Jazz artist Bebo Valdes No More
byLondon: Cuban-born musician Bebo Valdes, a respected figure in the Afro-Cuban jazz genre, died Friday in Sweden, sources close to the artist told EFE. He…
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Two tourists kidnapped in Egypt
byCairo (EFE) Two foreign tourists were kidnapped Friday while travelling in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a source in the Egyptian security services told EFE. The victims,…
India-US Joint Mars Mission a Possibility
byWashington: India and the US have agreed to expand their cooperation in civil space activities ranging from weather and monsoon forecasting to cooperative space exploration…
Geologist Wanted by Uzbekistan Seeks Asylum in Russia
byMoscow( RIA Novosti) A geologist in Russia wanted by authorities in Uzbekistan for arrest is seeking political asylum in Russian city of Bryansk, a migration…
Save horses, urges Miley Cyrus
byLos Angeles: Actress-singer Miley Cyrus has organised a rally to save horses. She has taken to micro-blogging site Twitter for the cause. Cyrus voiced her…
23 killed in Pakistan road accident
byIslamabad: At least 23 people were killed and over 30 injured in a road accident in Pakistan’s Punjab province early Saturday, police said. The accident…
5,000-carat emerald found in Russia
byBeijing (RIA Novosti) A state-owned miner in Russia has claimed to have unearthed a unique emerald weighing 5,000 carats at a deposit in the Urals….
Faced no racism: Desi ‘American Idol’ contestant
byNew Delhi (IANS) ‘Turbanator’ Gurpreet Singh Sarin happens to be luckier than Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. The young man of Indian origin, who made it…
Chinese NASA worker in US court over computer cache
byWashington (IANS/RIA Novosti) A former Chinese contractor with the NASA has appeared in a US federal court after he was arrested following an attempt to…
1,800 children die daily from unsafe water: Unicef
byUnited Nations: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that almost 90 percent of death of children from diarrhoeal diseases are directly linked to…