Students Face Charges Over Protest
Eleven Muslim college students may face up to six months in jail if convicted. The students disrupted a speech by Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States. According to prosecutors, students, who call themselves the Irvine 11 because the February, 2010 protest took place at the University of California at Irvine, yelled "It's a shame this university has sponsored a mass murderer like yourself". They are being prosecuted for criminal misdemeanor charges of disturbing a meeting and conspiring to do so.
Microsoft releases new Internet Explorer 9 browser
Microsoft released the latest version of its Internet Explorer Web browsing software free online late Monday, hoping to fend off recent challenges by Firefox and Google Chrome. "IE9 has just released around the world," a booming voice told a cheering crowd at 11:00 pm Monday (0400 GMT Tuesday) in the Austin City Limits Live concert hall where a launch party was being held. Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) was available for download in 30 languages at beautyoftheweb.com.
FIA arrests Hamid Kazmi from court
A subordinate court on Tuesday dismissed former minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi's request for interim bail, after which the FIA took him into custody from the courtroom. The FIA had issued an arrest warrant against Kazmi on charges of involvement in Haj corruption case. Two months ago Kazmi had pleaded for a "bail before arrest" in the court and was granted. Kazmi had filed an application for extension of his bail in the court but the Special Court Judge Sohail Nasir rejected the bail application.
Breakthrough likely in ISI-CIA talks
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are close to a reset in their knotty relations, with behind-the-scene negotiations reportedly making progress. A breakthrough is likely in days ahead. An end to the feud will not only help resolve the dispute over immunity for jailed CIA operative Raymond Davis but also help both countries overcome the hard patch in their ties.
After US, more countries will get iPad from March 25
The new iPad went on sale on Friday as Apple fans lined up outside stores around the United States to be the first to snap up the sleek touchscreen tablet computer. Apple began selling the iPad 2, which was unveiled by chief executive Steve Jobs last week, online overnight and in its 236 US stores starting at 5:00 pm (2200 GMT). The iPad 2 will be available on March 25 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Japan warns radioactive levels high around plant after blast
Japan's prime minister said on Tuesday that radioactive levels had become high around an earthquake-stricken nuclear power plant after an explosion there, and there was a risk of radiation leaking into the atmosphere. Naoto Kan urged people within 30 km of the facility north of Tokyo to remain indoors and the French embassy in the capital warned in an advisory that a low level of radioactive wind could reach Tokyo within 10 hours.
US Muslims find defending themselves exhausting
Finishing law school is a challenge for Dewnya Bakri-Bazzi, but being an American and a Muslim can be downright exhausting. As she crammed before class this week, Bakri-Bazzi caught up on testimony from a congressional hearing on the radicalization of US Muslims. She contends Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who called it, is ignoring the positive steps Muslims have taken in fighting terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Japan quake causes day to get a bit shorter
You won't notice it, but the day just got a tiny bit shorter because of Friday's giant earthquake off the coast of Japan. NASA geophysicist Richard Gross calculated that Earth's rotation sped up by 1.6 microseconds. That is because of the shift in Earth's mass caused by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
US drone strike kills six militants
A US drone strike targeting a rebel vehicle and a compound on Sunday killed six militants and wounded five others in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.
The unmanned aircraft fired missiles in mountainous Spalga village, 15 kilometres northeast of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district and a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked rebels.
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