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Breaking News Tue, 13 May 2008
Unidentified people react after a blast in Jaipur, India, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.Five bombs ripped through crowded parts of an ancient city in western India on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 100 others, police said
India   Jaipur   Photos   Police   Terrorism  
Seven bomb blasts kill 60 in India's Jaipur
| JAIPUR, India - A series of bomb blasts at markets in the northwestern Indian tourist city of Jaipur late on Tuesday killed 60 people and injured more than 100, the chief minister of Rajasthan state... (photo: AP / )
Khaleej Times
A man looks at banners of captured Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser, left, Gilad Schalit, center, and Eldad Regev, right, placed in protest outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. Egypt recently sent a letter to Hamas' top leader Khaled Mashaal in Syria demanding that Hamas immediately release Schalit to avoid a worsening crisis in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials and Arab diplomats sai
Hamas   Israel   Peace   Photos   Politics  
Hamas rejects Israeli truce terms
| Hamas has said that the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in 2006, will not form part of any truce agreement with Israel. | Israel has said a ceasefire deal must include the relea... (photo: AP / Kevin Frayer)
BBC News
Jounieh Bay Lebanon's Hariri vows no surrender to Hezbollah
Tue May 13, 2008 9:47am ET | | By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri pledged on Tuesday there would be no political surrender to wha... (photo: WN / Manuela Paraipan) Reuters
Hezbollah   Iran   Lebanon   Photos   Syria  
A branch of the Westpac Bank in Sydney, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006. Westpac Banking Corp., Australia's fourth-biggest bank reported a record net profit of $3.071 billion (US$2,333.96 billion) for the 2005/06 year, up 13.8 per ce St. George Bank approves Westpac offer
| : Westpac Banking and its smaller rival St. George Bank said Tuesday that they had agreed to a takeover, a deal that would create one of largest Australian banks. | But investors gave a mixed welcom... (photo: AP / Mark Baker) International Herald Tribune
Australia   Banking   Business   Market   Photos  
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 People walk past the front entrance of Maponya Mall in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 27, 200 ADB: Africa's economy to grow by 6% in 2008
Africa's economy will grow by 6% this year and next, an acceleration from 2007, owing to high oil prices and demand for commodities, research from the African Development... (photo: AP) Mail Guardian South Africa
Africa   Business   Economy   Market   Photos  
U.S. and Iraqi soldiers Rethinking the Iraq critics
| In trying to understand news about the conflicts in Iraq, I work to keep in mind the difference between what we know now about decisionmaking in World War II and what m... (photo: U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Ave I. Pele-Sizelove ) The Washington Times
Iraq   Military   Photos   US   War  
Myanmar Aid strategy for cyclone victims
| The country of Burma or Myanmar has already lost at least 25,000 of its citizens to a terrible cyclone over a week ago. | Now, with well more than a million people adve... (photo: AP Photo) The Washington Times
Aid   Disaster   Myanmar   Photos   UN  
USA - A picture of Lexington, Kentucky taken by helicopter An Iraqi family comes to America
| A storm was brewing and there was a roll of thunder. Farah - a four-year-old Iraqi girl now living in Lexington, Kentucky - urgently asked her mother, "Was that a bomb?... (photo: Public Domain) BBC News
Iraq   Mideast   Photos   Refugee   US   War  
 An Airbus A380 is seen at the assembly line in Toulouse, southwestern France, in ths May 27, 2004 file photo. European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV said Thursday, July 27, 2006 that second-quarter profits fell 9 percent and the company cut its full- Airbus announces new delays to A380 programme
| PARIS: European aviation giant Airbus on Tuesday announced more delays to the delivery of its giant A380 superjumbos, saying the current schedule was not one it could m... (photo: AP Photo ) The Times Of India
Aviation   Business   Company   Industry   Photos  
Microsoft researcher Curtis Wong demonstrates Microsoft Corp.'s "WorldWide Telescope," Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at TechFest, Microsoft's annual display of experimental technology, in Redmond, Wash. The virtual telescope lets home computer users seamlessly explore the universe using images gathered from different telescopes from all over the world is a highly anticipated product from Microsoft that the company says may be available to users free of charge as soon as late Spring as an extension of the Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft WorldWide Telescope blasts off
|     SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp launched its WorldWide Telescope late on Monday, bringing the free Web-based programme for zooming around the universe to a broad ... (photo: AP / Ted S. Warren) The Times Of India
Company   Photos   Science   Space   Technology  
 A Lebanese woman throws rice in celebration as Lebanese troops deploy in the southern village of Marwaheen, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, a day after the Israeli army withdrew from the entire south except for the village of Ghajar. Lebanese soldiers too Renewed fighting erupts in Lebanon
| BEIRUT -Fierce fighting erupted in northern Lebanon on Monday, further exacerbating tensions after days of deadly sectarian battles that have driven the nation to the b... (photo: AP/Mohammed Zaatari) Khaleej Times
Beirut   Defence   Fighting   Hezbollah   Photos   Slideshow  
 Following an official ribbon cutting President George W. Bush welcomes reporters and photographers back to the newly re-modeled James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, Wednesday, July 11, 2007, at the White House. (gm1)  Senators push Bush to pressure Saudis on oil
| WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leaders on Monday urged President George W. Bush to use his upcoming trip to the Middle East to convince Saudi Arabia to pump more oil an... (photo: White House/Chris Greenberg ) Khaleej Times
Economy   Oil   Photos   S Arabia   US  
 Shenzhen boasts one of the most robust and fastest-growing economies since China adopted a policy of opening-up and reform(mj1) China's inflation soars to 8.5%
| Tourists browse for souvenirs outside a shop in Beijing yesterday. Last month, consumer prices in China rose at an 8.5 percent annual rate, a 12-year high. Prime Minist... (photo: WN) The Washington Times
Asia   Business   China   Finance   Photos  
Ian Stewart, right, and Gregory Gravalis, both of Bear Wagner Specialists, monitor trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. Markets rally as oil prices retreat
| NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street rallied yesterday as oil prices fell and alleviated some of investors' concerns about accelerating inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Avera... (photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams) The Washington Times
Economy   Finance   Market   Photos   US  
North America Europe
Baby incubators linked to cot death
Middle back carseat safer for kids
Hezbollah's shots ring in Bush's ears
Bank of Canada takes C$680 mn out of markets
President Bush, accompanied by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, makes a statement at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 24, 2008.
Hezbollah's shots ring in Bush's ears
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Value in East Europe 'junket', say MPs
Britain"s Queen begins Turkey visit
Barcelona forced to ship in water
Ukraine president"s speech blocked
Ship
Barcelona forced to ship in water
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Asia Middle East
Brian Rudman: Only right that matters in Myanmar is the righ
India's paper and magazine sector a licence to print mon
Whale meat eaters a dying breed feeding on tradition
Search for Kiwis in quake zone
 A Parsi couple on their wedding day. The man in the centre is Dastur MN Dhalla, who was the High Priest of the Parsis of Karachi, Pakistan, between 1909 and 1956. (om1)
Parsis may be silenced by success
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Bush accused of ignoring Iraqi corruption claims
A deadly miscalculation in Lebanon
Hezbollah's shots ring in Bush's ears
Jordan 'tough' on honour killer
President Bush acknowledges applause before to delivering his State of the Union address, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008
Bush accused of ignoring Iraqi corruption claims
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South America Africa
Adam Gifford: Having a private word
Colombia extradites paramilitaries
The 14 men will face drug-trafficking charges
Philips buys Brazil's Dixtal to growth in healthcare
a burned area of the Amazon rain forest is seen in Para, Brazil (dn1)
Frontline battle to save Amazon forest
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Deputy Governor Appeals for Guns Handover
Mass Arrests After Rebel Attack Raise Concern
Madiba Receives Freedom of the City Award
Tourism Indaba is a Resounding Success
Former President Nelson Mandela, center, with Pretoria Mayor Gwen Ramokgopa, right, at a private ceremony in Johannesburg, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, where the freedom of Pretoria was bestowed on him. Mandela turns 90 on July 18 with events being held locally and internationally to mark the statesman's birthday.
Nelson Mandela breaks his promise
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Australia Caribbean
School students put brains to the test
Lobbyists forced to sign register
Strikes threatened as Westpac and St George banks agree on t
Program aims at needs of indigenous students
U.N. Police patrol an area near the site of an attack on East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta Monday, Feb. 11, 2008 in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Gunmen shot and wounded Ramos-Horta and opened fire on a car carrying Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao Monday in apparently coordinated attacks against the leadership of the recently independent nation, officials said
UN delays on Timor extension request
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Ashton ready to start contract talks
Food bill comes in for liberalization
Switch to Everton defence helped Jagielka to win place in En
Royals: Prospect set to show stuff
Wheat farm - Agriculture - Food - Crop - Farming
Food bill comes in for liberalization
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