Aksi nekad di Grand Canyon

ARIZONA (Amerika Syarikat): Tanpa memakai sebarang alat keselamatan, Encik Nik Wallenda berjalan di atas kabel keluli yang tergantung 457 meter dari paras bumi melintasi sebatang sungai berdekatan Grand Canyon, semalam.

Encik Wallenda mengambil masa 22 minit untuk menamatkan aksi nekadnya itu.

Aksi tersebut disiarkan secara langsung oleh saluran televisyen Discovery Channel. - Gambar ihsan: AP

Malaysia defends poll set-up as free and fair after opposition rally

KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Malaysia's government defended the country's electoral system as free and fair after a massive opposition rally demanded further transparency in general elections due in months.

About 45,000 people joined the rally on Saturday by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's three-party alliance in a downtown Kuala Lumpur stadium ahead of elections that must be held by June. The polls are seen a major test for Prime Minister Najib Razak's ruling coalition after its dismal performance in 2008 polls.

Thai police fire tear gas at political protest

Tear gas is thrown as police scuffle with anti-government protesters near the government house in Bangkok on Nov 24, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
BANGKOK (AP) – Anti-government protesters calling for Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down launched a rally in Bangkok on Saturday that authorities feared would grow into the biggest demonstration the country has seen since she took office last year.

Anti-US attacks: Afghanistan reacts to controversial film

Afghan protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, on Sept 17, 2012. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Afghan capital on Monday, setting fire to cars and shouting "death to America", the latest in demonstrations that have swept the Muslim world against a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.  -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Images from Afghanistan where thousands of protesters took to the streets, setting fire to cars and shops and throwing stones at police.

Thailand's PM Yingluck calms nation over past chaos

BANGKOK (AP) - As she marks a year in office this week as Thailand's first female prime minister, Ms Yingluck Shinawatra's biggest boast could be about what hasn't happened during that time: a return to the chaos that has wracked the country for much of the past six years.

Thai 'red shirts' rally as constitutional clash looms

A member of the 'red shirt' movement holds a toy gun as thousands gather at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on June 24, 2012. Thailand's 'red shirts' turned out in force on Sunday to warn the judiciary they will not stand by if a plan to amend the constitution is rejected, a rewrite critics say is aimed at allowing exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to come home. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

BANGKOK (REUTERS) - Thailand's 'red shirts' turned out in force on Sunday to warn the judiciary they will not stand by if a plan to amend the constitution is rejected, a rewrite critics say is aimed at allowing exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to come home.

Thousands of Norwegians gather to sing song Breivik hates

Around 40,000 people gather to sing a song hated by mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik during a protest in Oslo on April 26, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP

OSLO, Norway (AP) - Facing terror with music, tens of thousands gathered in squares across Norway to sing a children's song that gunman Anders Behring Breivik claimed is being used to brainwash young Norwegians.

Marijuana fans hold pot parties in Canada, US

A smoke cloud is seen over the crowd at the Vancouver Art Gallery during the annual 420 day promoting the use of marijuana in Vancouver, British Columbia April 20, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - Marijuana fans held mass rallies and pot parties in Canada and the United States on Friday, easing into the weekend with an annual celebration devoted to the feel-good weed.

Greece rushes to meet lender demands

A protester hurls rocks at police during a violent anti-austerity demonstration in central Athens Feb 12, 2012. Greece's government rushed on Tuesday to find 325 million euros (S$539 million) in budget cuts to satisfy euro zone finance ministers deciding whether to sign off on a rescue package to save the country from a chaotic default. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

ATHENS (REUTERS) - Greece's government rushed on Tuesday to find 325 million euros (S$539 million) in budget cuts to satisfy euro zone finance ministers deciding whether to sign off on a rescue package to save the country from a chaotic default.

Wanita Main Sabun Berbogel Di Khayalak Ramai

Malaysian Bloggers l Sebuah syarikat di China baru-baru ini mengupah tiga wanita muda untuk berbogel bagi mempromosikan produk gel mandian berbentuk semburan.

Dengan tuala hanya dibalut di sekeliling kepala mereka, wanita-wanita itu kelihatan tidak malu sama sekali dan melayan pengunjung dengan mesra tanpa merasa janggal.

Pictures: 'Sexist and humiliating' orientation games make girls cry

Singapore Institute of Management (SIM)-University of London's orientation games recently came under the spotlight when Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao reported that some girls burst into tears during the session. -- PHOTO: WANBAO READER

Singapore Institute of Management (SIM)-University of London's orientation games recently came under the spotlight when Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao reported that some girls burst into tears during the session.

Indian anti-graft activist Hazare ends fast after 13 days

Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare (above) ended his 13-day hunger strike on Sunday, a day after parliament agreed to consider his demands over proposed legislation. -- PHOTO: AFP

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare ended his 13-day hunger strike on Sunday, a day after parliament agreed to consider his demands over proposed legislation.

Pictures: Women protest sexual violence

Hundreds of women swapped business suits for short skirts and revealing tops on Saturday as Washington joined the list of cities around the world that have hosted a SlutWalk - a march calling for an end to sexual violence and victim blaming. --PHOTO: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hundreds of women swapped business suits for short skirts and revealing tops on Saturday as Washington joined the list of cities around the world that have hosted a SlutWalk - a march calling for an end to sexual violence and victim blaming.

A crowd made up mainly of women, which SlutWalk organiser Samantha Wright estimated at around 2,000-strong, marched from the White House to the Washington Monument brandishing signs with messages reading 'This is what I was wearing when I was raped', and, 'Rape pre-dates the miniskirt'.

Bicycle bomb kills 10 in northern Afghanistan

An Afghan security personnel stands at the site of a suicide attack in Khan Abad district of Kunduz province June 24, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

KABUL (Afghanistan) - AFGHAN authorities say that a bicycle rigged with explosives has blown up in a bazaar in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people, including a police officer.

Indian yoga guru calls off anti-graft fast

An Indian yoga guru on hunger strike for the last eight days in protest at government corruption has called off his fast, doctors said on Sunday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

DEHRADUN - AN INDIAN yoga guru on hunger strike for the last eight days in protest at government corruption has called off his fast, doctors said on Sunday.

'Swami Ramdev has ended his fast and we will soon discharge him,' Mr Vijay Dhasmana, the director of the Himalayan Institute of Medical science hospital in the northern town of Dehradun, told AFP.

McCain warns Myanmar risks Arab-style uprising

'Governments that shun evolutionary reforms now will eventually face revolutionary change later.' -- PHOTO: REUTERS

YANGON - US SENATOR John McCain warned on Friday that Myanmar could face a Middle East-style revolution if the new army-backed government fails to implement democratic reform and improve human rights.

'The winds of change are now blowing, and they will not be confined to the Arab world,' the senior Republican told reporters at the end of a three-day visit to the military-dominated nation. 'Governments that shun evolutionary reforms now will eventually face revolutionary change later.'

Gadaffi's son not dead, says Italy PM

MALAYSIAN BLOGGERS : Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi cast doubt on Libyan reports that Muammar Gaddafi's son and three grandchildren were killed in an April 30 Nato airstrike, saying that coalition forces believe the claim to be "propaganda."

Berlusconi told a late-night television talk show that based on intelligence services, Seif al-Arab Gaddafi wasn't in Libya and is rather in another country. He didn't elaborate.

"It doesn't check out with the coalition," Berlusconi told state-run RAI. "It seems like it's propaganda, and that the youngest son of Gaddafi isn't in Libya but lives in another country. Even the case of the three grandchildren seems unfounded. This is the information from our services."

Cambodian police in violent crackdown: Rights groups

Garment workers react during a protest in front of the garment factory June Textiles Co.,LTD (Cambodia) in Phnom Penh May 8, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

PHNOM PENH - RIGHTS groups in Cambodia accused police of using disproportionate violence on Sunday, alleging they beat protesters at a rally by 2,000 garment workers in the capital.

Around 100 officers, armed with anti-riot shields, electric batons and guns, moved in to disperse the mainly female crowd that had formed a roadblock near Phnom Penh's airport, according to a joint statement by three rights groups.

Pakistan criticises US raid on Osama

People rally to condemn the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Multan. Pakistan criticised the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden as an 'unauthorised unilateral action'. -- PHOTO: AP

ABBOTTABAD (Pakistan) - PAKISTAN criticised the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden as an 'unauthorised unilateral action,' laying bare the strains the operation has put on an already rocky alliance.

5 dead as Syrian troops sweep into Daraa

Rights activists said a 3,000-strong military force swarmed into Daraa in the early hours of Monday, with tanks taking up positions in the town centre and snipers deploying on rooftops. -- PHOTO: AFP

NICOSIA - AT LEAST five people were killed when thousands of troops backed by heavy armour swept into Syria's southern flashpoint town Daraa on Monday, a witness told AFP by telephone.