Gunman tosses bomb, shoots eight in Texas
Chicago: A gunman threw an explosive device during a rampage that left four people dead and four injured in two Texas homes, police said on Thursday. The gunman was arrested without incident when police arrived at the second home and initial reports indicated he was stunned, and muttering his name and a military rank and serial number Police have not yet identified the suspect. Meanwhile, a report from Dallas said a series of shootings in Dallas killed at least four people and wounded others, but authorities said early on Thursday that a suspect was in custody.
MORSI’S Wife makes FIRST appearance
Cairo: Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi’s wife addressed thousands of his supporters at a protest camp in Cairo, where she vowed: “He is coming back, God willing.” Naglaa Mahmoud made her first appearance on Thursday since the July 3 military coup, which followed mass rallies demanding her husband's removal from office. He's been held incommunicado since then.
Thousands mark Myanmar uprising
Yangon: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi urged further progress on democratic reforms in a speech to thousands on Thursday marking
the anniversary of a huge popular uprising in 1988, the largest ever
such commemoration. Some 5,000 people crammed into a convention centre and thousands more watched large television screens outside to witness a landmark ceremony recalling the mass student protests 25 years ago that were brutally crushed by the then-junta.
Shells hit Damascus as Assad attends prayers
Damascus: Syrian rebels claimed they struck President Bashar Assad's motorcade with rockets and mortar rounds in a rare attack on an upscale Damascus neighborhood where he attended prayers on Thursday to mark a major Muslim holiday. Syrian officials denied that the motorcade was hit, and state TV broadcast images of Assad attending prayers.
Int’l flights resume after Kenya airport fire
Nairobi: International flights began landing and taking off from Nairobi’s fire-damaged airport on Thursday, but officials said the full slate of overseas flights has not yet been resumed.
Hackers plant Gorbachev death rumour
Moscow: The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to deny rumours of his death after hackers planted a false report on Twitter accounts of a State news agency. “I’m alive and well,” Gorbachev told the website of Novaya Gazeta newspaper on Wednesday, using a blanked-out Russian expletive to describe his ill-wishers.
Militant Islam author is Manning trial witness
Maryland: Prosecutors of Bradley Manning trial have approached experts on militant Islam for showing Manning damaged US interests by disclosing classified information through Wikileaks. Navy Cmdr. Youssef Aboul-Enein is set to testify on Thursday at Manning’s sentencing hearing at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. The witness is the author of the book Militant Islamic Idealogy.
Twitter blocks Tutu
CapeTown: Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu had his Twitter account suspended on Thursday for “aggressively following” other users, hours after it was launched. The ex-archbishop's @Tutulegacy account racked up hundreds of followers. “Some have described Twitter as a blessing in the hands of retired members of the clergy. There is no space to ramble,” Tutu tweeted before his account was blocked.