WW II-era bomb detonated in S’pore
Singapore: A World War II-era explosive found at a construction site in Singapore was detonated on Thursday by authorities here, media reports said. The explosive was found on Wednesday night along Telok Blangah St 31, where a housing project is underway.
Tamil party to support Rajapaksa
Colombo: A political party representing Indian-origin Tamils in Sri lanka has pledged its support to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the forthcoming Presidential poll, a presidential spokesman said on Thursday.
Myanmar jails three scribes for report
Yangon: A Myanmar court has sentenced a media owner, publisher and three journalists to two years in prison in the latest ruling to raise concerns about press freedoms in the country emerging from military rule.
21 militants killed in Pak air strikes
Islamabad: At least 21 militants were killed on Thursday when Pakistani military choppers pounded their hideouts in troubled Khyber tribal district near Afghan border, a day after suicide bomber blew himself up in a peace committee meeting killing five tribesmen.
‘Qaeda’ militants seize Yemen town’
Sanaa: Suspected Al-Qaeda militants have seized control of a town in southwest Yemen, hours after Shia rebels overran a nearby provincial capital, a security official said on Thursday.
Nepal snowstorm: 3 Indians die; toll 30
Kathmandu: At least 3 Indians were killed as the death toll in one of the worst snowstorms to hit Nepal’s Himalayan mountain range reached 30 on Thursday.
New Uranus like planet discovered
Washington: Astronomers have discovered a new planet that resembles our own Uranus in a binary star system 25,000
light-years away.
Kerry’s plane grounded ... Again
Vienna: Globe-trotting top US diplomat John Kerry was left hoofing it back on a commercial flight from Vienna on Thursday, after his ageing Air Force plane broke down for the fourth
time this year.
official’s Indian remark sparks row
Melbourne: A New Zealand immigration official has sparked a race row after rejecting a woman’s visa application for a job, saying New Zealanders are unlikely to hear Indian radio.
Singer resurfaces, weds prez’s brother
Beijing: A Chinese army singer who mysteriously disappeared from public view six years ago has made a surprising reappearance in local media — as the wife of the President Xi Jinping’s brother.