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One in four mammals facing extinction: study
BARCELONA, Oct 6: A quarter of the world’s mammals are threatened with extinction, an international survey showed on Monday, and the destruction of habitats and hunting are the major causes....
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Quake claims 100 lives in Kyrgyzstan, China
BISHKEK, Oct 6: Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan’s border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children....
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Iran says no plan to allow US think-tank on its soil
TEHRAN, Oct 6: Iran said on Monday said that it did not plan to allow a US research and policy think-tank to open in the Islamic republic after Washington gave its blessing for such a move....
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Thousands displaced by Mogadishu violence
NAIROBI, Oct 6: Violence in Mogadishu in recent weeks has displaced some 37,000 people, swelling an internal refugee population of 1.1 million in Somalia, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said on Monday....
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Tamil Tiger’s ex-military leader to become MP
COLOMBO, Oct 6: Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) military leader Col Karuna Amman will be nominated to the Sri Lankan parliament on Tuesday, the first former top LTTE commander...
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Findings of ‘Red List’
Key findings of the annual “Red List” report, issued during an International Union for Conservation of Nature congress in Barcelona from Oct 5-14:...
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Dubai to build $95bn ‘mega city’
DUBAI, Oct 6: A Dubai government firm on Monday announced it will build a “new city” in the booming Gulf emirate at a projected cost of 95 billion dollars, shrugging off the global financial turmoil....
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Tehran sends N-protest to EU
TEHRAN: Iran’s nuclear negotiator Said Jalili has written to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to protest over the West’s attitude to the Islamic republic’s atomic programme, a senior Iranian official said on Monday....
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Scientists enhance scent of flowers
JERUSALEM, Oct 6: Israeli scientists said on Monday they had discovered a way to genetically enhance the scent of flowers, a development that could also be used to breed extra-tasty fruits and vegetables....
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Anti-govt protest in Bangkok
BANGKOK, Oct 6: Thousands of anti-government protesters marched to Thailand’s parliament on Monday, using trucks to try and seal off the building ahead of an address by the new cabinet, police and Thai media said....
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Secrets of Iraq’s death chamber
Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come....
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‘Angolagate’ trial opens in France
PARIS, Oct 6: Members of the French elite went on trial on Monday for illegal arms sales to Angola in the 1990s....
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Russia accuses Georgia of trying to wreck ceasefire
MOSCOW, Oct 6: Russia accused Georgia on Monday of trying to sabotage a French-brokered ceasefire by mounting a series of violent attacks on Russian targets across the region, but Tbilisi said the allegation was baseless....
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Israel-linked terror cell dismantled, says Yemen
SANAA, Oct 6: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced on Monday the dismantling of a “terrorist cell” which he said was linked to Israeli intelligence services....
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Badawi plans to quit
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is under intense pressure to quit, said he will announce by Wednesday whether he will step down in March....
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US war painting gets epic restoration
GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania: After years of exposure to rot and mishandling, a US institution has been pulled back from the brink of collapse with the help of international experts who pooled their knowledge....
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Palin’s words carry racial tinge
WASHINGTON: By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the US like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.And...
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Iraq hopes shrine rebuild can reconcile sects
SAMARRA: A ring of scaffolding around charred bricks is all that now stands in place of the golden dome that adorned one of Shias’ holiest shrines....
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Film star was secret agent, claims author
MADRID: He is remembered as the obsessive love interest of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, but Leslie Howard should also be recalled as a British secret agent who died returning from a clandestine war mission, claims a Spanish author....
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‘Vaccine for breast cancer within reach’
LONDON: Enough is known about the causes of breast cancer to make a vaccine or prophylactic drug a real possibility, a leading cancer expert said on Sunday night....
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