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Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. We’re going to miss him. Deeply, and personally. Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old. We [...]
Saudi King Abdullah revoked a sentence of 10 lashes against a woman who broke a ban on women driving in the kingdom, a Saudi princess said yesterday on her Twitter account. “Thank God, the lashing of Sheima is cancelled,” Princess Amira al-Taweel, wife of billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, wrote on Twitter. “Thanks to [...]
Bodies littered the streets of Hama on Sunday as the Syrian army launched major tank offensives across the country in a fresh bid to crush the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. President Barack Obama said he was “appalled” by the raids and issued his most severe condemnation yet of Mr Assad, saying he would continue [...]
Defence Force chiefs have announced the death of another soldier in Afghanistan. As well, one other soldier was seriously wounded in a separate incident during the same operation. Twenty-eight Australian soldiers have now died in Afghanistan since Australia’s engagement there. Sergeant Langley was involved in a joint Australian-Afghanistan National Army operation in southern Afghanistan when [...]
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEATH AND INJURY BELOW Just released. Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons. The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the [...]
US President Barack Obama is expected to confirm the death of the world’s most wanted man about 1.15pm (AEST). DNA tests are believed to have confirmed Osama bin Laden’s death, although it was not immediately clear how he had been killed. The Saudi-born leader of al-Qaeda had been hunted since a series of attacks on [...]
When Catherine Middleton walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey on Friday — a willowy vision in white — she appeared noticeably thinner than she had in previous months. Her weight loss sparked rumors that she was on the Dukan diet — what appears to be a French spin on the high-protein Atkins diet — [...]
Hena Akhter’s last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl. Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh’s Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her. Guilty, they said, of having an affair with a married man. The imam from the local mosque ordered the fatwa, or [...]
The UN mission in Afghanistan has been thrown into a deep crisis after a furious mob of protesters killed and wounded a number of its staff in one of the country’s most peaceful cities. One police source in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif claimed at least eight foreign UN employees were killed after a demonstration [...]
Japanese engineers worked through the night Thursday to extend an emergency power cable to a nuclear reactor complex crippled by the country’s earthquake and tsunami a week ago. A steady supply of power could enable workers at the Fukushima plant to get water pumps working again in their urgent effort to cool off overheated nuclear [...]
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