DPA 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 preparations were underway...

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DPA 12:22 am | San Francisco : Three people were killed in a small plane crash Thursday in a lagoon in the US state of California, authorities said. The plane, a twin-engine Beech 65 Queen Air, crashed...

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DPA 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 of Hurricane Earl, which has already left a trail of damage...

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DPA 12:33 am | Washington : US President Barack Obama Tuesday declared an end to the US combat mission in Iraq, more than seven years after the US-led invasion of the Middle Eastern country. In live address...

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IANS 02:39 am | Washington : The US said Monday it has imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities connected to North Korea. The Treasury Department said the four individuals and eight entities being designated will face...

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IANS 02:17 am | Washington : US President Barack Obama was to mark the formal end of the US combat role in Iraq with a visit Tuesday to a Texas military base and a major evening televised...

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Moms who don’t breastfeed at risk of diabetes »

Moms who don’t breastfeed at risk of diabetesIANS 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...

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Cricket scandal could hit flood aid for Pakistan »

IANS 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...

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Cricket scandal could hit flood aid for Pakistan

China bans plastic bags in ecologically fragile Tibet »

IANS 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...

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China bans plastic bags in ecologically fragile Tibet

Over 110,000 firms shut down in Spain »

IANS 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...

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Over 110,000 firms shut down in Spain

Cisco plans to buy Skype »

admin 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...

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Cisco plans to buy Skype

Over 110,000 firms shut down in Spain »

IANS 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...

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Over 110,000 firms shut down in Spain

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US East Coast braces for Hurricane Earl

US East Coast braces for Hurricane Earl »

DPA 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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Three killed in small plane crash in California »

Three killed in small plane crash in California

DPA 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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Hurricane Earl threatens US East Coast »

Hurricane Earl threatens US East Coast

DPA 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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15 killed in bomb blast in Somalia »

15 killed in bomb blast in Somalia

DPA 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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Drilling of rescue shaft begins at Chile mine »

Drilling of rescue shaft begins at Chile mine

DPA 01:49 am | Santiago de Chile : The digging of a rescue shaft to free 33 miners trapped some 700 metres underground in a collapsed...

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25 killed in Mexico clash

25 killed in Mexico clash »

IANS 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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