[World] Oscar Pistorius bail hearing: day three as it happened

Oscar Pistorius bail hearing: day three as it happened
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/oscar-pistorius/9887272/Oscar-Pistorius-bail-hearing-day-three-as-it-happened.html
Oscar Pistorius bail hearing: live. • Lead investigator is taken off the case • Police query the timing of investigator's prosecution • Defence lawyer is courtroom veteran • Day one: as it happened • Day two: as it happened • Full story on Wednesday's proceedings ...

Shinde visits Hyderabad blast site, toll climbs to 14
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/shinde-visits-the-twin-blasts-site-in-hyderabad/article4441909.ece
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday visited the twin bomb blasts site at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad even as the toll in the attack rose to 14.

Car bomb kills at least 50 as rebels push fight deeper into Damascus
http://www.news.com.au/world/car-bomb-hits-baath-party-office-in-damascus-syria-killing-at-least-31/story-fndir2ev-1226583106647
BEIRUT - The detonation of a massive car bomb on Thursday near the heart of Damascus underscored a major shift that has brought sustained fighting close to the center of the capital for the first time during Syria's two-year-old uprising.

Hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners sets off clashes in West Bank
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/clashes-erupt-in-west-bank-as-palestinians-protest-hunger-strikers-detention/2013/02/21/7e363982-7c70-11e2-a044-676856536b40_story.html
BEITUNIA, West Bank - Hundreds of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli security forces outside an Israeli prison near Ramallah on Thursday in the latest of a wave of demonstrations in support of four Palestinian prisoners who have been on extended ...

Maharashtra sisters rape: No headway in Bhandara rape-murder case
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/angry-villagers-in-bhandara-block-roads-to-protest-rape-and-murder-of-three-minor-sisters-333489
There has been no headway in the gruesome case of rape and murder of three minor sisters in Murwadi village in neighbouring Bhandara even though their mother alleged their grandmother may be behind the killings.

Six Ways to Tell If You're Staying in a Murder Hotel
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/02/21/elisa_lam_cecil_hotel_six_ways_to_tell_if_you_re_staying_in_a_murder_hotel.html
This January, a 21-year-old Canadian tourist named Elisa Lam disappeared while visiting Los Angeles. Lam was last seen at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where she had been staying.

Israel Releases Part of Report on Prisoner X's Death
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/asio-had-no-contact-with-zygier-dreyfus-20130222-2evox.html
JERUSALEM - The man known as Prisoner X was found dead at 8:19 p.m. on Dec. 15, 2010, hanging by his neck in the shower of his cell.

Zanu-PF Scoffs At Khama
http://www.brecorder.com/world/africa/107306.html
ZANU-PF has dismissed suggestions by Botswana President, Ian Khama that the country's next election would not be free and fair and could be marked by an outbreak of violence and intimidation perpetrated by the party's agent provocateurs.

Egypt Wants Its Business Tycoons to Return
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/egypt-parliamentary-vote-set-for-april-27/story-e6frfkui-1226583279932
Amid a rare dusting of snow, a few dozen money managers and investors filed into London's May Fair Hotel on Jan. 14 for a conference on investment opportunities in Egypt.

Britain Convicts 3 in Plot to Rival '05 Transit Attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/21/birmingham-terrorists-al-qaida-suicide-bombers
LONDON - Three men accused of plotting what prosecutors said would have been the most devastating terrorist attacks in Britain since the London transit system bombings of July 2005 were convicted Thursday after a 12-week trial.

Monti's Austerity Pushes Italians Toward Parliamentary Upheaval
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21496790
Elisa Dalbosco says she lost her job when it came time for her former employer, a refugee shelter in northern Italy, to either hire her with a permanent contract or let her go.

Polls: Pope Benedict XVI is widely popular, but many Catholics yearn for change
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21540319
Pope Benedict XVI wins widespread approval for the job he did, according to two new polls taken after his decision to step down, but American Catholics are split on what direction his successor should take in leading the church.