| 07 October 2004 | Thursday | 21 Shaban 1425 |
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US plane missing
BAGHDAD, Oct 6: The US military said on Wednesday it had lost track of a small, unmanned surveillance plane over Baghdad as militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's group claimed it shot down two such drones. ... 
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Cheney, Edwards in tough debate
CLEVELAND, Oct 6: US Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Sen. John Edwards battled fiercely over the war in Iraq in a debate that featured repeated personal attacks on the other side's records and judgment. ...
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Against the wind in Afghanistan
LOLANG: Masooda Jalal has been clocking up some high mileage on the campaign trail for Afghanistan's presidential election. The only woman candidate to stand in the October 9 vote ...
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Palestinian state plan shelved with US blessing: Sharon aide's disclosure
TEL AVIV, Oct 6: Israel's plan to withdraw from some occupied territory aims to rule out a Palestinian state indefinitely, with full US approval, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chief of staff said on Wednesday. ...
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US tapped Chirac's phones: book
PARIS, Oct 6: A new book examining the antagonistic relationship between presidents Jacques Chirac and George W. Bush claims the United States bugged the French leader's phone to find out his moves in opposition to the Iraq invasion. ...
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Cheney leads viewers to anti-Bush Web site
WASHINGTON, Oct 6: Vice President Dick Cheney probably did not intend to direct millions of television viewers to a Web site calling for President George W. Bush's defeat but that's what a slip of the domain achieved. ...
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EU body gives qualified 'yes' to Turkey talks
BRUSSELS, Oct 6: Turkey won a green light from the European Commission on Wednesday to open membership negotiations with the European Union, a watershed decision after 40 years of on-again, off-again talks. ...
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Arabs in spotlight at biggest book fair
FRANKFURT, Oct 6: Arab publishers hailed their invitation as special guests at the world's largest literary event, the Frankfurt Book Fair, as a long-overdue honor on the opening day of the show Wednesday. ...
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3 win Nobel Prize for work on protein 'kiss of death'
STOCKHOLM, Oct 6: Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for helping to understand how the human body gives the "kiss of death" to rogue proteins to defend itself from diseases like cancer. ...
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Bank trashes safe boxes
HONG KONG, Oct 6: A Hong Kong bank that trashed 83 safety deposit boxes and their valuable contents apologized on Wednesday for the blunder and offered customers a compensation package worth up to 1.6 million dollars. ...
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'Nothing good but goodwill'
The Peace process which was showing signs of faltering and becoming moribund has happily been revived and put on track. ...
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US-India relations: unequal allies, uneasy partners
NEW DELHI: Four years ago, they exuberantly declared they were "natural allies", being two of the world's biggest democracies. Last year, they vowed to pursue their "strategic partnership" ...
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Hatred surrounds India's underdogs
AHMEDABAD: Flanked by green cricket fields where he once played and a university from which he graduated, Arvind Vaghela tries not to notice the stream of students walking past. ...
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HRW urges end to killings in Nepal
KATHMANDU: The US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged both Nepalese soldiers and Maoist rebels to stop killing civilians caught up in their bloody conflict. ...
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