Tweet Rio de Janeiro : At least two million people, including 600,000 tourists, are expected to gather late Thursday on Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Copacabana Beach to welcome 2010. As in recent years, a fireworks display is to be the main attraction of the beach party, designed to make the most of the southern hemisphere’s [...]
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Tweet Washington: Two former detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility are believed to have plotted the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a US airliner over Detroit, television network ABC reported Tuesday, citing US officials and documents from the defence department. Muhamad Attik al-Harbi and Said Ali Shari were sent to Saudi Arabia in [...]
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Tweet Fort Lee :The National Inflation Association has discussed the biggest threat to the U.S. economy in 2010. In 2009, we saw the monetary inflation created by the Federal Reserve’s zero percent interest rates drive up the prices of U.S. stocks, without dramatically increasing the prices of U.S. consumer goods. We consider 2009 to have [...]
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Tweet Perth: Lleyton Hewitt is due to put five weeks of training in Sydney to the test Saturday when the two-time Grand Slam champion begins Australia’s campaign at the Hopman Cup mixed team event. The former number one is to team up with French Open semi-finalist Samantha Stosur as the host nation bids for only [...]
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Tweet Washington: Like a spotlight that illuminates an otherwise dark scene, attention highlights specific details of our surroundings while shutting others out. A new study by Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers shows that the superior colliculus, a brain structure known for its role in the control of eye and head movements, is crucial for [...]
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Tweet Beijing: A gas explosion Tuesday left at least four people injured and 1,000 homeless in Hohhot, capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, an official said. Xinhua news agency reported that the injured included two children. A 47-year-old man was seriously injured and still in danger, said doctors of the 253 Hospital of [...]
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Tweet Belgrade: Bosnia’s 1992-95 war could have been avoided, says wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. He Monday blamed Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and foreign powers for triggering the conflict that killed at least 100,000 people. In an interview with Belgrade daily Vecernje novosti, the first given to Serbian media in 13 years, Karadzic said [...]
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Tweet Caracas: The US is preparing to attack Venezuela using Colombian soldiers under the pretext of attacking guerrilla camps supposedly located on Venezuelan soil, President Hugo Chavez has said. Chavez Monday said during a military ceremony that “the verbal war” began several days ago when spokespersons of the Colombian government again accused Venezuela of having [...]
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Tweet Washington : President Barack Obama vowed to respond aggressively to terrorism as an Al Qaeda faction claimed responsibility for last week’s foiled attempt by a Nigerian to blow up a US airliner. Taking a break from his Christmas holiday in Hawaii, Obama in his first public comment since the Christmas Day incident on the [...]
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Tweet Toronto: Carry-on bags were also banned on the US-bound flights from Canada Monday even as tighter security measures threw departures into chaos. The new security measures came into force at the weekend following Friday’s failed attempt by an al-Qaeda-linked Nigerian man to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight at Detroit. Initially, the authorities banned [...]
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