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Abu Hamza’s extradition to US is delayed

By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Aug. 5: Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza, who late in July was refused permission to appeal to the House of Lords against

Clinton praises Brown, Cabinet meet on Sept. 8

By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Aug. 5: Former US President Bill Clinton, who is a close friend of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s predecessor Tony Blair, has come ...

Lords criticise anti-terror bill

By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Aug. 5: The Labour government’s proposal to increase pre-charge detention period for terror suspects to 42 days on Tuesday was criticised by ...

Secret deal kept UK forces out

By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Aug. 5: The British Army stationed in Basra in Iraq allegedly had a secret deal with Al-Mahdi militia, which is loyal to ...

Pentagon plans for robotic force by ’20

Washington, Aug. 5: Pentagon is planning to replace by 2020 some 30 per cent of its soldiery with robots, which are quietly transiting from the ...

Price rise adds to AIDS scare

By Mica Rosenberg Mexico City Aug. 5: Rising food prices around the world are likely to drive poor women to trade sex for basic goods like fish ...

Primates on verge of extinction

By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Humans have pushed primates, a group of animals including monkeys and apes who share virtually all DNA with people, to the brink ...

Martian soil may not support life

Washington, Aug. 5: Nasa’s Phoenix spacecraft has detected the presence of a chemically reactive salt in the Martian soil, a finding that if confirmed could ...

Showbiz, politics jostle at Games

By Sarah Marsh London Aug. 5: Cramming several thousand years of cultural history into a couple of hours is the truly Olympian challenge faced by Zhang Yimou ...