US warns Afghan warlords of action
BAGRAM AIR BASE, April 30: The US general commanding ground forces in Afghanistan signalled on Tuesday that warlords who helped drive the Taliban from power could become targets themselves if...
26 people leave Bethlehem church
BETHLEHEM, April 30: Twenty-six people filed out of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Tuesday, the largest group to leave in a four-week-long Israeli siege of Palestinian fighters taking...
Skin cells transformed without cloning
WASHINGTON, April 30: Scientists said on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary human skin cells into immune cells in an experiment that, if it can be repeated, might do away with the...
Firm brings humour to poll campaign
PARIS, April 30: A French ad agency has decided to add a bit of humour — as much as it can, in any case — to this week’s rather glum and...
French Muslims postpone election
PARIS, April 30: The French Muslim community, which was to elect on May 26 its first representative council, the Conseil representatif du culte Musulman (CRCM), has decided to postpone indefinitely the...