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4-yr-old kills self with mother’s gun

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:54 -0400

San Juan (Puerto Rico), Oct. 10: A 4-year-old boy accidentally killed himself with his police-officer mother’s gun as she dropped her children off at school,

MoD loses data of 100,000

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:35:34 -0400

By SARJU KAUL London Oct. 10: In yet another embarrassing incident, personal data of more than half of armed forces personnel has gone missing, the defence ministry

London’s bus drivers strike over salary tiff

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:35:56 -0400

By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT London Oct. 10: Thousands of bus drivers in London went on 24-hour strike on Friday over salary leading to disruption in bus services

Muslim gangs force prisoners to ‘convert’

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:36:10 -0400

By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT London Oct. 10: Muslim gangs at high security Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire were putting pressure on non-Muslim prisoners to convert to Islam and

Oz inmates surrender after day-long rioting

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:21 -0400

Adelaide, Oct. 10: Prisoners rioting at an Australian prison surrendered on Friday, 24 hours after chasing away guards and climbing to the rooftop to denounce

NRI is poster boy for UK obesity campaign

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:50 -0400

London, Oct. 10: An Indian-origin person in Leicester whose excessive weight (210 kg) took him to India for a stomach-shrinking operation, has become the latest

Passenger waiting time to be cut

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:34:24 -0400

London, Oct. 10: A joint initiative to reduce waiting times at Heathrow Airport to a maximum of fifteen minutes has been announced for the visiting

Syria releases two journalists to US

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:31:45 -0400

Washington, Oct. 10: The United States has said Syria released two young American journalists into US custody in Damascus after it arrested them for allegedly

‘Sarkozy had affair with Cabinet colleague’s wife’

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:32:08 -0400

London, Oct. 10: President Nicolas Sarkozy had an affair with the wife on one of his present Cabinet members, claims the former head of French

‘Libya to withdraw Swiss assets’

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:32:20 -0400

Tripoli, Oct. 10: Libya is to withdraw its assets from Swiss banks, estimated at $7 billion, and will stop delivering oil to Switzerland, the state