Egyptian court postpones trial of blogger on hunger strike
CAIRO (BNO NEWS) — An Egyptian court on Tuesday postponed the trial proceedings of a ...
Hacker takes over Thai PM’s Twitter account
BANGKOK (BNO NEWS) — The Twitter account of Thailand’s new prime minister, Yingluck ...
Zimbabwe to sue European Union over sanctions
HARARE (BNO NEWS) — The government of the African nation of Zimbabwe is preparing a ...
U.S. warns of possible retaliation attacks following al-Awlaki’s death
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — The U.S. government issued a travel alert this weekend to ...
Russian grandmother kills self after dogs maul baby to death
MEZHDURECHENSK, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) — A grandmother committed suicide in southern Russia on ...
Iran hangs seven drug traffickers, one rapist
TEHRAN (BNO NEWS) — Eight people who were previously convicted of serious crimes ...
Indonesian plane carrying 18 people crashes in North Sumatra
BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — A medium-sized passenger plane with 18 people on board ...
Saudi King overturns woman driver’s lashing sentence
RIYADH (BNO NEWS) — Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Wednesday overturned a court ...
Nokia to cut 3,500 jobs, close Romanian plant
ESPOO, FINLAND (BNO NEWS) — Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile ...
Power outage at Mexico City airport disrupts hundreds of flights
MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) — A large power outage at Benito Juárez International Airport ...
Oregon babysitters accused of raping young girls
HILLSBORO, OREGON (BNO NEWS) — A couple from the U.S. state of Oregon has been arrested ...
Bridge comes to San Francisco with a Made-in-China label
SHANGHAI — Talk about outsourcing. At a sprawling manufacturing complex here, hundreds of ...
Director of Iraq’s Health Ministry shot dead in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BNO NEWS) — The Director of the Iraqi Health Ministry, Mohammed Ali ...
Blast rocks mine in northwest Pakistan, killing 16
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) — At least sixteen workers were killed on late Monday ...
China and Russia to vote in favor of Palestinian UN bid
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — Both China and Russia, two of the five permanent members of ...
China ‘launches gold vending machine’
China, already the world’s second largest bullion consumer, has installed the ...
11-yr-old girl in Indiana shoots sister in the head while ‘playing CSI’
An 11-year-old girl in Indiana accidentally shot her 14-year-old sister in the head with a ...
Outrage after Iran executes 17-year-old
TEHRAN, IRAN (BNO NEWS) — Iran on Wednesday executed a 17-year-old in public after murder ...
Five NATO soldiers killed in western and eastern Afghanistan
KABUL (BNO NEWS) — Five coalition service members were killed as a result of two separate ...
Japan to shut down crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by end of 2011
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — Japenese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told the United ...
Out-of-control satellite slows rate of descent as it closes in on Earth
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — An out-of-control U.S. satellite slowed its rate of descent ...
U.S. drone strikes kill 5 in Pakistan’s North Waziristan
MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) — U.S. drone strikes on Friday killed at least five ...