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Geo NewsFiring at Spini Road kills 10 in Quetta | Updated at: 0836 PST, Saturday, July 30, 2011
 QUETTA: Unidentified men opened fire on a van at Spini Road in Quetta that killed ten persons including a woman and injured four Saturday, Geo News reported.
According to police sources, the firing incident took place near a bus stop at Spini Road when some unknown men attacked a vehicle that killed ten people while four others got injured.
The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.
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 Islamabad: 4 suspects held, suicide vests confiscated
Updated at: 0324 PST, Saturday, July 30, 2011
ISLAMABAD: Police has arrested four men suspected of plotting terrorist activities in the federal capital while fifth one managed to escape. Police confiscated suicide vests, hand grenades and pistols from their possession.The suspects were arrested from a house located in Sector G-11's adjoining area Meera Abadi and Meera Khoh.The suspects took the house on Rs 5000 monthly rent from a man named Naveed Shehzad few days ago.Two suicide vests, thre .... Full Story | | |  | | |
 Norway mourns, buries dead, a week after massacre
Updated at: 0714 PST, Saturday, July 30, 2011
OSLO: Norwegians united in mourning on Friday as the first funerals were held a week after anti-Islam extremist Anders Behring Breivik massacred 77 people in attacks that traumatised the nation.Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg mourned in Oslo's main mosque at 1330 GMT -- the time Breivik detonated a homemade car bomb in Oslo on July 22 -- after attending a memorial by his ruling Labour Party where many clutched red roses."Evil has brought out the .... Full Story | | | | | |
 Oil prices down in Asia on US debt fears
Updated at: 0939 PST, Friday, July 29, 2011
SINGAPORE: The US debt stalemate continued to roil crude markets in Asian trade Friday as a vote in the House of Representatives on a Republican debt plan was postponed.New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in September, fell 22 cents to $97.22 per barrel.Brent North Sea crude for September delivery shed four cents to $117.32."Investors continued to worry about the stalled US debt talks," Phillip Futures said in a report.US pol .... Full Story | | | | | |
 Broad rescues England from total collapse
Updated at: 2324 PST, Friday, July 29, 2011
NOTTINGHAM: Stuart Broad again proved a thorn in India's side with the bat as he rescued England from total collapse on the first day of the second Test at Trent Bridge here on Friday. England collapsed to 88 for six after losing the toss in overcast, swing-friendly, conditions. But Broad, batting at number nine on his Nottinghamshire home ground, top-scored with 64 in a total of 221. India at stumps were 24 for one in reply, a deficit o .... Full Story | | | | | |
 'Cowboys' to outdraw 'Smurfs'
Updated at: 1044 PST, Friday, July 29, 2011
LOS ANGELES: The mash-up "Cowboys & Aliens" will likely mean a smack-down for a superhero and some Smurfs this weekend, with the Universal/Dreamworks sci-fi/Western expected to open with a gross of between $40 million and $45 million at more than 3,700 theaters in North America.Starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig, directed by "Iron Man's" Jon Favreau, and with Steven Spielberg among its producers, this truly original film defies categorizatio .... Full Story | | | | | |
 Fat is more dangerous for South Asians: study
Updated at: 0931 PST, Friday, July 29, 2011
WASHINGTON: Weight gain can be more dangerous for South Asians than for Caucasians because the fat clings to organs like the liver instead of the skin, said a study published Thursday.The main difference between Caucasians and South Asians comes down to how much space there is to store fat in the body and where it holes up, said Sonia Anand, lead author of the study in the public access journal PLoS One."South Asians have less space to store fat .... Full Story | | | | | |
 NASA probe poised for launch to Jupiter
Updated at: 0652 PST, Thursday, July 28, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL: A NASA satellite was hoisted aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday in preparation for launch next week on an unprecedented mission to the heart of Jupiter.The robotic probe called Juno is scheduled to spend one year cycling inside Jupiter's deadly radiation belts, far closer than any previous orbiting spacecraft, to learn how much water the giant planet holds, what triggers its vast mag .... Full Story | | | | | |
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