Saturday, 9 February 2013
Kabul, Feb 9: "HONEY,
don't come home now, we've got warlords in the living room," is hardly your
typical excuse for a husband who fears his wife interrupting a night in with the
lads.
But for Debbie...
Afghan women inch ahead
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Kabul, Feb 9 (Newswire): Each morning, the
policewoman puts on her uniform, goes to her precinct office, sits behind a bare
desk. And waits.
She is one of several officers appointed to make it
easier...
Softly, softly in the Taliban's den
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Kabul, Feb 9 : In five
years, US military might, from daisy-cutter bombs to high-tech weaponry, could
not smoke out the Taliban, who retreated to the mountains of Afghanistan after
being forced from...
Japan airlines replaced 787 batteries many times
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Tokyo, Feb 9 :
All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines said they replaced lithium-ion batteries
in their Boeing 787 Dreamliners on multiple occasions before a battery
overheating incident led to the...
Belafonte: Blacks should participate in gun debate
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Providence, Feb 9: Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte urged
leaders in the black community to get more involved in the national debate on
guns.
Belafonte said that the current...
Virginia considers dropping ban on unmarried couples cohabitating
Saturday, 9 February 2013
New
York, Feb 9 : Like its travel slogan says, Virginia is for lovers. But
if said lovers are cohabitating outside marriage, they are currently breaking
the law.
But there’s good news for those lawless...
Brazil police: Outdoor flare started club fire
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Santa Maria, Feb 9 : Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays
may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern
Brazil, according to a police inspector...
Britain Blanketed by snow in new satellite image
Saturday, 9 February 2013
London, Feb 9 : Unusually frigid and snowy conditions blanketed much of the island
of Great Britain in snow earlier this month. The winter wonderland was spotted
from above by NASA's Terra satellite.
The...
Mexico breaks up alleged border sex-slavery cult
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Mexico City, Feb 9 : Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a
sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border, Mexican immigration
authorities said.
The "Defensores de...
NTSB takes microscopes to damaged Boeing 787 battery
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Washington, Feb 9: The National Transportation Safety Board said it was carrying out a
detailed, microscopic investigation of a battery that caught fire on a Boeing Co
(BA) 787 Dreamliner in Boston...
JPMorgan bet against itself in "Whale" trade
Saturday, 9 February 2013
New York, Feb 9 :
There is a new twist in the London Whale trading scandal that cost JPMorgan
Chase $6.2 billion in trading losses last year. Some of the firm's own traders
bet against the very derivatives...
Treasury needs exit plan for Ally Financial: Watchdog
Saturday, 9 February 2013
New York, Feb 9 : The U.S. Treasury needs to develop a concrete plan for exiting its
74 percent stake in auto lender Ally Financial Inc, the second-largest remaining
recipient of federal bailout dollars,...
Chesapeake CEO McClendon steps down after year of tumult
Saturday, 9 February 2013
New York, Feb 9 : Chesapeake Energy Corp said that Aubrey McClendon will step down as
chief executive after a tumultuous year in which a series of investigations
triggered civil and criminal probes...
Fed seen maintaining bond-buying, but divisions remain
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Washington, Feb 9 : The Federal Reserve is expected to keep monetary policy on a steady
path when it concludes a two-day meeting, though behind the scenes intensive
debate continues over when the controversial...
U.S. growth seen braking as inventories, government weigh
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Washington, Feb
9: The U.S. economy likely grew at its slowest pace in nearly two
years in the fourth quarter as businesses added less stock to their warehouses
and government spending fizzled, setting...
NRHM employees without salary for five months
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Srinagar, Feb 9 :
Hundreds of workers including doctors and paramedics working under the National
Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in held Kashmir’s health institutions are without
salary for the past five...
Villagers clash with police over train's halting point
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Srinagar, Feb 9 : Scores of villagers in occupied Kashmir's Budgam district attempted
to block the railway track in support of their demand for a halting point for
the train running between north and...
‘Only 29 percent households in JK have access to toilet facility’
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Srinagar, Feb 9 : Painting a grip picture of
sanitation in J&K, a national monitoring agency has revealed that only 29
percent households in the State have access to toilet facility.
In 35...
Warfarin and aspirin are similar in heart failure treatment
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Islamabad,
Feb 9 : In the largest and longest head-to-head comparison of two
anti-clotting medications, warfarin and aspirin were similar in preventing
deaths and strokes in heart failure patients...
The complex relationship between memory and silence
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Islamabad, Feb 9: People who suffer a traumatic experience often don't talk about it,
and many forget it over time. But not talking about something doesn't always
mean you'll forget it; if you try to...
Whole exome sequencing identifies cause of metabolic disease
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Islamabad,
Feb 9 : Sequencing a patient's entire genome to discover the source of
his or her disease is not routine -- yet. But geneticists are getting
close.
A case report, published in the American...
In Afghanistan, teaching music to overcome war's percussion
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Kabul, Feb 8 : When insurgents launched a brazen attack that turned into a
nine-hour siege in the heart of the capital, many government and Western offices
shut down for the day. Down the road from...
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