South Africa’s ‘corrective rape’
JAN 01, 2012 Cape Town, South Africa – One of the most developed country in Africa where people hope for better life as most of Africa is full of hunger and clashes, but as we remembered it was a brutual nation till 90′s before Mandela became the first black President of South Africa.
Even [...]
A strong earthquake hits Japan, No Casualties Reported
JAN 01, 2012 Tokyo Japan – All the world is celebrating New year but Japanese are in fear of devastation may occure as A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck off the coast of Japan on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The earthquake hit 468 kilometers (302 miles) south-southwest [...]
Israel worries privately as Egypt descends into chaos
Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel’s public line on Egypt is clear — it wants “stability and security in our region,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday morning, acknowledging that Israel is “anxiously monitoring” what’s happening in the first and [...]
Police say mother admits killing teen-aged children for being "mouthy"
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(CNN) — A mother in Tampa, Florida has admitted in detail to killing her two teen-aged children, police said.
Police checking on the family at the request of a relative found Julie K. Schenecker, 50, on the back porch of her home Friday morning, [...]
Medical examiner: Pentagon official died after assault
(CNN) — John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and the first chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, “died as a result of blunt force trauma after being assaulted,” the Delaware medical examiner’s office said Friday.
A toxicology analysis also was done during [...]
Mandela discharged after treatment for respiratory infection
Johannesburg (CNN) — Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was discharged from a South African hospital Friday after treatment for an acute respiratory infection, the nation’s surgeon general said.
The 92-year-old former president left the hospital in a motorcade that included an ambulance [...]
Obama to take YouTube questions on State of the Union speech
Washington (CNN) — As part of a White House offensive in support of this week’s State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama will hold a YouTube interview Thursday to answer questions submitted by viewers.
The interview on YouTube at 2:30 p.m. ET is part of a series of events in [...]
Obama to take YouTube questions on State of the Union speech
Washington (CNN) — As part of a White House offensive in support of this week’s State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama will hold a YouTube interview Thursday to answer questions submitted by viewers.
The interview on YouTube at 2:30 p.m. ET is part of a series of events in [...]
A day after huge protests, Egyptian security clamps down
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — A day after an unparalleled display of public rage at Egypt’s government and full-throated cries for the ouster of its longtime president, the country’s security forces made their own potent presence felt on the angry streets.
Security forces turned water cannons [...]
Obama's speech will target spending and divided Congress
Washington (CNN) — Facing the challenge of a divided Congress and a still-recovering economy, President Obama will deliver a State of the Union address Tuesday night that lays out a plan for “winning the future,” according to a Democratic source with knowledge of White House talking [...]
Is Obama as good as his word?
Washington (CNN) — President Obama makes his second State of the Union address Tuesday night, which will be his fourth address to Congress.
How did Obama’s deeds measure up against his words in last year’s address? Here are 10 key statements Obama made in his 2010 address and how [...]
Legislators pairing off for bipartisan seating at Obama speech
Washington (CNN) — Will Tuesday be “Date Night” in Congress for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address?
Democratic and Republican legislators are pairing off to sit together for the annual speech in a symbolic gesture of bipartisanship, and some of the combinations [...]
Source: Suspect in 1987 kidnapping surrenders to police
New York (CNN) — A woman suspected of snatching an infant from a New York hospital in 1987 was in custody Sunday after surrendering to authorities in Connecticut, the FBI said.
Ann Pettway turned herself in to the FBI office in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Sunday morning, FBI spokesman William [...]
Police: Victims inside burned Indiana house had been shot
(CNN) — Three children and their mother who were found dead inside their partially burned house in southern Indiana had all been shot in the head, police said Saturday, with an internet rant tied to the woman drawing investigators’ attention.
Results of a preliminary autopsy, conducted [...]
Investigators search for woman in connection with 1987 abduction
“Nancy Grace: America’s Missing”: HLN will be airing specials at 9 p.m. to help find 50 people over the next 50 days
New York (CNN) — Federal investigators have joined local and state law enforcement in an effort to track down and prosecute Ann Pettway, who is suspected in [...]
Giffords to move to a Houston hospital for rehabilitation
Tucson, Arizona (CNN) — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will travel to Texas on Friday to continue her recovery from a gunshot wound to the brain, her office said.
The Arizona congresswoman will be taken by ambulance Friday morning from University Medical Center in Tucson to Davis-Monthan Air Force [...]
