Archive for January 2010
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Japan and the US marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of their security pact Tuesday even as a dispute over plans to move a US Marine base on the southern island of Okinawa strains
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US military helicopters swooped down on Haiti's wrecked presidential palace to deploy troops and supplies on Tuesday as a huge international relief operation to earthquake survivors gained momentum. The Black Hawk helicopters disgorged US troops
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A waxwork of US First Lady Michelle Obama went on display at London's Madame Tussauds tourist attraction on Tuesday, to mark the first anniversary of her husband taking office. A model of Barack Obama was
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The leader of a radical Islamist terror cell was sentenced to life in prison late Monday for planning terror attacks near Toronto. Zakaria Amana, 24, admitted to planning to bomb the city's stock exchange, the
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Google has postponed the launch of two mobile phones in China which use its Android platform, in the first sign its business in the country is starting to be affected by a dispute over hacking
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A Chinese court sentenced a former top supreme court judge to life in prison on Tuesday for taking bribes and other graft charges, a court official and state media said. Huang Songyou is the latest
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Russia has registered the first population increase since the chaotic years which followed the fall of the Soviet Union, bucking a long-term decline that has dampened economic growth projections, officials said on Tuesday. Russia's population
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A European Union official said Tuesday that the EU will continue to sustain financially Palestinian efforts to build their independent state, but cautioned that this support would not continue without clear progress in the peace
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Hundreds of thousands of people thronged the streets of Kolkata in eastern India on Tuesday to pay their last respects to veteran communist leader Jyoti Basu who died at the weekend. Basu, who was the
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At least 192 people have been killed in renewed Muslim-Christian clashes in the central Nigerian city of Jos, a senior local Muslim cleric said on Tuesday. The bodies of the dead were being brought in
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