(Source: Associated Press/AP Online)By GAVIN RABINOWITZNEW DELHI - India rejoiced Saturday at joining an elite club by planting its flag on the moon as the country’s space agency released the first pictures of the cratered surface taken by its maiden lunar mission. A probe sent late Friday from the orbiting mother spacecraft took pictures and gathered [...]
Continue reading...5. November 2008
Update: It’s Official, CNN, MSNBC and FOX News have now declared Barack Obama the next President of the United States. In case you missed it last night, Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States. Words can’t explain how happy and excited I am to see this happen. The youth of America had [...]
Continue reading...3. November 2008
WANA, Nov 2: Eight soldiers were killed in a suicide attack at a checkpoint in Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan on Sunday, military officials said. Two soldiers were injured. The officials said the suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden van into the checkpoint in front of the paramilitary fort in Zalai, some 15 kilometres west of [...]
Continue reading...2. November 2008
If SNL with McCain was not funny enough, many people are tuning into the tape below where Sarah Palin speaks to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in what turned out to be a prank call from a Quebec radio station. In the call, Sarkozy speaks about his sex life and shooting animals with Palin, who states [...]
Continue reading...29. October 2008
QUETTA: Earth Quake in Balochistan 180 Peoples Killed , while hundreds of people have been reported wounded. The state television quoting government officials reported that 180 people have been killed in the early Wednesday morning temblor in the southwestern province of Pakistan. The U.S. Geological Survey reports [...]
Continue reading...27. October 2008
We know, from now on every time a celebrity says, “please respect my family’s privacy in this difficult time” when they have done something like cheat on their spouse or get arrested for drunk driving, we’re going to remember this awful, undeserved tragedy. After the gruesome shooting of Sex and the City actress Jennifer Hudson’s [...]
Continue reading...26. October 2008
World’s most wanted fugitive, Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is reportedly writing a book on the struggle of his terrorist network that dispenses money, logistical support and training to radical groups in over 50 countries. The book, being written in Arabic, will later be translated into English. Bin Laden decided to write the book [...]
Continue reading...26. October 2008
Making a strong pitch for total elimination of nuclear weapons, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has mooted a multi-prong strategy to achieve the goal, including steps to bring CTBT into force and assurance to non-nuclear states that they would not be subjected to an atomic attack. He asked the nuclear weapon states to move towards [...]
Continue reading...26. October 2008
Excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese eggs might be traced to fertilizerfed to chickens, the Hong Kong government said. In a statement yesterday (October 25), the government said it found 4.7 parts per million of melamine in the eggs produced by a division of China’s Dalian Hanwei Enterprise Group based in the northeastern [...]
Continue reading...26. October 2008
The FBI joined the search for the 7-year-old nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson,still missing a day after the bodies of Hudson’s mother and brother were found in the actress’ childhood home. A suspect in the deaths remained in custody Saturday, but young Julian King had not been seen since the bodies of Darnell Donerson, 57, [...]
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16. November 2008
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