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November 14, 2009 2:12 PM
Human Rights Groups in the United States have welcomed President Barak Obama's decision to move five suspected Al Qaeda members from the Guantanamo prison camp to stand trial in a civilian court in New York. The announcement makes it clear that President Obama is determined to press ahead with ...
November 14, 2009 2:12 PM
In Russia, at least two people have been killed after a series of explosions and fires at a weapons depot in central Russia. Officials say the blasts ripped through the Defence Ministry navy depot on the outskirts of Ulyanovsk when soldiers attempted to decommission munitions. The officials later sa...
November 14, 2009 2:12 PM
Senior US Republicans have condemned the Obama administration's move to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in New York. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said bringing the suspects from Guantanamo into the US would put Americans unnecessarily at risk. The ...
November 14, 2009 2:07 PM
On the eve of his maiden trip to Beijing as the US President, Barack Obama has sought to deepen America's strategic and economic dialogue with China and improve military communications between the two countries. In a major policy speech on Asia at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Obama said the US do...
November 14, 2009 1:34 PM
China provided Pakistan knowhow and weapons grade uranium for making two nuclear bombs in 1982. Leading American daily, The Washington Post, quoting disgraced Pakistani scientist A Q Khan, says that this deliberate act of proliferation was part of a secret nuclear deal struck in 1976 between Chinese...
November 14, 2009 1:34 PM
The world's most admired investor Warren Buffett has said, financial panic, which gripped the globe last year, is now over. He said, though the US economy is still struggling to come to terms with the recession, capitalism is still alive and well despite lingering shocks from the longest recession s...
November 14, 2009 12:04 PM
The US has indicated that it would make no significant emission reduction commitments to tackle global warming at the climate change talks in Copenhagen next month. The US Energy Secretary Steven Chu told reports in New Delhi that the US legislation aims to cut fossil-fuel emission to 17 per cent be...
November 13, 2009 3:11 PM
<br/>In Bolivia, Lake Titicaca has been reduced to its lowest level since 1949. According to Lake Titicaca authorities, diminished rainfall and a rise in solar radiation have in the past four years led to critically low water levels.As a result fish spawning areas and plant life are under ...
November 13, 2009 3:10 PM
<br/>Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is to be called to give evidence to an inquiry into the Iraq war six years after he controversially backed the US-led invasion. Mr Blair will be among senior figures from the ruling Labour Party to go before the independent inquiry early next...
November 13, 2009 3:08 PM
<br/>Researchers at University College London have found that everyday decisions are taken with a goal to have pleasure. In fact, they've discovered that a reward in the brain chemical called dopamine plays a role in the choices people make.<br/><br/> According to ...
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