 | The death toll in the severe storms that struck the south-eastern US states of Alabama and Georgia, has risen to 19, reports said Friday.
Eight teenagers died Thursday when a tornado caused a roof to collapse at Enterprise High School in... More |
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 | Pakistan Saturday test fired a short-range surface-to-surface missile, which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, media reports said.
The Haft-II Abdali missile with a range of 200 km was launched from an unspecified location, military... More |
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 | At least 12 people were wounded in a bomb explosion in Indonesia's Ambon sea port early Saturday, police officials said.
The assembled bomb was planted near the exit way of the port in Maluku province and exploded when passengers of a ship began... More |
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 | As in India, Holi is also celebrated with great enthusiasm in the Caribbean -- where it is better known as Phagwah.
Indians who went to the Caribbean as labourers in the 19th and early 20th centuries took along the festival to Guyana, Surinam... More |
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 | A blind British pilot is to take off this weekend in a bid to fly his microlight plane to Australia, news reports said Saturday.
Miles Hilton-Barber, 55, will be sitting alongside sighted pilot Storm Smith in his attempt to become the first... More |
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 | US Army Secretary Francis Harvey stepped down from his post amidst a widening scandal over health care management for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
While Harvey's resignation Friday appeared to be connected to an immediate crisis... More |
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 | Kosovo's former prime minister and Albanian guerrilla leader, Ramush Haradinaj, returned to The Hague Monday for his war crimes trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Haradinaj did not speak to the media at... More |
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 | Faced with an alarming decline in child bearing, the German government plans to encourage career women to have children by boosting the number of child day care places.
The plans drew immediate fire from conservative Catholics. Women were being... More |
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 | Seeking a ruling on media freedom, a petition before Pakistan's Supreme Court says that showing a court official taking bribe does not amount to contempt of court.
Safdar Iqbal of Islamabad has stated in his petition that the Lahore High Court... More |
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 | Demining is being taken up in Lebanon by women, seven of whom are clearing some of the estimated one million cluster bombs scattered across the south as a result of the 2006 Israeli offensive.
Chosen from among 30 applicants, the seven women were... More |
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