Powerful explosions including a car bomb hit government buildings in northern Somalia killing at least 29 people and leaving several wounded, officials and witnesses say.

According to CNN, most of the victims were in the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa, where the presidential palace, Ethiopian consulate and UN offices were targeted.

Also Wednesday, suicide bombers attacked two intelligence facilities in the northern Somali region of Puntland. The two suicide bombers…

More than a hundred people have been killed after a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 hit south-western Pakistan, officials say.

The earthquake caused buildings to collapse and prompted widespread panic in Baluchistan province early on Wednesday.

Local mayor Dilawar Kakar says 135 deaths have been confirmed in Baluchistan and that the number will likely go up as rescuers reach remote villages.

In the immediate aftermath, people in Quetta are said to have left their homes and spilled into the streets.

Two skinheads, both white supremacists, hoped Obama’s assassination would be the grand finale to one of the worst massacres in US history.

A neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Barack Obama and hurt 102 black people has been discovered by U.S. government agents days before the U.S. presidential election.

Daniel Cowart, 20, and Paul Schlesselman, 18, were arrested in Tennessee on Wednesday and charged with possession of firearms, threats against a presidential candidate running and conspiring to rob a gun store, the Department of Justice said.

I love Krispy Kreme. Hot from the fryer and loaded with sugar, the Original Glazed is practically irresistible.
Unfortunately, in Hong Kong, Krispy Kreme fell as quickly as it rose.
The continuing economic catastrophe has claimed another victim with the leading American doughnut chain announcing on Monday that it is closing down all of its outlets in the city.
Government-run radio station RTHK reported that the chain, brought to Hong Kong by two Australian restaurateurs in 2006, had gone into liquidation with a creditors meeting scheduled for next month.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts operates a …

Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says he has given up on efforts to bring better autonomy for Tibet under Chinese rule and this is indeed sad news for the Tibetans, and for their cohorts.

The Dalai Lama has pursued different ways in order for Tibet to receive its autonomous status but there has been no positive response from Chinese leaders.

Mexican police said they have arrested a man accused of being one of the most powerful and murderous drug lords in the world.
Eduardo Arellano Felix, considered number two in the infamous Tijuana drug cartel was arrested after a shootout in Tijuana, according to the Mexican defense department.
A three-hour gun combat go off involving more than 100 police and soldiers and the house was riddled with bullets, federal police were quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.
Felix, 52, aka ‘The Doctor,’ is under indictment for drug smuggling by a Californian court …

Top Googlers, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt added a new toy plane to include to their collection of Boeing 757, a refurbished Boeing 767 and two Gulfstream V’s. The latest addition was a 1982 Dornier Alpha Jet…

The space tourist Richard Garriott, together with some Russian cosmonauts, safely returned to Earth from their trip to the International Space Station, Friday, October 24.

Garriott is creator of the Ultima online computer game series. He is also the son of Owen Garriott, a NASA astronaut, making him the first second-generation astronaut. He paid $30 million for his 10-day stay aboard the station. In all, he spent 12 days in space to become the station’s sixth paying visitor and the first American second-generation astronaut.

Together with Garriott are cosmonauts …

The Southeastern province of Hadramaut is now a disaster zone, when floods caused by heavy rains killed at least 24 people on Friday.
Hadramaut Governor Salem al-Khanbashi said the bodies of 18 people who had drowned had been recovered in various parts of the region.
A child was among six other people who perished when four provinces in eastern Yemen were flooded in torrential rains. Witnesses said they saw bodies floating in streams swelled by a downpour that lasted for some 30 hours.
Local authorities tallied more than 500 houses that had been …

Croatia declared a war on organized crime after a car bomb killed Ivo Pukanic, a well-known journalist, and a colleague in downtown Zagreb on Thursday.
Pukanic, the publisher of the leading weekly Nacional, and his marketing director Niko Franjic have been killed in an explosion that took place in Zagreb’s Palmoticeva Street at 6:30pm.
The explosive device went off beneath his new Lexus car outside the magazine’s offices injuring two more staff who were at the parking lot at the time.
Hours after his death, the Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, pledged to confront …

Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has strongly denied claims of sexual offense on a girl under the age of 16.

The police, in their statement, said the alleged assault took place at a business in central London, and the allegation, which remains under investigation, was received in May.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, lodged a formal complaint alleging the Harrods executive forcibly kissed her.

She managed to escape his alleged advances, but as she left the room she claims he warned her ‘not to tell anyone’.