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Jerusalem, Jan 9 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Friday that the IDF operation in Gaza would continue despite the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
“Israel has never agreed to an outside actor determining its right to defend its citizens,” Olmert said in a statement issued following the Security Cabinet [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has come out in support of US President George Bush, insisting he doesn”t understand why so many people blame Bush for a string of world issues.
In an interview to GQ magazine, the 56-year-old star urges the public to consider the tremendous pressure Bush was under following the [...]

Sydney, Jan 9 (ANI): Western Australia’s coach Tom Moody has said that he has no contact yet with English cricket authorities about the vacant national coaching position, but admitted if a call did come, he would have to listen.
Moody’s name has risen to the top of the list of candidates to replace Peter Moores, who [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): The atheist adverts on 800 Brit buses, declaring the probability of the none-existence of God, have received 48 complaints, and the advertising watchdog has been called in to decide on the matter.
The Advertising Standards Authority was brought in after the complaints started coming in on January 6 regarding the message, “There’’s [...]

United Nations, Jan 89 (ANI): The UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza and durable truce between Israel and Hamas after three days of intense negotiations.
The resolution passed on Thursday night by a 14-0 vote, with the United States abstaining, FOX News reported.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the US [...]

Mumbai, Jan.8 (ANI): The strike called by officials of state-run oil firms in the country is affecting the aviation industry badly.
On Thursday,around a dozen flights were delayed for between 45 minutes to an hour, leaving several passengers stranded at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
Passengers were harried and troubled as they waited for their flights.
Expressing [...]

Wellington, Jan 8 (ANI): Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill were not dyslexic, according to Massey University College of Education pro-vice chancellor James Chapman.
Professor Chapman, who is also the president of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities insists that if Einstein and Churchill were dyslexic they wouldn’t have produced the scientific, historical or literary [...]

London, January 8 (ANI): An oil painting of Colin Firth, posing as character Darcy from the BBC period adaptation of the novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’, is expected to fetch 7,000 pounds at an auction.
The oil painting, which appears in the fourth episode of the series, is set to be auctioned on January 21 in Bonhams [...]

MUMBAI: Public-sector insurer Life Insurance Corp (LIC), which holds 4.34 per cent in the troubled IT firm, Satyam Computer Services, today said
it is assessing the situation and will take a decision on its holding accordingly.
“We have 4.34% stake in Satyam Computer Services. We are concerned and will consider a decision according to how the [...]

Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): People born in the months of December, January and February are, on average, less educated, less intelligent, less healthy and lower paid than people born in other seasons, according to a new study by researchers the University of Notre Dame.
Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman said that individuals born in these months [...]

Tel Aviv, Jan.7 (ANI): Israel has temporarily stopped attacking Gaza to allow aid supplies and fuel to reach the 1.4 million residents of the territory.
Sky News quoted the Israeli military as saying that firing would be stopped for three hours every day to allow the movement of essential aid.
The deputy leader of the Hamas also [...]

New York, Jan.7 (ANI): A newly-released poll has warned that New York Governor David Paterson would be wise not to consider appointing Caroline Kennedy to Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat.
The poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling, suggests that Republicans would have a credible chance to win the New York Senate seat if Kennedy is appointed.
Kennedy leads [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Jan.7 (ANI): A Tamil Nesan report has said that Maly Tamils will receive land for the Sri Sakthi Nageswari Amman Temple, which is currently located in Kampung Haji Abdullah Hukum in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur.
According to The Star, Deputy Federal Territories Minister M. Saravanan was quoted as saying that City Hall and developer S.P. [...]

London, Jan 7 (ANI): Atheist buses have taken to the streets of London with adverts questioning the existence of God, in answer to posters put up by religious groups.
Campaign organisers had at first decided to put the adverts on just a few buses to counteract the posters the religious groups had put up, in which [...]

London, Jan.6 (ANI): Argentine footballer Carlos Tevez is on a collision course with Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson after saying last night that he would love to play for the Spanish football club Real Madrid.
Tevez admitted in a Spanish magazine: “Who wouldn’t want to play for Real Madrid?
“Like Manchester, they are one of the best [...]

Copenhagen – A founder of the New Alliance party, which was formed in 2007, said Monday he was to leave the party and become an independent in parliament.
Syrian-born Naser Khader said he had used the holiday break to consider his political future and decided he would leave the centrist party that, last August, was renamed [...]

Sydney, Jan.5 (ANI): Injured Australian pacer Stuart Clark remains convinced that the Australians will recover rapidly from their home series loss to the South Africans, comparing the current Tests against the Proteas to the 2005 Ashes defeat.
“I see things turning around very quickly. It hasn”t been the most ideal series, but at the same time, [...]

London, Jan 5 (ANI): Ecologists have suggested that as a result of global warming, species will shrink in size, as bigger creatures will have more problems losing heat.
Though the effects of the climate change are likely not to be seen for many more years, it is important to consider how to preserve larger species right [...]

London, January 5 (ANI): Experiments conducted by Australian researchers have shown that brain activity in deaf cats develops normally if they are fitted with a cochlear implant shortly after birth.
Rob Shephard, of the Bionic Ear Institute in Melbourne, says that this finding may explain how deaf children given implants as babies can learn to [...]

London, Jan 3 (ANI): The head teacher of a new school in Sheffield, South Yorks, has banned the usage of the word “school”, as it could have a negative impact on the pupils’ parents.
Watercliffe Meadow, known as a “Place for Learning”, has 481 pupils and the kids from nursery to Year 6, are allowed to [...]