India's stiff telecom rules rile US, Europe & Japan vendors
KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: India’s latest telecom regulations to secure the country’s mobile networks have stirred a hornet’s nest in the US, Europe and Japan. | Over 10 leading trade bodies in the US h...
China overtakes Japan as No.2 economy: FX chief
| BEIJING – China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. | Migran...
US-Jakarta ties 'threat to Papua'
| Around 200 people raised the Morning Star flag in Indonesia's Papua province in December 2001, in a symbolic move to mark the Papuan independence campaign that has been pursued since 1962. | Filep K...
Many dead in China coal mine blast
| At least 15 people have been killed in an explosion at a coal mine in northern China. | Another 20 people were injured in the explosion early on Saturday morning in the dormitory area of the Liugou ...
Black Saturday Royal Commision verdict released
| REPORT into 2009 Victorian bushfires finds controversial stay and go policy is 'sound'. | "As a result of its enquiries the commission concludes that the central tenets of the stay an...
Letter: State Funding For Railyards Work Suspended
| SACRAMENTO, Calif. — KCRA.com | Thomas Enterprises is facing foreclosure on the downtown railyards project, and now a letter from the state says funding for work at the site has been halted. |...
Israel Launches Airstrikes On Gaza
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 2:02 pm | Press Release: UN Alliance of Civilisations | Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza | GAZA: Israel is carrying out airstrikes on Gaza, apparently in retaliation for a ro...
School hit hard by swine flu
1:58 PM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | An outbreak of swine flu at Seddon School in Marlborough has affected nearly half the school roll. | At its peak 46 children out of a roll of 107 were ill p...
Kiwi drug victim sought for $1m payout
1:14 PM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print | A Melbourne lawyer is looking for New Zealander Craig Phillips to tell him he is in line for a million-dollar windfall. | Lawyer Peter Gordon has so far fou...
Expect a wet weekend--Pagasa
| MANILA, Philippines -- It will be a wet weekend for the country as a low-pressure area was spotted near Catanduanes, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration ...
Mexican Army kills drug lord
Mexico City, July 31 (IANS/EFE) | One of the top leaders of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel was killed in a gunfight with soldiers, an official said. | Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, who ran the cocaine-...
S.Korea sees $30 bln trade surplus in 2010, above fcast
JEJU, South Korea, July 31 (Reuters) - South Korea is on course to achieve a $30 billion trade surplus by year's end as it is expected to have already reached its earlier forecast of $23 billion by th...
Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission's Black Saturday report released
| THE Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission has released its final report. | Premier John Brumby said the government would consider the recommendations and would release an interim response next week. ...
Black Saturday Royal Commision verdict
| ROYAL commission's final report in to the Black Saturday bushfires handed to Victorian premier John Brumby. | Speaking to reporters outside Parliament House in Melbourne on Saturday, Mr Brumby ...
Julia Gillard mulls over poor polls and Dockers form in Perth
| JULIA Gillard arrived for coffee at a cafe in the marginal Perth seat of Swan this morning, musing over Labor's poor showing in the polls. | Surrounded by wellwishers and travelling media pack,...
Gracious journalist mentored many
Bruce Jones was an exemplary journalist and gentleman in a myriad of ways, but perhaps one of the most unusual for a journalist was a capacity for unobtrusive witness which told the story without maki...
North Korean officials seize Kim Jong Il biographies in Myanmar
| Yangon - North Korean diplomats seized translations of a biography on regime leader Kim Jong Il by a local writer prior to a visit of the country's foreign minister, sources said Saturday. | 'They c...
Relatives protest arrest of 62 Mexican police
| TIJUANA, Mexico — Relatives of 62 current and former police officers arrested in Tijuana for allegedly aiding drug traffickers protested outside the state attorney general's office on Friday t...
Jury weighs B-2 engineer's alleged secret-selling
| HONOLULU — A federal jury in Hawaii has started deliberating in the trial of a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of selling military secrets to China. | The jury is meeting Friday in ...
Japan to test out new rescue robot
| TOKYO - Japanese emergency services are to trial a small tank-like rescue robot that can search rubble for survivors and deliver water, food or cell phones in disaster zones. | The fire department o...
Fugitive Accused Of Driving At Deputies Caught
| HONOLULU — KITV.com | Hawaii sheriff deputies arrested a man on Friday that is accused of trying to run over deputies trying to serve him a warrant. | Deputies found Kevin N. Pacheco at the Oc...
Fashion leader turned hand to philanthropy
By 1:07 PM Saturday Jul 31, 2010 Email Print Gurshon (Gus) Fisher, philanthropist, fashion leader. Died aged 89. | Gus Fisher headed the fashion house El Jay for some 50 years, introducing Parisian st...
Saudi Arabia Must Stop Deporting Somalis
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 1:10 pm | Press Release: United Nations | UN Refugee Agency Calls on Saudi Arabia to Stop Deporting Somalis | New York, Jul 30 2010 1:10PM The United Nations refugee agency tod...
