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| December 4, 2001 | Tuesday | Ramazan 18, 1422 |
‘Human Transporter’ — a new concept in locomotion
 NEW YORK, Dec 3: “IT”, the much hyped invention which could possibly revolutionize personal transportation, was unveiled in New York on Monday morning on ABC’s news programme, “Good Morning America”....
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N. Alliance factions fighting each other: UN pulls staff out of Mazar-i-Sharif
KABUL, Dec 3: Factional fighting has prompted the United Nations to pull its international staff out of the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a UN spokesman said on Monday, in the latest sign...
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US bombing kills 100 near Jalalabad
JALALABAD, Dec 3: Nearly 100 civilians have been killed and 200 wounded in three nights of US airstrikes near Jalalabad, the provincial military chief said on Monday....
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American says he followed his heart
KABUL, Dec 3: A 20-year-old American who fought for the Taliban and survived last week’s massacre at Qala-i-Jangi has said his heart drew him to the hardline movement....
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Harrison cremated; ashes going to India
LOS ANGELES, Dec 2: Former Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison was cremated in a cardboard box just hours after his death, funeral directors said on Sunday....
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Bush orders backing for rebels to oust Saddam
LONDON, Dec 3: The United States is planning to depose Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by giving armed support to Iraqi opposition forces across the country, according to the Observer newspaper....
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Thousands homeless after fire in Delhi
NEW DELHI, Dec 3: Firefighters brought under control a major blaze which raced through a New Delhi slum late on Monday and left several thousand people homeless, police said....
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CIA seeks Saudi help in spying: paper
CAIRO, Dec 3: The US Central Intelligence Agency has asked for Saudi Arabia’s help in spying on meetings between “terrorist leaders” in Makkah at the end of February, Egyptian journalist Hassanein...
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Arafat facing his ‘moment of truth’
HAIFA: Yasser Arafat has faced many perilous times in almost half a century of fighting for the Palestinian cause, not least in Beirut two decades ago. But he has seldom been...
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Remaking Afghanistan: learn from failures
WASHINGTON: It is possible the United States and its allies will win the war to oust the Taliban only to lose the political campaign to reconstruct Afghanistan. There are no successful...
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Tamil chief: champion of suicide bombings
COLOMBO: For Tamil Tiger rebels, the best dinner date is with their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. After a final supper with the supremo, the guerillas blow themselves to pieces in dramatic suicide...
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Cyprus running out of solutions
BEIRUT: Although the world, Turkey included, is occupied by events in Afghanistan, Turkish officials are giving a lot of time to the question which is one of the most significant of...
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Fairy tales come alive in Iceland
REYKJAVIK: The Icelandic Roads Department has been instructed by local mystics to build a road with a deliberate kink so as to avoid bulldozing a large rock where elves lived. 280,000...
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US flayed for curbing freedom
UNITED NATIONS: The heads of three leading inter- governmental human rights bodies have cautioned governments against imposing excessive new curbs on basic freedoms in their rush to battle terrorism....
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