Last survivor of 1930 FIFA World Cup dies
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Buenos Aires :Iconic Argentine football player Francisco Varallo,
02:49 am | Washington : Women who don’t breastfeed their babies are more at risk of developing type-2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, later in life than mothers...
02:44 am | San Francisco: Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around $5 billion, before the privately-held...
August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »01:47 am | London : The match fixing scandal could hit aid for victims of floods that have ravaged Pakistan, feared a British MP who added that it was “absolutely the worst thing that could have happened now”. Khalid Mahmood, a Labour MP from Perry Barr in Birmingham, said: “It’s very damaging to Pakistan, especially to the...
August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »01:31 pm | Lhasa : China has banned ultra-thin plastic bags in ecologically fragile southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region. In a circular Friday, the government ordered all prefectures and counties to replace these bags with the cloth ones. The move is mainly aimed at tackling pollution at tourist sites, Xinhua reported. The government has banned the manufacture, sale and...
July 16 2010 / No comment / Read More »12:11 am | Madrid : The economic recession forced a total of 110,058 Spanish companies to go out of business, the ministry of labour and immigration has said. Businesses which employed between six to 50 people have been hit hardest by the slump, with 47,835 such firms shutting down. Another 39,708 enterprises having between two and five workers...
September 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »02:44 am | San Francisco: Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around $5 billion, before the privately-held internet phone company goes public, the influential Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch reported Monday. Skype allows users to make free internet telephone and video calls to other Skype users and charges relatively low rates for calls from computers to...
August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »12:11 am | Madrid : The economic recession forced a total of 110,058 Spanish companies to go out of business, the ministry of labour and immigration has said. Businesses which employed between six to 50 people have been hit hardest by the slump, with 47,835 such firms shutting down. Another 39,708 enterprises having between two and five workers...
September 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »12:33 am | Washington : Hurricane Earl threatened to bring a violent end to the summer high season on the US Atlantic coast as tourists evacuated beach resorts in North Carolina and storm...
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12:22 am | San Francisco : Three people were killed in a small plane crash Thursday in a lagoon in the US state of California,...
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12:38 am | Washington: US officials Tuesday warned residents across much of the US East Coast to prepare for strong surf and potential evacuations ahead...
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12:36 am | Mogadishu : At least fifteen people were killed and more than 30 injured Tuesday after a roadside bomb explosion hit two passenger...
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01:49 am | Santiago de Chile : The digging of a rescue shaft to free 33 miners trapped some 700 metres underground in a collapsed...
August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »12:15 am | Monterrey (Mexico) : At least 25 people died Thursday in a clash between Mexican soldiers and gunmen in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, a military spokesman said. It appears...
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