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27.09.2013 21:08
MUMBAI -- A five-story apartment
block collapsed on Friday in the Indian
financial center of Mumbai, killing at
least four people and trapping scores
in the latest accident to underscore
shoddy building standards in Asia's
third-largest economy.
The building collapsed at about 5:45
a.m. local time...
27.09.2013 21:06
The death toll from an earthquake that
devastated an impoverished region of
Pakistan has climbed past 500, a
provincial official said Friday.
Babar Yaqoob, chief secretary of
Balochistan, told Reuters 515 people
have now been confirmed dead
following the 7.7-magnitude temblor
which struck the...
27.09.2013 20:58
STOCKHOLM — The world’s top climate
scientists on Friday formally embraced
an upper limit on greenhouse gases for
the first time, establishing a target level
at which humanity must stop spewing
them into the atmosphere or face
irreversible and potentially
catastrophic climatic changes. They
warned...
20.09.2013 16:25
The police were in Wardooj district and
on their way back to the provincial
capital after an anti-insurgent operation
when they came under attack.
Although the mountainous north-east is
relatively peaceful, Wardooj district has
become increasingly volatile.
The Taliban said that they had...
20.09.2013 16:20
The clash occurred at about 03:00 local
time after a tip off about the location of
a suspected Boko Haram weapons cache,
Nigeria's spy agency said.
The State Security Service did not give
any details about casualties. A witness
told the BBC he saw nine bodies.
Boko Haram is most active in...
20.09.2013 16:19
Afzal Usmani is
accused of
involvement in bomb attacks in
Ahmedabad and Surat.
Police said he disappeared after being
taken to the court for a hearing with
other suspects in the case.
Nearly 50 people died in 17 blasts in
Ahmedabad on 26 July 2008. The next
day 22 bombs were found in Surat,...
20.09.2013 16:18
Syria has begun sending details of its
chemical weapons as part of a US-
Russia brokered deal to make them
safe, the chemical arms watchdog
has said.
The Hague-based OPCW added that it
expected more details from Syria in the
coming days and had postponed a
meeting planned for Sunday.
Syria was...
20.09.2013 16:15
Hundreds of spies betrayed their
countries during the Cold War, often
motivated by ideology, or financial
reward. Jeff Carney was different - he
was a lonely, gay US airman who
dreamed of a new life in East
Germany. Years later, he sees
parallels between his story and that
of Chelsea, formerly...
20.09.2013 16:13
It seems a South Korea trend, known as
aegyo sal or "cute skin", has caught on
in the wealthy city state. And while, in
the West, eye bags are usually associated
with tiredness and ageing, the Straits
Times reports how the procedure of
adding small bulges to the lower eyelid
makes its Singaporean...
20.09.2013 15:57
COLOGNE, Germany – Germany is
mourning the death of its most famous
literary critic, Marcel Reich-Ranicki , who
died this week, aged 93.
A Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust
and settled in Germany after the war,
Reich-Ranicki became one of the
country's most outspoken and
influential critics....