Monday, December 20, 2010

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India


Dozen arrested in British anti-terror swoop

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 01:03 AM PST

Twelve men were arrested in Britain on Monday on suspicion of plotting a large-scale act of terrorism, police said following pre-dawn raids across the country.


Frankfurt airport cancels 300 flights, more snow due

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 11:32 PM PST

Authorities cancelled about 300 flights at Germany's main airport at Frankfurt Monday and expected more snow, an airport spokeswoman said, a day after hundreds of other flights were scrapped.


Bangladesh cleric arrested after woman caned to death

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:30 PM PST

A Muslim cleric has been arrested in northwest Bangladesh following the death of a woman who was publicly caned as punishment by an Islamic court for an extra-martial affair, police said Monday.


Three children killed as school bus overturns in Uttar Pradesh

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:06 PM PST

Three children were killed and about 12 others injured when their school bus overturned near Rosanpur village in the district Monday morning.


UNSC meet on Korea crisis ends on disagreement over statement

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:53 PM PST

The UNSC failed to arrive at a consensus statement on the Korean crisis in a marathon meeting of its members after veto-wielding powers China and Russia did not agree with the western nations' demand to strongly condemn North Korea for last month's attack on a South Korean island.


Fasting TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu taken into custody, hospitalized

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:11 PM PST

TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, who is on a hunger strike demanding compensation for farmers, was forcibly taken into custody and shifted to hospital in the wee hours on Monday.


South Korea to conduct firing drills from border island

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 06:14 PM PST

South Korea said it was going forward Monday with live firing drills from a front-line island despite North Korea's threat to retaliate, sharply ramping up tensions as the UN failed to find any solution.


Mexican city devastated by deadly pipeline blast, 27 killed

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 06:08 PM PST

A massive oil pipeline explosion lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 27 people were killed, 12 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves.


Al-Qaida trying to bring down Pakistan government: US

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 05:27 PM PST

Vice President Joe Biden said the Obama administration is trying "to make sure that terrorists do not in fact, bring down the Pakistani government, which is a nuclear power."


UN Security Council meets on Korea tensions

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:12 PM PST

World powers trying to defuse tensions between North and South Korea met in an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Sunday, but disagreed over whether the North should be singled out for criticism over two deadly attacks this year that have helped send relations to their lowest point in decades.


UN warns of death squad killings in Ivory Coast

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:07 PM PST

The United Nations said that at least 50 people have been killed in Ivory Coast's post-election crisis, amid reports of "massive" human rights abuses, and refused to withdraw its peacekeepers.


UN warns of death squad killings in Ivory Coast

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:07 PM PST

The United Nations said that at least 50 people have been killed in Ivory Coast's post-election crisis, amid reports of "massive" human rights abuses, and refused to withdraw its peacekeepers.


US orders embassy staff, relatives out of Ivory Coast

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:09 PM PST

The United States on Sunday ordered all non-emergency staff and relatives to leave Ivory Coast amid growing deadly post-election violence gripping the West African nation.


11 killed in Mexico pipeline explosion: Oil company

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:34 AM PST

An oil pipeline exploded in central Mexico early on Sunday, killing 11 people, the state oil company said.


Chandrababu Naidu's indefinite fast enters third day

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:01 AM PST

Demanding a relief package for farmers affected by recent rains, former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu continued his indefinite fast for the third day Sunday.


Israeli PM Netanyahu chose settlements over peace: Abbas

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:30 AM PST

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu chose settlement building over peace, the Palestinian president told a visiting group of Israeli lawmakers and activists on Sunday.


2011 Afghanistan troop cuts more than 'token': Joe Biden

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 07:29 AM PST

Vice President Joe Biden says next summer's planned withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan will be more than a "token" reduction despite uneven progress.


Gbagbo orders UN out of Ivory Coast; Ban Ki-moon defies him

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 06:27 AM PST

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday rejected a demand that UN peacekeepers leave Ivory Coast, heightening the international confrontation with contested leader Laurent Gbagbo.


Police clueless about who sent e-mail after Varanasi blast

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 05:14 AM PST

The probe into the e-mail purportedly sent by banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen minutes after the Varanasi blast, appears to be heading nowhere with investigators finding it difficult to establish as to who had sent the mail.


Border region of J&K against azadi, division: Interlocutors

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 04:28 AM PST

Unlike their Kashmiri counterparts, the people of border region of Rajouri-Poonch are against the demand for 'azadi' and division of Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre-appointed interlocutors for the state said on Sunday.


Taliban kill 10 Afghan soldiers in 2 attacks

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:31 AM PST

Taliban militants struck at Afghan security forces Sunday, storming an army recruiting center in the north and ambushing a bus carrying army officers in the capital - the first major attack in Kabul in months.


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