Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Kabul, Jan 15 : Rahmatullah, an illiterate young man with a wispy beard and remnants
of teenage acne, may represent the last, best hope for Afghanistan's national
army.
Wearing an old Russian-style...
Cosmetic surgery catches on in a more open Afghanistan
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Kabul, Jan 15 : Shoqofa never liked her nose. She thought it was too wide. Her
father told her not to worry; it was given to her by Allah.
But when the
22-year-old started working at a beauty salon,...
Of Sofia Vergara, Demi Lovato and Jordin Sparks, who styled this gown best?
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
London, Jan 15 : Here we have three beautiful, talented
ladies with subtly different body types all looking rather fierce in the same
leather and chiffon bustier dress. I think we can all agree on that,...
Afghanistan’s IED Complex: Inside the Taliban bombmaking industry
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Kandahar, Jan 15: “I am here in Kandahar on a short
vacation,” says the young man, about 27, who we will call Mullah Kalam.
His beard is trimmed neat; he is wearing a black leather jacket and a
striped...
Four dead in townhouse shooting in Aurora, Colorado
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Aurora, Jan 15 : A gunman who barricaded himself inside a townhouse after killing
three people in the home was shot to death by police in Aurora, Colorado, the
same Denver suburb where 12 people were...
Missoni scion on plane missing in Venezuela
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Caracas, Jan 15 :
Rescue crews used boats and aircraft to search for a small plane that
disappeared off Venezuela carrying the CEO of Italy's iconic Missoni fashion
house and five other people.
But...
SC woman, oldest living US citizen, dies at 114
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
New York, Jan 15 : A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who was the oldest living US
citizen has died, two of her daughters said.
Mamie Rearden of Edgefield,
who held the title as the country's...
Cat caught sneaking saw, phone into Brazil prison
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Rio De Janeiro, Jan 15 : A cat carrying a saw and a mobile phone was "detained" as it entered
a prison gate in northeast Brazil, Brazilian media reported.
Prison
guards were surprised when they saw...
Gun owners push back: A former Marine's letter to Dianne Feinstein
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Washington, Jan 15 : Talk of reviving an assault
weapons ban and creating a national gun registry in the wake of the Newtown,
Conn., school massacre is touching a deep nerve in America, epitomized this...
Pace of slide in Toyota China sales slows in December
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Beijing, Jan 15 : Toyota Motor Corp is still dogged by a sales crisis Japanese
carmakers are suffering in China as a result of a territorial row between the
two countries but December sales proved "surprisingly...
BMW to pare back car discounts in Germany: magazine
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Frankfurt, Jan 15 : BMW will cut back on sales discounts in Germany and focus on
maintaining profit margins rather than market share, Chief Executive Norbert
Reithofer told German weekly WirtschaftsWoche.
"We...
December payrolls: A ‘goldilocks’ number for the market says Lutz
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
New
York, Jan 15 : Stocks remain flat after the December jobs report
showed the economy added 155,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate
ticked up to 7.8%.
According to various consensus estimates,...
BASF's Hambrecht to delay comeback until 2014
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Frankfurt, Jan 15 : Juergen Hambrecht, the former chief executive of Germany's BASF, (BAS.DE) will delay an attempted comeback to the world's
largest chemical maker by sales until 2014, he told German...
SAP CEO says China to become as important as US
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Frankfurt, Jan 15 : German business software maker SAP sees potential for one million
new customers in China, five times the number it currently has world-wide,
German weekly paper Frankfurter Allgemeine...
‘Neglected blood' screened
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Srinagar, Jan 15 : A documentary
depicting the struggles and endurance of Hemophilia patients and their families
made its debut here, marking the first time they spoke about the blood disorder...
India shortlists Goldman, five others for NTPC share sale
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Mumbai, Jan 15 : India has shortlisted six banks, including Goldman Sachs (GS),
Citigroup and Morgan Stanley (MS), for a selldown of state shares worth $2.3
billion in power producer NTPC Ltd, three...
Woman ‘thrashed’ by in-laws
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Srinagar, Jan 15 : Police arrested
three persons for allegedly thrashing a woman of Jogi-Lanker area
here.
Police said a 35-year-old woman (name withheld) of Jogi-Lanker
area here was allegedly...
Acid attack victim speaks, rues her silence on stalking
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
New Delhi, Jan 15: Breaking her silence for the first time since the horrific incident,
the Srinagar’s acid attack victim said she “should have lodged complaint against
the stalker earlier.”
“I rue...
New therapies for prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease identified
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Islamabad, Jan 15 : A Blanchette Rockefeller
Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) study published in the Journal of Neuroscience
reveals underlying causes for the degeneration of synapses in Alzheimer's
Disease...
Airborne pathogens can induce mad cow disease
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Islamabad, Jan 15 : Airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease
or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder, new findings suggest.
This is the
surprising conclusion of researchers at the University...
Individuals with partial hearing loss may benefit from hybrid cochlear implant
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Islamabad, Jan 15: Hearing loss can affect anyone at
any time. But it can be especially frightening for someone who suddenly starts
to lose hearing during adulthood. Tom Groves, 77, first noticed his...
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