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March 8, 2010 1:10 PM
The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" won best picture and five other prizes at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow at Los Angeles. Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers. Among t...
March 8, 2010 12:45 PM
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan early today as coalition forces continued to restore order in the town of Marjah. This is the first major test of the US and NATO counterinsurgency strategy since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 new American troops to blunt the Taliban&#...
March 8, 2010 12:29 PM
Twenty years after the Internet was invented a global survey has found that the majority of people around the world now regard access to the internet as a fundamental human right. The poll conducted by the BBC across 26 countries says four in five of those questioned agreed that everybody has the ri...
March 8, 2010 12:29 PM
The acting President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has placed the security forces in the centre on full alert following a fresh wave of sectarian violence near the city of Jos. Witnesses say, they saw more than a hundred corpses, many of them women and children in a village Dogo Nahawa just a few kil...
March 8, 2010 11:57 AM
Seventeen people were killed in a strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale that struck the eastern Turkish province of Elazig early today. Citing the crisis management centre in Ankara, the Anatolia news agency reported, the victims hailed from the villages of Okgular, Yukari Kanatli ve ...
March 8, 2010 11:56 AM
11 people were killed and 61 others were injured in a suicide attack at Lahore in Pakistan. A suspected suicide car bomber struck the office of a special investigation unit of police in Model Town area of the city this morning. Punjab police chief Tariq Salim Dogar described the blast as a vehicle-b...
March 8, 2010 11:30 AM
Legendary painter M F Husain, who was recently granted Qatari citizenship, has surrendered his Indian passport to the country's mission in Doha. A media report said today, 95-year-old Husain, revered by many as India's Picasso, yesterday went to the country's mission in Doha and surre...
March 8, 2010 10:55 AM
Five people were killed and 45 others were injured in a suicide attack at Lahore in Pakistan. A suspected suicide car bomber struck the office of a special investigation unit of police in Model Town area of the city this morning. Punjab police chief Tariq Salim Dogar described the blast as a vehicle...
March 8, 2010 9:05 AM
Voters in Switzerland have rejected by a large majority a proposal to appoint state funded lawyers to represent animals in courts. An AnimalsRights lawyer already operates in the city of Zurich and supporters say this will help prevent cases of cruelty to animals. A 'Yes' vote in the refer...
March 8, 2010 9:05 AM
The Palestinian leadership in the Occupied West Bank has agreed to resume indirect peace talks with Israel. The news came as the Obama Administration announced a new attempt to re-launch the Middle East Peace Process by sending two senior envoys to the region. <br/><br/> Face to ...
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