| 10 May 2004 | Monday | 19 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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2 foreigners found dead in Kabul garden
KABUL, May 9: Two foreigners, one of them a Swiss citizen, were found dead in a garden in Kabul on Sunday after being beaten with bricks by unknown attackers ... 
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Photo shows naked Iraqi under threat from dogs
NEW YORK, May 9: New Yorker magazine on Sunday released a new Iraq prison abuse photo showing a naked prisoner cowering under threat from two US military dogs. ...
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Iraq opens US to charges of double-standards
UNITED NATIONS: According to a joke circulating in Washington political circles, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's notorious torture chamber in the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad - once held up as a symbol of barbarity - was never shut down. ...
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US winning battles, but losing war, says report
WASHINGTON, May 9: Senior US military commanders have begun to say that although militarily the United States is winning, strategically it is losing in Iraq, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. ...
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'Israel should bomb Damascus'
AL QUDS, May 9: Israeli Transport Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who heads a far-right party in the governing coalition, said on Sunday that the military should bomb "strategic targets" in Damascus to put an end to attacks by Hezbollah. ...
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Sharon cancels US trip after Gaza plan setback
AL QUDS, May 9: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, announced on Sunday he had cancelled a visit to Washington next week. Political sources said Sharon told his cabinet he would present a new withdrawal proposal for its approval in three weeks. ...
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Bush's Patriot Act provokes unease
LOS ANGELES: Muslim rights groups in the state of California are watching nervously as President George W. Bush increasingly talks of renewing the Patriot Act, a mainstay of his "war on terrorism", as he campaigns for the November presidential election. ...
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Personality tests on the web
NEW YORK: How often do you balance your cheque book? What was your best subject in high school? If you were a dog, what breed would you be? For seekers of self-knowledge ...
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Iran asked to consider quitting NPT
TEHRAN, May 9: A former representative to the United Nations atomic watchdog said Iran should consider quitting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), the reformist newspaper Shargh reported on Sunday. ...
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Lanka accepts major LTTE demand
COLOMBO, May 9: Sri Lanka's ruling party on Sunday changed its stance and granted a key demand of the Tamil Tigers by recognising the rebels as the sole representatives of the island's Tamil minority. ...
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Arabs urged to withdraw cash from US
KUALA LUMPUR, May 9: Malaysia's outspoken former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad urged oil-producing Arab countries in comments published Sunday to use oil as a weapon to fight US oppression. ...
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BJP on sticky wicket in poll run chase
KOLKATA/CHENNAI: In the teeming Indian metropolis of Calcutta, a campaign mural shows Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee dressed as a soccer player kicking the "common man" and telling him to feel good. ...
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