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Spying on Muslims led nowhere: NYPD
22 Aug 2012 8:03 AM ISTIn more than six years of spying on Muslim neighbourhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department’s...
A year later, wife is still pleading
14 Aug 2012 9:41 AM ISTThe wife of a US man abducted in Pakistan is pleading for his safe return on the one-year anniversary of his kidnapping, saying her husband is in poor...
Motorola to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide
14 Aug 2012 9:28 AM ISTAiling cell phone maker Motorola Mobility will shrink its operations in India and lay off 4,000 employees worldwide as part of its restructuring...
Bizarre rock ice shelf found in Pacific
11 Aug 2012 9:04 AM ISTA huge cluster of floating volcanic rocks covering almost 26,000 square kilometres has been found drifting in the Pacific, the New Zealand navy said...
US doctor accused of ‘waterboarding’ daughter
11 Aug 2012 9:02 AM ISTThe daughter of a US doctor who has appeared on national TV for his research on near-death experiences told investigators he ‘waterboarded’her several...
UK to give £5 mn aid to Syrian rebels
11 Aug 2012 8:56 AM ISTBritain will give Syrian rebels £5 million worth of non-lethal practical assistance, including communication equipment and body armour, to fight the...
Wild fires set off explosions in Bosnia mines
10 Aug 2012 2:41 PM ISTAs firefighters tried to contain two wildfires near an ammunition factory in southern Bosnia today, one of the blazes began setting off explosions in...
Chicken tikka masala out, dosas in
9 Aug 2012 7:28 AM ISTThe popularity of ‘Indian food’ in Britain is not news anymore, but the latest trend is to tuck into the many regional variations on offer across the...
Seychelles all for UN Security council seat
4 Aug 2012 2:24 PM ISTThe Seychelles has just 90,000 people, but that’s not holding the island nation back from seeking a seat on the UN Security Council.Seychelles...
Vladimir Putin is just another fan
4 Aug 2012 2:15 PM ISTHe clenched his fists at times, leaned back nervously at others. And when his compatriots won Olympic gold, he leaped from his seat and thrust his...
Sanctions ‘ridiculous’, says Iran
1 Aug 2012 2:45 PM ISTPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the West’s sanctions on Iran’s oil sector are ‘ridiculous.’Ahmadinejad told a group of oil officials on Tuesday...
UN Rights envoy probe Myanmar ethnic clashes
31 July 2012 3:37 PM ISTA United Nations human rights expert kicked off a weeklong visit to Myanmar on Monday by focusing on deadly strife between Buddhists and Muslim...