 | Pakistan Supreme Court has directed the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC) to recall 73 of its women crew members suspended for being overweight and of "dull appearance".
The management of the national carrier was Wednesday... More |
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 | Migrant workers in Britain may have to sit for an English test under a new proposal being considered to boost their grasp of the language.
The Commission on Integration and Cohesion has suggested that language represents the largest barrier in... More |
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 | There is still time for Iran to meet the UN Security Council's deadline to halt uranium enrichment and move toward negotiations aimed at ending the dispute over the Islamic state's nuclear activities.
"We always believe in last-minute... More |
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 | Eight people were found dead and 262 survivors rescued from a blazing ferry among some 350 passengers on board, according to Indonesian Navy spokesman Thursday.
Navy spokesman said that five Naval war ships, two planes and two helicopters have... More |
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 | The Taliban has deployed 6,000 fighters in preparation for a spring offensive against the government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, said a leader of the Islamic milita that once ruled the country.
"The attack is imminent," Mullah Dadullah... More |
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 | The South Korean government is considering revising the country's law to allow children to use their mother's last name in a bid to achieve greater gender equality.
The Ministry of Government Legislation would study revising the civil code,... More |
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 | Suspected separatists Wednesday set alight Thailand's largest rubber warehouse in the troubled deep South, sparking a 12-hour conflagration that blanketed Yala City in a cloud of black smoke.
The fire at the warehouse, owned by the Southland... More |
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 | More than 41,000 Filipino schoolchildren on Wednesday brushed their teeth simultaneously in three cities in the Philippines in a bid to break a world record, organisers said.
A total of 41,038 children gathered in open parks in Manila, the... More |
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 | Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has stepped in to defuse a bitter dispute over top-secret government documents that could lead to the collapse of the Air India Kanishka inquiry.
On Monday, in hard-hitting language, retired Supreme Court... More |
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 | The ex-wife of South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela became the latest high-profile victim of crime in South Africa, reports said Wednesday.
On returning from an overseas trip to her home in Soweto, Winnie Madikizela Mandela... More |
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