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Landslide kills 56 in China: Hundreds feared trapped
BEIJING, Sept 9: The death toll after a torrent of sludge, mud and mining waste ploughed into buildings in northern China rose to at least 56 people, with hundreds more feared trapped in the rubble, state media reported on Tuesday....
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US, some EU states advised Georgian govt: Gorbachev
MADRID, Sept 9: Georgia launched an offensive last month to regain control of a separatist region after receiving advice from the United States and some European countries, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday....
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New security database outrages France
PARIS, Sept 9: A new French security database that could track anyone deemed a “possible threat to public order” even minors as young as 13 has outraged privacy crusaders and put France’s conservative government on the defensive....
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Court clears return of painter M.F. Husain
NEW DELHI, Sept 9: India’s most celebrated artist M.F. Husain looked set on Tuesday to return from voluntary exile after the Supreme Court found no grounds to prosecute him for obscenity and offending religious feelings....
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Einstein’s watch to be auctioned next month
GENEVA, Sept 9: His theories stretched the boundaries of space and time, but Albert Einstein himself favoured that hallmark of reliable timekeeping a Swiss watch that will be sold at auction next month....
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India turns to Nepal over double-murder mystery
NEW DELHI, Sept 9: India’s top investigating agency on Tuesday sought Nepal’s help to solve the murder of a schoolgirl which has transfixed the nation since the crime was committed four months ago....
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Jaya Bachchan apologises for ‘Hindi slur’
MUMBAI, Sept 9: The wife of Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan has apologised after a comment she made snowballed into a row with a nationalist politician and prompted calls for a boycott of India’s first family of acting....
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Cheney says Russia violated borders
ROME, Sept 9: US Vice-President Dick Cheney said here on Tuesday that the world is united in deploring Russia’s conduct in Georgia and that the former Soviet republic’s border has been “violated”....
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Moscow establishes diplomatic ties with Abkhazia, S. Ossetia
MOSCOW, Sept 9: Russia tightened its control over Georgia’s breakaway states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on Tuesday, establishing diplomatic ties and announcing that 7,600 troops would be based there long-term....
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LTTE plane shot down
COLOMBO, Sept 9: A plane used by the Tamil Tiger rebels was shot down early on Tuesday by the Sri Lankan Air Force, defence authorities confirmed.Military...
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Experiment won’t find elusive particle: Hawking
LONDON, Sept 9: Renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has bet $100 that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science, he said on Tuesday....
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Chef finds 26 pearls in oyster
TYRE (Lebanon), Sept 9: A Lebanese woman working in a restaurant kitchen found 26 pearls in an oyster she was preparing for the table and is to submit the find to the Guinness Book of Records....
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Anti-Chinese slur sparks uproar in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9: Malaysia’s premier insisted on Tuesday that his multi-racial coalition would not be torn apart by a rift over a ruling party member’s incendiary comments about ethnic Chinese....
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Britain needs chefs, dancers but no doctors: migration study
LONDON, Sept 9: Doctors from outside Europe may find it harder to work in Britain under new proposals put to the government on Tuesday which say they are not needed although maths teachers, dancers and chefs are welcome....
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Stem cell pioneers win ‘Asian Nobel prize’
HONG KONG, Sept 9: The groundbreaking scientists behind Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep, were on Tuesday presented with the Shaw Prize, the million-dollar award known as the Nobel Prize of the East....
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Burundi refugees set aside anger to return home
MAKAMBA: Piled up next to the road were bicycles and benches, rolled up mattresses and squawking chickens, radios with wonky antennas, battered suitcases and yellow jerry cans....
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3D simulator recreates historical shipwrecks
LONDON: Archaeologists are creating a permanent digital record of shipwrecks around European coasts. By recording the precise 3D arrangement of timbers and cargo from the wrecks the researchers aim to preserve...
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Burnt Georgian forest shows costs of Russia war
DABA, Georgia: Mikheil Tediashvili remembers the day last month when he looked up and saw an unfamiliar military helicopter gliding over the lush peaks that surround his tiny village in central Georgia....
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Call for drastic rise in gastric bypass operations
LONDON: Controversial surgery for treating obesity that involves reducing the patient’s stomach to the size of a thumb should be more widely available within the UK’s health service (NHS), according to researchers....
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