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| October 28, 2007 | Sunday | Shawwal 15, 1428 |
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Eight killed in Baghdad bomb blast
BAGHDAD, Oct 27: For the second time in four days a bomber struck near a bus transit point in a predominantly Shia neighbourhood southeast of Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 13 others, police and hospital officials said.... 
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Israel plans to cripple Gaza, says minister
JERUSALEM, Oct 27: Israel plans to paralyse the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip in every possible way and separate itself completely from the Palestinian territory in the long term, a minister said on Saturday....
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Omanis vote for advisory body
MUSCAT, Oct 27: Omanis voted on Saturday for the 84 members of a consultative council amid some calls in the pro-Western Gulf monarchy for the advisory body to be given more power....
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Legendary Soviet spymaster Feklisov dies
MOSCOW, Oct 27: A KGB master agent who ran some of Moscow’s most damaging Cold War spies in the West – Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs – died on Friday after...
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Scores of Air France flights cancelled
PARIS, Oct 27: Queues of frustrated, angry passengers built up at main French airports on Saturday as Air France cancelled scores of flights on the third day of a strike by the cabin staff....
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Nobel prize winning DNA expert dies
WASHINGTON, Oct 27: Dr Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said....
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Devices explode at Mexican consulate
NEW YORK, Oct 27: Two homemade grenades exploded outside the Mexican Consulate in New York City early on Friday in an incident Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said was similar to an attack on the British Consulate in 2005....
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First ‘divorce fair’ held
VIENNA, Oct 27: Want to get divorced but not sure how it works? Need advice on how you discover if your partner is cheating on you?...
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Iran’s police target ‘book-cafes’
TEHRAN, Oct 27: Iranian police have ordered shut and sealed several Tehran bookshops which also provide coffee and snacks to readers, because of what one officer termed ‘a clash of professions’....
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Europe aims to hurt Iran through its pockets
PARIS: On Iran, this could be Europe’s moment of truth....
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Baghdad children refuse to drop their toy guns BAGHDAD: Try as he might, Baghdad businessman Ibrahim Georges can’t persuade his 11-year-old daughter Sandy to lay down her arms in favour of something less hostile, such as a doll....
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New violence causes more displacement in Darfur
NYALA (Sudan): The sheikhs sit on mats in the roasting sun drawing up lists of homeless families. Younger men push wooden poles into the hard ground to make frames on which to drape bits of cloth or sacking for shade....
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US intelligence discontinues publication of reports
WASHINGTON: National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell has reversed the recent practice of declassifying and releasing summaries of national intelligence estimates, a top US intelligence official said on Friday....
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Desire for electronic devices cuts across all boundaries
LONDON: From boxes of flat-screen TVs stacked up outside back street electronics shops in Mumbai to the incongruous sight of a Masai tribesmen in Tanzania clutching a mobile-phone, evidence is everywhere...
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