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Blast in Baghdad as Arab summit opens
A large blast rocked central Baghdad near the Iranian embassy on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital’s heavily-fortified Green Zone as a landmark Arab summit opened Thursday, an AFP journalist said. The blast was heard at around 1:40 pm (1040 GMT) and took place in the Salhiyeh neighbourhood of central Baghdad. As smoke billowed into…
S.Africa big cat expert attacked by tiger
A South African conservationist and filmmaker was in intensive careon Thursday after being attacked by a tiger at a reserve where he breeds the big Asian cats. John Varty suffered several puncture wounds and two broken ribs after being attacked while filming on his Tiger Canyons farm in the central Free State, which he set up to create…
Self-checking won’t spot testicle cancer: doctor
Celebrity appeals for British men to check their testicles to detect early signs of cancer are a waste of time and possibly harmful, an opinion piece published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says. Singer Robbie Williams and the Leicester Tigers rugby team are among those who have lent their names to a campaign for men to…
Paris court to rule on Guerlain racism charge
A Paris court was to decide Thursday whether Jean-Paul Guerlain, for decades the “nose” behind the world-famous perfume brand, was being racist when he said that he “worked like a negro.” Asked in an October 2010 television interview about how he had created the Samsara scent, Guerlainreplied using a racial slur —…
China tells Apple to ‘care for workers’
The man tipped to be China’s next leader has told Apple that foreign firms should protect workers, state media said Thursday, as the US giant fends off criticism over factory conditions in China. International labour watchdog groups have said workers in Chinese plants run by major Apple supplier Foxconn of…
‘Dissecting brains is pretty intense’
What’s it like to spend your career cutting up people’s grey matter? A neuropathologist at the UK’s Brain Bank reveals all You never know how you’re going to feel, watching a brain being dissected. We’re just about to get called in to watch, Jill Davis from Parkinson’s UK, Marius Kwint,…
Four U.S. women charged in Amish beard-cutting attacks
WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury has indicted four more women over a rash of bizarre beard-cutting incidents against fellow Amish in Ohio, the US Justice Department said Wednesday. A total of 16 people — 10 men and six women — have now been accused in what prosecutors called five…
Lawyer cites PTSD to defend U.S. soldier in Afghan killings
LOS ANGELES — The lawyer for a US soldier charged with killing 17 villagers in southern Afghanistan said Wednesday he will cite Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to defend the serviceman. Attorney John Henry Browne added that prosecutors will have trouble proving their case against Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, whose…
Senators file resolution to arm Syria opposition
WASHINGTON — Senior US lawmakers filed a resolution Wednesday in the Senate condemning deadly violence ordered by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and urging the arming of the country’s opposition. Republican Senator John McCain presented the text, co-sponsored by four other senators including Lindsey Graham and independent Joe Lieberman, “condemning…
White House to Romney: Cold War over
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday praised Russia’s cooperation as it hit back against fresh charges by rival Mitt Romney that President Barack Obama has shown “breathtaking weakness” toward Moscow. The comments were the latest salvoes in a row over Russia policy, triggered after Obama was caught on an…
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