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Seven bombs explode in Bangalore business district
Britain News.Net
Seven bombs have gone off in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
Rice says Pakistan needs to work more against Taliban
Britain News.Net
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told reporters that Pakistan should do a lot more to prevent Taliban militants launching attacks on Afghanistan.
US security agency investigates nuclear breach
Britain News.Net
National Security Agency experts in the US are looking into why three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep this month, while in charge of nuclear devices.
Qantas flight makes emergency stop in Philippines
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In this photo released by the Media Affairs Division of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Qantas pilot Capt. John Francis Bartels looks at the right wing damaged fuselage of Qantas...
Obama says Europeans have anti-US feelings
Britain News.Net
Barack Obama has asked European leaders to refocus on the campaign against terrorism.
Iraq bomber targets friends of the US
Britain News.Net
In Iraq, a female suicide bomber has blown herself up in Baquba, killing at least eight people and wounding another twenty four.
US State Department employee accuses Karzai of drug involvement
Britain News.Net
A former US narcotics official has accused Afghan President Hamid Karzai of obstructing efforts to tackle his country's drugs problem.
US House fails to pass oil bill
Britain News.Net
The US House of Representatives has not passed the legislation which would have required the government to sell 70 million barrels of light sweet crude oil from the national stockpile.
Concern builds on Jewish plans for housing on West Bank
Britain News.Net
There is deep concern over Israeli plans to construct a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
US shifts anti-terrorism push in Pakistan
Britain News.Net
The United States has said it will be shifting hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Pakistan.
Indian struggle for religious structure leads to violence
Britain News.Net
In India, at least three people have been killed and dozens injured when an eviction drive by government officials turned into a communal clash.
At least 45 killed as Congo boat sinks
Reuters
At least 45 people were killed and another 100 were missing after a boat sank on a remote stretch of river in Democratic Republic of Congo, a local government official said...
Japan to send advance military team to Sudan
Reuters
Japan is to send a fact-finding team to Sudan this weekend to prepare the way for a planned dispatch of military personnel to a United Nations mission in Khartoum...
Air Force officers fell asleep with nuke codes
CNN
Airmen fall asleep while in control of component containing old missile launch codes Incident is 4th in a year regarding mishandling of nuclear weapons components incident was at Minot AFB...
Woman has Mona Lisa mowed into her lawn
KeralaNext
Tania Ledger, 48, of London, called on expert Chris Naylor, who recreated the Mona Lisa for the film "The Da Vinci Code," to complete a similar work of lawn art, The Telegraph reported Thursday....
CIA was told interrogations
New Zealand Herald
Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Photo / The US Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if...
Ban on misshapen produce may be nixed
KeralaNext
Misshapen bananas and cucumbers could be in stores by next year if reforms on produce rules are carried out, The Telegraph reported Thursday. The Telegraph said produce standards are so strict, many...
Smoking man ticketed in workplace van
KeralaNext
Gordon Williams, 58, a self-employed decorator from Llanafan, Wales, said he was pulled over by council officials near the city of Aberystwyth and issued a fixed penalty notice for smoking in a...
Sudan bombed Darfur during Bashir tour - rebels
Reuters
A Darfur rebel faction that has a pact with Sudan's government accused the army on Friday of bombing a village this week even while President...
Net-savvy before age 6
New Zealand Herald
Children in one in five Australian households are surfing the net before their 6th birthday and 30 per cent of young people are never supervised online, says a report on internet use. The Sensis...
Elderly couple angered by mysterious noise
KeralaNext
GREEN BAY, An elderly Wisconsin couple said they feel like everyone thinks they are crazy because no one but them hears a persistent low rumbling in their home.
Lesbian mothers lose IVF lawsuit
New Zealand Herald
The lesbian mothers of IVF twin girls have lost a legal bid to sue their doctor for the cost of raising one of the toddlers. The women, whose names are suppressed, sued Canberra obstetrician Dr...

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