LONDON (Reuters) - The government said on Tuesday it was dropping plans to bring in compulsory biometric identity cards for airport workers and that the multi-billion pound scheme would remain voluntary. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the government was going ahead ...Read More
MUMBAI: Were Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan and home minister R R Patil aware of the advisories sent by the Centre? Their initial replies show they were unaware of any alert. Soon after the blasts in Pune, Union home secretary G ...Read More
New Delhi, India (CNN) -- An Italian and an Iranian were among eight dead from a terror attack at an eatery popular among expatriates in the western Indian city of Pune, authorities said Sunday. Pune Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh identified the ...Read More
NEW DELHI -- An explosion tore through a crowded bakery popular with foreigners in western India yesterday, killing eight people and wounding 42.
If confirmed as a bombing, it would be the country's first terror attack since the Mumbai rampage in ...Read More
NEW DELHI, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people were killed and 53 others injured Saturday evening in an apparent terrorist attack at a landmark German Bakery in a wealthy district in the western Indian city of Pune, said ...Read More
NEW DELHI - An apparent bomb tore through a crowded bakery popular with foreigners on Saturday in western India, killing at least eight people and wounding 42 near a famed meditation center. If confirmed, it would be the country's first ...Read More
PUNE, India - A powerful explosion ripped through a crowded bakery popular with foreigners in the western Indian city of Pune on Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring 32 others, officials said.
The blast, which officials said was caused ...Read More
New Delhi, India (CNN) -- An explosion Saturday at an eatery in the western Indian city of Pune killed at least eight people and injured 33 others, authorities said. "It appears to be a bomb blast, and bombs obviously are related ...Read More
NEW DELHI-An apparent bomb blast ripped through a crowded bakery Saturday in the western Indian city of Pune, killing at least eight people near a famed meditation center frequented by foreigners, an official said.
The blast threatened to damage new efforts ...Read More
New Delhi, India (CNN) -- A explosion Saturday at a bakery in the western Indian city of Pune killed at least eight people and injured 33 others, authorities said. Rajendra Sonawane, joint police commissioner for the city, said he believes the ...Read More
Mr Evans said accusations made by Lord Neuberger, the country’s second most senior judge, that there was a “culture of suppression” at MI5 were “the precise opposite of the truth”.
As Mr Evans defended the security services against claims of torture, ...Read More
NEW ORLEANS -- A scientist who became a widely cited expert on levee failures after Hurricane Katrina is suing Louisiana State University for what he claims was a push to silence his criticism of the Army Corps of Engineers. Ivor van ...Read More
Mahinda Rajapaksa easily won a second term as president
Sri Lanka's recently re-elected President Mahinda Rajapaksa is dissolving parliament, clearing the way for early elections, officials say.
"The president dissolves the parliament with effect from midnight today," a senior official was ...Read More
Filed at 2:21 a.m. ET COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government on Tuesday said defeated presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka was "hell-bent" on betrayal and would be court-martialled on charges of conspiring against the president. Fonseka lost by an 18 percentage point ...Read More
LONDON, England -- Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses won't. The shatterproof pint glass was proudly unveiled by the government on Thursday. Officials swore the country would save billions in health care ...Read More
LONDON - Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses will not. The shatterproof pint glass was proudly unveiled by the government yesterday. Officials swore the country would save billions in health care costs ...Read More
CLEVELAND-A jury in Cleveland acquitted a federal drug agent Friday of framing 17 people in a sting. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Lee Lucas hugged his attorney and fought back tears after the verdict was announced on 18 counts, including obstruction of ...Read More
LONDON -- Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses won't. The shatterproof pint glass was proudly unveiled by the government Thursday. Officials swore the country would save billions in health care costs by ...Read More
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of Sri Lanka's capital Wednesday to protest the results of the recent presidential election, which they say was marred by fraud. President Mahinda Rajapaksa secured a landslide victory, defeating ...Read More
Monday is opening day for the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C., where a sit-in that changed America took place 50 years ago. It was February 1, 1960, that four black college freshmen walked up to the "whites ...Read More
Allow me to depart for a moment from what seems to be a popular pundit theme by saying: Tim Tebow has every right to say whatever he wants whenever he wants to say it. I strongly disagree with my friend and colleague, ...Read More
