Australia's breaststroke queen Jones retires from pool
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Triple Olympic champion Leisel Jones has retired from the pool at the age of 27, after swimmin g a record fourth Games for Australia at London. Jones, who won selection at the age of 14 for the 2000 Sydney Games, signed off at London with a silver in the 4
Israel and Hamas wage social media fight via social media platforms
JERUSALEM – The hostilities between Israel and Hamas have found a new battleground: social media.
Mexico's top organized crime investigator steps down
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The head of Mexico’s organized crime unit stepped down on Thursday, just weeks after announcing that members of his team had been charged with having links to the nation’s most powerful drug cartel. Jose Cuitlahuac Salinas, head of the unit in the attorney general’s office, resigned for “personal reasons,” a spokesman for the office said. Attorney General Marisela Morales has accepted his resignation, which was effective immediately, he added. …
Swimming-Australia's breaststroke queen Jones retires from pool
MELBOURNE, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Triple Olympic champion Leisel Jones has retired from the pool at the age of 27, after swimming a record fourth Games for Australia at London. Jones, who won selection at the age of 14 for the 2000 Sydney Games, signed off at London with a silver in the 4
Texas executes Hughes for 1988 slayings of 15-year-old girl, her 3-year-old cousin in Houston
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Convicted killer Preston Hughes III proclaimed his innocence as he was executed Thursday for the fatal stabbing of a 3-year-old Texas boy and the child’s teenage cousin who uttered her attacker’s first name to police in her dying breaths.
Casualties, attacks in Israel-Hamas conflict
Casualties and attacks in the Israel-Hamas conflict:
Thursday, November 15, 2012
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