Tweet Mexico City: Five of the world's 10 deadliest cities in 2011 are in Mexico, a report has said. A Honduras metropolis, San Pedro Sula, topped the list with 159 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, Mexico's Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice said. The council — an NGO founded in 2002 — compiled the [...]
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Tweet London: In a major cash-for-access scandal, a 50-year-old Indian-origin Conservative Party activist and fund-raiser was thrown out of the party after he was caught boasting in a video that he could provide Prime Minister David Cameron's personal mobile phone number or a dinner with him for 10,000 pounds. Rickie Sehgal — chairman of the [...]
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Tweet Jerusalem: Israel and US have dropped plans for a large-scale joint exercise initially scheduled in May, Xinhua reported Sunday citing Israel's Army Radio. Thousands of US troops were due to be deployed in Israel for the largest joint manoeuvres in the allies' history, dubbed "Austere Challenge 12," during which they were to test their [...]
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Tweet Moscow/Washington: Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars probe spacecraft will likely plunge back to Earth between Jan 15 and Jan 16, reports Xinhua. The 14-tonne spacecraft that carries 11 tonnes of toxic rocket fuel, would fall into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of it will burn up in the atmosphere, but 20 to 30 chunks of charred [...]
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Tweet New York: US stocks closed lower Friday as JP Morgan Chase reported worse-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings, while downgrades of several European countries spurred new concerns over the region's debt crisis. Investors had expected rating agency Standard & Poor's to downgrade some European countries' credit ratings Friday as it had put 15 countries on Creditwatch Negative [...]
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Tweet London: Singer Beyonce Knowles has designed a T-shirt to raise money for US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. The 30-year-old, who gave birth to daughter Blue Ivy Jan 7, is one of 22 people to get involved in the Runway to Win campaign by creating a garment, reports contactmusic.com. Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles, who [...]
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Tweet The Hague: Women in the Netherlands have been advised to remove their breast implants as a precaution because they raise the risk of ruptures and other complications. Women who had received the faulty PIP or M-implant brand of breast implants, as well as those whose implants have no problems so far were advised to [...]
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Tweet Washington: US President Barack Obama Wednesday urged US companies to invest in America and bring jobs home, calling insourcing jobs a smart strategy. "We have heard from several experts and business leaders today, we are at a unique moment in our recent history where factors like rising American productivity and increasing competitive costs at [...]
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Tweet Caracas: At least six people were killed and four injured in fighting between gangs for control of a gold mine in southeastern Venezuela that has since been placed under military control, authorities said. The clash occurred Monday at an illegal mine in the Manaima sector on the Paragua river, according to the Bolivar state [...]
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Tweet Kampala (Uganda): A mystery disease has killed over 100 people and infected more than 2,000 in northern Uganda. The disease, first reported in September 2009, has since been dubbed "nodding disease" as it leaves its victims nodding, Xinhua reported. Spread over the region's five districts, the disease is characterised by head nodding, mental retardation [...]
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