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Brokeback leads Oscar nominations LOS ANGELES, Jan 31: A pack of art house movies with serious social themes dominated Academy Award nominations on Tuesday, led by the lovelorn cowboys of “Brokeback Mountain,” which scored eight nominations including best film....		Quartet gives Hamas time to make changes LONDON, Jan 31: The United States and Europe agreed to keep financing the Palestinians for now, but election victors Hamas reacted angrily on Tuesday to a demand they give up violence and recognise Israel....
UK firm offers border security system to India NEW DELHI, Jan 31: British Aerospace Systems (BAe) Tuesday said it has offered hardware to help India upgrade the surveillance of its land borders and maritime zone....		Newspaper apologises to Muslims COPENHAGEN, Jan 31: A Danish newspaper on Monday issued an apology to Muslims for publishing cartoons considered blasphemous by Muslims. The drawings ‘were not in violation of Danish law but have...
Brazilian baby found in lake RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 31: Doctors released a two-month-old girl from a hospital ‘in perfect health’ on Monday, two days after she was found in a black plastic bag floating in a lake in southeastern Brazil....		Palestinian aid must continue, says Putin MOSCOW, Jan 31: The world must continue to provide aid to the Palestinians despite the shock election victory of the Hamas movement — which must in turn recognise Israel’s right to exist, Russian President Vladimir Putin said here on Tuesday....
Explanation sought from US agencies: Failure to predict Hamas win WASHINGTON, Jan 31: The US government has asked its agencies responsible for monitoring the Middle East to explain why they failed to predict Hamas’s victory in Palestinian elections....		Helmand: a lawless, volatile tinderbox KABUL: Last October Major Shaun Pendry, leader of a British advance team in Helmand, got his first serious taste of life in the wild south of Afghanistan....
Scotland Yard and the missing sculptures LONDON: Scotland Yard is up against it: in just a few months, 20 or so valuable bronze statues have vanished into thin air from in and around London....		Enron was ticking time bomb: prosecutors HOUSTON: Enron Corp was a ‘ticking time Bomb’ in its final months, as top executives lied to the public about the billions of dollars in losses it faced, prosecutors said on...
Hamas’s victory adds to Americans’ cynicism “Time after time, observers have questioned whether this country, or that people, or this group, are ‘ready’ for democracy — as if freedom were a prize you win for meeting our own western standards of progress.”...		Anti-euthanasia group wants care, not killing LONDON: Campaigners opposed to moves to legalize euthanasia said on Tuesday that Britain should be giving terminally ill patients better palliative care instead of considering how to kill them....
King’s widow dies at 78 ATLANTA, Jan 31: Coretta Scott King, who surged to the front of the fight for racial equality in America after her husband Martin Luther King Jr was murdered in 1968, died at age 78, friends and family said on Tuesday....		Zawahiri asks Bush to embrace Islam DUBAI, Jan 31: Al Qaeda’s number two Ayman al Zawahiri has called on US President George Bush to convert to Islam, according to a video broadcast on Monday on the Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera....