Provides the latest RSS feeds for World News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Hong Kong Herald.com http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/2411cd3571b4f088/ en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:02:38 -0500 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:02:38 -0500 30 Afghanistan has praised Pakistan's offer to help mediate with the Taliban. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611132/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:55:04 -0500 Hong Kong Herald.com http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611132/cs/1/ U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has met lkeaders in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to garner support for increasing sanctions against Iran. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611176/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:14:58 -0500 Hong Kong Herald.com http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611176/cs/1/ The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy sites. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611131/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:11 -0500 Hong Kong Herald.com http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611131/cs/1/ The UK newspaper The Telegraph has revealed allegations contained in a new book that the CIA engaged in a mind control experiment in a village in France. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611134/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:12:42 -0500 The Telegraph http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611134/cs/1/ Sebastian Pinera has been sworn in as Chile's new president as the country still shakes from aftershocks following February's massive earthquake. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611182/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:25:43 -0500 Hong Kong Herald.com http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611182/cs/1/ British Airways (BA) said Friday it feared 'massive disruption' from threatened strikes by cabin crews later this month as Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a last-ditch negotiated settlement between the airline and trade unions. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611426/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611426/cs/1/ Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be presented the Appeal of Conscience Foundation 2010 World Statesman Award in September in New York. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611422/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611422/cs/1/ Actor Dustin Hoffman is said to be in final talks to direct 'Quartet', a comedy that will star Maggie Smith, Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611400/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611400/cs/1/ Pakistan Friday successfully test-fired new missiles and torpedoes in the Arabian Sea, the country's navy said. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611394/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:04 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611394/cs/1/ Holders Pakistan Friday announced their final 15-man squad, without naming the captain, for the World Twenty20 championship in the West Indies. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611392/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:03 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611392/cs/1/ 'Kalpana', an exhibition comprising the works of 14 renowned Indian artists, has opened at a glittering ceremony in Shymkent, the capital of South Kazakhstan at the newly constructed and prestigious art gallery. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611389/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611389/cs/1/ At least 28 people were killed in the central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan after severe flooding and a helicopter crash, local media reported Friday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611374/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611374/cs/1/ The noose seems to be tightening around Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, with the Supreme Court saying a Swiss money laundering case against him should be immediately reopened. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611370/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:20:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611370/cs/1/ The body of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos, which was stolen from his grave three months back, has been finally laid to rest in the capital Nicosia, local TV said Friday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611366/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:50:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611366/cs/1/ At least 48 people, including 18 soldiers, were killed and 95 more were injured Friday when two suicide bombings targeted a military convoy in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, security officials said. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611358/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:30:04 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611358/cs/1/ The US has expressed concern over reported extra-judicial killings of people in custody and torture and rape by police and other security forces in India. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611353/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:30:03 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611353/cs/1/ Pakistan Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who is due to retire in October, is unlikely to get an extension, a close aide of President Asif Ali Zardari has said. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611310/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:30:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611310/cs/1/ Fifty-year-old Apa Sherpa, who has become almost as legendary as the mountain that has been his permanent pursuit, is aiming to break his own incredible record by summiting Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world, for the 20th time this summer. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611308/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:20:04 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611308/cs/1/ Twenty people were killed and 40 injured Friday when two suicide bombers struck in a densely populated area in the Pakistani city of Lahore, rescuers said. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611302/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611302/cs/1/ The release date of director Oliver Stone's 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleep', which is a sequel to the film released in 1987, has been pushed back from April to September. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611303/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611303/cs/1/ Only 48 hours after Nepal's communist-led government declared International Women's Day a national public holiday, soldiers shot dead three Dalit women, including a 12-year-old girl, while the authorities tried to hush it up by alleging it to be a shoot-out. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611300/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:10:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611300/cs/1/ Singer-actress Jessica Simpson, who had several failed romances, says she still hopes to find the 'right man'. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611271/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:20:04 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611271/cs/1/ Google will have to 'bear the consequence' if it insists on violating China's laws and regulations, a senior official warned Friday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611268/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611268/cs/1/ Want to pep up your sex life? Then start jogging, as a new study says joggers have more active sex lives than those who don't run. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611262/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:00:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611262/cs/1/ Hollywood actor Robert Pattinson is keen to venture into the music world, but says he will have to take a break from acting to pursue that because he can't do both. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611230/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:03 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611230/cs/1/ Former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor Rakesh Mohan has been appointed professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance in the Yale School of Management from July 1. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611227/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611227/cs/1/ Rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, better known as Common, has fuelled rumours that he will marry Serena Williams by going public with his love for the tennis champion. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611201/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:40:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611201/cs/1/ The US has praised the Indian government for its human rights record, but expressed concern over reported extra-judicial killings of people in custody, disappearances, and torture and rape by police and other security forces. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611186/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:30:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611186/cs/1/ Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan says her social life has been wrecked by the 'aggressive' paparazzi of Los Angeles and as a result, she now ends up clubbing at home. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611183/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:30:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611183/cs/1/ An 89-year-old British woman travels 14 miles to reach a post office located opposite her home as there is no pedestrian crossing on the main road, a media report Friday said. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611181/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611181/cs/1/ Four people, including a senior Muslim cleric, were killed in a drive-by shooting in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, police said Friday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611179/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611179/cs/1/ Fresh air has now been bottled by Britain's National Trust so that it can be given to stressed city workers, a media report said Friday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611177/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611177/cs/1/ Prince Philip, known for his gaffe-prone remarks, asked a sea cadet whether she works at a strip club, a media report said Friday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611173/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611173/cs/1/ Princess Diana died as an attempt to scare her to leave her lover Dodi Fayed went terribly wrong, a lawyer has said. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611172/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611172/cs/1/ Argentine police are investigating a spectacular assault on a Buenos Aires bank amid the trial of those accused of pulling off the 2006 heist dubbed the 'robbery of the century'. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611150/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:10:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611150/cs/1/ There has been a 26 percent increase in Indians holidaying in Australia's Victoria state in the year ending December 2009 as compared to the same period in 2008, reveals a survey that comes in the backdrop of a string of attacks on Indian students in this country. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611147/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611147/cs/1/ The Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) has opened in Dhaka with a display of art works by 27 renowned Bangladeshi artists. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611145/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611145/cs/1/ Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras has said that it discovered oil at a block in eastern Colombia. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611142/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:10:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611142/cs/1/ Canada, home to the biggest Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, Thursday urged Sri Lanka to lift the state of emergency imposed during the onslaught on the Tamil Tigers. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611141/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:10:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611141/cs/1/ Canada's SNC-Lavalin company, that was at the centre of a headline-grabbing bribery scandal in Kerala, is now under scanner at home for allegedly overcharging in government building maintenance. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611140/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:50:04 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611140/cs/1/ The wife of US Senate Majority Leader Harry http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611138/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611138/cs/1/ Juventus, Standard Liege and SV Hamburg were the only sides to record clear wins in their first leg matches of the round of 16 in the Europa League Thursday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611128/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611128/cs/1/ Twelve strong earthquakes shook Chile Thursday, including some just minutes before the start of the inaugural ceremony of incoming President Sebastian Pinera. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611127/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:50:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611127/cs/1/ US President Barack Obama has donated the $1.4 million that came with winning the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, the White House said Thursday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611126/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611126/cs/1/ The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) has launched a plan to boost hotel occupancy rate in the emirate by 10 percent in 2010, WAM news agency reported. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611123/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611123/cs/1/ Israeli military prosecutors indicted two Israeli soldiers Thursday for allegedly ordering a Palestinian child to open bags suspected of containing explosives, during Israel's Gaza Strip offensive last year, a military statement said. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611124/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611124/cs/1/ UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday called on UN members to offer more protections for women who are victims of violence and other crimes. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611122/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:50:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611122/cs/1/ The Brazilian economy contracted for the first time in 17 years in 2009, falling by 0.2 per cent, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said Thursday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611118/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:03 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611118/cs/1/ Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger gifted a photographer a $100 coffee voucher after he saved her from getting a parking fine. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611115/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611115/cs/1/ The Oscar-winning 'Shutter Island' director Martin Scorsese has been named the best living director in a new US magazine poll. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611116/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611116/cs/1/ 'Twilight' star Kristen Stewart was banned from 'groping' Dakota Fanning during their onscreen kiss for new movie 'The Runaways' because her co-star was just 15 when they shot the steamy scene. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611112/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611112/cs/1/ 'High School Musical' star Ashley Tisdale and her boyfriend appeared to be a happy-go lucky couple as they took a romantic stroll to her parents' house together. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611113/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611113/cs/1/ Singer Mark Owen has apologised after admitting he cheated on his partner of five years, before they married in 2009. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611111/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611111/cs/1/ French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked his wife Carla Bruni to end a holiday with her lover in Thailand and return home, a news report said. Sarkozy is also travelling to Britain on Friday without his spouse. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611107/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611107/cs/1/ Iran has started production of new medium-range surface-to-air missiles with the aim of upgrading its air defence systems. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611108/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611108/cs/1/ Eleven Siberian tigers have died of malnutrition at a zoo in China in the past three months, a wild life official said. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611093/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611093/cs/1/ Pop diva Madonna has announced to launch a range of clothes. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611078/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611078/cs/1/ Uma Thurman might not have imagined such a reaction from the audiences. Her latest movie 'Motherhood,' which flopped in the US, fetched only one viewer in London. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611079/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611079/cs/1/ 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson is auctioning some of his movie costumes for charity. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611076/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:20:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611076/cs/1/ Late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith's life story is being made into an opera. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611075/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:10:01 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611075/cs/1/ A strong quake shook Chile Thursday, just minutes before the start of the inaugural ceremony of incoming President Sebastian Pinera. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611073/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611073/cs/1/ At least 30 people were killed and 83 injured Thursday as fierce fighting continued between government forces backed by African Union peacekeeping troops and Islamist insurgents in the Somalian capital. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611059/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:10:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611059/cs/1/ Pakistan Thursday sacked its hockey team officials and dissolved the national selection committee after the four times champions had their worst ever finish in the World Cup. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611051/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611051/cs/1/ A state legislator in New York wants salt banned from pre-packaged and restaurant food. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611130/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:56:42 -0500 Hong Kong Herald.com http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611130/cs/1/ With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local affairs. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/610743/cs/1/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:41:11 -0500 Hong Kong Herald.com http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/610743/cs/1/ Police officers rescued an Indian businessman a day after he was kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen in the Philippines, a provincial police chief said Friday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611202/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:40:07 -0500 IANS http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/611202/cs/1/ A number of schools in the US were closed down on Wednesday after posted on a social networking site. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/610883/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:33:44 -0500 Hong Kong Herald.com http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/610883/cs/1/ A United Nations report, which is still to be released, has found that up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamic militants. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/610884/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:37:46 -0500 Hong Kong Herald.com http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/610884/cs/1/ P ope Benedict XVI met Friday with Germany's top bishop amid the spiralling abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church in his homeland.Archbishop Robert Zollitsch has apologized to German victims and p... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061829/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:44:37 -0500 Globe and Mail http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061829/ Dead woman ‘tried to climb underneath the platform and then she tried to climb up’ and then passengers heard ‘horrible thud’ http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061830/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:44:35 -0500 Globe and Mail http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061830/ CIA drones are killing terrorists -- and civilians -- in Pakistan almost every day. The unmanned aircraft are becoming the weapon of choice in the fight against al-Qaida and its allies. But the politi... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061855/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:42:16 -0500 Spiegal Online http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061855/ Iraqi journalists and representatives of Iraqi political blocs and entities look at a screens showing the partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq in Baghdad, Thursday March 11, 2... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061797/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:41:45 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061797/ VIENNA — A man says he was abused by a nun while a child - the first such accusation amid widening allegations of sexual misdeeds leveled against Austria's Roman Catholic church. Salzburg c... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061795/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:41:41 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061795/ CAIRO — Al-Jazeera television says Yemeni authorities confiscated broadcasting equipment from the station's San'a offices after complaining of its coverage of the country's restive southern regi... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061401/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:41:39 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061401/ TBILISI, Georgia — Convicts in Georgia can now serve their time working for the Georgian Orthodox Church. Clerics and prosecutors have struck a deal allowing criminals convicted of minor cr... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061794/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:41:38 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061794/ A torn placard featuring Serbia's slain reformist Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic who was assassinated seven years ago, seen in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday March 12, 2010. Djindjic was gunned down on M... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061793/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:41:36 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061793/ JERUSALEM — Israel is moving to amend the country's planning procedures on sensitive political decisions following an embarrassing diplomatic flap during a visit this week by U.S. Vice President... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061798/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:41:33 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061798/ Chile's newly inaugurated President Sebastian Pinera, waves the the crowds after his swearing-in ceremony in Valparaiso, Chile, Thursday, March 11, 2010.(AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez) http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061799/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:41:32 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061799/ JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel has sealed off the West Bank for 48 hours, preventing Palestinians from entering Israel because of fears of unrest. There have been clashes after Friday prayers at mosques in... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061182/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:38:13 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061182/ TALLAHASSEE -- Florida lawmakers returned home Thursday at the end of the second week of the Legislature's spring lawmaking session with no meetings scheduled for Friday. But Gov. Charlie Crist will ... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061834/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:35 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061834/ Police captured an escaped prisoner Friday morning after he escaped from the Dade County Jail Pre-Trial Detention Center in Miami. The detention center, 1351 Northwest 12th Street, is near the Univers... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061835/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:34 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061835/ LOS ANGELES -- Isaiah Thomas scored 15 points and third-seeded Washington roared back from a big second-half deficit to keep its NCAA tournament hopes alive with a 59-52 victory over Oregon State in ... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061836/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:32 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061836/ TULSA, Okla. -- No. 25 UTEP doesn't just have to rely on Randy Culpepper and Derrick Caracter to keep on winning.Coach Tony Barbee unleashed his team's depth full-force against UCF, and it might just... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061837/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:31 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061837/ LONDON -- The value of home mortgage advances in January fell by half from December, when there was a late rush to complete deals before a tax break ended at the New Year, the Council of Mortgage Len... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061838/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:28 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061838/ WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Something stinks at Palm Beach International Airport.And apparently it's the no-shoes rule through security gates.The county airports director said at an advisory board meeti... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061840/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:26 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061840/ TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A newspaper has obtained a memo showing the driver of a full school bus that crashed and killed a student once admitted having a medical condition that barred him from the job.Th... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061839/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:25 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061839/ NEWARK, N.J. -- Officials will discipline, but won't fire, a New Jersey airport guard who briefly left his post, triggering a security breach that delayed flights worldwide.The Transportation Securit... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061841/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:25 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061841/ CAIRO -- Al-Jazeera television says Yemeni authorities confiscated broadcasting equipment from the station's San'a offices after complaining of its coverage of the country's restive southern region.T... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061400/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:22 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061400/ A man passes by a torn placard featuring Serbia's slain reformist Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic who was assassinated seven years ago, in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday March 12, 2010. Djindjic was gunned do... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061844/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:21 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061844/ TBILISI, Georgia -- Convicts in Georgia can now serve their time working for the Georgian Orthodox Church.Clerics and prosecutors have struck a deal allowing criminals convicted of minor crimes to se... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061845/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:21 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061845/ FILE - Natalie Mejia attends the 2009 Teen Choice Awards in this Aug. 9, 2009 file photo taken in Universal City, California. Police say the member of the pop group Girlicious was arrested after Glend... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061843/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:19 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061843/ SEATTLE -- U.S. retail sales of video games declined 15 percent in February, hurt in part by an ongoing decline in sales of music games and lower sales of the Wii system.Americans spent $1.26 billion... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061846/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:18 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061846/ Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has thanked American actor Sean Penn for defending him against his critics in the US media.In an appearance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Penn last week condemn... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061856/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:31:28 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061856/ Crude oil traded above $82 a barrel in New York, poised for a second weekly gain, as the dollar weakened and the IEA bolstered its outlook for oil demand. The International Energy Agency raised its f... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061857/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:31:27 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061857/ After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing New York City, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers agreed to a settlement that could pay up to ... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061176/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:16:56 -0500 The Independent http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061176/ The asylum seekers were spotted on two different boats Thursday sailing near the Tiwi Islands, the Australian Ministry of Home Affairs said. The group said they wanted to come to Australia. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061827/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:16:15 -0500 CNN http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061827/ (CNN) -- Federal authorities are investigating a New Jersey man suspected of being an al Qaeda member and going on a deadly rampage at a hospital in Yemen. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061190/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:16:13 -0500 CNN http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061190/ The Ontario Liberal government will pay severance packages worth as much as $45,000 to more than 1,250 Ministry of Revenue employees who won't lose their jobs, triggering a barrage of criticism from o... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061847/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:14:50 -0500 National Post http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061847/ Military personnel secure the site of a suicide bomb attack in Lahore, March 12, 2010. Suicide bombers targeting the military killed at least 45 people in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday. http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061848/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:14:49 -0500 National Post http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061848/ download Flash from the Adobe download website. Angela Gordon was sentenced to 15 years and her former partner Junaid Abuhamza has been imprisoned indefinitely, with a minimum term of seven-and... http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061852/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:13:19 -0500 Sky News http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/33061852/