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Vienna, Sep 28 (DPA) Six radical Sikh men received heavy prison sentences Tuesday in Vienna for their involvement in the killing of a senior Indian sect leader last year in Austria’s capital, media reported. The May 2009 attack at the temple of the Dera Sach Khand sect had triggered widespread violence in India’s northern states [...]

Berlin/Warsaw, Sep 27 (DPA) Thirteen Polish nationals were killed Sunday when a bus with holidaymakers on board crashed into a motorway bridge on the outskirts of the German capital Berlin. The bus, run by the Polish POL-BUS travel operator, was carrying employees of the forestry office in the western Polish town of Zlocieniec who were [...]

Los Angeles, Sep 20 (IANS) Filmmaker Roman Polanski’s political thriller ‘The Ghost Writer’ has been named best picture at International Federation of Film Critics, in Spain. The ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ filmmaker, who endured a tough year since he was taken into custody by Swiss officials in September 2009 over sex charges, had something to be happy [...]

London, Sept.17 (ANI): A woman councillor has won an harassment case against a colleague after he sent her a letter asking if she had achieved an ”all-over tan” on holiday. The Daily Mail quoted Terri Beer, 52, as saying that the comment by committee member Malcolm Haggart, 53, had ”sexual connotations” that ”to me is [...]

London, Sept.17 (ANI): Facing a threat from Muslim extremists, a popular Spanish nightclub has been forced to change its name from La Meca. La Meca (Spanish for Mecca), was the most popular disco in the coastal city of Aguila, in Murcia, southeastern Spain, in the 1980s and 90s before it closed down a decade ago. [...]

London, Sep 17 (ANI): New statistics have revealed that the amount of official development assistance (ODA) to maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in developing countries has apparently doubled between 2003 and 2008, but its ratio to overall aid for health has remained static. The US, UK, EU, GAVI and the Global Fund have made [...]

Madrid, Sep 16 (IANS/EFE) Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has said the country’s troops will remain in Afghanistan ‘as long as necessary’. ‘We must remain in Afghanistan, assuming the current responsibilities, as long as necessary, as long as the security of the country and the region, global security and the security of Spaniards [...]

Madrid, Sep 13 (IANS/EFE) Julio Iglesias is once again taping his greatest hits. The international launch of the new album, which is expected next March, could collect around 46 songs and would have another version in Portuguese with about half that number. ‘I think I sang very badly in the first 20 or 25 years [...]

Madrid, Sep 9 (IANS/EFE) Two groups of Spanish coal miners are staging protests by refusing to surface from mines to demand payment of back salaries and a lasting solution to the problems of the sector. Fifty-two miners working for the Union Minera del Norte, or Unisma company, have enclosed themselves up at that firm’s only [...]

Mumbai, Sep 7 (IANS) Abhay Deol, who has carved a niche for himself in Bollywood in a short span, says it doesn’t matter to him whether he is doing a lead role in a film or not since he is quite secure about his career. ‘When I select a film, I go with the script, [...]

Kolkata, Sep 3 (IANS) Be it soccer legend Diego Maradona, tennis star Martina Hingis or football World Cup hero Diego Forlan – they have all visited the plain two-storey Missionaries of Charity headquarters here that houses Mother Teresa’s grave. It’s a must-see for foreign tourists visiting eastern India even 13 years after her death. Sep [...]

New York, Sep 3 (DPA) Results Thursday at the 23-million-dollar US Open (x indicates new result). Women’s singles, second round x Caroline Wozniacki, 1, Denmark, def Chang Kai-Chen, Taiwan, 6-0, 6-0 Vera Zvonareva, 7, Russia, def Sabine Lisicki, Germany, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) x Svetlana Kuznetsova, 11, Russia, def Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, 6-2, 6-3 Yanina Wickmayer, [...]

Washington, Sep 02 (ANI): Spanish researchers have concluded that by reducing the time between an accident taking place and the arrival of the emergency services from 25 to 15 minutes, risk of death can be reduced by one-third. “The average wait after an accident until the emergency medical services arrive is 25 minutes in Spain”, [...]

New York, Sep 2 (IANS/EFE) St. Augustine in Florida, the oldest city in the US, will celebrate its 445th birth anniversary this week. St. Augustine will commemorate its founding by Spaniard Pedro Menendez de Aviles with the inauguration of the Nombre de Dios Mission Museum and the celebration of a Mass of thanksgiving, among other [...]

New York, Sep 2 (DPA) Results Wednesday at the 23-million-dollar US Open (x indicates new result). Women’s singles, second round Gisela Dulko, Argentina, def Victoria Azarenka, 10, Belarus, 5-1, retired, heat exhaustion x Virginie Razzano, France, def Marion Bartoli, 13, France, 7-5, 6-4 Ana Ivanovic, Serbia, def Jie Zheng, China, 6-3, 6-0 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, [...]

Madrid, Sep 1 (IANS/EFE) Police in Spain have busted a ring engaged in sexually exploiting men recruited from Brazil and forced to work round the clock under death threats. A total of 64 men and a few transvestites were brought to Spain from Brazil’s Maranhao state. Some of the men, aged 22 to 29, knew [...]

Madrid, Aug 28 (IANS/EFE) Spain conducted over 4,000 transplants in 2009, making it the world leader in the field of organ transplants. This has been declared in the 2010 edition of the EU’s newsletter Transplant, which will be released in early September, though part of its content was revealed Friday by Spain’s health and social [...]

Madrid, Aug 27 (IANS/EFE) Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Dutch former model Miranda Rijnsburger wed in a religious ceremony in Spain, after living together for nearly 20 years and having five children. The wedding took place Tuesday at a private ceremony in the presence of their five children at the couple’s ranch in Ojen, near [...]

Melbourne/London, Aug.26 (ANI): A tall and glamorous looking Nazi spy infiltrated Britain”s military command and obtained top-secret battle plans that ensured a defeat for the Allies in the Norwegian campaign during the second World War. The Germans invaded Norway on April 9, 1940. Within days the British launched a counter-attack, aimed at the vital port [...]

Palakkad (Kerala), Aug 22 (IANS) At about 8.30 a.m., Shashi Tharoor tied the auspicious ‘thali’ around long-time friend Sunanda Pushkar’s neck, exchanged jasmine garlands with her and presented her with a ‘podava’ or new set of clothes, in a traditional Kerala Hindu wedding solemnised at the MP’s ancestral home near here Sunday. The wedding is [...]