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ZAGREB (AFP) – Debt-stricken Croatia, ravaged by the financial crisis, actively seeks Chinese investment, a business forum leader told the visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday. Read more
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BAGHDAD – A truck bomb exploded as worshippers left a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing more than 70 people and wounding nearly 200 in the deadliest bombing this year. The blast near Kirkuk — a city rife with ethnic tensions — came hours after the prime minister warned Iraqis to expect more [...]
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Bangladesh will move its clocks one hour forward from midnight for the first time to use more daylight time and save electricity after prime minister Sheikh Hasina has approved the move. Read more
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (June 20) – The Miss Puerto Rico Petite competition stripped the reigning queen of her crown Friday, accusing the young woman of “intolerable conduct” that included threatening and assaulting pageant staff. Read more
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At least two Labour MPs and a Labour peer are to be investigated over alleged fraud in their claims. Read more
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Veteran US newsman gravely ill New 4:15AM Sunday Jun 21, 2009 US veteran newsman Walter Cronkite, who was the face of CVS television news for more that two decades, is reported to be gravely ill. The 92-year-old former anchor of “The CBS Evening News,” who has been ailing for some time, has apparently [...]
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Answer: In Persian, the suffix “stan” means “place of.” In Russian — remembering that Kazakhstan borders Russia, and five ‘stans used to be part of the Soviet Union — the word “stan” means “settlement.” So we have seven countries in Central Asia that share the “stan” suffix: Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The [...]
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I’m traveling on vacation this week but am still listening to news reports and podcasts, particularly about the fraught developments in Iran. And, falling on my ear again, are the various ways in which people say the last name of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read more
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A bomb has exploded in Tehran at the shrine of Iran’s revolutionary founder as thousands of people protest at the result of the country’s election, reports say. Riot police in Tehran (Pic: [...]
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Sree may be living in Britain illegally, The Sun has revealed. Read more
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Jun 19 – The U.S. Navy is monitoring a North Korean vessel suspected to be carrying weapons at sea under new U.N. sanctions. Read more
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A US Navy destroyer is gearing up for a possible showdown with a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned nuclear-weapon material in violation of a recent UN Security Council resolution, it was reported yesterday. Read more
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2010 gubernatorial candidate Tom Campbell , a Republican, may be the only candidate in the bunch who’s seriously courting Hispanic voters. Appearing Thursday before the San Jose Hispanic Chamber of… Read more
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Uck. The layer of dust lying over this particular corner of Diyala province is thicker than treacle and about as pleasant to inhale. This desert pea-souper has been squatting over this base like a toad for 36 hours and shows no sign of letting up. Last night, it was practically snowing dust. In the ten [...]
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Another school very evident at Chelsea Flower show was Writhlington School. Pupils embarked in March 2009 on a trip to Sikkim in the Himalayas to take part in the Gangtok Schools’ Orchid project. This has furthered the work of the botanical team at the school and resulted in a stand in the Continuous Learning area [...]
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CARTAGENA, Colombia — The day care center in El Pozon, a barrio on the outskirts of this coastal tourist city, is not exactly what one might expect from a neighborhood made up of some of Colombia’s most downtrodden — the thousands driven from their land every year by violence. Filled with the joy of children [...]
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TEHRAN, June 18 — A huge throng of opposition supporters, many clad in black, took to the streets of Tehran on Thursday to mourn protesters killed by a pro-government militia and back a challenge to the proclaimed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read more
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LAS VEGAS, Venezuela — Dreaming of a new life, Ramón Barrera came to El Charcote, a vast farm here in northwestern Venezuela, several years after President Hugo Chávez’s populist government had expropriated the property from its longtime owners and begun distributing parcels to small farmers like him to work. Read more
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The idea to transform a vacant tract near the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif into a sprawling commercial farm, with miles of strawberry fields and thousands of cashmere goats, began with an entreaty from President George W. Bush to the billionaire chairman of Dole Foods at a 2006 Republican Party fundraiser. Read more