Bhubaneswar | 7 hours ago
Orissa seeks halt to missile tests during turtle nesting season
Bhubaneswar, Feb 8 - Orissa will seek a halt to missile testing from a launch base in Bhadrak district on the state's coast during the nesting period of endangered Olive Ridley turtles, a state wildlife official said Monday.Expressing his displeasure over the test of Agni-III missile Sunday from a launch base at the Inner Wheeler Island at Dhamra - close to a mass nesting site - P.N. Padhi, the pr ... read more

Berlin | 11 hours ago
Serena Williams stays on top of WTA rankings
Berlin, Feb 8 - Australian Open champion Serena Williams stayed on top in the Women's Tennis Association - rankings published Monday.Williams tops the list with 9,195 points ahead of Russian Dinara Safina - and US Open finalist Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark who improves a place to third -. WTA top 10 as of February 8 -: 1. - Serena Williams, United States, 9,195 points 2. - Dinara Safina, Russi ... read more

London | 17 hours ago
Drogba double takes Chelsea back to summit
London, Feb 8 - Didier Drogba struck twice as Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-0 on Sunday to return to the top of the English Premier League table, on 58 points - two clear of Manchester United.Arsenal are nine points adrift, and their title challenge is surely over; indeed, were they to lose to Liverpool on Wednesday they would be only two points above fourth. As so often this season, Arsenal dominated po ... read more

3 days ago
Three killed as bus falls into gorge in Himachal
Mandi -, Feb 5 - At least three people were killed and 15 injured when a state-run bus skidded off the road and fell into a gorge Friday, near this Himachal Pradesh district headquarters town.Superintendent of Police S.M. Agnihotri told IANS that there were 18 people travelling in the Himachal Road Transport Corporation mini-bus when it fell into a 200-metre-deep gorge near Kalkhar village, some 1 ... read more

Mexico City | 3 days ago
Greenpeace occupies Aztec-god sculpture in Mexico protest
Mexico City, Feb 5 - Greenpeace staged a protest in this Mexican capital to press demands for an effective climate-change treaty, occupying the fountain that famed artist Diego Rivera dedicated to Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain.Amid a torrential downpour, unusual at this time of year in Mexico City, Greenpeace activists draped a banner with the message 'Help! Treaty Needed to Save the Climate. Now! ... read more

4 days ago
Haiti quake toll tops 200,000
Port-au-Prince, Feb 4 - The number of people killed in last month's earthquake in Haiti has topped 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said as protests erupted over the slow distribution of aid to survivors.The government had previously said the magnitude-7, Jan 12 quake had killed up to 200,000 people. Bellerive said Wednesday that number had been surpassed and the new toll did not include ... read more

Paris | 4 days ago
Unesco urges protection of Haiti's heritage
Paris, Feb 4 - The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation - has called for protection of Haiti's cultural heritage in the aftermath of last month's devastating earthquake in the Caribbean nation.'Haiti is the most important issue today,' Irina Bokova, director general of the Unesco, told reporters here Wednesday. The UN agency has a 'unique' role since it can help Haiti 'to re-establ ... read more

8 days ago
10 Americans arrested in Haiti for child trafficking
Port-au-Prince, Jan 31 - Ten US citizens were arrested in Haiti on the charges of trafficking 33 children from the earthquake-hit nation, Press TV reported Sunday.The Americans were detained at Malpasse, Haiti's main border crossing with the Dominican Republic, after Haitian police found 33 children - aged between two months and 12 years - from their vehicle. One of the detainees, who identified h ... read more

Agra | 8 days ago
Agra meet to discuss robot use in urology treatment
Agra, Jan 31 - Use of robots and computers for surgery on patients with urological problems will be discussed at an international conference on advances in urology, to be held in the city of the Taj Mahal beginning Feb 3.The five-day conference will be attended by over 1,000 Indian and 200 foreign specialists in urology. In the pre-congress workshop, specialists of the American Urological Associat ... read more

Kochi | 8 days ago
Queen Mary 2 visits Kochi for the third time
Kochi, Jan 31 - The Queen Mary 2, billed as the grandest and most magnificent ocean liner ever built, came calling at the port here Sunday on its third visit in the past three years.This vessel had come on its maiden voyage two years back and returned last year also. The liner arrived from Dubai Sunday morning and left for Phuket in Thailand in the evening. The vessel was berthed at Ernakulam Whar ... read more