India to review Pakistan’s actions on terror before talks: PM

ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - India would review Pakistan’s actions against anti-India terror outfits before deciding on resuming the composite dialogue mid-July, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday, a day after he met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Russia.

Kerry warns of escalation in Indo-Pak tension due to climatic changes

WASHINGTON - The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, John Kerry, expressing concerns over the deteriorating environmental conditions in South Asia, has said that the changing climate of the region could adversely affect the relationship between India and Pakistan.

Life sentence for female West Bank informer highlights contradictions of Palestinian policy

JENIN, West Bank — A 22-year-old Palestinian woman, who says she became an informer for Israel to earn money that would get her out of prostitution, is going to prison for life. Others convicted of collaboration with Israel by West Bank courts sit on death row.

Ohio utility watchdog: Don’t stick consumers with costs of phone, energy upgrades

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s utility watchdog says she’ll fight for more accountability from giant utility companies as they make the expensive conversions to green energy and extended cell phone, wireless and broadband coverage.

Bill Clinton says Netanyahu peace terms are opening moves in drama that has more acts

UNITED NATIONS — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tough terms for a Palestinian peace deal are just the opening moves in a drama that will have a few more acts.

Over 100,000 apply for admission to Delhi University

NEW DELHI - Over 113,000 forms were submitted - more than double the number of seats in Delhi University colleges - for various graduate and post-graduate courses, varsity officials said Monday, the last day of form submissions.

Body recovered, may be of missing Indian Nuclear scientist Loknath Mahalingam

BANGALORE - A decomposed body, believed to be that of the missing senior scientific officer of the state-run Kaiga Atomic Power Plant, was recovered from the Kali river near the plant in Karnataka, police said late Saturday.

Rechristening GM: Marketing experts say a fresh name could help the automaker to a fresh start

ValuJet was reborn as AirTran. Philip Morris rechristened itself Altria. Blackwater became Xe.

Man accuses Uttar Pradesh police of killing his wife

LUCKNOW - A 66-year-old woman picked up by the police in Uttar Pradesh on charges of stealing has been missing for more than two months, even as her husband fears she has been killed while in custody.

G-8 finance officials face rifts over regulation, exit strategies as they discuss recovery

LECCE, Italy — A rift loomed at a summit of top finance officials here on Friday over drafting a so-called “exit agenda” from hefty stimulus government measures as the global economy now shows some signs of recovery from the recession and financial crisis.

Islam cannot be forced on a minor: Malaysian Islamic expert

IPOH - A Malaysian expert of Islamic studies has said Islam should not be forced upon a child or a minor because a call to Islam is a conscious submission.

Snapshot of Earth’s chemical fingerprint may help search for life in the universe

WASHINGTON - In a new study, a group of international scientists took the help of a lunar eclipse to take a snapshot of earth’s chemical fingerprint, which could help to identify planets most similar to earth where life may be thriving.

Prosecutors file charges against former budget chief in posh East Hampton, NY

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — A former budget officer in New York’s exclusive Hamptons area pleaded not guilty Thursday to raiding a fund meant to buy land for conservation purposes and using $8 million to instead cover budget shortfalls.

Sleep may help regulate emotional responses

WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed that sleep selectively preserves memories that are emotionally salient and relevant to future goals when sleep follows soon after learning.

Auto Shop: Dealer closings mean extra towing, research for some Chrysler owners

DETROIT — There are 789 fewer Chrysler dealers this week. And by the end of next year, there will be 1,100 fewer General Motors dealers.

11 dead, 56 wounded in Pakistan hotel blast (Third Lead)

PESHAWAR - At least 11 people, including an UN official, were killed and 56 others wounded Tuesday after a huge explosion ripped through the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said.

Holocaust museum shooting suspect has a history of seething anger as white supremacist

WASHINGTON — A frustrated artist and an angry man, the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting once tried to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve board, a “caper” thwarted when a guard captured him outside a board meeting carrying a bag stuffed with weapons.

Search crews find 3rd body inside North Carolina Slim Jim plant; 1 recovered

GARNER, N.C. — Authorities say they have found a third body inside a Slim Jim factory in North Carolina a day after an explosion wrecked the building.

Racist Australians? No, Indians students are blamed (Diaspora Watch)

Indian students in Australia are to be blamed for getting attacked - this seems to be the belief of many Indians prospering in Australia. In a flurry of e-mails from Down Under, it is made out that the Indian students invite these vicious attacks upon themselves.

Well-behaved prisoners allowed to receive conjugal visits Down Under

MELBOURNE - The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has allowed well-behaved prisoners to receive conjugal visits, becoming the second jurisdiction in the country to allow such visits from partners.

Mike Brown wins unanimous decision over Urijah Faber, defends WEC featherweight title

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Mike Brown simply smiled and waved when he entered the octagon through a corridor of verbal rage from roughly 13,000 fans who booed, jeered and insulted his mother.

Brazil’s military says 17 bodies have been recovered in Atlantic from Air France crash

RECIFE, Brazil — Search boats scouring the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday recovered 15 more bodies of passengers who were aboard a doomed Air France flight that crashed a week ago, Brazilian military authorities said.

Kohima residents facing LPG cylinder shortage

KOHIMA - Consumers here are facing a gross shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), some of them being forced to wait for over three months to get a cylinder refilled.

Obama, Sarkozy stand united on Iran, Mideast peace, set to commemorate D-Day invasion

CAEN, France — President Barack Obama and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, stood united Saturday in efforts to thwart Iran’s disputed nuclear ambitions and bring about a Mideast peace that provides for separate Israeli and Palestinian states.

Prosecutor says man accused of making threat against Obama is arrested in Nevada

SALT LAKE CITY — Authorities have arrested a man who allegedly told bank tellers while cleaning out his savings account in Utah that he was on a mission to kill President Barack Obama.

Authorities say body found in Mich. matches age, size of missing girl, 5; shirt also found

MONROE, Mich. — A body discovered along a Michigan river appears to be a female roughly the same age as a 5-year-old girl who disappeared nearly two weeks ago, authorities said Friday.

Suicide attacker targets mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing 30 as army advances in Swat

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An attacker wearing an explosive vest blew himself up inside a packed mosque during Friday prayers, killing at least 30 and wounding 40 more in northwest Pakistan, officials said.

Never-before-published Hitler photos revealed

NEW YORK - Never seen before photos of Adolf Hitler taken by personal photographer Hugo Jaeger have been revealed.

Six die in Madhya Pradesh as soil caves in

BHOPAL - At least six people, including two women and two children, were killed in Madhya Pradesh in separate incidents of soil cave-ins, police said Thursday.

Goa considering sops for bottom-end tourism players

PANAJI - The Goa government is considering providing some sops to the tourism industry, which is hit hard by the economic slowdown as well as the Mumbai terror attack of last November, a senior state official said Thursday.

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