Autopsy on Jackson body underway

LOS ANGELES: An autopsy is underway Friday morning on the body of Michael Jackson to ascertain the cause of his death.The King of Pop collapsed at his rented Holmby Hills estate Thursday and was pronounced dead a short time later at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of suspected cardiac arrest.The Los Angeles County coroner's office will determine the cause of death, but results of the post-mortem may not be confirmed for weeks because of toxicological testing delays.Police are searching for a doctor who they hope will help in the investigation of Jackson's death.Los Angeles police spokeswoman Karen Rayner said that police towed from Jackson's house a BMW owned by one of the superstar's doctors.Rayner said, "We have not been able to interview the doctor yet. His car was impounded because it may contain medications or other evidence that may assist the coroner in determining the cause of death."It was reported that the doctor lived at the home. Rayner said she could not confirm that and did not know the doctor's identity.She stressed that the doctor was not under criminal investigation but coroner's investigators wanted to contact him.Former Jackson lawyer Brian Oxman said he has long been concerned about the pop star's use of painkillers and he warned the singer's family about possible abuse. Oxman told NBC's "Today" show that when Anna Nicole Smith died -- quoting now -- "I said we cannot have this kind of thing with Michael Jackson."Oxman is making the rounds at various news outlets, saying he's speaking on behalf of no one but himself.Jackson friend Liza Minnelli has also raised the specter of possible drug abuse, telling CBS, "When the autopsy comes, all hell's going to break loose, so thank God we're celebrating him now."

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India's swine flu death rate is increasing

Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...

Suicide bombings kill 18 in Iraq

Thursday, August 13, 2009 MOSUL: At least 18 people, most of them members of the ancient Yazidi religious sect, were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up on Thursday in a packed cafe in northern Iraq, a local government official said.At least 31 people were also wounded after the bombers detonated suicide belts packed with explosives in the cafe in Kalaa town, in the district of Sanjar, local district chief Dakheel Qassem Hasoon, told a foreign news agency."Two suicide bombers entered the Cafe Barbaroz at 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) and blew themselves up, killing 18 civilians and wounding 31. Most of the victims were Yazidis," Hasoon said.Kalaa, northwest of the insurgent stronghold of Mosul in northern Nineveh province is predominantly populated by the minority Yazidi religious sect, as well as Arabs and Kurds.The attack is the deadliest since Monday, when 51 people were killed across Iraq, including 28 members of the tiny Shabak sect cut down when two truck bombs det...

US drones to target Taliban in Afghan war

Friday, July 31, 2009 WASHINGTON: The US military plans to use more drone aircraft to target Taliban militants in Afghanistan while focusing less on hunting down Al-Qaeda figures, report said on Thursday.Although defeating the Al-Qaeda terror network remains an overriding goal for Washington, officials now believe the best way to pursue that objective is to ensure stability in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan instead of Al-Qaeda manhunts, the paper said, citing US government and Defense Department officials.It was more important to prevent a slide towards violence and anarchy that could be exploited by Al-Qaeda, which used Afghanistan to stage its attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the officials said."We might still be too focused on Bin Laden," an official said. "We should probably reassess our priorities."The shift in priorities for the drone fleet comes despite President Barack Obama's declaration that defeating and dismantling Al-Qaeda ...

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