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| August 02, 2008 | Saturday | Rajab 29, 1429 |
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17 girls killed in Turkish school collapse
ANKARA, Aug 1: A religious boarding school for girls in Turkey collapsed on Friday after a suspected gas explosion, killing 17 girls and injuring at least 27 others, local media reported, citing rescue authorities.... 
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Gunman kills three youths at US river
WASHINGTON, Aug 1: A man armed with an assault rifle walked out of the woods in Wisconsin and fired into a group of young people gathered at a river to go...
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Anthrax suspect commits suicide
WASHINGTON, Aug 1: A US government scientist has committed suicide just as he was about to be charged in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks that sparked widespread panic in the United States....
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US sets weekend deadline for Iran: Nuclear programme
WASHINGTON, Aug 1: The United States on Friday set a weekend deadline for Iran to answer an international offer to freeze its nuclear drive and warned of new sanctions if it rejects the package....
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Police quiz Israeli PM for fourth time
JERUSALEM, Aug 1: Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the fourth time on Friday in a bribery and fraud investigation, two days after the Israeli leader said he would step down....
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Suicides up sharply in UK prisons
LONDON: Suicides in English prisons rose by over 15 per cent last year, but overall the national suicide rate is at its lowest-ever level, the Department of Health said on Friday....
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Russia test-fires ballistic missile
MOSCOW: Russia test fired a ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea on Friday, a spokesman for Russia’s navy said....
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BD workers home after Kuwait expulsions
DHAKA: Nearly 170 Bangladesh workers returned home from Kuwait on Friday, complaining they had been beaten and expelled after taking part in a rare labour protest in the Gulf state....
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Fukuda reshuffles cabinet
TOKYO, Aug 1: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday named a new cabinet filled with heavyweights, vowing to jump-start a lacklustre economy in a last-ditch bid to revive waning public support....
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Ibrahim starts by-election drive
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1: Malaysia’s leading opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim pledged to launch his campaign for a parliamentary seat at the weekend after the government announced plans to limit petrol price rises, a key electoral concern....
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Honour killing: Jordanian charged with murder
AMMAN, Aug 1: A 26-year-old Jordanian man was charged with murder on Friday after his 23-year-old sister was shot dead in an apparent “honour” killing, a security official said....
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Rahul Gandhi in Dhaka on private visit
DHAKA: The India’s ruling Congress party leader and a member of Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, arrived in Dhaka on a five-day private visit to see a number of successful rural developments projects in Bangladesh, officials in Dhaka said....
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Forest fires threaten ancient Turkish sites
ISTANBUL: Turkish fire fighters backed by a dozen aircraft struggled on Friday to extinguish fires engulfing woodlands in the coastal tourism province of Antalya and threatening sites of ancient culture, authorities said....
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Seal of biblical royal official found
JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem said on Friday they found the imprint of a seal that belonged to an 6th century BC official in the court of the last king of Judah who was mentioned in the Old Testament....
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Europe’s military plan has gone awol
LONDON: Russia’s bullish plans, unveiled this week, to build up to six aircraft carrier battlegroups and upgrade its nuclear submarine fleet are part of a worrying trend....
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McCain accuses Obama of playing race card
RACINE (USA): The race issue, long a subtext of the 2008 presidential contest, flared into the open on Thursday when John McCain and his campaign chief accused Barack Obama of playing “the race card” to seek political advantage....
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US trials ‘violated’ immigrants’ rights
WASHINGTON: Justice Department officials who prosecuted hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested at an Iowa meatpacking plant in May used a government-created “manual” to speed through guilty pleas, a potential violation of...
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Understanding the evil mind
YOU want to understand the evil of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who was arrested last week for war crimes committed in the Balkans during the early 1990s? Then...
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Israel will have it easy, no matter who wins in US
LONDON: I was in the studios of Al Jazeera – the Qatar satellite channel so democratic in the eyes of Colin Powell (the former US secretary of state) that President Bush...
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