Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Trending: Sunday, August 4, 2013

Published 6:30 p.m. CDT (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Global travel alert/embassy closures
▪ CNN: Intercepted al Qaeda message led to shuttering embassies, consulates
▪ NBCNews: 'Significant' al Qaeda threat remains unclear as embassy closures extended
▪ NPR: State department extends closure of embassies
▪ FoxNews: State department to keep some embassies closed, as lawmakers say terror threat 'specific' and 'serious'

Pakistan
▪ CNN: Officials: Pakistan on alert for possible attack

Afghanistan
▪ NPR: Regimental Combat Team 7 rolls up its flag in Afghanistan

Skydiving news
▪ CNN: Skydiving instructor dies on tandem jump in Mississippi

Prince George
▪ NBCNews: New dad Prince William: I'm on diaper duty

Pot farm news
▪ NBCNews: Pot farms in California: Too dangerous to intervene?

Media news
▪ NBCNews: Newsweek sold to IBT Media

Deviant driving news
▪ NPR: One dead after driver plows through crowed L.A. boardwalk
▪ CBSNews: Venice boardwalk rampage: 38-year-old Nathan Campbell arrested
▪ USAToday: Witnesses say driver appeared to aim for beachgoers

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NPR: Digital seen surpassing TV in capturing our time

Sex-trafficking
▪ NPR: FBI official: Internet a key recruting tool for sex traffickers

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ CNN: China halts import of New Zealand milk powder becasue of bolulism bacteria

Obituary news
▪ CNN: Veteran NBC news correspondent John Palmer dies
▪ NBCNews: Julius Chambers, attorney who helped shape US civil rights law, dies at 76

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 1M searches
Powerball
▪ NBCNews: No winner: Powerball lottery jackpot jumps to $400 million

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <1M searches
UFC 163
▪ LATimes: UFC 163 recap: Jose Aldo beats 'Korean Zombie' by TKO in 4th round

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Trending: Sunday, June 23, 2013

Published 6:33 p.m. CST (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
Edward Snowden
▪ CNN: Snowden on the run, seeks asylum in Ecuador
▪ NBCNews: U.S. 'disappointed' that Hong Kong let NSA leaker Edward Snowden leave
▪ NPR: Ecuador says NSA leaker has asked for asylum
▪ FoxNews: US revokes NSA leaker Snowden's passport, as he reportedly seeks asylum in Ecuador

Colorado wildfires
▪ NBCNews: Colorado wildfire grows as blazes continue ot threaten West
▪ FoxNews: Weather preventing crews from fighting Colorado wildfire

Canada flooding
▪ CNN: Another Canadian city braces for flooding, evacuates 10,000

Aviation news
▪ CNN: Stunt plane crashes in Ohio; 2 dead including wingwalker

Syria
▪ NBCNews: 'They can't succeed without us:' Women take front-line role in Syria conflict

Taliban peace talks
▪ CBSNews: U.S.-Taliban peace talks stalled, hope fading

Boston bombing aftermath
▪ NBCNews: Boston Marathon winner returns his medal to city

Obamacare/Affordable Care Act
▪ KaiserHealthNews: 100 days to 'biggest ever' health insurance open-enrollment season

Child hot car deaths
▪ NBCNews: Boy dies in car while parents attend funeral: Police

Culture-in-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: 'Sweetest comback:' Twinkies to hit shelves July 15
▪ NBCNews: More states let unauthorized immigrants take the wheel
▪ FoxNews: Women too poor to afford funeral buries husband in backyard

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NPR: Pakistan gunmen kill foreign climbers in brazen attack
▪ NBCNews: One American among 9 foreign tourists, 2 others shot to death at camp in northern Pakistan
▪ CNN: Police: Gunmen storm hotel in Pakistan, kill 9 foreigners
▪ CNN: Abbas accepts resignation of Palestinian prime minister
▪ CNN: Up to 1,000 feared dead in India floods, landslides
▪ FoxNews: In China, dog owners have bone to pick over large-breed dogs

Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ ABCNews: (Photo) 'Poodle' cat shows off its curls

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
Jodi Arias
▪ ABCNews: (:30 video ad first) Jodi Arias suggests she may take deal to avoid death rather than appeal conviction

Jane Wicker
▪ DailyNews: Wing-walker Jane Wicker, who died in horrific crash at airshow, planned to wed her daredevil fiance on same plane she died on

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Demi Lavato
▪ E!Online: Demi Lovato's dad passes away

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Trending: Saturday, June 22, 2013

Published 12:54 p.m. CST (GMT - 5:00)

Yesterday's Google trends at bottom

Today's headlines
'Rock Center' ends
▪ NYTimes: Disappointing fall for 'Rock Center,' a news program with big ambitions
▪ NBCNews: 'Rock Center' takes its final bow

Super Moon
▪ CNN: Up in the sky: It's Supermoon!

Nuclear energy news
▪ CNN: U.S. engineers to inspect possible leak at Hanford nuclear site
▪ NBCNews: Feds: Nuclear waste may be leaking into soil from Hanford site

Edward Snowden
▪ CNN: U.S. charges Snowden with espionage
▪ NPR: Snowden extradition could get snarled in Hong Kong courts
▪ FoxNews: Capitol Hill voices bipartisan support for formal charges against Snowden
▪ FoxNews: Icelandic businessman says he has plane ready in Hong Kong to bring Edward Snowden to Iceland

Syria
▪ FoxNews: Government on offensive outside Syria's capital
▪ NBCNews: 700 US troops to stay in Jordan amid fears over Syria civil war
▪ NPR: 'Friends of Syria' countries meet to map out arming rebels

Aviation news
▪ CNN: Computer glitch grounds 250 Southwest flights
▪ NBCNews: Dozens of Southwest flights canceled after computer glitch
▪ FoxNews: British family reportedly ejected form flight for small cut on daughter's face

Canada flooding
▪ NBCNews: 3 dead, downtown Calgary off-limits, more flooding possible in western Canada

Colorado wildfires
▪ NBCNews: 3 towns at risk from Colorado wildfires; 100-foot wall of flame reported

Weather news
▪ NBCNews: 1 killed, 1 hit by lightning as storms sweep through Plains, Upper Midwest
▪ FoxNews: Woman killed as storms barrel across South Dakota

Lung transplant news
▪ CNN: Sarah Murnaghan awake and responsive after lung transplant
▪ NBCNews: Sara Murnaghan, 10, wakes from coma after lung transplant
▪ FoxNews: Pennsylvania girl reportedly awake after lung transplant

Osama bin Laden killing aftermath
▪ NBCNews: Pakistan aid workers pay the ultimate price for the killing of Osama bin Laden

Facebook news
▪ NBCNews: Facebook hole exposed 6M users' data, but it's not what you think
▪ ABCNews: Facebook security bug exposes account information of 6 million users
▪ USAToday: Facebook glitch exposes info of 6M users

Investment news
▪ USAToday: 5 dividend stocks approved by Warren Buffett

Workplace news
▪ NBCNews: Roll with it: 'Ghost' in toilet unravels factory workers in Bangladesh
▪ ABCNews: Brooklyn man sues former employer for weight discrimination

Outside-the-U.S. news
▪ NBCNews: Death toll in India flood hits 560, thousands more missing
▪ NBCNews: Japan's Mt. Fuji granted UNESCO World Heritage status
▪ CNN: Brazil's president warns protesters against violence
▪ NBCNews: Game changer? Ugandans buy life-saving drugs through 'Avon Lady' business model
▪ FoxNews: Brazil leaders to  meet after 1 million protesters flood streets, violence grows

Out-of-the-ordinary news
▪ CNN: Indiana woman critical after tiger clamps her head in its mouth
▪ NBCNews: Tiger critically injures worker at exotic feline sanctuary in Indiana

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 2M searches
Paula Deen
▪ See yesterday's Trendilla (Friday, June, 21, 2013)

Google trends with at least 200,000 but <200,000 searches
World War Z
▪ RottenTomatoes: Tomatometer: 67%; Audience: 86%

Super Moon
▪ See Today's headlines at top and also yesterday's Trendilla (Friday, June 21, 2013)

Monsters University
▪ RottenTomatoes: Tomatoemeter: 76%; Audience: 90%

First Day of Summer 2013
▪ CBSNews: Songs of the summer: What will be 2013's summer anthem?

Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <100,000 searches
Calgary
▪ See Today's Headines above

Ray Allen
▪ USAToday: Ray Allen hits one of biggest shots of career for Heat