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Floods leave four million homeless in India
KOLKATA, June 20: The death toll from monsoon flooding in eastern India climbed to 26 on Friday, with hundreds of villages cut off and an estimated four million people displaced, officials said....
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Obama apologises to headscarved women
WASHINGTON, June 20: Barack Obama’s belaboured attempts to hide his Muslim past is beginning to hurt the Democratic presidential candidate, forcing him on Friday to apologise to two Muslim women barred from a group picture with him for wearing hijab....
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Taliban offensive easily staged, quickly quelled
KABUL: When the Taliban seized a string of villages outside one of Afghanistan’s largest cities this week, Nato-led forces moved fast, airlifting in hundreds of Afghan and Western soldiers and sending warplanes and attack helicopters into the skies....
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Georgia rift haunts Russia’s dream
ADLER (Russia): The pretty spot where Russia will host the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics is on the Black Sea, framed by the Caucasus mountains....
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Campbell admits assaulting police
LONDON, June 20: British supermodel Naomi Campbell on Friday admitted assaulting two police officers as she was ejected from a plane at London’s Heathrow airport in a furious row over lost luggage....
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Protesters demand Thai PM’s resignation
BANGKOK, June 20: Thousands of flag-waving, chanting protesters faced off with riot police in Bangkok on Friday, laying siege to the government’s headquarters in a bid to force it from power....
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Two Iranian policemen executed by militants
DUBAI, June 20: A group of militants said on Friday it had killed two Iranian policemen and threatened to kill 14 others it kidnapped last week in a volatile area near the border with Pakistan....
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Human-robot relationships may be a reality by 2050: author
MAASTRICHT (Netherlands): Romantic human-robot relationships are no longer the stuff of science fiction researchers expect them to become reality within four decades....
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Peace breaks out in Middle East pending new US president
CAIRO: A truce in Gaza, a president in Lebanon, peace talks between Israel and Syria: the Middle East’s myriad crises seem to be calming, but analysts warn the respite will only last until a new US president is elected....
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Life not so beautiful for anti-Berlusconi Italian screwball
ROME: Italian movie distributors have baulked at the title of a new satirical screwball “I’ve killed Berlusconi”, with producers saying screening deals have been reneged upon....
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No wonder plagiarism comes naturally to students
LONDON: Professor Geoffrey Alderman’s report acknowledging the elephant in the classroom of British higher education the culture of lenience including the permissive marking of non-European students, tolerance of plagiarism, and rampant...
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