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Designer calls French prez idiot
20 Oct 2012 7:01 AM ISTFashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was in hot water on Friday after calling French President Francois Hollande an ‘idiot’ over his plans to impose huge...
Egypt’s Islamist FJP elects new chief to replace morsi
20 Oct 2012 7:01 AM ISTEgyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party elected former parliament chief Saed al-Katatni on Friday to replace Morsi, who stepped...
SC orders action against former chiefs of Pak army, ISI
20 Oct 2012 7:00 AM ISTPakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered the government to take legal action against former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg and former ISI chief Asad...
Clinton accuses Romney of hiding truth about taxes
20 Oct 2012 6:59 AM ISTCampaigning in support of the incumbent Barack Obama, the former US President Bill Clinton accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of...
Israel strikes in Gaza after rocket attacks
20 Oct 2012 5:29 AM ISTThe Israeli airforce carried out a sortie in the Gaza Strip early this morning, sources on both sides said, hours after rockets from the enclave hit...
In a first, Twitter blocks German neo-Nazi account
20 Oct 2012 5:29 AM ISTTwitter on Thursday said it had blocked an account in a country for the first time, after German police asked the micro-blogging site to restrict...
US man gets new face after transplant
20 Oct 2012 5:27 AM ISTA 37-year-old US man injured in a 1997 gun accident has been given a new face, teeth, tongue and jaw in what doctors say is the most extensive face...
Brain can erase bad memories
20 Oct 2012 5:27 AM ISTScientists have discovered that brain can help us voluntarily forget unwanted memories by either blocking them out or substituting them.Researchers...
Mothers in UK, US selling breast milk on FB
20 Oct 2012 5:25 AM ISTMothers in the UK and US are selling their breast milk using community forums, including Facebook, to make some quick cash, despite serious concerns...
China permits resumption of nuclear plants
20 Oct 2012 5:24 AM ISTThe Chinese government has tacitly begun granting permissions for the resumption of construction of several new nuclear power plants that were halted...
B’deshi held for plot to bomb NY Federal building
20 Oct 2012 5:23 AM ISTA Bangladeshi man with alleged links to al-Qaeda was arrested here after an FBI undercover operation foiled his plot to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb...
John Terry accepts four match ban
19 Oct 2012 6:23 AM ISTChelsea’s John Terry will not appeal against his four-match ban and 220,000-pound [$355,700] fine for racially insulting Queens Park Rangers defender...


