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The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c A Colbert Christmas: Jon Stewart Colbert at ChristmasColbert Christmas DVD Green ScreenBill O’Reilly Interview Read more
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Asked whether Pakistan feared the Indian reaction to the massacre, he said “we have got to get ready and prepare for any eventuality” and his country would not “take it lying down”. Read more
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Richard Young/Rex Features Tamzin Outhwaite has said that she loves being a mother. The former EastEnders actress, who gave birth to Florence Elsie in June, revealed that parenthood is proving a pleasure. “She’s so easy. I imagine if she was a stressful baby it would be different, but she’s good so far,” she told Celebs [...]
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Australians are closely following the trial of five Muslims charged with plotting a terrorist attack on Australian soil. Read more
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The sole surviving terror suspect in the Mumbai massacre cowardly begged to live as he lay in police custody suffering from gunshot wounds, according to a published report. Read more
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Looks like Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has been selected to head the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration policy, among many other things. Read more
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The news that China’s leaders have decided to postpone a December 1 summit meeting in Lyons, France, with their European Union counterparts because, as Beijing sees it, the E.U. has been cozying up too closely to the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, comes on the heels of a gathering of exiled Tibetans in [...]
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MOSCOW — Not so long ago, a relatively young, newly elected president of Russia was presented with a proposal to amend the nation’s constitution and extend the four-year term of the presidency. Read more
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Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went unarmed into his first meeting with the new commander in chief — no aides, no PowerPoint presentation, no briefing books. Summoned nine days ago to President-elect Barack Obama‘s Chicago transition office, Mullen showed up with just a pad, a pen and a desire [...]
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Whenever Todd Witteles signed on to an Internet poker site, the first thing he did was look around for inexperienced players. One day in August 2007, the Las Vegas poker pro thought he had found an easy mark on AbsolutePoker.com. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS — The Rev. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, a revolutionary Nicaraguan priest, sounded like the old-school, 1980s-style Latin American leftist he is when he began his presidency of the 192-member U.N. General Assembly in September. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 28 — President Felipe Calderón and his government defended their fight against public corruption and drug trafficking Friday, asking for greater powers to go after organized crime. They conceded that most Mexicans feel unsafe and that many police are unqualified to do their jobs. Read more
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Nov. 28 — Ethiopia announced Friday that it will pull its forces from Somalia by year’s end, leaving the ravaged capital vulnerable to the Islamist fighters who have seized nearly all of the country. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 — Iraq’s preeminent Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has expressed concern about the country’s security agreement with the United States, saying it gives the Americans the upper hand and does not do enough to protect Iraqi sovereignty, an official at his office said Saturday. Read more
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ZAKA, Zimbabwe — Perhaps, Kudakwashe Tsumele said, it is better that he cannot walk. If he could traverse the red dirt pathways surrounding his rural home, he might pass supporters of this troubled nation’s ruling party. And then, he said, he “would want to kill.” Read more
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A grenade blast wounded 46 anti-government protesters in Bangkok, hospital officials said on Sunday, the latest escalation in the country’s increasingly violent political crisis. Read more
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian accusations of a Pakistani link to the attacks on Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people threaten to damage attempts to improve ties between the rivals. Read more
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Pakistan has expressed concern about rising tensions with India following allegations that gunmen who attacked Mumbai this week had Pakistani links. Read more
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DOHA (Reuters) – World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Pascal Lamy said on Saturday he was increasingly inclined to call ministers to Geneva next month to pursue a global trade treaty that could mitigate the world’s economic turmoil. Read more