Thursday, July 26, 2012
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, July 26 (UPI) -- A Pakistani judge has refused a bank's request to reopen a bank account of former President Pervez Musharraf, judicial officials said. The ruling on the request by Habib Bank Ltd. in Islamabad came from a special judge Wednesday, The Express Tribune said.... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
EEOC wins money for obese worker
HOUSTON, July 25 (UPI) -- A Texas man who weighed almost 700 pounds when he was fired is to receive $55,000 in a settlement of an equal opportunity complaint, officials said. BAE Systems Tactical Vehicle Systems, a company headquartered in Virginia, also agreed to provide six months of job-hunting... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Pioneer woman astronaut Sally Ride dies
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 61, her organization, sallyridescience.com, announced Monday. Ride, who was 32 when she launched aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, was with the National... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Israel wants EU to blacklist Hezbollah
JERUSALEM, July 23 (UPI) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman plans to ask European foreign ministers to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, officials said. Lieberman was scheduled to arrive in Brussels Monday to meet with European Union Foreign Policy head Catherine Ashton and... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Bomb danger in Colo. apartment reduced
AURORA, Colo., July 21 (UPI) -- Police said they set off an explosion Saturday at the booby-trapped apartment of the Colorado theater-shooting suspect, significantly reducing the danger. "We believe we have eliminated the major threats there, but we still have some more work to do," Aurora Police... Sign in to see full entry.