Turkey fights Ebola-like fever outbreak (AP)

" LONDON - Turkey is battling the largest recorded outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, which has killed at least 20 people this year, and experts said Tuesday more cases of the Ebola " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Ebola -like disease are...

In Sudan, pale is beautiful but price is high (Reuters)

" KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At the crowded Beauty Queen parlor in Sudan's capital Khartoum, beautician Selma Awa says she just cannot understand why so many of her clients want to get their skin lightened. "One hundred percent of women who come here have it done," she said....

Commerce/Business Students-Listen on line to this Business Sense Program

This CBC Radio program on Business is both practical and fresh.  Students can listen to the weekly programs on-line (archived) to help get up to speed on what is happening in the real world of Commerce.  Check out the August 3, 2006 program that highlights a UBC...

Tihar jail gets CCTVs to monitor sensitive points

"Tightening surveillance in Tihar, one of Asia's biggest prisons, which has witnessed high profile escapes, authorities are installing close circuit televisions (CCTVs) in all the ten jails there."

N Korea threatens to quit ASEAN - Indian Express

" Associated Press Kuala Lumpur, July 28: North Korea has said it could quit the Associaton of South East Asian Nations if the organisation condemns the Communist regimes missile tests, a South Korean official said on Friday. Advertisment Related Stories While talking West...

Indonesians flee volcanic eruption

"Nearly 4,000 Indonesians are being evacuated from their villages after one of the world's most active volcanoes started erupting hot gas and lava. Villagers living close to Karangetan, a 5,800ft peak on Siau island, have been ordered out after lava began flowing just 400...

Little Relief (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone)

" Little relief Southern Lebanon leaders rather see peace than supplies. Watch video The Week in Photos July 14-July 20 See a selection of the week's best images. Asia Text warnings China uses short cell phone messages to alert people of incoming typhoons. Africa Turmoil in...

Whose war is it anyway? - Indian Express

" P.R. Kumaraswamy In focusing on Israel, New Delhi is missing the point that Hezbollah is a force of extremism and misadventure, backed only by Syria and Iran PR Kumaraswamy Related Stories Will Mottaki have the answers? Re-energising the gulf bilaterals Arabs under a...

ANALYSIS - Discontent sows seeds of Jihad among Indian Muslims (Reuters)

" MUMBAI (Reuters) - These are bad times, says the chief priest of a small mosque in the heart of the Muslim quarter of Asia's largest slum in India's biggest city. "There is fear and suspicion everywhere," said Mohammed Saeed Khan Qadri of Salaullah Mosque in Mumbai's...

Sex Movies on Internet to be Offered in Vietnam

Daily News "A newspaper said on Thursday that the straight-laced government of communist-run Vietnam, where pornographic Web sites are banned, plans to offer dowloadable movies on an Internet site to educate married couples about healthy sex."

2-year Neanderthal genome project launches (AP)

" BERLIN - U.S. and German scientists on Thursday launched a two-year project to decipher the genetic code of the Neanderthal, a feat they hope will help deepen understanding of how modern humans' brains evolved. Neanderthals were a species that lived in Europe and western...