BJP postpones Gujarat rally over Muslim fears
AHMEDABAD, Sept 2: The ruling party in Gujarat has postponed a controversial procession by Hindu nationalists which Muslims and police say could reignite religious tensions....
Toll rises to 200 in S. Korea floods
SEOUL, Sept 2: North Korea said on Monday that scores of people were swept to their deaths and agriculture suffered a shattering blow following the passage of Typhoon Rusa, which left...
Chandrika opposes move to lift LTTE ban
COLOMBO, Sept 2: Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Monday vowed to overturn moves by her co-habitation government to concede a key rebel demand and lift a ban on them before...
Zimbabwe crisis divides leaders at Earth Summit
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 2: Zimbabwe shot to the fore at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg on Monday with Namibia and New Zealand laying bare the raw divisions stirred by President Robert Mugabe....
No-fly zone violated
Two light aircraft violated the 3.5 nautical mile no-fly zone on Sunday night around the venue of the Earth Summit....
Sept 11 plotters at large: weekly
NEW YORK, Sept 2: American investigators, who have spent months trying to unravel the plot that resulted in the attacks on New York City and Washington, are worried about key figures...
Israel, Jordan to work on Dead Sea pipeline
AL QUDS, Sept 2: Preparations are in full swing for a joint Israeli-Jordanian water pipeline to replenish the Dead Sea, an Israeli spokeswoman said on Monday....
French team expelled from Afghanistan
PARIS, Sept 2: A French archaeological team that was in Afghanistan to locate and excavate a third giant statue of Buddha at Bamiyan has been declared persona-non-grata by local military authorities...
Effects of Ecstasy unclear: study
LONDON: Ecstasy may be dangerous and could cause brain damage but its long-term effects are still unclear, a team of researchers said on Monday....
Apartheid financiers being sued
LONDON: Lungi Ntsebeza does not have the fondest memories of his career as a clerk at Barclays Bank....
Why can’t cats and dogs get along?
LONDON: I have had cats for as long as I can remember. Not just one at a time, but a whole gang of them all together. Cats that we adopted, cats...
Small states a threat: Bush
WASHINGTON: To foreign policy analysts, the most intriguing part of the Bush Doctrine isn’t the administration’s saber- rattling at Iraq....
AIDS & social stigma
NADI (Fiji): One of the worst aspects of living with AIDS is the social death that comes with it, an HIV-positive French Polynesian advocate told a Pacific youth conference here on...