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| November 03, 2008 | Monday | Ziqa'ad 4, 1429 |
Obama leads in all opinion polls: Entering the finish line
NEW YORK, Nov 2: On the last Sunday before the elections, most Americans believe that never in living memory has an American election been more critical than the one this Nov 4....
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Sri Lanka war intensifies with air, sea battles
COLOMBO, Nov 2: Sri Lanka’s air force on Sunday bombed a Tamil Tiger training base in the Indian Ocean nation’s northern jungles, a day after a fierce sea battle killed 18 insurgents, the military said....
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‘China’s reformist emperor died of poison’
BEIJING, Nov 2: A new scientific study has found that China’s second to last emperor died of poison, in what is likely to shore up long-held suspicions that he was murdered, state press reported on Sunday....
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Banda sworn in as Zambia president
LUSAKA (Zambia), Nov 2: Veteran diplomat Rupiah Banda was sworn in as the new president of Zambia on Sunday following a narrow and disputed victory over a populist rival in an election forced by the death of the country’s former leader....
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Bangladesh-Myanmar row escalates
DHAKA, Nov 2: Bangladesh has sent a naval patrol to a stretch of the Bay of Bengal disputed with Myanmar after ships from the neighbouring nation began oil and gas exploration activities, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Dhaka on Sunday....
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Palin takes prank call from fake French president
MONTREAL, Nov 2: Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin on Saturday was the victim of a prank phone call by a French-Canadian comedian impersonating French President Nicolas Sarkozy....
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How United States president is elected
WASHINGTON: It’s an oft overlooked fact that when Americans enter the privacy of the polling booth on Nov 4, they will not actually be directly voting for the next president of the United States....
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Poll highlights religious conflict in US society: Concern over Islamophobia
WASHINGTON: The traditional Arab dress was a favourite costume in the US capital on the Halloween night when people dress up as ghosts to ward off evil spirits....
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Voters to elect ‘electors’ on Tuesday, not president
WASHINGTON: The US Constitution, which established a landmark in democracy 220 years ago, did not grant Americans the basic right of voting directly for the president....
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Voting hours and expected timing for results
WASHINGTON: Millions of Americans have already have cast ballots in the 2008 election, but Election Day is still officially Nov 4, when polling stations from New Hampshire to Alaska will welcome voters during a 24-hour electoral marathon....
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Arabs have to rely on Britain and Israel for their history
IN DAMASCUS, a massive statue of late President Hafez Al Assad sits on a mighty iron chair outside the 22,000-square-metres Assad Library, a giant book open in his right hand....
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Diamond credit card for super-rich
LONDON: Despite plunging global markets and creeping worldwide recession, the Kazkommertsbank, based in commodities-rich Kazakhstan, is teaming up with MasterCard to launch the ‘Diamond’, aimed at the growing number of billionaires in this vast central Asian nation....
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