"New Delhi: Eighteen years after it started opening up its economy, India, for the first time, has replaced China as the most promising destination for foreign direct investment in the medium-to-long term, says a UN...
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"SpeedDate, the online dating site that throws singles in a series of rapid dating sessions, has hijacked over 500,000 users from at least three Facebook applications. Users are logging on to Facebook to find that the applications they’ve had installed for months have been...
"Thanks to the Indian Premier League, Ashok Dinda said he was expecting the Irani Trophy call-up as he has been doing well in the last one year or so. “This is a great thing to happen to me. In a way I was hoping for it because I have been doing well since last year. It may...
"The history : Tenggerese live around Bromo Mountain, East Java. They are the descendants of the Majapahit princes. Most of the entire population is centered in thirty villages in the isolated Tengger mountains...
I remember when I served in Northern Ireland that a soldier requested to take my place on a escort duty and he was killed by an IRA sniper. Thats how the dice roll however my story never reached the news paper. This scottish guy should not blame himself it was the terrorist...
August has not been the best month for Qantas Airlines as a string of airplane malfunctions has threatened to challenge the world’s third best airline status that Qantas has been granted according to the results of...
"The matriarch of one of Hong Kong's richest corporate dynasties sat down with the city's most notorious crime bosses and negotiated the payment of a HK$600 million ransom for the release of her eldest son, The...
" I always enjoy reading stories that stress about the importance of having an emergency fund. Here's one from Vanguard."With so much publicity about saving for long-term financial objectives—such as retirement, purchasing a home, or investing for a child's...
French news anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, one of the world's longest serving newsreaders, has broadcast his final news bulletin.A household name on French TV, Poivre d'Arvor is affectionately known by his initials PPDA. His fame is such that his puppet alter ego hosts the...
Gang culture replacing family life is perhaps not the reality for most areas but in our most deprived areas there are worrying signs that emotional and cultural sustenance is being found through a gang culture...
South Africa's Home Affairs Minister has stated that victims of the recent xenophobic attacks, who were then sheltered in ad-hoc camps, will not be deported.""People affected by the violence and who have sought...
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Carl Icahn's campaign to broker a marriage between "Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) just got a lot more complicated -- and expensive -- thanks to the search ad outsourcing deal Yahoo struck with Google late Thursday. According the deal's fine print, disclosed...
"One of France’s top news anchors, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, will bid farewell to viewers this summer and be replaced by the darling of the French media, Laurence Ferrari.PPDA as he is more affectionately known has been a familiar face on prime time news for more than three...
Another Iranian crackdown on news. The government says that Fars was guilty of "disturbing public opinion"."Oran's state news agency IRNA says authorities have ordered the temporary closure of a semi-official news agency, Fars, for false reporting and disturbing public...
OPINION: We all know that to make better choices we have to be honest with ourselves about our own past failures and the responsibility we carry for them, and then entertain new choices to move forward. Arianna...