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Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): For the first time in 11 years, 2009 registered Friday the 13th falling in two consecutive months-February and March.

And what’s more, the double whammy can only occur in certain non-leap years and only in a February-March combination.

In fact, one can look for another of the Friday the 13th combo in [...]

Tokyo, Feb 25 (DPA) Japan logged the largest trade deficit on record in January as the global recession slowed exports, the finance ministry said Wednesday.
The nation’s trade deficit totalled 952.6 billion yen ($9.97 billion) in January.
The trade balance showed a deficit for four months in a row, and the largest since the government began taking [...]

Leipzig (Germany), Feb 25 (DPA) A German court convicted three more men Tuesday of assault in connection with a 2007 attack on a group of Indian migrants.
After a dance-floor brawl, the Indians fled across a street to a pizza parlour, pursued by a crowd of German men. Police were also injured as they drove back [...]

Mudslinging and corruption scandals are drowning out policy debate before South Africa’s parliamentary election, with a new opposition party seemingly out of its depth and little talk of how to keep Africa’s biggest economy attractive to investors in the global financial crisis.
Less than two months before the election, the new Congress of the People is [...]

New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) The CBI today detained a Deputy Inspector General of CRPF for his alleged involvement in irregularities in recruitment of constables in Uttar Pradesh. Vinod Sharma, a CRPF cadre officer, was detained by the agency late last night in Lucknow after conducting searches at his residence, CBI sources said.
The action against [...]

Islamabad  – Pakistani security officials claimed on Monday to have killed 10 militants in the country’s restless tribal district along the Afghan border.
Helicopter gunships and artillery shells targeted a militants’ location in the Khyber area, which serves as a vital route for supplies for NATO troops deployed in landlocked Afghanistan, said an official from Frontier [...]

Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to Britain on Monday and accused the U.S. government of orchestrating his torture.
Mohamed, 30, was due to arrive back in Britain shortly following his release from the U.S. prison camp on Cuba. His statement [...]

Karachi, Feb 22 (IANS) Pakistan took three quick wickets even as Sri Lanka extended their total to 614-6 at tea on the second day of the first cricket Test here at the National Stadium Sunday.
Shoaib Malik removed Mahela Jayawardene for 240 and then scalped Tillekaratne Dilshan for a duck while Danish Kaneria got rid of [...]

Karachi, Feb 22 (IANS) Mahela Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera hit double centuries each en route a record partnership as Sri Lanka consolidated their grip on the first cricket Test against Pakistan at the National Stadium here Sunday.
Jayawardene smashed 240, his fifth double-hundred, while Samaraweera scored a career-best 231 as Sri Lanka declared their first innings [...]

Gaza City, (DPA) The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas denied Friday handing a letter of US senator John Kerry when he went to the Gaza Strip the day before.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum denied the group delivered ‘any letter to US Congress member John Kerry for him to transfer it to any party’.
However, Barhoum said his group [...]

New York, Feb 22 (IANS) Apart from steering the US economy through difficult times, fine-tuning strategy on two wars and resetting geopolitical equations, US President Barack Obama is also helping many Japanese students learn English.
In Japan, students practice reciting Obama’s speeches, noted the Wall Street Journal in a report from Tokyo, with the headline: ‘Learning [...]

Pre-eclampsia cause high blood pressure and can lead to stroke, blood clotting and kidney, liver and lung problems in pregnant mothers. Sophie Ellis Bextor, 29-year-old singer and daughter of former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis once again suffered from this condition in her second pregnancy.
Sophie Ellis Bextor has given birth two months prematurely to her [...]

New York, Feb 15 (IANS) The US Army is wooing skilled immigrants to join it, including those who know Hindi and Tamil, by offering them a chance to become citizens in as little as six months, a media report said.
For foreigners who live in the US on temporary visas, it often takes more than a [...]

Last month federal government announced, in its budget, the formation of the Canadian Secured Credit Facility under which Ottawa will purchase up to $12 billion in securities from financial institutions including banks.
The securities would be supported by loans and leases on vehicles and equipment. This would enable the automakers to offer financing to more consumers [...]

Bangkok – Myanmar will need nearly 700 million dollars in international aid over the next three years for ongoing relief efforts in the Irrawaddy Delta, where Cyclone Nargis left 140,000 people dead or missing last year, the United Nations said Monday.
“This is a small requirement in proportion to the magnitude of the disaster,” said Bishow [...]

Tokyo – Nissan Motor Co revised downward its earnings forecast for the full fiscal year after the yen surged against other major currencies and consumer appetite for cars waned owing to the global recession, the company said Monday.
Japan’s third-largest automaker after Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co estimated it would incur an operating [...]

London – Britain’s Barclays Bank Monday reported pre- tax profits of
6.08 billion pounds (8.9 billion dollars) for 2008, a drop of 14 per
cent compared with the previous year.
The figure exceeds expectations in the City of London, and include an
“accounting profit” of Barclays’ acqisition of assets of collapsed US
investment bank Lehman Brothers of 2.4 billion [...]

Air India has been directed by the State Consumer Commission to pay Rs 1.4 lakh to a passenger for refusing to let her board a flight despite a confirmed ticket. Penalising the airlines for a “deficiency in service”, the Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has asked Air India to not only refund Rs 40,000 [...]

Tokyo – Sanyo Electric Co on Thursday reported a net loss of 14.33 billion yen (160.33 million dollars) during the quarter that ended December 31 amid the global economic downturn and the yen’s surge against the dollar.
The Japanese electronics company logged a net profit of 12.78 billion yen during the same quarter a year earlier.
Sanyo’s [...]