Mumbai braces for highest tide in 100 years

(photographs by Elidio)for more photographs http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/slideshow/4815125.cms?imw=460 "Mumbai braces for highest tide in 100 years" "MUMBAI: Nearly 200 people have been evacuated from coastal...

Arroyo orders highest alert level vs H1N1

" MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered health authorities Saturday to organize quick reaction teams to address the rising number of influenza A (H1N1) cases in the country. Schools have been...

Sri lanka has the highest number of disappearances in the world.

Human Rights Watch Reports: Human Rights Watch research determined that the Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis. Human Rights Watch...

India tops world hunger chart

Despite consistent economic growth over last many years, India is failing to provide proper food to its malnourished population. India's 230 million rural people are undernourished. This is the highest for any...

Army addresses rising suicide rate, highest in four years

"WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Jan. 29, 2009) -- The number of suicides in the Army has risen again, for the fourth year in a row, and the problem is being addressed with an Army-wide "stand-down" and...

U.S. Toll in Afghanistan at Record High in 2008

the exact statistics about foreign casualties is unclear but in some news tells that around 300 foreign combative death in 2008 and in some other new came that more than 300 fighters, NATO had casualties  last...

Wall Street Journal Asia edition fined $25,000

The Wall Street Journal's Asia edition have been fined for publishing news items about the independence of Singapore's courts. The Journal had published three items in June and July this year attacking...

Jobless claims hit 25-year high, imports plunge

Jobless claims hit 25-year high, imports plunge Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers drawing jobless benefits hit a 25-year...

Kumble announces retirement in 3rd India vs Australia Cricket test

The Spin Legend 38-year-old Indian test captain Anil Kumble was under pressure for performance and his retirement was on the cards but at the same time quite unexptected in the manner it happened. ...

Ganguly completed 7000 test runs

"Sourav Ganguly reached a personal landmark on Friday when he became the fourth Indian batsman to cross 7,000 runs during the first day’s play of the second cricket Test against Australia at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here. Ganguly’s feat came just an...

Sachin breaks Lara’s record, crosses 12000 Test runs

"Sachin Tendulkar became the highest scorer in Test cricket after surpassing West Indian legend Brian Lara in the ongoing second Test in Mohali on Friday. India vs Australia 2nd Test - Live Score The Master Blaster needed just 15 runs today to overtake Lara’s Test match...

UK inflation reaches 5.2% in September

Rampant inflation in the UK reached an astounding 5.2 percent in September, figures released today reveal. That's the highest level since the currency crisis of 1992."The Consumer Price Index, the inflation measure most closely watched by policy makers, rose more than...

Ganguly to retire after Australia series

"Sourav Ganguly has announced he will retire after the upcoming Test series against Australia. “This will be my last series,” said Ganguly at the end of a routine press conference in Bangalore. “Before...

Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record At 40.8 Percent

It's an "inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell". Advances in solar are going the way of computer processor speed and storage and many other information technologies; increasing power, speed and efficiency, decreasing cost, space, waste.Solar Power to Rule in 20...

Crash looms as McCain rejects bail

" All eyes will again be on the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson for a statement to shore up market confidence at the opening today, but it is hard to know what he can say as his authority appears to have been undermined at the highest political level, and President Bush...

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