London: Mali president Amadou Toumani Toure has finally resigned by handing over a letter to an emissary to deliver to the country’s new leaders following a coup in March, The Telegraph reported. Toure was just months from finishing his last term when soldiers March 22 stormed the presidential palace, sending him into hiding and cancelling [...]
London: A court in Norwegian capital Oslo has said mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a shooting spree in July last year, was sane during at the time of his actions, and sane enough to face trial and a jail term. An evaluation published in November had found him legally [...]
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron will make a landmark trip this week to Myanmar where he is expected to meet Nobel laureate and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a media report said. Cameron had earlier described Suu Kyi as an “inspiration”, Sky News reported. The British prime minister is currently on a [...]
Manila: The Philippine population grew at a slower pace to reach 92.34 million, according to the country’s latest census report. National Statistics Office administrator Carmelita Ericta said Monday the country’s population as of May 1, 2010 stood at 92,337,852 or an annual growth rate of 1.9 percent during the 2000-2010 period, contrary to the [...]
London: Long-time Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe – affected by a mystery illness – is fighting for life in a hospital in Singapore, a British media report said. The 88-year-old leader is reportedly having intensive treatment. He was flown to Singapore last week after he collapsed at his home, it was reported. It was later [...]
Washington: Cancer death rates continued to decline in the US between 2004 and 2008, a government report said. The overall rate of new cancer diagnoses for men and women combined decreased an average of less than one percent per year from 1998 through 2006, with rates levelling off from 2006 through [...]
Washington: President Barack Obama has widened his lead over Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, his potential Republican rivals in the November presidential election, to double digits in a new national poll. In the hypothetical match-ups, 54 percent of registered voters would back Obama compared with 43 percent for Republican front-runner Romney in the CNN/ORC [...]
London:Children vaccinated with the pandemic H1N1 swine flu shot were 13 times more likely to develop narcolepsy, a condition characterised by excessive sleepiness, even during daytime. Finnish researchers found that between 2002 and 2009, before the swine flu pandemic struck, the rate of narcolepsy in children under 17 years was 0.31 per 100,000. In [...]
London: One in every five adults in Britain is functionally illiterate, or has insufficient reading and writing skills for ordinary practical needs, a report has revealed. It means up to eight million people are so poor at reading and writing that they struggle in their daily lives. In a devastating condemnation [...]
Moscow: A US soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in house-to-house shooting spree in southern Afghanistan a week ago told his lawyers that he had no recollection of the incident, CBS reported. The 38-year-old Staff Sergeant Robert Bales spent more than seven hours Monday with three of his lawyers, including defence attorney John Henry Browne, [...]
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