Islamabad, Oct 22 – Five judges in Pakistan have been suspended on charges of corruption. Dawn reported that two district and sessions judges and three additional district and sessions judges were suspended Thursday for a period of three months. Justice Miftauddin Khan, registrar of Peshawar High Court, suspended the judicial officers. The district and sessions [...]
Los Angeles, Oct 22 – Hollywood actor Mel Gibson’s cameo in ‘The Hangover’ sequel has been axed amid reports that the movie’s cast angrily objected to it. Director Todd Phillips has confirmed he was forced to scrap Gibson’s cameo following tensions on-set, reports imdb.com. ‘I thought Mel would have been great in the movie and [...]
Port-au-Prince, Oct 22 – A suspected cholera outbreak north of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has killed up to 135 people, health officials and news reports said Thursday. Haiti’s Radio Metropole reported that more than 50 people had died of acute diarrhoea, but Gabriel Timothe, the director general of Haiti’s Health Ministry, was quoted by the [...]
Moscow, Oct 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russians are the world’s most active users of social networking websites in terms of time they spend there, a study has found. The survey conducted by digital market measurement service comScore Media Metrix said, in August 2010, 74.5 percent of all Russian internet users, or 34.5 million people, visited at [...]
Melbourne, Oct 22 – The condition of sexsomnia, the bizarre act of having sex while asleep, could be genetic, according to evidence found by an Australian researcher. Gerard Kennedy, an associate professor in psychology at Victoria University, who studied four sexsomnics in 16 years, has found an unusual case of a father-son duo. ‘This could [...]
Islamabad, Oct 22 – US President Barack Obama has told Islamabad he doesn’t want to bracket his visit to Pakistan with India because adding it would mean spending only half a day in the country, which would be unfair, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani said. Haqqani called up Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – The United States has warned Pakistani leaders that continued inaction against Taliban and Al Qaeda havens bordering Afghanistan could jeopardise some large US cash payouts to Islamabad, the Wall Street Journal said in a report. The warnings from Obama administration officials have raised the stakes in their ongoing strategic dialogue here [...]
Santiago, Oct 22 – Many of the miners rescued last week after more than two months trapped underground in northern Chile have decided to take legal action against the firm that owns the mine and against the Chilean government, lawyer Edgardo Reinoso said Thursday. In a parliamentary investigation of security violation at the San Jose [...]
Tokyo, Oct 22 – A government-appointed team found the remains of what appear to be 51 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battlefields of World War II, news reports said Friday. The remains were found buried in two locations on the island, officially known as Iwoto Island, in sites similar to those [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) has approved a $917 million export finance guarantee to support US exports to the Sasan Power Ltd coal-fired power plant in Madhya Pradesh. US vendors including Bucyrus International, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will sell and export mining and associated equipment to Sasan Power [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – The World Bank has approved a credit worth $13 million in additional financing for the Mizoram State Roads Project to continue revitalizing and modernising the state’s highway system. The project will help improve the management and carrying capacity of the core state road network in order to lower transportation bottlenecks and [...]
San Francisco, Oct 22 – A record 5.2 million iPhones were activated in the last quarter by AT&T, which holds exclusive rights to the hit device in the US, the telecom giant has said. The record-setting sales mark beat the previous record of 3.2 million iPhones that AT&T sold in the prior quarter, when Apple’s [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – With the White House stressing that President Barack Obama’s India visit schedule is not ‘finalised’, Sikh American groups are using new age tools like e-mail, twitter and facebook to persuade him to visit the Golden temple. Disappointed over reports that Obama will not visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar during his [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – Hari Prasad Vemuru, a jailed Indian e-voting researcher, is one of the four winners of the 2010 Pioneer Awards of San Francisco headquartered Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a leading civil liberties group. The three other winners are transparency activist Steven Aftergood; public domain scholar James Boyle; and legal blogger Pamela Jones [...]
New York, Oct 22 – American Express reported a profit boost of 70 percent in its third quarter over the same period last year, saying well-heeled card holders were spending more and paying their bills more often on time. Net income was $1.09 billion, up from $642 million. Revenues were up 17 percent as tight [...]
Sanaa, Oct 22 – Sixteen hundred orphan couples tied the knot Thursday in Yemen’s biggest mass wedding, Xinhua reported. The grooms and the brides held separate ceremonies. It was organised by the Orphans Charitable Organization (OCO) and sponsored by Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. A Yemeni traditional marriage costs the groom over $5,000. [...]
Washington, Oct 22 – A former top military officer says in a new book that former president Bill Clinton’s White House lost the codes needed to launch nuclear missiles. Retired general Hugh Shelton writes in his just published memoir, ‘Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior’, that the card containing the codes were missing [...]
London, Oct 22 – Hollywood actress Carey Mulligan will be honoured with the breakthrough star award at the upcoming Palm Springs International Film Festival in California. The ‘An Education’ star will receive the award Jan 8 at the festival for her work in films ‘Never Let Me Go’ and ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’. Festival [...]
Los Angeles, Oct 22 – Hollywood actor Johnny Depp is eager to work with director Rob Marshall again in new film ‘The Thin Man’. Marshall is currently filming ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’, which also stars Depp. However, the actor ‘has been aggressively courting’ to star in the remake of the 1934 film, [...]
London, Oct 22 – A representative for Christina Aguilera has rubbished claims linking the singer to lesbian DJ Samantha Ronson, insisting they are ‘nothing more’ than just good friends. The ‘Dirrty’ hitmaker announced her split from husband Jordan Bratman last week and subsequently filed divorce papers in a bid to officially end the union. After [...]
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