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Los Angeles, July 10 (DPA) A family split over where to bury Michael Jackson is delaying the funeral of the late King of Pop who died two weeks ago, ABC News reported Thursday.
Mystery has surrounded burial plans since Jackson’s casket was whisked to a secret location following his globally televised memorial service Tuesday.
The ABC report [...]

Kunming (China), July 10 (Xinhua) More than 300 people were injured Thursday when a strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted the Yunnan province in southwest China, officials said.
The injured were rushed to hospitals.
The local authorities said over 10,000 houses collapsed and about 30,000 houses were damaged in the six counties hit by [...]

Michael Jackson’s body has been released to his family amid reports that the singer was regularly taking a cocktail of prescription drugs.
His body was taken to a mortuary late on Friday night at the request of the Jackson family who have yet to confirm their plans for the 50-year-old’s funeral.
Jackson was raised as a Jehovah’s [...]

New York, (Xinhua) Wall Street plunged Monday with the Dow Jones average and the S&P 500 index dropping to a 12 year low on concerns about dim economic outlook.
Big technology companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Apple declined sharply Monday on worries about a drop in business and consumer spending on technology hurt the tech sector.
Bank [...]

Anisur Rahman Dhaka, Feb 24 (PTI) Bangladesh today sought intensified cooperation among the South Asian countries to fight terrorism, saying the Mumbai attacks showed that terrorists were “very good” in forming trans-national linkages. Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said that nothing short of the expected mutual partnership would enable South Asia to effectively face the growing [...]

Damascus – Presidents, important US senators, senior officials from the Arab League – lately it seems everyone is courting Syria.
In recent months Damascus has been the centre of a flurry of international diplomatic activity.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited. So did a delegation of European Union officials and foreign ministers. Arab League chief Amr Mussa, [...]

Berlin – A German union seeking pay rises for Berlin airport staff vowed to disrupt operations at two capital-city airports, with workers to walk off the job for three and a half hours on Tuesday.
Officials said Monday that in the period to be affected, after 6 am Tuesday, 50 takeoffs and 30 landings were timetabled [...]

A train rammed into a crowded jeep returning from a wedding in Orissa on Sunday, killing 15 people including the bride, officials and eyewitnesses said.
An express train hit the car at a level crossing near Bargarh town, 380 km from Bhubaneswar, officials said.
“In total 15 people including some girls died,” a senior regional official, Jamil [...]

Prague – At least 43 passengers were injured Monday, three of them seriously, when two trains had a head-on collision in the north-eastern Czech Republic, the CTK news agency reported, citing medical officials.
The railways said in a statement that one of the drivers was likely at fault as he ran a red light instead of [...]

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 [...]

Moscow/Tbilisi – Georgia’s interior ministry said Tuesday that two European ceasefire monitors had been detained by South Ossetia militia on the border of the separatist region and Georgia.
A spokesman for the ministry, Shota Utiashvili, told news agency Interfax that the two monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were detained near [...]

Lagos – Oil workers in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta went on strike Monday to complain about a lack of protection from militant groups who attack oil facilities and kidnap workers.
Several hundred employees of oil company Total picketed the company’s office in Port Harcourt despite union officials delaying industrial action due to begin Monday, local media [...]

haka – Senior Awami League leader Zillur Rahman is set to be the 19th president of Bangladesh as the election authorities Monday validated his lone nomination for the presidential race, officials said.
“We are awaiting the formal declaration,” Abdul Shahid, the chief whip of Bangladesh parliament, said after a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul [...]

CHENNAI: Chennai is fast emerging as the transit hub for illegal immigrants, especially Sri Lankan Tamils from LTTE dominated areas, going to
Europe, posing a major security concern, a UN report claimed here.
A study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on ‘Smuggling of migrants from Tamil Nadu to Europe and in particular [...]

Dubai, Jan.29 (ANI): The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed that the ongoing trial of the umpire decision review system will afford each side two unsuccessful reviews per innings rather than the three that have been available up to now.
An ICC media release said that the change to the playing conditions of the trial has [...]

Brussels – European Union foreign ministers were Wednesday holding dinner-time talks in Brussels with their Israeli counterpart, Tzipi Livni, in a bid to convince her to re-open the Gaza crossings and revive the stalled Middle East peace process.
“We hope we can find an agreement that will make it possible for supplies to get into [...]

A legal notice has been received by India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki, a subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Corp from Honda Siel Cars, a subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, since the former claimed in advertisement that its SX4 sedan is bigger than the Honda’s segment Leader City and is loaded with more features. The company received [...]

Sana’a, Yemen  – Somalia’s former Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who resigned last month amid an internal power struggle, arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana’a Tuesday seeking political asylum, Yemeni officials and a Somali diplomat said.
Yemeni officials said Yusuf had expressed his wish to receive political asylum in Yemen until he decides a permanent residence.
A [...]

Paris – The global economic crisis could lead to the failure of one out of every five small and mid-sized companies in the European automobile industry, European Commission Vice-President Guenther Verheugen said Tuesday in Paris.
Therefore, Brussels must do everything in its power to protect the sector, Verheugen said at a crisis meeting of individuals from [...]

Colombo – Navy and ground troops battled Tamil rebels in separate confrontations Tuesday as security forces were closing upon the main rebel stronghold in northern Sri Lanka, military officials said.
New clashes between advancing security forces and rebels were reported in three locations in Mullaitivu district, 375 kilometres north-east of the capital Colombo.
The military said “fierce [...]