World
25,000-year-old Venus has Viennese in thrall
By VERONIKA OLEKSYN
Vienna
Aug. 7: It’s Venusmania in Vienna, where Austrians are celebrating the discovery 100 years ago on Thursday of a tiny but voluptuous figurine
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By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Aug. 7: Campaign group HSMP Forum Ltd, which was successful in its legal challenge against retrospective application of tougher immigration rules for ...
Russia threatens to deploy bombers
Moscow, Aug. 7: In reminiscent of the Cold War politics, Russia has threatened to station bombers and missiles on the Polish border if Warsaw decides ...
Brown to star in own TV channel
London, Aug. 7: Beleaguered British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to launch his own online TV channel in an attempt to boost his plunging ...
Pininfarina CEO dies in accident
BY COLLEEN BARRY Milan Aug. 7: Andrea Pininfarina, the chief executive of the Italian car design firm founded by his grandfather that counts Ferraris and Alfa Romeos ...
Pak Speaker a hit at C’wealth meet
Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 7: Pakistan’s first woman Speaker, Dr Fehmida Mirza, caught the attention of one and all at the ongoing 54th Commonwealth Parlia-mentary Conference ...
Maoists attack Dabur office
BY Shirish B. Pradhan Kathmandu Aug. 7: Intensifying their campaign against ‘Miss Nepal’ beauty contest, Maoists on Thursday stormed the offices of the pageant’s Indian sponsor Dabur ...
Pervez may use power to sack govt
By Shafqat Ali Islamabad Aug. 7: There was hectic activity at the Presidency in Islamabad on Thursday as Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf consulted his aides to counter ...
Palace denies Prince Philip cancer report
By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Aug. 7: Buckingham Palace has denied a report claiming that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has received a "diagnosis of prostate ...
Hospitals used homeless people to make money
By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER LOS ANGELES Aug. 7: A hospital CEO was arrested on Wednesday in what authorities said was a scheme to recruit homeless people as ...