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One of two men charged over a weekend assault and robbery in Surfers Paradise is due to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court this morning.
Police say they received reports an 18-year-old man was pushed over a railing on Remembrance Drive on Friday night.
He fell onto rocks and was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
A [...]

Washington  – President Barack Obama on Monday honoured the sacrifice of the US war dead, lauding them for their sense of duty and vowing to use restraint when deciding whether to send Americans into battle.
The remarks came as part of a solemn Memorial Day service at Arlington National Cemetery, where thousands of veterans are buried [...]

Amritsar, May 24 (ANI): Various Sikh organisations have decided to observe the 25 years of Operation Blue Star as the Martyrs’ Day in the first week of June in remembrance of Indian Army’s action at the Golden temple to evict extremists hidden inside.

President of [...]

Wellington – Thousands of New Zealanders turned out to honour the country’s war dead at dawn services throughout the country on Saturday, the 94th anniversary of a disastrous First World War landing by troops at Gallipoli in Turkey.
The troops were part of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and April 25 is [...]

Ankara – Turkey has reacted with unease to a statement released Friday night by US President Barack Obama where he described as a “great catastrophe” the deaths of up to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, CNN-Turk reported on Saturday. “There are parts of the statement that I don’t [...]

Wellington – Thieves robbed a group of New Zealand war veterans Saturday as they marched in honour of their dead comrades on the country’s most sacred day of remembrance, known as Anzac Day. When the vets got back to their Returned and Services’ Associations’ (RSA) club rooms at Waitakere, near Auckland, after the annual dawn [...]

Jerusalem – Sixty four years after the defeat of the Nazi regime and the end of World War II, anti-Semitism is still flourishing, Israeli President Shimon Peres warned Monday as he opened the country’s annual commemoration of the Nazi’s attempted genocide of the Jews of Europe.
“The gas has dissipated, but the poison remains. There [...]

Warsaw – Seventy years after the outbreak of World War II, Poland will launch a database of some 2 million victims of the fighting, the daily Polska reported on Thursday.
The database will be available in the next several days on straty. pl, and will include the location and circumstances of the victims’ death. Families or [...]

London, Apr 8 (ANI): Jack Tweed, the widower of late Brit TV celebrity Jade Goody, wants to take memory box consisting Jade’s belongings to jail in her remembrance.

Jack, who is has been convicted for attacking a cab driver, is busy picking his favorite wedding pictures, letters and [...]

London, Mar 26 (ANI): ‘Big Brother’ bosses might just give cold-shoulder to tragic Jade Goody by not giving any special mention to her death in the launch of the 10th series.

The reality show’s chiefs have confirmed that they are not planning any tribute for the show’s [...]

London, Mar 24 (ANI): Brit MP Nigel Griffiths, who had cheated on his wife by romping in the Commons on Remembrance Day, will be facing a probe by Westminster’s watchdog.

Emails complaining about the Edinburgh South MP’s conduct have been received by Standards Commissioner John [...]

London, March 22 (ANI): A British newspaper alleges it has evidence that Senior Labour MP Nigel Griffiths cheated on his wife by having sex with a brunette inside House of Commons.

According to News of the World, the 53-year-old disgraced his marriage [...]

Kutch, Jan 26 (ANI): Kutch, which lies in the bordering area of Gujarat observed the eighth anniversary of 2001 earthquake, which coincides with the Republic Day.

Blood donation camps were organised and special prayers and yagya were performed in remembrance of the 20,000 people who lost their lives in high magnitude earthquake.

A special tribute was paid [...]

Washington  – US President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech, final part:
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through [...]

Washington, January 8 (ANI): Batman blockbuster ‘The Dark Knight’ grabbed a handful of trophies at the People’’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles on January 7.
The 2008 superhero film, which grossed more than 500 million dollars, topped the claimed Favorite Superhero, Favorite Movie, Favorite Onscreen Match-Up, Favorite Action Movie and Favorite Cast categories.
Batman Christian Bale, co-star [...]

Wellington, A halloween pizza ad depicting Sir Edmund Hillary dancing in a graveyard has been criticized by his family and friends, who claim it to be in ‘bad taste’.
The animated Hell Pizza ad shows a mostly skeletal Sir Ed, along with actor Heath Ledger and the Queen Mother, emerging from graves to dance to Michael [...]

Wellington – New Zealand veterans of the 1944 Normandy landings, which were a turning point in World War II, vowed Sunday to keep going despite their international organization closing down because too many members have died.
Thirty representatives of veterans from Britain, France, Canada, the United States and New Zealand who took part in the [...]