Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Kabul, July 10 (Newswire): In a major breakthrough, security officials of Northern Afghanistan said that more than 200 insurgents were killed and 120 injured during the first three months of the current...
Beginnings of local community police forces in Afghanistan
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Kabul, July 10 (Newswire): The Ministry of the Interior said that in order to build trust and rule of law in communities across the country, a program for public community police forces under the name...
In Kandahar, preparing Afghanistan’s war dead for burial
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Kandahar, July 10 (Newswire): The man who spends his days surrounded by dead Afghan soldiers waits in a faded shipping container across from the morgue. But Noorulah Noori rarely waits long before he...
In a first, artificial windpipe is successfully transplanted
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Stockholm, July 10 (Newswire): An international team of surgeons have successfully carried out the world's first transplant of a synthetic windpipe, the Swedish hospital where the groundbreaking...
Night raids curbing Taliban, but Afghans cite civilian toll
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Kabul, July 10 (Newswire): United States Special Operations forces have carried out an extraordinary number of night raids over the past year, turning them into one of their most effective tools against...
UK lottery offers IVF treatment as top prize
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
London, July 10 (Newswire): Britain will this month get a unique monthly lottery, which will offer fertility treatment worth £25,000 as the top prize.The charity called To Hatch will launch the lottery...
Trayvon Martin's friend describes final phone call
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Sanford, July 10 (Newswire): A friend who was on the phone with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin moments before he was fatally shot by George Zimmerman testified that she heard the Miami teen shout, "Get off!...
After abortion setback, Texas GOP set to try again
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Austin, July 10 (Newswire): After a one-woman filibuster and a raucous crowd helped derail a GOP-led effort to restrict Texas abortions, Gov. Rick Perry announced that he's calling lawmakers back next...
Texas carries out its 500th execution since 1982
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Huntsville, July 10 (Newswire): Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982.Kimberly McCarthy, who was put to...
Dish bows out of battle with Sprint over Clearwire
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
New York, July 10 (Newswire): Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) has bowed out of the battle for mobile service provider Clearwire Corp (CLWR.O), marking the second major blow in less than a week against Dish...
ICAP executive seen linked to LIBOR scandal: Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
New York, July 10 (Newswire): A senior executive at British brokerage firm ICAP PLC (IAP.L) knew that some of the firm's brokers worked with traders at UBS AG (UBSN.VX) to manipulate benchmark interest...
Scandal will cost Paula Deen over $10 million, says crisis manager
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Washington, July 10 (Newswire): Paula Deen's teary-eyed defense on this morning's Today Show wraps up a week of controversy that will cost the former Food Network star an estimated $4.5 million, according...
Samsung rolls out OLED TV with same hefty price tag as LG
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Seoul, July 10 (Newswire): Samsung Electronics Co Ltd slapped a $13,000 price tag on its first curved, super-thin OLED television to go on sale, the same price as rival LG Electronics Inc and one that...
Fed communication went through 'rocky' patch
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Washington, July 10 (Newswire): Federal Reserve communications have been through a "rocky" patch but financial markets are now more in sync with the central bank's message, a senior Fed official said,...
Australian body faults Rolls-Royce over Qantas engine explosion
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Singapore, July 10 (Newswire): Rolls-Royce Plc (RROYC.UL) repeatedly failed to identify a defect that caused one of its engines to explode on a Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN.AX) aircraft carrying more than...
3-month-old baby dies, family alleges ‘adverse reaction due to LPV’
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Srinagar, July 10 (Newswire): A three-month-old girl died, an hour after she was given a newly launched Liquid Pentavalent Vaccine at the Community Health Center (CHC) Char-e-Sharief in Central district...
‘Handover mortal remains of my father’
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Srinagar, July 10 (Newswire): The family of Ali Muhammad Mir of Nishat area here who was abducted and killed allegedly by government gunmen in 1996 staged a novel protest to demand location of his grave.On...
Study suggests link between scleroderma, cancer in certain patients
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Islamabad, July 10 (Newswire): Patients with a certain type of scleroderma may get cancer and scleroderma simultaneously, Johns Hopkins researchers have found, suggesting that in some diseases, autoimmunity...
Healthy body leads to healthy brain
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Islamabad, July 10 (Newswire): Exercise is good for your health, say physicians all around the world. It has been proven that active people live longer and stay healthier. Women who have been active during...
Womb environment may affect timing of menopause
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Islamabad, July 10 (Newswire) : Events surrounding a baby girl's birth may affect the age at which she later goes through menopause.In a study of more than 20,000 middle-aged Puerto Rican and American...
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