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November 24, 2009 6:05 PM
U.S. astronauts have completed their third and final spacewalk for space shuttle Atlantis's STS-129 mission. NASA said during a five hour, 42 minute spacewalk yesterday Randolph Bresnik and Robert Satcher Jr. installed the seventh Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE 7. Th...
November 24, 2009 5:03 PM
Greater access to antiretroviral drugs has helped cut the death toll from HIV by over 10 per cent over the last five years. The World Health Organization and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) say an estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. This figure is up from 33 mi...
November 24, 2009 5:02 PM
At least 46 people are now known to have died in the southern Philippines on Monday, after more bodies were discovered in a shallow grave. The victims are a group of people, including journalists and women, took hostage by more than 100 gunmen in Maguin-danao province. They were travelling to file n...
November 24, 2009 5:02 PM
Up to four million Nepalese and Indian devotees on Tuesday thronged the famous Gadhimai temple to witness a slaughter of thousands of animals in a mass-sacrifice even as two Indian minor worshippers died of cold. Tens of thousands of buffaloes, goats and birds would be slaughtered over the next few ...
November 24, 2009 2:53 PM
President Mahinda Rajapaksa says, all the eligible war displaced civilians in the North and the East of the country will be able to exercise their franchise in the forthcoming Presidential election. He said this in a breakfast meeting with the editors of the leading newspapers. Election Secretariat ...
November 24, 2009 1:41 PM
In Afghanistan, six members of a family including two children were killed as their car hit a roadside bomb on the outskirts of eastern Khost city today. Provincial chief of Police said that a civilian car ran over an explosive device planted by militants in Maton area this morning. In a separate in...
November 24, 2009 1:39 PM
China has executed two people for their role in a scandal involving tainted milk powder that resulted in the death of six children. More than 300,000 other infants were taken ill from milk powder contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical. Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping were the only people to...
November 24, 2009 1:07 PM
In the Philippines, at least 22 bodies have been found in the southern part of the country and police say they have found more in shallow graves. The bodies are from a 40-strong group of politicians and journalists which was seized in an attack blamed on clan warfare ahead of next year's electi...
November 24, 2009 1:04 PM
The former Prime Minister of Thailand Samak Sundaravej died of liver cancer this morning in a Bangkok hospital. He was 74. He was under treatment for cancer in Bamrungrat Hospital for about a year. Thai media reports said Samak's funeral will be held at Benjamaborpit Temple and a royally-sponso...
November 24, 2009 1:03 PM
King Abdullah of Jordan has dissolved the country's Parliament and ordered for fresh general elections. In a decree, he asked the government to take necessary steps to hold elections two years ahead of its term.<br/><br/>Parliamentary elections were held in Jordan on Novembe...
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