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By Xinhua Beijing : China's consumer price index (CPI), the main inflation indicator, rose 8.7 percent in February over the same time last year, the highest in nearly 12 years. In May 1996, the CPI touched a record 8.9 percent. The index rose by an annual rate of 14.11 percent from 1992 to 1996, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday. The February figure was much higher than market estimate. The Bank of China, one of the country's major lenders, predicted a rise of 8.3 percent in February.

By P.K. Balachandran, IANS Colombo : Japan has told Sri Lanka that it has no plans to suspend development aid to the island nation as reported in the international media. Japan's special envoy Yasushi Akashi told Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona over the phone Friday that his country had not changed its aid policy vis-à-vis Sri Lanka and it would stick to the commitments it had made.

By KUNA, Brussels : The European Union (EU) constantly works to enhance its relations with the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), through agreements over important issues, said an EU official. The official, requesting anonymity, told KUNA that there were a number of issues that needed to be addressed before the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two sides could be signed.

Toronto : An Indian, on the run for over seven years after his wife was found murdered at the couple's home in Canada, has...

By DPA, Vienna : Japan and South Africa have submitted candidates for succeeding Mohamed ElBaradei at the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based organisation confirmed Friday in a statement. As ElBaradei's third and last term ends at the end of November 2009, Yukiya Amano of Japan and Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa, who represent their countries at the IAEA Board of Governors, are now vying for the prestigious post of director general. The deadline for IAEA member states to name candidates ended on Dec 31, 2008.

By IANS, Colombo : An expulsion order served on a visiting Swiss journalist in Sri Lanka has been revoked, the presidential media office said here Sunday. Karen Wenger had been asked to leave by Feb 1 following a question she had raised at a government press conference concerning Tuesday's presidential election. She was accused of damaging Sri Lanka's image and the department of government information cancelled her media accreditation that is required to do reporting from the island.

By RIA Novosti, Caracas : Venezuelans are voting Sunday in a referendum that would allow President Hugo Chavez to stay in power for as long as he keeps winning elections. Chavez, a former army paratrooper who styles himself the builder of "21st-century socialism", wants to remove presidential term limits from the country's constitution. He has been in office for the past 10 years and a victory in the referendum would help him seek another term in 2012.

By IANS/EFE, Buenos Aires : Argentina has disclosed the secrets of the "dirty war" waged against the left by the country's military regime 1976-83. The secret files of Battalion 601, described as the "brain" that coordinated killings, kidnappings and other abuses, contains the identities of both military and civilian personnel who played a role in the repression. The declassification of the documents began with an order from Argentine President Cristina Fernandez Jan 1.

New York : Indian-American groups have called for a campaign on immigration issues affecting the Indian diaspora including use of H-1B visa by...

By IANS/EFE, Bogota : Colombia will auction off its 230 oil exploration blocs including those situated in the Pacific region and along the maritime border with Nicaragua. "During the Ronda Colombia 2010 beginning Tuesday in the Caribbean city of Cartagena, the oil fields will also be offered in the Amazon jungle," director of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), Armando Zamora told Bogota's El Tiempo daily. With 80 companies qualified for bidding, Zamora said, the government is expecting to earn between $250 million and $500 million through the auction.

By DPA, Los Angeles : U2 and Jay-Z are to collaborate on a joint charity single to benefit Haiti, they announced Wednesday, the same day as Rihanna released a cover version of Bob Marley's Redemption Song with the proceeds going to Haiti aid organisations. The announcement came as organisers released the list of performers who have pledged to appear on the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon set to air Friday night on major US television stations. The performers include Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, and Sting in New York City.

By IANS, Nay Pyi Taw: Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD), took oath of office Wednesday.

By DPA, Beijing: Workers recovered the bodies of 21 babies, some with hospital identification tags attached, from a river in eastern China's Shandong province, state media said on Tuesday. The workers found the babies dumped inside plastic bags, at least one of which was marked "hospital waste", in a suburb of Jining city, Shandong province, the Beijing News and other media reported.

By DPA, Washington : US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that the US will continue to forge a leadership role in Asia, as she began a major trip to the region.

By Xinhua, Ottawa : One person was kiled and 16 others were missing Thursday when the helicopter in which they were travelling crashed into the North Atlantic off the coast of Canada's Newfoundland province, officials said. The aircraft, carrying 18 oil workers, was on its way to Hibernia offshore platform. One person was rescued, one killed, while 16 others were missing after the accident at around 9.18 a.m., Major Dennis McGuire of the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre, told reporters.

By IANS, London : A British student has changed his name and claims it is the world's longest - Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined - at 81 letters. George Garratt, of Glastonbury, Somerset, changed his name "for a bit of a laugh" through an online site, Legal Deed Poll Service. Based in Islington, London, the site charged him 10 pounds for issuing a legal name-change certificate which it claims is accepted by the British government.

By Mayank Chhaya, IANS, The deadly earthquake in the Qinghai Province in northwestern China, which killed 1400, mostly Tibetan people, on April 14, offers an extraordinary opportunity to Beijing to allow the Dalai Lama to make his first visit home in over 50 years.

Jammu : A civilian was injured in unprovoked shelling by the Pakistani Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's...

Sydney: Australian police and the nation's spy agency launched raids in homes in Sydney and Brisbane Thursday. More than 600 officers from multiple police departments...

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By IANS, Beijing: Chinese government has decided to boost the quality of domestic dairy industry.

Kathmandu : Nepal's Constituent Assembly will now meet on May 8, its chairman Subhas Chandra Nembang said on Thursday, Xinhua reported. The summer session of...

By DPA Wellington : Seven people died after tropical Cyclone Gene strafed Fiji, cutting power lines and water supplies, wrecking crops and filling evacuation centres with families driven from their homes by flooding, according to reports received in New Zealand Wednesday. As the cyclone moved off into the Pacific, the island state's Disaster Management Office said it had not been able to assess the total damage but half the country's population of about 920,000 may have been affected, Radio New Zealand reported.

By IANS, Colombo : Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka has said the government may ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) even before the people ask for it. According to reports in the state-run media, Wickramanayaka said Tuesday that the ruling coalition headed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, which has been carrying forward the military campaign against the Tamil Tigers at the request of the people, could ban the Tamil Tigers before people "requested for it".

By DPA Kathmandu : The Nepalese police Wednesday broke up demonstrations by Tibetan exiles near the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu and detained about 35 protestors. Small groups of protestors, including Buddhist monks, who were carrying Tibetan national flags and placards saying, "Free Tibet", were rounded up by police and taken to detention centres. The protestors chanted, "Stop killing in Tibet", and "Long live the Dalai Lama".

By KUNA, KABUL : Polish President Lech Kczynski has assured his country full support for international efforts to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan.

By NNN-IRIN, Jaffna (Sri Lanka) : Sri Lankan Muslims displaced during the country’s decades-long civil war are slowly returning home, but the challenge of reconciling with their Tamil neighbours, and their past, remains. About 75,000 Muslims were evicted in October 1990 from the northern districts of Jaffna, Mannar, Kilinochchi, Mullaithivu and some parts of Vavuniya by the now-defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who were fighting for an independent Tamil homeland.

By IANS, Washington : The US federal government registered a budget deficit of $106.5 billion in March, about half of the level recorded in the previous month, said the US Treasury Department.

By IANS, Mexico City : The story of a killer-for-hire who over a nine-year career dissolved in acid the bodies of 300 victims has already inspired two songs, the Mexican press has reported. Portions of the songs, entitled "El Cocinero" (The cook) and "El corrido a Santiago Meza" (The ballad of Santiago Meza) were broadcast Wednesday on Radio Formula, EFE reported. Authorities have arrested Santiago Meza, nicknamed "El Pozolero" because he dissolved the bodies as if he were cooking "pozole," a stew made with corn and pork.

By Xinhua, Harare : Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has announced that he will not take part in the presidential run-off against incumbent President Robert Mugabe, local media further confirmed on Sunday. The announcement came after the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) failed to hold its star rally in Harare on Sunday for the presidential runoff under unclear circumstances.

By DPA, Zurich : The Swiss banking giant UBS Wednesday said it will take a first quarter loss of almost 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.7 billion) and will cut 8,700 jobs worldwide by 2010. Most of the new losses were in further writedowns and cash outflows in its wealth management divisions. The bank was to close this quarter announcing an overall outflow, despite positive net inflows of 16 billion francs in its onshore management business in the US.

By IRNA, Tehran : A United Nations independent human rights expert Wednesday urged Myanmar’s Government to “keep its promise” to ensure that upcoming national elections in the Asian country are transparent and inclusive enough to be considered credible.

By DPA, Paris : Paris' landmark Eiffel Tower and an office building were evacuated late Friday night after bomb warnings made by anonymous telephone callers, media reports said Saturday.

Geneva: The UN Human Rights Council President Baudelaire Ndong Ella Monday announced a three-member panel to investigate the human rights violations in the occupied...

By IANS Kathmandu : Two days before a battle on the floor of parliament, Nepal's Maoist guerrillas Tuesday warned that the government would fall if the raging dispute over King Gyanendra and the election was not resolved. "If the impasse continues, the current constitution will become a scrap of paper," Maoist chief Prachanda warned. "The government of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala will also fall."

By RIA Novosti, Moscow : Russia has called on its partner countries to continue delivering fuel to North Korea as part of the six-party denuclearisation deal. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and chief negotiator to North Korea nuclear talks Alexei Borodavkin said Saturday that his country would continue to adher its committments to Pyongyang and expressed shock over the US statement that the six countires had agreed to stop fuel shipments to the communist country until progress was made to its denuclearisation talks.

Kathmandu : The earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday has killed at least 1,805 people, an official statement said on Sunday. The earthquake, measuring 7.9...

By DPA New York/Washington : Six years after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, Americans are planning a series of toned-down ceremonies Tuesday to remember the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives. For the first time since the attacks, there was to be no ceremony at the site where the World Trade Centre towers once stood, though family members would be allowed a brief visit to lay flowers and wreaths down to what is now a construction pit at Ground Zero.

By IANS, London : Students who browse through social networking website Facebook during their study time obtain lower grades than those who don't. A study has found that examination results of those who used the social website while working, even if it was on in the background, were 20 percent lower than non-users. Researchers now say the study weakens the theory that young people's brains are better at multi-tasking, according to the Daily Mail.

By IANS/RIA Novosti, Prague: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama signed Thursday a new treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons to replace the START 1 treaty, which expired in December 2009. The document is expected to bring Moscow and Washington to a new level of cooperation in the areas of nuclear disarmament and arms control. The new strategic arms pact stipulates that the number of nuclear warheads is to be reduced to 1,550 on each side, while the number of operational and stockpiled delivery vehicles must not exceed 800 on each side.

By RIA Novosti, Moscow : Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says his country is in principle against NATO expansion toward its borders. Putin made the statement in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde Saturday. "We are against NATO's enlargement on the whole, in principle," Putin said, commenting on Ukraine and Georgia's drive to join the alliance.

By DPA, Colombo : Polling in Sri Lanka's presidential election ended Tuesday with a turnout of more than 70 percent despite incidents of violence, explosions in the north and intimidation of voters, officials and poll observers said. A series of explosions in northern Sri Lanka ahead of voting lowered turnout in the region to less than 20 percent, but the rest of the country reported brisk polling in the first national election since the defeat in May of separatist rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), election officials said.

By Prensa Latina Manila : The Filipino government is close to reach a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front after more than eight years of negotiations, assured Filipino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Friday. During a visit to the southern region of Mindanao, Macapagal said both parts are about to reach an agreement on a new draft on the Muslim territories in the south of the country. Manila is convinced the conversations will end on a definite peace agreement.

By IANS, London : A quick-thinking British teenager used a bottle of Coke to douse flames that had engulfed his father who was lighting a bonfire. Nicholas, 15, took the two litre bottle of cola, shook it violently and aimed it at his father, Andrew Wythe, whose arms, chest, neck and ears were on fire, Daily Express reported Thursday. Wythe, who was using a can of petrol to light a bonfire when a spark caused the fire, was rushed to hospital in Penzance and later transferred to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol after the incident Sunday. He was treated for burns.

By Venkata Vemuri, IANS, London : In a case without equal in Britain, a woman who bore a child, conceived through artificial insemination, is suing the NHS for not being able to use her own eggs to prepare the embryo. Greta Mason of East Sussex gave birth to a male child, Jaden, conceived via IVF using an anonymous donor's egg from Spain and the sperm of her husband, Chris. The IVF wait-list of the NHS is quite long. The couple waited for six years for their turn, and by the time it finally came, Greta had turned 40. Her eggs were too old for conception, the NHS doctors told her.

By IANS, Beirut: Over 60 students were hospitalised in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli after drinking contaminated tap water, state-run National News Agency (NNA) said.

Washington: A senior US official has said that Iran has met all of its obligations under an interim nuclear agreement with the negotiating countries. "Iran...

By M.R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's adviser said Monday after talks with Indian leaders that New Delhi and Colombo were “genuine friends” and that his country would keep civilian casualties in the war against the Tamil Tigers “to the very minimum”. Basil Rajapaksa also said that torrential rains and flooding had affected Tamils displaced by the fighting in the north and that India had pledged to provide food and medicines for them. He added that UN agencies would visit the war zone to assess the situation.

By IANS, Kiev: At least 14 people were killed and 22 injured Saturday when a bus carrying Russian pilgrims to a monastery in Ukraine met with an accident, RIA Novosti reported.

By Xinhua Colombo : At least three soldiers and six Tamil Tigers rebels have been killed in latest fighting in the island's north, defence officials said Thursday. Battles erupted in the northern Vavuniya and Mannar districs Wednesday evening, which also injured five soldiers, officials here said. Clashes in the north have now become a regular feature after the troops cleared the eastern province of rebel presence. The process of Norwegian backed negotiations has been stalled with the two sides showing no interest in restarting the peace process.

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By DPA, Rio de Janeiro : A 77-year-old Brazilian former model who was the young love of US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has been found by a newspaper in the South American country. Maria Garcinda Tedixeira de Jesus met McCain in 1957 while he was in Rio de Janeiro on leave from his Navy ship. At the time, he was still a cadet at the US Naval Academy. He spent every free minute with the Brazilian beauty and describes the encounter in his 1999 memoir "Faith of my Fathers".

Singapore : An Indian was Tuesday jailed for a year for his involvement in the Dec 8, 2013, riots here. Ganesan Periyaiah, 25, a construction...

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Moscow : Russia's industrial safety regulator Rostekhnadzor said Friday it would establish a system for exchanging information with the UN nuclear watchdog to ensure radiation safety.

The system will help Russia comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) code of conduct on radiation safety and security, which was revised as part of counter-terrorism measures following the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.

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By RIA Novosti, Tbilisi : Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is to address on Tuesday a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Spain, Georgia's presidential press service said. NATO's 54th Parliamentary Assembly session runs from November 14 to 18 in Valencia. Russia's envoy to NATO has criticized the alliance for refusing him the right to address the session. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly's president, Jose Lello, refused Dmitry Rogozin's request, saying there was not sufficient time to fit him into the session schedule.

By IANS, Los Angeles : NASA has announced the discovery of a pulsar estimated to be less than 25 million years old, the youngest ever found.

By IANS/EFE, Mexico City: Nine people were killed Friday when a vehicle carrying fireworks exploded during a religious festival in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala, authorities said.

By DPA Washington : US President George W. Bush has warned that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to a third world war, trying to persuade countries to step up pressure on the Islamic state that has called for the destruction of Israel. Bush Wednesday said Iran poses a threat to peace and referred to comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has previously said Israel should be eliminated.

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By IANS New York : Learning about racism helps to understand the "other". In a study that challenges the idea that racism education could be harmful to students, researchers found white students who underwent such education developed positive attitudes towards African Americans. The study, by a team of researchers at The University of Texas, found that white students who learned about racism were more likely to value racial fairness, had more racial guilt and were less likely to accept stereotypes about African Americans.

By Prensa Latina, Moscow : Russian Foreign Ministry ruled out any military action in response to an increased presence of NATO ships in the Black Sea, near Georgian territory. Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko said though that in case of a breach of international law, Russia might tackle the issue with the UN Security Council.

By RIA Novosti, New York : The Russian delegation to the UN has submitted two draft resolutions on confidence-building measures and on the prevention of arms race in space. The resolution has to be approved by the General Assembly's First committee, charged with issues of disarmament and international security, before being submitted to the General Assembly,a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Wednesday. The document, co-authored with 58 states, will be discussed by the committee in October. If approved, the draft will be submitted for vote to the General Assembly in December.

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By DPA, Berlin : German Chancellor Angela Merkel renewed her opposition Monday to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's proposal for a European fund to help banks in trouble. Closer cooperation between members of the European Union (EU) was needed to bring security to financial markets, the chancellor told a joint press conference ahead of talks in Berlin. "Every country has to live up to its own responsibilities," she said, calling for a more coherent approach to the financial crisis which has spilled over to Europe from the US.

By IANS, Beijing : China has ordered a crackdown on crimes that "violate the interests of minors" in a bid to "safeguard social stability", a top official said.

By IANS, Washington : Feedback from another source overrides explicit description of ground realities in decision making, according to a new study. In other words, feedback predisposes individuals to ignore what they were explicitly told about the situation. Psychologists discovered that participants responded differently, depending on whether or not they received feedback, even though they were presented with complete descriptive information.

By DPA, Paris : Former president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Juan Antonio Samaranch has been hospitalised in Monaco after a heart attack, the Paris sport newspaper L'Equipe reported late Tuesday. The 89-year-old Spaniard, who led the IOC from 1980 to 2001, was admitted to the Princesse Grace hospital.

By Andrei Kislyakov, RIA Novosti, Moscow : Deep space exploration is becoming an ever bigger part of national space programmes. Currently, missions to the Moon and Mars are considered feasible. The US has announced preparation for another space probe launch to collect data from the martian atmosphere, scheduled for 2013. In Russia, martian exploration is confined to ground tests so far. The project Mars-500, aimed at determining the effect of a space flight over months on the crew, will be launched soon under the aegis of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IMBP).

Kabul : Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar died two years ago in Pakistan and his death was kept secret to avoid demoralisation of Taliban...

By DPA, San Francisco : Microsoft is to strip its Internet Explorer browser from the new version of its Windows 7 operating system that it sells in Europe, the company announced Thursday. Microsoft said the move was designed to meet criticism from European Union (EU) regulators who have launched an investigation into whether bundling the browser with the operating system is in breach of European anti-trust rules.

By IANS, Beijing: A new set of Chinese army regulations ban luxury banquets and alcohol at receptions for high-ranking officers.

By Neena Bhandari, IANS, Sydney : A proposed Catholic school near here has been supported by the residents' group, who had earlier this year rejected a plan to build an Islamic school on Sydney's south-western fringes, raising uncomfortable questions of double standards and racism in this historic Australian town. But the Camden/MacArthur Residents' Group rejects any suggestion of racism.

By IRNA Berlin : Foreigners are still being discriminated in the European Union and Germany amid stepped up efforts to promote integration, according to two separate studies, unveiled here Wednesday by the former head of the German Parliament Rita Suessmuth. "There is continuous disadvantage of ethnic minorities within the EU, said Suessmuth who headed an EU expert group. Many migrant groups in Germany face also inequality on the labor market and in society, the study added.

By DPA Cape Canaveral : Technical problems have prompted NASA officials to postpone at least until Saturday the launch of a US space shuttle carrying the long-awaited European Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station. Two of four fuel sensors failed to function on the shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank during fuelling, falling short of the stringent NASA safety requirements that three of four sensors operate properly, NASA officials said Thursday.

Kathmandu : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday discussed bilateral ties with Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav. Modi in his meeting with Yadav discussed how...

By IANS, Caracas: Venezuela will respond to the US expulsion of its consul in Miami by closing - at least temporarily - its consulate in the Florida city, President Hugo Chavez said Friday.

By Mark Weisbrot Since the U.S. economy showed positive growth for the last quarter, some commentators in the business press are saying that we are not necessarily going to have a recession, or that if there is one it will be mild. This is a bit like the proverbial story of the man who jumped out of a window 60 floors up, and then said "so far, so good," as he passed the 30th floor.

By DPA, Wellington : A year after David Beckham drew the biggest crowd ever to watch a football match in New Zealand, his star power attraction appears to be fading, according to news reports Friday. Organisers of an exhibition match between Beckham's LA Galaxy side and Oceania All Stars XI Saturday in Auckland were advertising two tickets for the price of one to try to fill the 32,000-seat Mount Smart Stadium. Only 14,000 tickets had been sold by Thursday night, the New Zealand Herald reported.

By Xinhua, Lagos (Nigeria) : Rebels in the Niger oil delta early Monday claimed to have attacked an oil flow station complex, killing an unspecified number of people working at the station. The statement, signed by the spokesman of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), said their fighters set fire to the Alakiri flow station complex owned by the Shell Petroleum Company, and killed some workers and soldiers but did not specify the number of the casualties. There was no immediate reaction from the government.

By DPA, Taipei : Taiwan's foreign currency reserves hit $289.3 billion by the end of April, the world's fifth-largest after those of China, Japan, Russia and India, the central bank said Monday. Taiwan's foreign currency reserves increased by $2.5 billion in April from the preceding month amid the accumulation of interest and the remittance back to Taiwan of Taiwanese life insurance firms' overseas investments, the central bank said.

By Bernama, Denpasar (Bali) : Ten Asia Pacific countries are holding a meeting in Bali on cooperation to prevent the spread of communicable diseases through air travel, Antara news agency reported Wednesday. The meeting whose topic was officially "Cooperative Arrangements on the Spread of Communicable Diseases Through Air Travel" was opened by the transportation ministry's Air Transport Director Tri Sunako in Kuta on Wednesday. The two-day meeting was being attended by 60 delegations from 10 countries, a member of the organizing committee said.

By IANS, London: British Airways, which had been badly hit by employee strikes and the economic recession, has "flown back" into profit. The airline made 158 million pounds in profit in 2010.

By NNN-Govt Portal, Colombo : Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Mahinda Samarasinghe said that a draft resolution requesting the situation in Sri Lanka to be included as an emergency item on the agenda of the 118th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) held in Cape Town, South Africa had been withdrawn.

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Moscow : Russia said Wednesday that nuclear fuel Moscow has pledged to supply to a nuclear power plant being built in Iran will be returned to Russia and will not end up in wrong hands.