A gun battle has broken out inside the headquarters of the Bangladesh border guards in the capital, Dhaka, police and TV reports say. " An intense gunbattle broke out Wednesday morning inside the headquarters of...
"Shireen M Mazari The writer is a defence analystLack of formal education and sheer ignorance does not by definition imply an innate sense of stupidity. On the other hand, formal education in itself is no guarantee of an intelligent and rational human...
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The Sri Lankan forces have intensified their campaign against rebel LTTE in last months. The government troops have made dramatic progress on the northern fronts, seizing a series of rebel bases and chunks of...
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"(CNN) -- With 10 days to go until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense they are spilling out in public, sources say. ...
"WASHINGTON — The economic upheaval is threatening to topple Republican Congressional candidates, putting more Senate and House seats within Democratic reach less than a month before the elections, lawmakers and...
"Polling this week in Florida and Ohio shows little net change from the previous week with McCain holding a very modest advantage in each state. McCain and Obama both increased their level of support slightly in each as the number of undecided/third party voters declined by...
This picture has shown up in more places than any one of any airline I have ever taken. I've seen it altered in many ways, the first being the cropping of the banner. It usually ends up on myspace pages of...
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Opinion Barry Artiste, Certainly a country plagued with corruption and uncertainty, the Taliban are more than willing to take advantage of a even more dire situation, which looks like there may be no end in sight,...
The author of the best-selling book "The Horse Whisperer" is in the hospital in Scotland after eating some poisonous mushrooms. He had cooked the mushrooms himself after finding them in the woods."Bestselling...
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"MANILA -- Thousands of troops backed by air and artillery fire have captured 15 strongholds of the Moro rebels in the southern Philippines after five days of intense fighting, officials said Monday. More than 272,000 villagers have also fled their homes due to the ongoing...
Sometime in the early morning of June 30, 1908, some sort of massive explosion shook central Siberia. Witnesses at the time said they saw a fireball detonate in the sky above a desolate, forested region. What occurred during this time isn't exactly known, but the...
New Update, Halifax: 3,000 Nova Scotia residents evacuated their homes as 6 major fires are currently underway in Nova Scotia. Power outage affecting another 8,100 homes where the blaze damaged a transmission...
If summer ever comes this season, then it will be important to remember that doctors in the UK have warned that wearing sandals and flip flops can put people at risk of developing skin cancer on their feet.Which...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorPerhaps a "Coup" for McCain meeting with the United States largest trading partner, whereby it is said Obama and Clinton stated they would scrap the Nafta...