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Ireland votes in knife-edge European Union poll
DUBLIN, June 12: Ireland voted in a knife-edge referendum on the European Union''s new reform treaty on Thursday, threatening to plunge the 27-nation bloc into new crisis if it is rejected....
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Gaza Strip blast kills three
GAZA CITY, June 12: Three people were killed and 32 wounded, including a four-month-old baby, in an explosion in a house in the north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinian medics said....
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Canada apologises for ‘failing’ natives
OTTAWA, June 12: Canada''s prime minister on Wednesday officially apologised to natives for more than a century of abuses at boarding schools set up to assimilate its indigenous peoples....
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Hasina leaves for London
DHAKA, June 12: Former prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina Wajed left for London, en route to the USA and Canada, on Thursday morning, a day after her release from prison....
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Oil, food prices most pressing issues for Britain: Brown
LONDON, June 12: Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that although there were other issues of concern facing Britain but for him the most pressing one is ‘the oil and food crisis’....
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UK Muslim lawyers tackle forced marriage ‘crisis’
LONDON, June 12: British Muslim lawyers have come up with an action plan to root out forced marriage in their community, in a report published on Thursday....
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Gyanendra warned to keep out of politics
KATHMANDU: Nepal''s Maoists on Thursday told ousted king Gyanendra to stay out of politics, the day after he left his sprawling palace following the abolition of his family''s 240-year-old monarchy....
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Afghan child abduction ring busted
KABUL: A criminal group which abducted and raped schoolchildren then recorded the abuse to make pornographic videos has been busted in the Afghan capital Kabul, intelligence officials said on Thursday....
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Tokyo costliest city for expats
SINGAPORE: Tokyo has supplanted Seoul as Asia''s most expensive city for expatriates as the stronger yen pushed up living costs in the world''s second largest economy, a survey by ECA International said on Thursday....
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Riot at Turkey’s migrant centre
ANKARA: A Somali man died of a gunshot wound and four people, among them two police officers, were injured during a riot at a Turkish centre for illegal immigrants, Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday....
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British premier’s shaming victory
LONDON: Is this what Gordon Brown had in mind when he promised a progressive consensus? His plans to detain terrorism suspects for 42 days before charge survived on Wednesday in the...
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Obama learns to take critical decisions
CHICAGO: One was gone within hours. Another lasted a few days. The most famous hung on for weeks. In dealing with associates who have dragged him into controversies, Barack Obama has...
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How bones can be tailor-made
LONDON: The idea of having an irreparably damaged bone scanned, a titanium copy created in a replicator and then surgically inserted into our bodies seems more Star Trek science fiction than modern-day medicine....
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Children find English too hard to read
LONDON: The English spelling system is “absolutely, unspeakably awful”. That is the conclusion of new research that has found that children face 800 words by the age of 11 that hinder their reading because of the way they are spelt....
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Heart failure patients may be misdiagnosed
NEW YORK: Many patients who have received a diagnosis of “diastolic heart failure” or DHF, which is characterised by a reduced ability of the heart to relax to allow filling, may...
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Friday 13th not unlucky
AMSTERDAM: Unlucky for some? Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday....
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