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Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, has turned eighth. With an estimated 845 million active subscribers, the social networking giant still continues to grow, since its launch on February 4, 2004 and is most likely to have 1 billion users by August this year. While, the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg is best known [...]
A woman in US has been charged with child endangerment after allegedly forcing her own daughter to strip and pose nude on Skype. Ann Lussier from Attleboro, Massachusetts is accused of making her child strip in the hope of winning a 20,000 dollars mother-daughter bikini photo shoot. According to authorities, the 41-year-old mother first made [...]
Former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was frisked by the John F. Kennedy airport authorities in New York on September 29, resulting in a strong Indian protest and a subsequent US apology for the breach of protocol. Eighty-year-old Kalam, who was in the US to attend a series of events, was returning home by an [...]
China said Monday it had launched a campaign to crack down on ‘fake journalists and news’ and ‘illegal media outlets’, as it further tightens its grip on the media in the Internet era. The move is the latest in a slew of measures introduced by Beijing in recent weeks aimed at controlling the circulation of [...]
Two Kuwaitis have been arrested in the Abadan region of southwest Iran on suspicion of spying and illegal entry, a state television channel reported on Sunday. “Two Kuwaitis have been arrested in possession of spying materials,” said Abdollah Kaabi, a local official in the town of Bahram Ilkhaszadeh, quoted by Iran’s Arabic-language channel Al-Alam. The [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday the full extent of Iran’s nuclear program was not reflected in a recent U.N. report which said that Tehran appeared to have worked on designing an atomic bomb. “Iran is closer to getting an (atomic) bomb than is thought,” Netanyahu said in remarks to cabinet ministers, quoted [...]
Egypt will close the Great Pyramid of Giza on Friday to avoid any rituals by a group rumoured to have plans to mark the date of 11/11/11 at the site, an official said. The decision came “after much pressure” from Egyptian Internet users that strange rituals were going to be held “within the walls of [...]
Soldiers belonging to a militia that fought late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s military found a secret cache of gold, dollars and euros buried in a garden on the outskirts of Sirte. A Friday report on a Doha-based satellite news channel Al-Libya showed footage of the open safe unearthed in a garden in Gaddafi stronghold Zanaki [...]
Leading eurozone countries and China are showing clear sign of slowdown and the United States and Japan could be slipping towards a downward slope, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Monday. France, Germany, China, India and Brazil were already on a path of slowdown, the OECD said on the basis of [...]
Minutes before the operation to hunt down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan began, US President Barack Obama was playing golf so that he could “distance himself” in case the raid went wrong, claims a new book. President Obama was actually playing golf until 20 minutes before the raid to kill al-Qaeda chief began, claims Chuck [...]
