United left-back Tommy Williams on loan until January.
      Posted: 23 Oct 2009 03:06 AM PDT
      BBC London is teaming up with West End musical Mamma Mia! for a red-carpet gala in aid of Children in Need - and we want you to be part of it.

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