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India contributes $1 mn to UN Women budget

India has contributed $1 million to the core voluntary budget of UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, or UN Women, for the year 2011.

India's Permanent UN Representative Hardee

Paris Hilton won't return borrowed jewels?

Paris Hilton is holding $60,000 of jewelry that does not belong to her and should give it back, a new lawsuit contends.

German insurer Allianz has sued the celebrity socialite, saying she has ignored

US oil price jumps over $110 a barrel

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The price of New York's main oil contract rose to over $110 a barrel on Thursday, for the first time since the commodities spike of 2008.

Prices for West Texas Intermediate crude for May delivery sto

NRI family held for fake marriages

An Indian-American couple and their 30-year-old daughter have been arrested in Santa Ana, California on charges of arranging fake marriages for more than 20 foreigners, mostly Indians, to enable the

Friday most popular day for bank robberies – FBI

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Bank robberies in the United States take place most often in mid-morning, on Fridays and in southern and western states, according to government statistics released on Tuesday.

Robbers stole slightly

NY's rat problem damaging tourism - city official

Absolutely no one likes a rat, a city official said on Tuesday, demanding $1.5 million (920 thousand pounds) be restored to the budget to be help control what he called Manhattan's horrific rat proble

Gaddafi son wanted F16s: Wikileaks

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Had the U.S. agreed to meet the ambitious military 'wish list' of one of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s sons two years ago, it would have found it difficult to go along with its allies in establish

Satyam, PwC settle SEC accounting fraud probes

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Satyam Computer Services Ltd and auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to pay a combined $17.5 million to settle investigations into an accounting fraud that became India's biggest corporate scandal i

Madonna faces FBI investigation over charity

After the furore in Malawi, pop icon Madonna is now being investigated by the FBI over another charity she chairs, Success for Kids. The educational charity is being probed by the FBI for 'several irr

McDonald's wants to hire 50,000 in one day

McDonald's unwrapped on Monday a Big Mac-sized hiring event, saying it hopes to add up to 50,000 employees in the United States in a single day this month.

The McJobs blitz will be on April 19, when

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.