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Blood bombs planned
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Protest leaders vowed Monday to collect blood from tens of thousands of anti-government activists and splash it onto the Thai government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.
As many as 100,000 "Red Shirt" protesters converged Sunday on Bangkok to demand that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who gained power after a 2006 military coup, agree to dissolve parliament by midday Monday. Abhisit refused and blanketed the capital in security, but said his government was open to listening to what else the protesters have to say.
Have an 'ice' life
WASHINGTON -- In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, NASA scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Below the ice at 183 metres, where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
Tigers in wild in danger
DOHA, Qatar -- The world has "failed miserably" at protecting tigers in the wild, bringing an animal that is a symbol for many cultures and religions to "the verge of extinction," a top official with the United Nations wildlife agency said Monday.
Just 20 years ago there were 100,000 tigers in Asia, but now only 3,200 remain in the wild, according to Willem Wijnstekers, secretary general of the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
Arrest aborts Taliban talks
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan with help from U.S. intelligence, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.
The detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar -- second in the Taliban only to one-eyed Mullah Mohammed Omar -- has raised new questions about whether the U.S. is willing to back peace discussions with leaders who harboured the terrorists behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
-- From the news services
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 16, 2010 A8
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