Gloomy forecasts for UK economy

[Gloomy forecasts for UK economy   T The Bank of England governor and an influential think tank have predicted that the UK economy is likely to sink...

India 'to guard Somalia waters'

"India 'to guard Somalia waters' Piracy is a lucrative business with huge ransoms demanded India says it will send warships to the Gulf of Aden...

New Delhi won’t toe TN line, says Lanka

"New Delhi won’t toe TN line, says Lanka P K Balachandran | ENS First Published : 17 Oct 2008 07:54:02 AM IST Last Updated : 17 Oct 2008 09:06:38 AM IST COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Thursday said it...

World's Tallest Man to Become a Father

"The 7-foot-9-inch Bao Xishun and his 5-foot-5-inch wife are expecting a child. These have been good times for Bao. He had lost his title of the Guinness World Record as tallest living man in 2006 to Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk. However, Stadnyk refused to be measured early...

CBI raids residence of passport officials at Kochi

"CBI raids residence of passport officials at Kochi By Indo-Asian News Service on Friday, October 3, 2008Filed Under: Latest India News ...

cows point to the north

"New weird news related to cows: Researchers discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction. It has long been observed that cows appear to have a talent for weather forecasting and are able to predict when rain is on the way,...

Journey to unlock 'out of body' mysteries

"Journey to unlock 'out of body' mysteries Penny Sartori's research led to a book on near death experiences In September, medical teams at 25...

Statins 'prevent artery ageing'

"Drugs given to heart patients to lower cholesterol may have an additional benefit - keeping their blood vessels feeling younger. Advanced heart disease patients have arteries which have effectively aged faster than the rest of their bodies. University of Cambridge...

Poll on the economy: Americans gloomier, for now

"As people on Wall Street and Main Street hold their breath to see if a federal bailout of the nation's financial institutions will work, Americans are starting to speak — not whisper — the word "depression." In a sign that anxiety is growing, 33% of 1,011 adults surveyed...

Indian Billionaires Like Vegetarian Food

"NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani especially ventures into restaurants to gorge on dosa and street food. UK-based Vedanta Group chief Anil Agarwal cannot do without pure vegetarian khana....

Spike Lee manages to pull off a 'Miracle' with WWII film

TORONTO — A black man is running for president. The first film to depict World War II's all-black 92nd Infantry Division, Miracle at St. Anna, is about to open this Friday. No wonder Spike Lee is so upbeat...

Chinese astronauts in final spacewalk countdown

JIUQUAN, China (AP) — Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft were making final preparations for the country's first ever spacewalk planned for Saturday afternoon. Space suits, one Chinese, the other...

Sen. Kennedy home from hospital

BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, was taken by ambulance to a hospital Friday near his Cape Cod vacation home after complaining of feeling ill but returned home a few hours later. A statement issued by the 76-year-old senator's office attributed the...

Indo-US ties go beyond the n-deal, says MEA website

New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) As the nuclear deal goes down to the wire awaiting final nod from the US Congress, the Ministry of External Affairs updated its official website to tell people that Indo-US relations went much beyond the much talked about atomic agreement. The July...

Rival Kashmiri groups protest outside UN

Holding placards and banners, rival Kashmiri groups staged protests outside the United Nations on Friday afternoon during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's [Images] address to the plenary session of the UN General Assembly. The two groups -- Kashmiri American Council, a...

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