When Afghan killers burst into a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom and shot her brother at close range it barely warranted an investigation.
Police said that no one reported the crime. Were it not that the pair were President Karzai’s cousins — and that the murder had all the hallmarks of a revenge killing connected to a Karzai [...]
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Standard & Poor’s Equity Research keeps buy
S&P equity analyst Tuna Amobi said in a Dec. 22 note that Disney and CBS Corp. (CBS) could be among the initial content partners for a new online TV subscription service for 2010 launch by Apple Inc. (AAPL), based on an unconfirmed Wall Street Journal story. [...]
BRITISH Forces have been taking part in a major warfare exercise in the Falkland Islands, where hundreds of servicemen died during the 1982 conflict.
The Highlanders (4 Scots) joined the Royal Navy and RAF in a two-day operation after an “enemy invasion” on the islands, 8,000 miles from the UK, in the South Atlantic.
Argentina invaded the [...]
Serbia sought to consign its recent bloody past to history yesterday by becoming the latest former Yugoslav republic to apply for membership of the EU.
The President of the former Yugoslav republic, Boris Tadic, encouraged by closer contacts between Belgrade and Brussels in recent months, flew to Stockholm to present the formal application to Fredrik Reinfeldt, [...]
Rudy Guede, one of the three people convicted of killing the British student Meredith Kercher, has had his 30-year prison sentence almost halved on appeal.
Guede, 23, from the Ivory Coast, will now serve 16 years for his role in the death after a decision handed down by an Italian court in Perugia, where the murder [...]
PHILADELPHIA – In the battle against black unemployment, places like the Opportunities Industrialization Center are ground zero.
Savory aromas wafted from a king-size kitchen one recent day as the instructor demonstrated a fish recipe to a dozen aspiring cooks. Nearby, a mock hotel room was waiting to be cleaned. Downstairs, electrical fixtures hung from an exposed [...]
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Police arrested two men after they stole a lizard from an animal hospital and tried to pawn it for alcohol. Police told The Ledger Independent that 44-year-old man and an 18-year-old teen stole the 18-inch bearded dragon from Eagles Landing Pet Hospital last week.
Officers later got a tip that two men [...]
WASHINGTON – The FBI is investigating a hacker attack on Citigroup Inc. that led to the theft of tens of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The bank strenuously denied the report.
Citing anonymous government officials, the Journal reported that the hackers were connected to a Russian cyber gang. Two other computer systems, [...]
A team of British soldiers helped to castrate more than 5,000 sheep on the Falkland Islands after an appeal from local farmers.
The Highlanders, who are on a tour of duty on the islands, were called in after one farm worker was killed in a motorcycle crash and another was injured in a separate accident.
Corporal Scot [...]
Has the U.S. lost its Yankee ingenuity? For the first time in 2009, non-Americans were granted more U.S. patents than resident inventors, accounting for 50.7% of new grants, according to recent data from the Patent & Trademark Office. Moreover, for only the second time in the last 25 years, patent applications fell overall in the [...]