Thursday, 01 September 2011
Top Stories
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi, driven into hiding by his foes, on Thursday urged his supporters to fight on, even as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders to discuss reshaping a nation...
The rise of government surveillance is a troublesome legacy of the September 11 attacks. Today, video cameras are visible everywhere in public places, recording people’s every move. But what...
Paris - Leaders of the Libyan uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi sit down with world powers on Thursday to map out the country's rebuilding, 42 years to the day after the former strongman seized...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, just eight months in the job as her country's first female leader, is regarded as one of the world's most powerful women. So powerful, in fact, that she only trails...
Other Top Worldwide Stories
Washington, Sept 1 (PTI) Thursday, September 01, 2011 --> US President Barack Obama has avoided a major political showdown with the opposition Republican as he agreed to address the joint session of the Congress on September 8 instead of September 7...
New York (CNN) -- Christopher Coke, an international drug kingpin whose arrest and extradition to the United States was preceded by a horrific gun battle in Jamaica that left dozens of civilians dead, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to racketeering and...
KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Swollen rivers began falling Wednesday in much of the Northeast, easing the flooding that paralyzed parts of the region after Hurricane Irene and allowing emergency crews to reach all but one of the Vermont towns that had been...
Meghan Morrow sweeps mud and debris from what is left of the Windham Spa,... Corrinne Levin, left, kisses her daughter Jillianne Davis, who's home was... People try to get a car out of a flooded parking lot in Washingtonville,... NEWFANE, Vt. (AP) -...
GROZNY, Russia - Three suicide bombers were responsible for killing at least nine people in the capital of Russia's Chechnya region, a police official in the North Caucasus province said on Wednesday. The attack late on Tuesday near Chechnya's...
WASHINGTON—As much as $60 billion in U.S. tax dollars has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade due to lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corruption, according to an independent panel. In its...
Washingto/New York, Aug 31 (IANS) Wednesday, August 31, 2011 --> As the US East Coast struggled to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, rising floodwaters forced thousands of evacuations in New Jersey and Connecticut with 13 flooded Vermont...
Amnesty International has said it believes that at least 88 people have died in detention in Syria during the past five months. It says those who died, including 10 children, were subjected to beatings, burns, electric shocks and other abuse. The...
Sydney. Australia lashed out Wednesday at WikiLeaks, calling it "incredibly irresponsible" for publishing a secret US cable detailing Australians with suspected links to Yemeni terrorism. The whistle-blowing site's latest batch of confidential and...
MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. East Coast is mopping up after Hurricane Irene's weekend battering that killed around 40 people and authorities and residents are looking out anxiously over the Atlantic and asking: Is another one coming? Tropical Storm...
