Wednesday, January 12, 2011

world news breking today

View of a polling centre and poll worker at the Comboni School in Raja, West Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan, on the third day of balloting in the South's referendum on independence, 11 January, 2011.
photo: UN / Paul Banks
Turnout in Southern Sudan vote passes 60 percent
read more The Boston Globe
JUBA, Sudan-More than 60 percent of registered voters already have cast ballots in an independence referendum, crossing the threshold needed for the vote to be valid if it creates the new country of Southern Sudan as expected, a southern official said Wednesday. The south's secession would split Africa's largest...
Open Minds Worldwide
Lauren Booth: go go go read more
WorldNews.com
The previously secretive campaign to halt Press TV Ltd, the British production company, from...
More Guns, Less Crime? read more
The New York Times
The New York Times today detailed the broad support that gun rights have in Arizona, where even...
Fury of the flood read more
NZ Herald
Bystanders watched in horror as a woman only centimetres from her rescuer lost her grip on a...
Top Stories Worldwide
Michael Jackson's Doctor To Stand Trial For Manslaughter read more
A fan lights a candle next to a photo showing American pop star Michael Jackson as fans pay tribute to the star outside a hotel he stayed at the last time he visited Hungary in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, June 26, 2009
Starpulse
Michael Jackson's physician has been ordered to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter. Los Angeles prosecutors have ended their case in the preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to try Dr. Conrad Murray. The lawyers...
photo: AP / MTI, Balazs Mohai
Court Manslaughter Michael Jackson Photos Wikipedia: Death of Michael Jackson
Brisbane braces for massive floods read more
Lake Annand Park flooded in Toowoomba.
Al Jazeera
Thousands of residents have begun evacuating the outskirts of Australia's third-largest city as other people piled sandbags outside their homes and stockpiled food amid rising floodwaters and more heavy rain. The streets of Brisbane in...
photo: Creative Commons / Timothy
Brisbane Floods Photos Rescue Wikipedia: 2010–2011 Queensland floods
Dalai Lama says transform tragedy into strength read more
Dalai Lama says transform tragedy into strength
The Examiner
During chaotic times in a troubled world the advice of the Dalai Lama is desired more so than ever among Buddhists here in Syracuse and worldwide. And so there has been interest in the Dalai Lama's recent advice to turn tragedy into strength. The...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
China Dalai Lama Photos Tibet Tragedy Wikipedia: Dalai Lama
'Mini rebellion' over postal plans read more
Royal Mail vans are seen at a sorting office in London, during a postal strike, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
The Guardian
Opponents of the Government's controversial plans to privatise the Royal Mail have claimed there are signs of a "mini-rebellion" by coalition MPs before the Bill reaches its final stages in the Commons on Wednesday. Postal affairs minister...
photo: AP / Matt Dunham
Photos Postal Rebellion UK Wikipedia: Postal Services Bill
Fight against Dalai Lama to be intense: Chinese official read more
Fight against Dalai Lama to be intense: Chinese official
DNA India
A top Chinese official heading the Tibet administration has said fight against Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is meant to be "lasting, intense and complicated" and the government faced "arduous task" of keeping secessionists...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Chinese Fight Leader Photos Tibet Wikipedia: Dalai Lama
China: A force for peace in Sudan? read more
China: A force for peace in Sudan?
Al Jazeera
As the world anxiously watches the southern Sudanese vote on whether to secede, one country has more to lose than most if civil war returns to Sudan. With an estimated 24,000 of its citizens living there and billions of dollars worth of investments...
photo: UN / Paul Banks
Khartoum Peace Photos Referendum Sudan
EU official warns Ukraine on political repression, media crackdown read more
EU official warns Ukraine on political repression, media crackdown
m&c
Kiev - European Union enlargement commissioner Stefan Fule on Tuesday warned Ukraine's leadership against cracking down on political opposition and infringing the rights of independent media, according to news reports....
photo: EC / EC
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Politics
In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi seen during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, not seen, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Berlusconi arrived on a private visit
Sport
Lara Gut of Switzerland attends a free-ski session in Soelden, Austria, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. The Alpine ski World Cup season gets underway over the weekend in Soelden, Austria, site of the traditional season-opening giant slalom.
Business
** FILE **Alcoa Warrick Operations employee of 36 years Fred Westbrook, 59, of Evansville, Ind., inspects the finished rolls of aluminum as they come off the last stage of the production line in this April 7, 2006, file photo at the Alcoa Warrick Operations in Newburgh, Ind. The new energy bill requires automakers to sharply boost the fuel economy of cars and trucks, and that means vehicles are sure to become lighter. It's good news for makers of aluminum and carbon fiber, analysts say, while the steel industry is likely to see its piece of the auto-industry pie diminish. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. PatmoreFile)hg3
Sci / Tech / Health
In this picture taken Jan. 6, 2011 turkey hens look for feed in Neerstedt near Oldenburg, northern Germany after it was closed.
Politics
In this May 14, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire, inside Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba
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