October 6, 2005	Thursday	Ramazan 1, 1426

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French, US chemists win Nobel for carbon ‘dance’ STOCKHOLM, Oct 5: Frenchman Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert Grubbs and Richard Schrock won the 2005 Nobel Chemistry prize for showing how to tailor-make molecules for cheaper, cleaner chemicals and drugs to combat major diseases....		25 Iraqis killed in suicide attack HILLA, Oct 5: A suicide car bomber drove at a mosque south of Baghdad on Wednesday and brought part of the structure crashing down, killing 25 people. A roof caved in and people were being dug out of the rubble in the darkness, an official said. At least 87 people were wounded in the blast at Hilla, 100kms south of the capital....
Convoy targeted in Kandahar KANDAHAR, Oct 5: A suicide attacker tried to ram a car bomb into a convoy of Afghan and foreign troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing himself and a 10-year-old boy and wounding one Canadian soldier, officials said....		UK blames Iran for attacks on troops LONDON, Oct 5: Britain accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday of supplying weapons to Shia militia in Iraq used to attack British troops. Washington and London have long accused Iran of...
Saddam team lacks funds: lawyer BAGHDAD, Oct 5: Saddam Hussein’s family has no money to pay for his defence and his legal team is demanding that either the Iraqi court trying him or the media provide the funds, his Iraqi lawyer said Wednesday....		Scientists resurrect 1918 flu virus WASHINGTON, Oct 5: Scientists who resurrected the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ virus that killed as many as 50 million people said on Wednesday they are beginning to understand why it caused such a deadly pandemic and say it could happen again....
Putin visits London crisis bunker LONDON, Oct 5: Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former spy for the KGB secret service, on Wednesday became the first foreign leader to enter an underground crisis centre in the heart of Britain’s capital....		Paris banks lose millions to gang PARIS, Oct 5: A gang that tricked Paris banks out of millions of euros by pretending to hunt down money-laundering by terrorists perpetrated what French investigators on Wednesday called a “perfectly incredible and surrealist” sting....
India will face water shortage in 20 years: WB NEW DELHI, Oct 5: India will face a severe water crisis in 20 years if the government does not change its ways and clashes are already taking place because the resource is so scarce, the World Bank warned on Wednesday....		US rules out pact with ASEAN WASHINGTON, Oct 5: The United States said on Wednesday it had no plans to sign a non-aggression treaty with Southeast Asia even though Russia, China and India had become signatories, underscoring security commitment to the region....
Trial may be put off: UK LONDON, Oct 5: A senior British official said on Wednesday a trial for Saddam Hussein, which is due to start later this month, may be postponed until after elections in December....		11 embassies in Malaysia get threat mail KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5: At least 11 foreign embassies in the Malaysian capital have been sent suspicious packages containing threatening letters linked to the treatment of Muslims, police said on Wednesday....
Warrant issued for former VW official BERLIN, Oct 5: An international arrest warrant has been issued in India for a German executive embroiled in a bribery scandal involving car making giant Volkswagen, German authorities confirmed on Wednesday....		IMF starts as Intern and ends in Fun WASHINGTON, Oct 5: The IMF was temporarily rebranded on Tuesday when three letters came off its shiny new Washington headquarters, identifying the venerable development lender as the INTERN TIONA MONETARY FUN....
Liberals fear rise of radicals in BD RAJSHAHI (Bangladesh): Economics professor Sanat Kumar Saha was relaxing at home when three men burst in. They tied him down and began stabbing him. Saha blames the attack on Islamist radicals...		‘Paradise on earth’ continues to be a war zone SRINAGAR: Indian-occupied Kashmir’s tourist brochures describe the snow-capped Himalayan region as “paradise on earth”. But as the airplane lands on the runway of Srinagar, the main city of violence-plagued occupied Kashmir, it still looks like a war zone....
Parsis turn to sun as vultures die out MUMBAI: The Towers of Silence in Mumbai, where Parsis lay their dead, are being equipped with solar concentrators that dehydrate the corpses and aid in their decomposition....		Professor spends 21 years with mother’s corpse NEW DELHI: A college professor in southern India refused to be parted from his dead mother and kept her embalmed body in his house for 21 years until he himself died at the weekend, a report said on Wednesday....
Buddha’s birthplace radiates peace LUMBINI (Nepal): The birthplace of the Buddha exudes peace on an autumn afternoon so hot that a lazy stroll on the meditation platform atop the birth temple quickly becomes a dance on sun-baked tiles....		India woos France with $3bn sub deal NEW DELHI: India and France are ready to sign the $3-billion Scorpene submarine deal on October 6 negotiated directly between the two governments without floating a tender....