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May 17, 2010 6:10 PM
Ash clouds from a new surge in Icelandic volcanoes caused fresh travel chaos in major European air routes shutting down key airports. <br/><br/>Air India cancelled its Heathrow bound flights from Delhi and Mumbai today. <br/><br/>Jet airways, however flew sche...
May 17, 2010 6:09 PM
Sri Lanka has taken over the chair of the Group of 15 from outgoing chairman Iran during the summit in Tehran today.Handing over the chair to Sri Lankan president Mahendra Rajpakse, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the world is in dire need of new ideology and path for progress and la...
May 17, 2010 6:09 PM
Astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis are to make their first spacewalk today. <br/><br/>Mission specialists Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen will venture outside the platform for about 6.5 hours to install an antenna and a robot tool tray. <br/><br/>Atlanti...
May 17, 2010 5:15 PM
In Thailand, thousands of anti-government protesters in Bangkok defied a deadline to leave their fortified encampment today, despite a threat of a crackdown. <br/><br/>An army aircraft flew over the area and dropped leaflets warning protesters that they had time till this evening...
May 17, 2010 5:12 PM
Afghan passenger plane carrying 43 people, including six foreigners, is missing since this morning. The search for the flight is continuing. The flight was on route from northern town of Kunduz to capital Kabul. Kunduz governor told media that the plane was carrying 43 people including five crew mem...
May 17, 2010 5:11 PM
A British mountaineer from Gloucestershire has scaled Everest for the eighth time, breaking his own record. Kenton Cool, 36, from Fairford, completed the challenge at about SIX local time today.<br/><br/>He was leading an expedition of four others including Berkshire's Bonit...
May 17, 2010 5:10 PM
Sri Lanka today announced constitution of a reconciliation commission to probe rights abuses during the last seven years of war with the Tamil Tigers. The setting up of an eight member commission headed by Chitta Ranjan de Silva, Chairman, which also includes two Tamilians was announced in a stateme...
May 17, 2010 5:09 PM
In the Philippines, Quezon Governor, Rafael Nantes and five others have been killed when a civilian helicopter crashed in Lucena City in the northern province of Quezon. <br/><br/>An armed forces spokesman said the chopper exploded around this afternoon, about 300 meters upon tak...
May 17, 2010 5:08 PM
Underworld don and India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, figures third on the Forbes' Most Wanted list' which has been topped by Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. <br/><br/>The list, carried in the latest edition of the Forbes magazine, also has Mexico's ...
May 17, 2010 2:38 PM
In violence hit Thailand, the renegade General who was at the centre of violent anti-government protests in Bangkok has died in hospital. Major-General Khattiya Sawasdipol, known as Seh Daeng, had been in a coma after being shot in the head by a sniper last week. Clashes between the protestors and t...
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