|
| September 24, 2008 | Wednesday | Ramazan 23, 1429 |
|
Brown defies call to quit
MANCHESTER: Prime Minister Gordon Brown defied calls for him to quit, vowing on Tuesday to stand by his beliefs and fight on to make life better for people living in Britain.... 
|
|
Terrorists a threat to world order: Bush
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23: Invoking the recent devastating terrorist attack in Islamabad, US President George Bush said on Tuesday that multinational organisations now “needed more urgently than ever” to combat terrorists and extremists who were threatening world order....
|
|
||
|
11 ministers resign in South Africa: Mbeki’s ouster sparks crisis
CAPE TOWN, Sept 23: Eleven South African cabinet members abandoned ship on Tuesday in the wake of President Thabo Mbeki’s resignation in what opposition parties termed a disaster for the country’s stability....
|
|
Russian drone shot down, claims Georgia
TBILISI, Sept 23: Georgia on Tuesday claimed to have shot down a Russian drone near one of its rebel regions and a key east-west pipeline, as President Mikheil Saakashvili was to address the United Nations....
|
|
|
||
|
US on wrong track, say Americans
WASHINGTON, Sept 23: Americans are divided along racial lines, but agree that the United States is on the wrong track and the economy is the top priority, according to an opinion...
|
|
Myanmar govt frees Win Tin after 19 years
YANGON, Sept 23: Myanmar’s longest-serving political prisoner, journalist Win Tin, was freed on Tuesday after 19 years in jail and immediately vowed to continue his struggle against 46 years of unbroken military rule....
|
|
|
||
|
British monarch be dumped: poll
SYDNEY, Sept 23: Most Australians want to dump the British monarch as head of state and become a republic, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday....
|
|
Protest in Bali against Indonesia’s porn bill
DENPASAR (Indonesia), Sept 23: About 1,000 people protested against Indonesia’s anti-pornography bill on the resort island of Bali on Tuesday, prompting the local governor to vow he would ask the president to drop ....
|
|
|
||
|
Google unveils handset
NEW YORK, Sept 23: Internet search leader Google took a giant leap into the mobile phone market on Tuesday, unveiling a handset developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile to compete with Apple’s hot-selling iPhone....
|
|
Einstein’s lost telescope to be displayed
JERUSALEM: Students and visitors at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will be able to look at the stars through Albert Einstein’s long lost telescope starting on Thursday, university officials said, after it was retrieved from a storage shed and renovated....
|
|
|
||
|
S. Arabia acquiring supercomputer
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has announced it is acquiring a supercomputer that could rank among the 10 most powerful systems in the world. Plans are also in to turn this marquee system...
|
|
Italian firm’s CEO beaten to death in India
NEW DELHI: Sacked employees beat to death the Indian head of an Italian industrial gear manufacturing company on Monday. Lalit Kishore Choudhary, the 47-year-old chief executive officer of Graziano Transmissioni India,...
|
|
|
||
|
Austria’s far right poised for gains
VIENNA: Outside the dim stairwell of a huge concrete housing block, Hueseyin Karakoe pauses from sweeping up cigarette butts in the cold and says he is glad Austria has been his home for the past 25 years....
|
|
Labour can’t decide whether to dream or to despair
MANCHESTER: This is the strangest Labour conference for decades. In the past there have been triumphant gatherings. There have also been bloody ones. The conference in Manchester defies such easy definition....
|
|
|
||
|
Battle for the White House rages in the south
RICHMOND: From his office in the former capital of the confederacy, the mayor of Richmond, Doug Wilder, is relishing Virginia’s moment in the presidential sun. On that very morning Barack Obama...
|
|
How do birds know when to migrate?
In the fall you can look up in the sky and see beautiful formations of birds flying south....
|
|
|
||
