September 8, 2005	Thursday	Sha’aban 3, 1426

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Annan rules out resignation UNITED NATIONS, Sept 7: UN chief Kofi An nan on Wednesday ruled out resigning after an independent probe highlighted evidence of corruption and serious lapses in the management of the oil-for-food program....		Hurriyat delegation meets Sonia NEW DELHI, Sept 7: A Hurriyat Conference team led by its chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on Wednesday met United Progressive Alliance Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi who assured them that the peace process in the Held state would continue....
Blair urges states to punish ‘incitement’: UK to table terror resolution at UN NEW DELHI, Sept 7: Britain said on Wednesday it would table a UN resolution on terrorism before the General Assembly meeting next week, calling on nations not only to condemn terrorism, but to act against its incitement at home....		Republicans gear up to contain fallout: Hurricane devastation WASHINGTON, Sept 7: President George W. Bush and his Republican Party launched a major effort on Wednesday to limit the political damage from the botched federal response to Hurricane Katrina....
Disease claims first victims NEW ORLEANS, Sept 7: Disease brewed by Hurricane Katrina claimed its first victims, officials said on Wednesday, as political polemics sharpened over the federal response to the country’s worst natural disaster....		Bush ratings NEW ORLEANS, Sept 7: A new poll released on Wednesday signalled mounting problems for President George W. Bush over his response to the Katrina disaster. The Gallup survey taken Monday and....
Saddam has ‘confessed’ to killings: Talabani BAGHDAD, Sept 7: Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein “confessed” to ordering executions and a campaign against Kurds in which thousands of people are said to have been killed, President Jalal Talabani said....		Norway tops UN’s development list VIENNA, Sept 7: Norway is the world’s most developed country and Niger the least, according to the UN report released on Wednesday. The human development index uses life expectancy, literacy and gross domestic product as its measure....
Comets are like ‘snowy dirtball’ CAMBRIDGE, Sept 7: The first detailed analysis from a US mission that smashed a hole in a comet suggests these wanderers are fragile agglomerations of dust, laced with carbon molecules that some theorists say sowed the seeds for life on Earth....		Mystery woman on HK shore HONG KONG, Sept 7: She appeared from nowhere on a rain-tossed morning, sitting on a Hong Kong shoreline, unable to speak. Now she sits in a hospital bed, staring into space, mute and expressionless, her charts naming her simply as ‘Unknown’....
Melting glaciers or ticking time-bomb? NEW DELHI: Imagine a world without drinking water. It’s a scary thought, but scientists say the 40 per cent of humanity living in South Asia and China could well be living...		Nepal fighting hard to slash child mortality rate KATHMANDU: Nearly 30,000 Nepali children die yearly in their first month of life, the third highest rate in the world. Yet, the battered country is on track to slash under-five mortality by two-thirds within a decade, says the United Nations....
S. Asia’s resilience in face of calamity: A tale of two disasters MUMBAI: In New Orleans there was shooting and looting when the floods came last week. When a similiar inundation struck India’s financial capital Mumbai a month earlier, there was no violence, just free wada-pav bread....		Tiger poachers in trouble KOLKATA: India is offering money to poor forest villagers to help catch poachers in a bid to save its endangered tiger population. Poachers and smugglers are known to pay villagers to use their skill in tracking and killing tigers and elephants....
‘Godless’ China making idols for Indians SINGAPORE: For centuries, devout Indian Hindus have said their daily prayers before images of their favourite idols carved out of metal or clay by village craftsmen....		Is Maoist truce a real peace initiative? KATHMANDU: Nepalese have been waiting to learn if the violence that has overwhelmed rural life here in recent years would ever end. Maoist rebels have recently declared a three-month ceasefire in...