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  • Year end brings no break in Syrian conflict...0:59
  • Shiite pilgrims killed in deadly Pakistan attack...0:37
  • North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes a rare New Year's speech...1:02
  • UN urges accord at Sudan summit...1:53
  • Raw: Cantor Opposes Senate `Cliff' Bill...0:37
  • Ivory Coast New Years Stampede Kills 60 Injures 250 In Abidjan RIP...1:11
  • UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of descending into hell'...2:22
  • The Long Walk...6:29
  • DR Congo M23 rebels enter Goma city....1:15
  • Outlook for Germany's Merkel in 2013...2:21
  • BREAKING NEWS: 19 DEAD! Shia pilgrims KILLED in SUICIDE bus BOMBING in Pakistan!...1:06
  • Racist Blacks are targeting Asian women for hate crimes in New York...1:54
  • Barack Obama lauds Congress 'fiscal cliff' deal...1:45
www.euronews.com An unverified amateur video has been posted on a social network site reportedly showing elite government troops attacking rebels in a bid to take control of Daraya, a strategic suburb of Damascus. Five people including a child were killed from rocket fire say opposition activists. There were similar scenes in northern Idlib in the town of Maaret al-Numan. One report suggests Syrian rebels in the Aleppo region have been forced to make their own weapons with one member quoted as saying, "no one's giving us any support". The refugee problem has not eased as thousands pour across the borders of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. It's estimated over half a million have fled the 21-month-old conflict which has claimed the lives of around 45000. On the diplomatic front Syria's government has said it welcomes any initiative for talks to end bloodshed. The comments from Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi come after UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said he had a peace plan acceptable to all sides. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com
Year end brings no break in Syr­i­an con­flict
0:59
Shi­ite pil­grims killed in dead­ly Pak­istan at­tack
0:37
North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes a rare New Year's speech
1:02
UN urges ac­cord at Sudan sum­mit
1:53
Raw: Can­tor Op­pos­es Sen­ate `Cliff' Bill
0:37
Ivory Coast New Years Stam­pede Kills 60 In­jures 250 In Abid­jan RIP
1:11
UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of de­scend­ing into hell'
2:22
The Long Walk
6:29
DR Congo M23 rebels enter Goma city.
1:15
Out­look for Ger­many's Merkel in 2013
2:21
BREAK­ING NEWS: 19 DEAD! Shia pil­grims KILLED in SUI­CIDE bus BOMB­ING in Pak­istan!
1:06
Racist Blacks are tar­get­ing Asian women for hate crimes in New York
1:54
Barack Obama lauds Congress 'fis­cal cliff' deal
1:45
UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of de­scend­ing into hell'
2:22
Japan's new PM Shin­zo Abe takes hard line on China
1:34




UN lifts Syria death toll over 60,000
Full Article NZ Herald
02 Jan 2013

The United Nations has estimated that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The UN human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking". Opposition activist groups had been estimating the death toll at more than 45,000...
A Syrian refugee speaks to his family through a hole in their tent in Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon

7 teachers, health workers gunned down in Pakistan
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
02 Jan 2013

ISLAMABAD -- Continuing a militant campaign of violence against aid workers in Pakistan, gunmen Tuesday shot dead seven Pakistani teachers and health workers, six of them women, police officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the shooting, in the Swabi district of the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, fit a...
Pakistani men carry the body of a teacher, who was killed by gunmen, from a hospital for burial in Swabi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad

North Korea's leader calls for peace with South in New Year's speech
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
02 Jan 2013

SEOUL -- In a domestically televised New Year's Day speech, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un said he wanted to "remove confrontation" on this divided peninsula and called on "anti-reunification forces" in South Korea to cease their hostility toward the North. The lengthy address, which laid out the national goals for 2013, marked Mr....
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ceremony to reopen the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

Sudan and South Sudan leaders to hold summit
Full Article Al Jazeera
02 Jan 2013

The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan are set to meet in Ethiopian capital to discuss how to improve border security and resume cross-border oil flows, both governments have said. The African Union will host the summit on Friday between Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir in Addis Ababa, spokesmen...
File - Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, center-left, and South Sudan President Salva Kiir, right, gesture to celebrate the completion of a signing ceremony after the two countries reached a deal on economic and security agreements Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
photo: AP / Elias Asmare

Senate's fiscal cliff bill heads to House, Cantor opposes
Full Article Detroit news
01 Jan 2013

By Andrew Taylor Associated Press Comments House Minority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., center, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, and others, arrive for a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) Washington — The Senate-approved compromise to avert the "fiscal cliff" ran...
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. leaves a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin

Stampede after fireworks kills 61 in Ivory Coast
Full Article The Guardian
01 Jan 2013

INZA BAKAYOKO Associated Press= ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year's fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast's commercial center, killing 61 people — many of them youths — and injuring more than 200, rescue workers said....
An Ivory Coast troop stands next to the belongings of people involved in a deadly stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Jan. 1 2013.
photo: AP / Emanuel Ekra

Syria starts 2013 with aerial strikes and clashes
Full Article The Star
01 Jan 2013

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrians woke on New Year's Day to countrywide aerial bombardment, while President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels fighting to topple him clashed on the outskirts of the capital. Free Syrian Army fighters and civilians search for bodies under rubble after an air strike by a fighter jet loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
In this Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters fire at enemy positions during heavy clashes with government forces, in the Salaheddine district in Aleppo, Syria.
photo: AP / Abdullah Al-Yasin

A New Year's Resolution: An Apology Day?
Full Article WorldNews.com
01 Jan 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People. Not only does such dismissive...
File - Ram Herder, 89, is shown on May 22, 2008 in his Sanders, Ariz. home that was provided by the federal government as part of a massive relocation project to move Navajos from land Congress said belonged to the Hopi Tribe.
photo: AP / Felicia Fonseca

UN slaps sanctions on DR Congo rebels
Full Article Al Jazeera
01 Jan 2013

The United Nations Security Council has slapped an arms embargo on M23 rebels and their alleged Rwandan allies, the FDLR, amid a flare-up of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern region. The council committee tasked with monitoring sanctions on the Congo also imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on two key M23 figures: the group's...
File -  Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) police officers arrive in the North Kivu provincial capital of Goma after the rebel group known as M23 withdrew from the city, 1 December, 2012.
photo: UN / Sylvain Liechti

Merkel warns Germans of tough economic times ahead
Full Article BBC News
31 Dec 2012

Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the German economic climate in 2013 will be "even more difficult". In her new year message, she also cautioned that the eurozone debt crisis was far from over. However, she did say that reforms designed to address the roots of the problem were beginning to bear fruit. Her comments appeared to...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures while posing for photographs after recording her annual New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012.
photo: AP / John MacDougall

Car bombing leaves at least 19 dead, 25 injured in Pakistan
Full Article The Los Angeles Times
30 Dec 2012

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – At least 19 people were killed by a car bomb in Pakistan on Sunday, the latest in a pattern of escalating attacks by militants in recent weeks. An explosives-laden car was detonated next to a convoy of three buses carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan’s western Baluchistan province to Iran. The blast also...
Security men gather at the site of a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012.
photo: AP / Arshad Butt

US woman charged with hate crime in subway death
Full Article Taipei Times
30 Dec 2012

A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform because she has hated Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and thought he was one was charged on Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said. Erika Menendez was charged in the death of Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a 7 train in Queens, New York,...
In this image provided by the New York City Police Department, a composite sketch showing the woman believed to have pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 is shown.
photo: AP / New York City Police Department

Obama Accuses Republicans of Blocking Tax Compromise
Full Article The New York Times
30 Dec 2012

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Sunday implored Congress to act within the next 48 hours to avert the sharpest tax increases and benefit cuts scheduled to take effect on Tuesday. Enlarge This Image Luke Sharrett for The New York Times If a deal is reached, votes in the Senate could begin Sunday. Multimedia Graphic Fiscal Cliff: Changes Set to...
President Barack Obama waves to reporters as he steps off the Marine One helicopter and walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, as he returns early from his Hawaii vacation for meetings on the fiscal cliff.
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

Syria risks becoming ‘new Somalia’: UN envoy
Full Article Zeenews
30 Dec 2012

London: UN-Arab League envoy to Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria seemed far away, adding that the country risked being slithering into ‘hell’. Following talks in Moscow with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei...
In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings from heavy shelling in Homs, Syria, on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network

Black Stars To Meet President Mahama
Full Article Peace FM Online
02 Jan 2013

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced activities for the Black Stars ahead of their departure for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The GFA has lined up some important activities on Thursday for the team before it departs to Abu Dhabi on Friday for the training camp ahead of the competition in South Africa. The entire Black Stars squad,...
Ghanaian soccer fans celebrating in the streets of Accra, Ghana, after their World Cup 2-1 win against the US, that was played in Germany on Thursday, June 22, 2006. The Black Stars advanced to the second round in its first World Cup appearance, beating the Czech Republic and the United States after an opening loss to Italy in Group E. Ghana, one of four African teams making its debut at the World Cup, is the only one still alive.
photo: AP / Olivier Asselin

Carter goes vintage as Wizards fall to visiting Mavericks
Full Article The Examiner
02 Jan 2013

The Washington Wizards kicked off the New Year in defeat Tuesday in a 103-94 loss to Vince Carter and the Dallas Mavericks. The 14-year pro proved he still has something left in the tank as he led the Mavs with a game-high 23 points. Wizards rookie Bradley Beal trailed Carter with a season-high tying 22 points in defeat. "We just played against a...
Dallas Mavericks shooting guard Vince Carter (25) attempts a shot between New York Knicks' Jason Kidd (5) and J.R. Smith (8) in the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, in Dallas. The Mavericks won 114-111. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
photo: AP / Tony Gutierrez

Nuggets end Clippers' streak
Full Article Japan Times
02 Jan 2013

DENVER — During an undefeated five-week run by the Los Angeles Clippers, the Denver Nuggets were just another team they beat along the way. The second time around, the Nuggets were the team that ground the Clippers' streak to a halt. Danilo Gallinari led six Nuggets players in double figures with 17 points and Denver stopped the Clippers'...
The Colorado Convention Center is central to many other downtown attractions including: the 16th Street Mall, the Denver Pavilions, the LoDo (Lower Downtown) district, the Pepsi Center- home of the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Crush and the Colorado Mammoth, Coors Field- home of the Colorado Rockies, Denver's Downtown Aquarium, Elitch Gardens amusement park, and the Denver Botanic Gardens.
photo: Creative Commons / Gfdi

Borussia Dortmund consider move for on-loan Liverpool midfielder Sahin
Full Article Goal
02 Jan 2013

The Turkey international's career has stuttered since he left the German champions in 2011 for Real Madrid, but BVB are interested in bringing him back to Signal Iduna Park By Ewan Roberts More On : Borussia Dortmund, Liverpool, Real Madrid CF, Nuri Sahin...
Liverpool's Nuri Sahin reacts after a missed opportunity during his team's English Premier League soccer match against Stoke at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012.
photo: AP / Jon Super

Armstrong will remain my hero: Yuvraj
Full Article Deccan Chronicle
02 Jan 2013

Kolkata: Seven-time Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong's great fall from the grace is not enough for India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh to change his opinion about the American cyclist who had been slapped with a ban for use of performance-enhancing drugs. "I've read everything that has come out on him. I sent him a New Year message saying that...
Indian Crickter Yuvraj Singh addressing the media during the  inaguration of mobile cancer screening unit at Kolkata on Wednesday 02 January 2013
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

PSG 'target' Cristiano Ronaldo refuses to discuss his Real Madrid future
Full Article The Independent
02 Jan 2013

Cristiano Ronaldo has expressed his desire to focus on football rather than be drawn into discussions about a new contract at Real Madrid. The future of the world's most expensive player has been under speculation ever since he...
Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal gestures during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Zaragoza at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012.
photo: AP / Andres Kudacki

Tomic claims Djokovic scalp
Full Article Sporting Life
02 Jan 2013

Djokovic was under pressure from the start, saving five break points in the opening game before Tomic eventually earned the break in the ninth game for a 5-4 lead. The 20-year-old Australian served...
Serbia's Novak Djokovic argues a call while playing Britain's Andy Murray during the championship match at the 2012 US Open tennis tournament, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, in New York.
photo: AP / Mike Groll

Justin Bieber Sends Condolences To Photographer's Family
Full Article Starpulse
02 Jan 2013

Justin Bieber has reached out to the family of a paparazzo who was killed while photographing the singer's car in Los Angeles, insisting his "thoughts and prayers" are with the victim's relatives. A photographer spotted the superstar's Ferrari on New Year's...
Justin Bieber arrives for the Brit Awards 2011 at The O2 Arena in London, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011.
photo: AP / Joel Ryan

Britney Spears working on new album
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
02 Jan 2013

Britney Spears has confirmed she has finally returned to the recording studio. The US pop princess, who has been busy on the...
Britney Spears Live Paris 6
photo: Creative Commons / Kpo!09

Lovato remembers New Year in rehab two years ago
Full Article Newstrack India
02 Jan 2013

Tweet Los Angeles, Jan 2 (IANS) Singer Demi Lovato wished Happy New Year on Twitter and compare where she is now to where she's been last year. "Two years ago, I watched the ball drop on TV in rehab and cried my eyes out," Lovato tweeted Monday evening, referring to her treatment back in 2010, reports eonline.com....
Demi Lovato perfoms during the 2011 Y100 Jingle Ball at the Bank Atlantic Center Sunrise, Florida - December 10, 2011
photo: WN / Aaron Gilbert

Demi Lovato reflects on drug, bulimia recovery: 'Two years ago I was in rehab'
Full Article The Examiner
01 Jan 2013

Demi Lovato reflected on her newfound sobriety and health in a series of introspective New Year's Eve tweets she sent to her 11.2 million Twitter followers. "Two years ago, I watched the [New Year's] ball drop on TV in rehab and cried my eyes out," Lovato tweeted. "Tonight I'm on the beach with my closest, most loyal friends, sipping coffee and...
Demi Lovato perfoms during the 2011 Y100 Jingle Ball at the Bank Atlantic Center Sunrise, Florida - December 10, 2011
photo: WN / Aaron Gilbert

Brenda Song returning to 'Scandal'
Full Article The Examiner
01 Jan 2013

Brenda Song is set to appear in more episodes of ABCs political thriller, ''Scandal''. Song's co-star, Joshua Malina confirmed on December 30 that the actress is returning to the...
Brenda Song May 09
photo: Creative Commons / Angela George

Justin Bieber Brings 'Believe' Hits To 'New Year's Rockin' Eve': Watch
Full Article Billboard
01 Jan 2013

Justin Bieber capped off a huge 2012 by performing a trio of "Believe" singles on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" on Monday night (Dec. 31) and, at one point, showing off his 18-year-old chiseled abs by momentarily lifting his shirt.  ...
Singer Justin Bieber performs during his My World Tour concert at the National Stadium in Lima, Peru, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Enrique Castro Mendivil, Pool)
photo: AP / Enrique Castro Mendivil, Pool

New Year Tweets: 13 Celebs Wish You a Happy 2013
Full Article Billboard
01 Jan 2013

2013 came in with a flurry on Twitter from musicians including Katy Perry and Carrie Underwood, Rick Ross, No Doubt and PSY all finding their own ways -- in 140 characters or less -- to say Happy New Year. Admonishments to party hard, group pictures with MC Hammer and Carly Rae Jepsen in Times Square, blessings to fans, family and friends,...
Katy Perry performs during the Y100 Jingle Ball at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida USA December 11, 2010
photo: WN / Aaron Gilbert

Anoushka , Norah to represent Ravi Shankar at Grammy Awards
Full Article The Times of India
31 Dec 2012

After the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar, on December 11, 2012, step sisters Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones will collect their father's posthumous Grammy award at the ceremony to be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 10, 2013. "Norah (Jones) and I are planning to receive the award on his behalf together," said Anoushka over an...
Internationally Acclaimed Musical Prodigy Anoushka Shankar and Dancer Mamata Shankar during the grand Launch of
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

Brangelina may have tied the knot on Xmas
Full Article The Times of India
02 Jan 2013

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly got married in a Christmas Day ceremony in the Caribbean. According to the Telegraph, the Hollywood power couple wed in an...
Actor Brad Pitt  and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Good Will Ambassador Angelina Jolie.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Anne Hathaway
photo: AP / Evan Agostini

Umesh Kulkarni organises filmmaking workshop
Full Article The Times of India
01 Jan 2013

Award winning Marathi filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni will be conducting a workshop on filmmaking in Pune in the first week of January. The main idea behind the workshop will be making short films. Passionate about short films as an independent form of storytelling,...
Shri Umesh Kulkarni .
photo: PIB of India

In Bhopal for film shoot, Amrita Rao cancels New Year bash
Full Article The Times of India
01 Jan 2013

BHOPAL: Bollywood actress Amrita Rao cancelled the New Year bash, mourning the death of 23-year-old paramedic who was brutally gang-raped in Delhi. Rao is in Bhopal on a month-long schedule, filming for...
INDIA-BOLLYWOOD-ACTRESS-AMRITA-RAO
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

Kevin Sorbo: Hercules actor and author's brush with deadly aneurysms
Full Article The Washington Times
30 Dec 2012

David Eugene Andrews Ask me a question. Follow @David_E_Andrews LOS ANGELES, December 30, 2012Kevin Sorbo, the immortal Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, reveals his brush with mortality in his book ‘True Strength’. In the late 1990s, Hercules had surpassed Baywatch as the most viewed television show in...
Kevin Sorbo
photo: Creative Commons / ricardo-pereira

Playing Bijlee was mentally draining: Anushka Sharma
Full Article Headlines India
30 Dec 2012

Mumbai, Dec 30: For Anushka Sharma, playing the role of Bijlee in "Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola" was far too complex than the roles she has done till now, and even left her mentally drained. "So far the characters which I have played have been very strong girls so I cannot play them in a relaxed way. I played them the way they...
Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma arrives to promote her upcoming movie " Band Baaja Baaraat" in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. The film is scheduled to be released on Dec.10.
photo: AP / Ajit Solanki

Movie review: Jack Reacher
Full Article NZ Herald
29 Dec 2012

Tom Cruise joins forces with Valkyrie and The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, who takes on directing duties for this adaptation of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novel One Shot. Reacher is an ex-army military police major turned drifter, and the casting of Cruise as the imposing 114kg, 1.96m character of the page was a controversial...
Tom Cruise on MTV Live in December 2008
photo: Creative Commons / MTV Live at http://www.mtv.ca/live

McCartney, 'God particle' scientist get honors
Full Article Denver Post
29 Dec 2012

LONDONStella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the so-called "God particle," are among the hundreds being honored by Queen Elizabeth II this New Year. The list is particularly heavy with Britain's Olympic heroes, but it also includes...
The Stella McCartney (Beatle star Paul McCartney's daughter) range at H&M. The women went crazy when it was launched days ago.
photo: Creative Commons / jaimelondonboy

165 mn mobile Internet users in India by Mar 2015: IAMAI-IMRB
Full Article Indian Express
02 Jan 2013

India is expected to have close to 165 million mobile Internet users by March 2015, up from 87.1 million in December 2012 as more people are accessing the web through mobile devices and dongles, a report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and...
Facebook - Social media - Mobile Phone - Mobile internet
photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba

Hockey India League signs title sponsorship deal with Hero MotoCorp
Full Article Indian Express
02 Jan 2013

The upcoming Hockey India League has signed a multi-year deal with Hero MotoCorp, the world's largest two-wheeler manufacturer, for the title sponsorship of the event. With this sponsorship, the tournament...
Gaurav Tokhi pulled the goalkeeper to the wrong side and sounded the boards from the last stroke to signal victory for Chandigarh Dynamos even as the huge crowd gave a standing ovation to the home team in the first semifinal of the Premier Hockey League at the Sector 42 Stadium here on Saturday. Chandigarh Dynamos defeated Hyderabad Sultans 5-3 after shoot-out. The teams were locked 0-0 after regulation time and 1-1 after extra-time in Western India
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

How Maruti, Titan, Bata, Yamaha manage to attract attention of multiple generations
Full Article The Times of India
02 Jan 2013

Much like the famous recipes handed down generation to generation or the stories grandfather started, father embellished and son wrote, some brands too are part of the family album. It doesn't matter how much and how fast the times change, the new family-tree branches or the new brands that get launched. A mere handful of...
Maruti Suzuki's car at an auto expo-automobile.
photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam

Windows Mobile Apps Development Taking On The Market
Full Article GroundReport
01 Jan 2013

Developing applications for mobile and hand held devices has been in the vogue with high tech mobile devices, tablets and personal digital assistants (PDAs) being introduced in the market and upgraded from time to time. With The development of sophisticated technology and growing popularity of mobile phones, mobile application developers all over...
Windows mobile
photo: Creative Commons / Raul Meidna

Teen's new iPhone comes with 18-point contract... from Mom
Full Article Baltimore Sun
01 Jan 2013

For most people who unwrapped new iPhones this Christmas, lengthy contracts from cellphone companies are a matter of fact. But when 13-year-old Gregory Hofmann found a new iPhone under the tree Christmas morning, he discovered a few other strings, too – 18 of them, to be exact. The new iPhone, which he’d been asking for all year,...
Iphone - Smartphone - Phone - Technology
photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag

Wall Street ends 2012 riding high on "cliff" deal optimism
Full Article Baltimore Sun
01 Jan 2013

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed out 2012 with their strongest day in more than a month, putting the S&P; 500 up 13.4 percent for the year, as lawmakers in Washington closed in on a resolution to the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. The S&P; 500's gain for the year marks its best performance since 2009, as stocks navigated through debt crises in...
Trader Albert Young works from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in New York
photo: AP / Richard Drew

Shoppers get more mobile
Full Article Hong Kong Standard
01 Jan 2013

Tamara lewis used her iPhone to search for Christmas presents for her daughter while waiting in the carpool line. At night, while watching the news in bed, she looked for boots on eBay from her iPad. //--> Wednesday, January 02, 2013 Tamara lewis used her iPhone to search for Christmas presents for her daughter while waiting in the carpool line. At...
Shoppers - Mobiles and Cameras in Dubai
photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag

Bomb blast in Pakistan's Karachi city kills three; 50 injured
Full Article The Times of India
01 Jan 2013

KARACHI: Three persons were killed and 50 others injured today when a bomb planted on a motorcycle went off near a park close to Mutthaida Qaumi Movement headquarters where the party had just finished holding a massive rally. The blast occurred at Ayesha Manzil intersection, located a short distance from Jinnah...
A Pakistani police officer, left, talks on the radio while cameramen flim the site of a blast in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. At least 30 people were injured when a bomb went off in the port city of Karachi just as a large political rally was dispersing. A Senior police officer said the bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked amid a crowd of buses for political workers returning from the rally held by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the dominant political party in Karachi.
photo: AP / Shakil Adil

Year end brings no break in Syrian conflict
Year end brings no break in Syrian conflict
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  • Updated: 02 Jan 2013
www.euronews.com An unverified amateur video has been posted on a social network site reportedly showing elite government troops attacking rebels in a bid to take control of Daraya, a strategic suburb of Damascus. Five people including a child were killed from rocket fire say opposition activists. There were similar scenes in northern Idlib in the town of Maaret al-Numan. One report suggests Syrian rebels in the Aleppo region have been forced to make their own weapons with one member quoted as saying, "no one's giving us any support". The refugee problem has not eased as thousands pour across the borders of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. It's estimated over half a million have fled the 21-month-old conflict which has claimed the lives of around 45000. On the diplomatic front Syria's government has said it welcomes any initiative for talks to end bloodshed. The comments from Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi come after UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said he had a peace plan acceptable to all sides. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com
  • published: 31 Dec 2012
  • views: 1159
  • author: Euronews
http://wn.com/Year_end_brings_no_break_in_Syrian_conflict

Shiite pilgrims killed in deadly Pakistan attack
Shiite pilgrims killed in deadly Pakistan attack
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  • Updated: 31 Dec 2012
A car bomb killed at least 19 Shiite Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan December 30, 2012 as security forces searched for the killers of 21 kidnapped troops in the troubled northwest, officials said. Duration: 00:36
  • published: 30 Dec 2012
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  • author: AFP
http://wn.com/Shiite_pilgrims_killed_in_deadly_Pakistan_attack

North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes a rare New Year's speech
North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes a rare New Year's speech
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  • Updated: 02 Jan 2013
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un makes a rare New Year's speech, the first by the North's leaders in 19 years. Report by Sarah Johnston. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com . Subscribe to ITN News! www.youtube.com
  • published: 01 Jan 2013
  • views: 3902
  • author: itnnews
http://wn.com/North_Korea's_Kim_Jong-un_makes_a_rare_New_Year's_speech

UN urges accord at Sudan summit
UN urges accord at Sudan summit
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The United Nations is urging leaders of Sudan and South Sudan to sign a security agreement. They are meeting in Ethiopia to discuss oil revenues and borders - the issues at the heart of their dispute. Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports from Khartoum.
http://wn.com/UN_urges_accord_at_Sudan_summit

Raw: Cantor Opposes Senate `Cliff' Bill
Raw: Cantor Opposes Senate `Cliff' Bill
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  • Updated: 02 Jan 2013
The No. 2 Republican in the House leadership says he opposes a Senate-passed measure to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor told reporters Tuesday with his GOP lawmakers that he did not support the bill. (Jan. 1)
http://wn.com/Raw_Cantor_Opposes_Senate_`Cliff'_Bill

Ivory Coast New Years Stampede Kills 60 Injures 250 In Abidjan RIP
Ivory Coast New Years Stampede Kills 60 Injures 250 In Abidjan RIP
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At least 60 people have been crushed to death and some 250 injured during new year festivities in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, rescue officials say. The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday near a stadium in the central Plateau area of the city where a fireworks display was held. The cause of the stampede is not yet clear. It occurred as people were heading home after the event. The victims included many children, and the death toll is expected to rise. The site - near Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium - is littered with abandoned clothes and blood stains. Relatives have gone there to get news of missing loved ones. The distraught mother of a nine-year-old boy told local media: "I have just seen all those bodies, but I can't find my son." The 65000-capacity Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium was named after the founding president of Ivory Coast. The night before the tragedy, it hosted a concert by US performer Chris Brown.
  • published: 01 Jan 2013
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  • author: newz4all
http://wn.com/Ivory_Coast_New_Years_Stampede_Kills_60_Injures_250_In_Abidjan_RIP

UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of descending into hell'
UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of descending into hell'
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  • Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy, has warned that without political negotiation, Syria risks descending into "hell" and becoming a failed state. Chief correspondent Alex Thomson reports on the latest from Syria. You can follow Alex Thomson on Twitter here: twitter.com
http://wn.com/UN_envoy_'Syria_at_risk_of_descending_into_hell'

The Long Walk
The Long Walk
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The Navajo's Long Walk to Bosque Redondo.
  • published: 06 Dec 2007
  • views: 19789
  • author: nanebah
http://wn.com/The_Long_Walk

DR Congo M23 rebels enter Goma city.
DR Congo M23 rebels enter Goma city.
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  • Updated: 25 Nov 2012
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Outlook for Germany's Merkel in 2013
Outlook for Germany's Merkel in 2013
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is the woman at the centre of the European financial storm. She has managed to steer both her country and the European Union toward relative calm. But that may change in the year ahead. Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports from Berlin.
http://wn.com/Outlook_for_Germany's_Merkel_in_2013

BREAKING NEWS: 19 DEAD! Shia pilgrims KILLED in SUICIDE bus BOMBING in Pakistan!
BREAKING NEWS: 19 DEAD! Shia pilgrims KILLED in SUICIDE bus BOMBING in Pakistan!
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  • Updated: 30 Dec 2012
A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in south-west Pakistan on Sunday, killing 19 people, a government official and witnesses said. Earlier on Sunday, 21 tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were found shot dead in Pakistan's troubled north-west tribal region, government officials said. Pakistan has experienced a spike in killings over the past year by radical Sunni Muslims targeting Shias who they consider heretics. The violence has been especially pronounced in Baluchistan province, where the latest attack occurred. In addition to the 19 people killed in the bombing in Baluchistan's Mastung district, 25 others were wounded, many of them critically, said Tufail Ahmed, a local political official. The blast completely destroyed the bus that was hit and damaged a second bus carrying Shias that was close by. A witness who was travelling in the second bus told Pakistan's Geo TV the first bus contained over 40 pilgrims heading to neighbouring Iran, a popular religious tourism destination for Shias. A second witness said the bomber rushed by in a truck, swerved in front of the first bus and braked suddenly. The bus slammed into the truck and then a big explosion occurred. Shias make up around 15% of Pakistan's 190 million people. They are scattered around the country but the province of Baluchistan has the largest community, mainly made up of ethnic Hazaras, easily identified by ...
  • published: 30 Dec 2012
  • views: 210
  • author: WYNKnews
http://wn.com/BREAKING_NEWS_19_DEAD!_Shia_pilgrims_KILLED_in_SUICIDE_bus_BOMBING_in_Pakistan!

Racist Blacks are targeting Asian women for hate crimes in New York
Racist Blacks are targeting Asian women for hate crimes in New York
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At least five Asian women have been the victims of assaults in what the New York City Police Department is calling a hate crime spree. All of the victims were attacked in lower Manhattan in and around the Baruch Houses. Surveillance video shows five teens entering the scene of one attack that happened on March 31 at the Gompers Houses at 90 Pitt Street. Two of the teens are female; three are male. In the most recent incident, a 68-year-old woman was assaulted on Tuesday in front of 247 East Broadway at about 11 pm Police say all of the victims have been Asian and between 50-71 years old. The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is looking for the attackers. Robbery does not appear to be a motive in the assaults. If you have any information on the attackers, you are urged to contact police:
http://wn.com/Racist_Blacks_are_targeting_Asian_women_for_hate_crimes_in_New_York

Barack Obama lauds Congress 'fiscal cliff' deal
Barack Obama lauds Congress 'fiscal cliff' deal
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Barack Obama says he has fulfilled a campaign promise to make the US tax system fairer with a deal to avert the 'fiscal cliff' crisis.
  • published: 02 Jan 2013
  • views: 193
  • author: telegraphtv
http://wn.com/Barack_Obama_lauds_Congress_'fiscal_cliff'_deal

UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of descending into hell'
UN envoy: 'Syria at risk of descending into hell'
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  • Duration: 2:22
  • Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy, has warned that without political negotiation, Syria risks descending into "hell" and becoming a failed state. Chief correspondent Alex Thomson reports on the latest from Syria. You can follow Alex Thomson on Twitter here: twitter.com
http://wn.com/UN_envoy_'Syria_at_risk_of_descending_into_hell'

Japan's new PM Shinzo Abe takes hard line on China
Japan's new PM Shinzo Abe takes hard line on China
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After Japan's LDP party won the Japanese elections by a landslide, the next Prime Minister if the country Shinzo Abe has vowed to take a hard line with China over current territorial disputes. Speaking after the victory Mr Abe said that Japan would "stop the challenge" from China over the disputed islands in the East China Sea. "We own and actively control the Senkaku islands, about this point there is no room to negotiate. In regards to this, when Japanese companies or people are harmed in China then this is indeed against international rules. It's necessary to tell both China and international society that we won't tolerate this." The territorial dispute over a rocky group of small, uninhabited islands known by the Japanese as the Senkaku and by the Chinese as the Diaoyu, escalated earlier this year as both nations refused to back down and practised military drills in the area. China's foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said she hoped under the new leadership relations between China and Japan could improve. "We think the most pressing issue is that Japan must show sincerity and take practical steps to appropriately deal with the present situation and work hard to resolve the issue and improve relations between the two countries." 58 year old Mr Abe becomes Japan's seventh Prime Minister in seven years, and has admitted he has a "heavy responsibility" on his shoulders to pull the world's third-largest economy out of recession. Written and Presented by Alfred Joyner
  • published: 17 Dec 2012
  • views: 728
  • author: IBTimesUK
http://wn.com/Japan's_new_PM_Shinzo_Abe_takes_hard_line_on_China


 Massachusetts Gov., Deval Patrick listens to a television reporter´s question after a meeting of his development cabinet at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, Wednesday morning, April 4, 2007 in North Dartmouth., Mass. Patrick announced a Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in their ATP World Tour Tennis singles final match in London Flat-property-real estate-India. ** CORRECTS YEAR ** A Filipino man reacts as he is treated for wounds he sustained from firecrackers during New Year revelries at a hospital in Manila, Philippines on Saturday Jan. 1, 2011.

Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) employees at the emergency operation center in the building used as crisis management headquarters at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. Golf Course Maruti Suzuki's Zen Estilo car at Auto expo-Automobile-Automaker-India. cow milk bags - healthy food

Courtesy Call: Secretary-General with H.E. Mr. Francois Bozize, President of the Central African Republic Venus Williams competes against Agnieszka Radwanska during day 8 of the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open at The Crandon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne, Florida - March 30, 2010 Opposition leader Andry Rajoelina is seen in one of the capital's presidential palaces in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Tuesday March 17, 2009 In this photo provided by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and taken on Friday, June 17, 2011, former South African President Nelson Mandela reads an advance copy of his latest book titled "Nelson Mandela By Himself" , at this home in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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HIV/AIDS Afflicts Migrants Living in Wealthy Countries Asian Football Confederation President Mohamed Bin Hammam, left, speaks as Chung Mong-joon, an outgoing FIFA vice president and an honorary chairman of the Korea Football Association, looks on during their press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Chung expressed support for Hammam, who has announced his candidacy for the FIFA presidency. Lt. Col. David G. Rabel, the Logistics Readiness Squadron Commander, with the 130th Airlift Wing, West Virginia Air National Guard, directs a semi-truck at Yeager Airbase in Charleston, West Virginia. The 130th Airlift Wing is the staging ground for transporting supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in support of relief efforts from the effects of Hurricane Sandy. The West Virginia National Guard has over 200 members aiding in recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy.  The storm blanketed the state with heavy snow and rains and also had severe winds that left homes and properties damaged. Guardsmen are involved in numerous aspects of the operations from search and rescue missions to debris removal. (U.S. Air Force Photo by TSgt Bryan G. Stevens) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) addresses the conference’s High-Level Ministerial Roundtable, flanked by Christiana Figueres (left), Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah (left), Deputy Prime Minister of Qatar and President of COP 18/CMP 8, 5 December, 2012.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 file photo, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks during a luncheon in Sydney. Gillard has denied Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 she personally benefited from a union fund she helped set up for a legal client and her then-boyfriend in 1995. Serena Williams of the United States plays a shot in her match against Alize Cornet of France at the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia Shoppers test the iPhone 5 at an Apple store in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. The Great Barrier Reef is clearly visible from jet planes flying over it
UN lifts Syria death toll over 60,000
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02 Jan 2013

The United Nations has estimated that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The UN human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking". Opposition activist groups had been estimating the death toll at more than 45,000...
A Syrian refugee speaks to his family through a hole in their tent in Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012.
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon

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Mar­kets, Eco­nom­ic Co­op­er­a­tion, Re­forms in Greece, Fi­nan­cial Reg­u­la­to­ry Sys­tem, G20 Sum­mit (2012)
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