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| April 13, 2007 | Friday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 24, 1428 |
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Five killed in Sri Lanka violence
COLOMBO, April 12: Tigers shot dead seven Sinhalese, including a boy and six women, on Thursday evening in the northern Vavuniya district, police and military confirmed.... 
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BD rules out sending Hasina, Khaleda into exile
DHAKA, April 12: The interim government of Bangladesh has no intention to force Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia into exile. The government rather needed cooperation of the major political parties to...
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US prefers to work with democrats: Rice
WASHINGTON, April 12: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday that promoting democracy was always preferable to working with tyrannical rulers in the name of stability....
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China offers Japan hand of friendship
TOKYO, April 12: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offered Japan the hand of friendship on Thursday in a call to put aside bitter memories of the past that have hobbled relations between the two Asian giants....
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Turkish army calls for Iraq incursion
ANKARA, April 12: Turkey''s army chief called on Thursday for a military incursion into neighbouring northern Iraq to hunt down Turkish Kurd rebels based there, despite US objections....
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WB chief apologises for giving pay raise to girlfriend
WASHINGTON, April 12: World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz on Thursday apologised for making a “mistake” over hefty pay rises given to his girlfriend at the development lender, but refused to say if he might quit....
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Author Vonnegut dies
NEW YORK: American author Kurt Vonnegut, whose works blended science fiction and black comedy built on his experience as Nazi prisoner of war, has died at the age of 84, his publisher said on Thursday....
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Blair blames ‘black culture’ for murders in UK
LONDON: Tony Blair on Wednesday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture....
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Cheney still trying to justify Iraq invasion
LOS ANGELES: To paraphrase President Reagan, there he goes again....
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Self-driving car faces ultimate test in US
LONDON: Hidden beneath the dark panels of an ordinary-looking family car lies enough technology to eliminate the major cause of road traffic accidents: the driver....
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US to make more efforts for improving ties with China
WASHINGTON: The United States government should put greater time and effort into creating an “affirmative agenda” of cooperation on security, trade, finance and human rights with China, says a report released on Tuesday in Washington....
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Israel wants to have its cake and eat it too
CAIRO: Israel’s rejection of the Arab peace initiative, which was reiterated at last month’s Arab Summit, drew emphatic criticism from Egyptian commentators. Although Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert later called for...
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