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New York, Mar 10: Two commercial jets have been damaged in the aviation equivalent of a fender-bender at New York's Kennedy airport. Nobody was reported injured in the accident, which happened at around 6:15 a.m. on Saturday. A JetBlue spokesman says a plane carrying around 150 passengers bound for West Palm Beach, Florida, had become temporarily disabled due to a problem with its tow bar and was

Male, Mar 5: Former Maldivian president Mohammed Nasheed was arrested Tuesday, causing a fresh uproar and protests in this capital city. Nasheed was arrested just outside his house by around 20 police personnel, who took him away without an explanation, Xinhua news agency reported citing Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) spokesperson Hameed Abdul Gafoor. "They just took him. We do not

Dhaka, Mar 3(DPA): At least four people were killed on the fourth day of rioting in Bangladesh on Sunday after an Islamist opposition leader was sentenced to death for war crimes, police said. Soldiers were deployed after protesters torched police posts, a railway station and other government facilities in the northern district of Bogra during a strike called by the opposition. Protesters and

Jeddah, Jan 26: Saudi businessman Dr. Adel Batterjee, whose name was removed from the list of the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee recently, said he has known Osama Bin Laden for long, from the time he was in Jeddah. “My relations with him was very good, and we moved to Afghanistan together,” Batterjee said. “Takfiri ideology was already in existence in Peshawar, but was not widespread. We fought this

London, Jan 25: Upon returning from his five-month tour of duty in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, the third in line to the British throne, Prince Harry, says he killed Muslims to protect his people. “Take a life to save a life, that's what we revolve around,” Harry said. It is not clear how many people Prince Harry has killed during the Helmand tour, but he has confirmed responsibility

London, Jan 20: William Henry 'Bill' Gates with an estimated wealth of $65 billion is as rich as two Kenyas, three Trinidads and a dozen Montenegros but is now engaged in the process of ridding himself of all the money in the hope of extending the lives of others less fortunate than himself. Having already given away $28 billion, the 57-year-old Microsoft co-founder now intends to eradicate polio

Ankara, December 31: An official says Turkey is holding talks with the jailed Kurdish rebel leader to press his autonomy-seeking guerrilla group to relinquish arms. Yalcin Akdogan, a top aide to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Tarafnewspaper in an interview published on Sunday that talks were aimed at convincing the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, to lay down arms for good instead of

London, December 30: Pakistani teenage girl Malala Yousufzai has condoled the death of the 23-year-old gang rape victim who died in the wee hours of Saturday in a Singapore Hospital. Expressing her grief over the death of rape victim, Malala raised question as to why the Government of India shifted the girl to Singapore when her health was so precarious. She tweeted - The rapists dumped her on

London, December 30: American researchers claim to have solved a cryptic formula that renowned mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan believed came to him in dreams while on his deathbed, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. The formula was contained in a letter he wrote to his mentor, the English mathematician G.H. Hardy, from his deathbed in 1920 outlining several new mathematical functions that had

Mbabane, December 27: Police in Africa's last absolute monarchy Swaziland have banned women from wearing miniskirts and midriff-revealing tops saying they provoke rape, local media reported today. Offenders face a six-month jail term under the ban, which invokes a colonial criminal act dating back to 1889. "The act of the rapist is made easy, because it would be easy to remove the half-cloth worn