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| October 30, 2002 | Wednesday | Sha’aban 23,1423 |
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Scientists shake hands over Internet
LONDON, Oct 29: Scientists in Britain and the United States shook hands on Tuesday.... 
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Behaviour disorder curable: scientists
PARIS, Oct 29: Two French scientists say they’ve come, quite accidentally, with a solution to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that involves implanting electrodes destined originally to control Parkinson’s disease....
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Israeli cabinet faces breakup over budget
TEL AVIV, Oct 29: With no last-minute compromise in sight, the 18-month-old national unity coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appeared doomed on Tuesday ahead of a Labour revolt over...
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Arafat takes flak over new cabinet
RAMALLAH, Oct 29: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday unveiled his new cabinet to parliament, drawing instant criticism from reformist deputies for promoting few new faces and favouring stalwarts of his...
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Religious beliefs spur economy, says study
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 29: The economy of nations whose people hold firm religious beliefs, especially with regard to heaven and hell, tend to grow faster, says a US study....
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54 killed in Vietnam office blaze
HANOI, Oct 29: At least 54 people died and scores were missing after a huge fire swept through an office block heavily populated by foreign companies in Vietnam’s southern hub of...
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Saudi-sponsored moot laments lack of democracy
CAIRO, Oct 29: A high-profile conference here on Tuesday sponsored by a leading Saudi think-tank saw strong criticism of the failure of Arab governments to democratize in the face of the...
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Al Qaeda has six new leaders: paper
WASHINGTON, Oct 29: The Al Qaeda network has a new leadership of six men who previously worked in the shadow of Osama bin Laden, The Washington Post said on Tuesday....
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Chechnya conference asks Moscow to end ‘genocide’
COPENHAGEN, Oct 29: Chechen exiles appealed in an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to immediately halt the war in the republic that they termed genocide....
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India puts bar on faith conversion: Dalits’ dilemma
CHENNAI: India’s long-oppressed ‘Dalits’ or low-caste people are being denied the one escape route open to them from social oppression — conversion to more egalitarian religions such as Christianity, Islam and...
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MI6 hired Al Qaeda men to kill Gaddafi: ex-official
LONDON: The British government will this week go to unprecedented lengths to stop a renegade counter-intelligence officer, David Shayler, from making his most devastating claim yet: that the Libyan Islamic cell...
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US developing bio-warfare weapons: experts
WASHINGTON: Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned on Monday that the United States is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on...
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El Nino shrivels African soil
JOHANNESBURG: Drought is always a fear for southern Africans, but this year farmers are keeping a close eye on a brewing El Nino weather pattern that looks likely to exacerbate regional...
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Napoleon takes Paris by storm
PARIS: Napoleon is — once again — taking France by storm, and this more than 200 years after he came to power, during a reign which saw him transform France, indeed...
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