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Beijing/Kuala Lumpur, Mar 8: A Beijing-bound Malaysian Airlines plane that went missing with 239 people on board, including five Indians, today crashed into waters off Vietnam's southern Phu Quoc Island, Vietnamese media reported. The Boeing 777-200 Flight MH370 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board crashed 250 km off coast of Tho Chu island, Vietnamese newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) quoted

Nairobi, Mar 4: Bras and panties are ungodly and prevent Christ from entering the lives of women. Believe it or not, but this is what a pastor in a Nigerian church told his congregation. Rev Njohi of Lord's Propeller Redemption Church in Nairobi, Kenya, has advised female worshippers to come to the church 'free' - that is, without wearing any undergarments - and to let Christ enter their lives

Moscow/Kiev, Feb 2: Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded and won his parliament's approval on Saturday to invade Ukraine, where the new government warned of war, put its troops on high alert and appealed to Nato for help. Putin's open assertion of the right to send troops to a country of 46 million people on the ramparts of central Europe creates the biggest confrontation between Russia and

Beijing, Mar 2 Thirty-three people were killed and around 100 others injured when a group of unidentified men armed with knives attacked a railway station in the capital of China's southwestern Yunnan Province today. State-run Xinhua news agency ran a news flash saying 30 people were killed and 109 injured in the incident in the provincial capital city of Kunming when knife-wielding men attacked

Kathmandu, Feb 17: The wreckage of a missing Nepal Airlines plane carrying 18 people was found on Monday in the country's mountainous west and rescuers are trying to ascertain if there is any survivor. The Twin Otter was found crashed at Masine Lek in Arghakhanchi district. “We have found the aircraft crashed in the site, but it is yet to be confirmed, whether the passengers and crew members

Washington, Feb 12: American Indologist Wendy Doniger whose book "The Hindus: An Alternative History" was withdrawn following objections that it hurt sentiments of Hindus is "angry and disappointed" over the development and says the "true villain" is the Indian law. "I was, of course, angry and disappointed to see this happen, and I am deeply troubled by what it foretells for free speech in India

Algiers, Feb 11: A military transport plane carrying relatives of members of the armed forces crashed in eastern Algeria on Tuesday, killing 103 people, the private Ennahar TV station reported, citing “informed sources.” The plane crashed in a mountainous area in the Oum El Bouaghi province, about 500 km (300 miles) from the capital Algiers, the report said. A senior military official told the

Washington, Feb 5: Fifteen years ago, when Anu Aiyengar went for an interview to become a mergers and acquisitions banker at a major Wall Street firm, she got a stark, disappointing message. "You have three strikes against you," Aiyengar, who was born in India, recalled the interviewer telling her. "How can I hire you? You are the wrong gender, wrong color and wrong country." Aiyengar, now a

Mechanisburg (US), Feb 2: A motorcycle-loving man's family has fulfilled his dying wish - to be buried astride his beloved Harley-Davidson encased in a see-through casket. But it wasn't easy. The project required an extra-large cemetery plot to accommodate a Plexiglas casket for Billy Standley and his hulking custom-painted 1967 Electra Glide cruiser. Five embalmers worked to prepare his body with

Sydney, Jan 27: After more than two years of capture and death of Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi, details about his brutality towards young girls-turned-sex slaves have been emerging gradually. In BBC's documentary, for the first time the slain leader's macabre rape chamber can be seen, showing 'Gaddafi's den' where he regularly raped young girls and forced them to watching pornography. According