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Junta confines foreigners to Yangon (17 May 11:35) |
| Myanmar's military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists from reaching cyclone-battered regions. |
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China: 1-child norm deepens pain (17 May 11:35) |
| After their daughter was born, Bi Kaiwei and his wife Meilin decided to adhere to China's one-child policy and its slogan, 'Have fewer kids, live better lives'. |
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Winemaker Mondavi passes away (17 May 11:35) |
| Winemaker Robert Mondavi, the man most credited for turning California into a world-class wine producer and millions of Americans into wine lovers, died on Friday. |
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Dominican president wins third term (17 May 11:35) |
| Incumbent Leonel Fernandez has declared victory in the Dominican Republic's presidential election and his main rival said he accepted the results. |
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Pistorius wins Olympic appeal (17 May 05:25) |
| Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee sprinter, can compete at Beijing Games with able-bodied men now. He won the case in the Court of Arbitration for Sport. |
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Zimbabwe sets run-off date (17 May 05:25) |
| Zimbabwe said it would hold a delayed presidential election run-off on June 27, when the opposition hopes to oust veteran leader Robert Mugabe after nearly three decades in power. |
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Aftershocks hit China's relief efforts (17 May 05:25) |
| Rescue work in the earthquake-hit areas of southwest China's Sichuan province was seriously affected by a major after-shock measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale around 1.25pm on Friday. |
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E-health is C'wealth's new agenda (17 May 05:25) |
| The Commonwealth's new ‘big idea' is all about how to translate "the amazing diffusion of new technology, such as the mobile phone" into the field of health. |
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Pak defies US on halting Afghan raids (17 May 03:20) |
| Pakistani officials are making it increasingly clear that they have no interest in stopping cross-border attacks by militants into Afghanistan. |
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Indian student makes waves in UK (17 May 01:17) |
| An Indian student at the University of Leicester is making waves with his research on mobile signals that has implications for countries with long coastlines such as India. |
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UK worried about tourists safety in Goa (16 May 09:15) |
| UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that his government was ready to work with the Indian authorities to improve British tourists safety in Goa. |
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UK hosts rare Ramayana exhibition (16 May 09:15) |
| A first of its kind exhibition of 120 rare, lavishly illustrated Ramayana paintings from the volumes of Rana Jagat Singh of Mewar dated 17 Century AD opened here on Friday
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Strong aftershock in China (16 May 07:13) |
| President Hu Jintao flew to the battered province of Sichuan and Premier Wen Jiabao said the quake damage could exceed the devastating 1976 tremor in the north-eastern city of Tangshan that ... |
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Suicide blast kills 10 in Sri Lanka (16 May 07:13) |
| A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber crashed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, killing 10 people, the military and hospital authorities said.
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China: Massive missile site uncovered (16 May 05:12) |
| Commercial satellite imagery has revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium-range missiles.
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Colombo blast kills 6, wounds 75 (16 May 05:12) |
| At least six people were killed and 75 wounded in a blast that shook a commercial quarter of the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, doctors and the military said. |
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Massive Chinese missile site uncovered (16 May 03:51) |
| Commercial satellite imagery has revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium-range missiles.
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Colombo blast kills 6, injures 75 (16 May 01:49) |
| At least six people were killed and 75 wounded in a blast that shook a commercial quarter of the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, doctors and the military said. |
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Quake rescue in crucial phase: Hu (16 May 01:49) |
| Chinese President Hu Jintao flew on Friday into one of the areas worst hit by this week's earthquake, vowing no let-up in rescue work from the country's worst disaster in a generation. |
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Judicial scam in Malaysia uncovered (16 May 01:49) |
| Malaysia's law minister says a government inquiry has found evidence of a conspiracy to broker the appointment of top judges. |
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Shania Twain ends her 14-yr marriage (16 May 01:49) |
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42-year-old singer had met Lange, who is 17 years her senior, in 1993 for
collaboration on her first hit album
The Woman in
Me, and married him the same
year. |
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Nigeria pipeline blast kills 100 (16 May 01:49) |
| Flames from a ruptured fuel pipeline swept through homes and a school in a Nigerian village on Thursday, killing about 100 people and injuring some 20 others, a Red Cross official said. |
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US drugged illegals before deportation (16 May 11:08) |
| The US government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will, The Washington Post reported. |
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'Myanmar toll may stand at 128000' (16 May 11:08) |
| The Red Cross estimated that the cyclone death toll in Myanmar could be as high as 128,000 - a much larger figure than the government tally. |
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China admits 50,000 may have died (16 May 11:08) |
| Chinese authorities on Thursday finally conceded that 50,000 people may have died in the quake hit Sichuan province in southwest China, some 80 hours after the disaster struck on Monday afte... |
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Watch: Sex & The City in Berlin (16 May 11:08) |
| The 24-year-old Indian man charged with the murder of Samrajyo Jyothirmai Vempala will be produced in the Birmingham Magistrates Court in UK today.
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Boy, 10, set to ace college in US (16 May 11:08) |
| With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music.
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Joseph Fritzl is a 'liar' (16 May 03:29) |
| Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian girl kept captive in a cellar for eight years, said Amstetten incest father Joseph Fritzl is a "liar" for saying he loves his family. |
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California SC backs gay marriage (16 May 03:29) |
| The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday the state cannot bar same-sex marriages, marking a major victory for gay rights advocates that may have national implications. |
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Bush stirs up US Prez campaign (16 May 03:29) |
| US President George Bush has said that Democratic front-runner Barack Obama's pledge to talk to Iran's leader amounted to "the false comfort of appeasement." |
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India offers $5 million aid to China (16 May 03:29) |
| Meanwhile, China said that the death toll may cross 50,000 and issued a public appeal for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster.
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Aid effort smooth: Myanmar junta (16 May 03:29) |
| Myanmar's military government said its cyclone relief effort was moving along swiftly even as foreign powers warned of starvation. |
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19-year-old elected mayor of US city (16 May 03:29) |
| It's certainly a good start: a 19-year-old political science student who dreams of becoming US president was elected mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma, beating a 70-year-old for the job, the city ... |
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Palestinians mourn Israel birthday (16 May 03:29) |
| Abbas appealed for reconciliation and an end to Israeli settlement building on the 60th anniversary of Israel's birth. |
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Embryonic twin in Greek girl's stomach (16 May 03:29) |
| A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in Greece suffering from stomach pains, was found to be carrying her embryonic twin. The embryo was surgically removed. |
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Hurley, Nayar, Grant win privacy case (16 May 03:29) |
| Two photo agencies have agreed to pay actors Hugh Grant and Liz Hurley and her husband USD 113,000 for taking photographs of them while they were on vacation in the Maldives. |
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Dungeon dad's kin thank public (16 May 03:29) |
| Austrian Josef Fritzl's family, has for the first time expressed gratitude for the support they have received - and to wish for a "normal life" in the future. |
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Book on Naipaul vies for UK prize (15 May 03:22) |
| A biography of Nobel Prize-winning Indian-origin writer V S Naipaul has found its place among the six books short-listed for Britain's richest prize for non-fiction. |
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Pakistan Army soldier beheaded (15 May 03:22) |
| A Pakistan Army soldier was beheaded in the restive North Waziristan tribal region by suspected Taliban militants who put a note on his body saying that he was killed for being an "American ... |
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John Edwards endorses Obama (15 May 03:22) |
| Former US presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama, giving a major boost to the Democrat's efforts to unify the party behind his bid for White House. |
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PETA preaches veg diet to Bush (15 May 09:38) |
| PETA India has written a letter to US President George Bush, urging him to become a vegetarian and asking other compassionate Americans to follow his example. |
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New deadline for Zimbabwe's vote (15 May 07:35) |
| Zimbabwe's run-off presidential election has been delayed and will now be held within 90 days of May 2, an official announced on Wednesday. |
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'Bill was stupid to go with Monica' (15 May 07:35) |
| Former US President Bill Clinton was "bloody stupid" to go along with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, the wife of ex-British PM Tony Blair has said.
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Entire generations wiped out in China (15 May 03:33) |
| Hopes of survival of the 40,000-odd people missing or trapped in debris seemed to recede some 56 hours after the earthquake struck China's southwest province of Sichuan. |
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'Bill was stupid to go with Monika' (15 May 03:33) |
| Former US President Bill Clinton was "bloody stupid" to go along with White House intern Monika Lewinski, the wife of ex-British PM Tony Blair has said.
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Belief in aliens is OK: Vatican (15 May 03:33) |
| The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolved than humans.
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Lankan prez slams western hypocrisy (15 May 03:33) |
| In a speech to the Oxford Union, Rajapaksa said Colombo's failure to worst LTTE would make a victim of democracy itself. |
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Burst dams worry in quake-hit China (14 May 09:28) |
| The death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000, as officials warned of calamities downstream from broken rivers and dams strained to bursting point.
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Troops sent for China quake rescue (14 May 07:28) |
| The toll from China's most deadly earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000 as thousands of troops, fireman and common civilians battled to save people buried under rubble and mud.
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9 killed in Bangladesh train collision (14 May 03:13) |
| At least nine persons were killed and 30 others injured when two passenger trains collided at the Ashuganj junction in eastern Bangladesh.
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