Ashton, Demi campaign against child trafficking
Hollywood couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, who are currently fighting tabloid allegations of cheating, have united for the launch of their latest campaign against child sex slavery.
Bangladesh discovers gas field with huge reserves
Dhaka: A new gas field with a possibility of a two to three trillion cubic feet (tcf) reserve has been found in Bangladesh, an official said.
The gas structure in the Sunamganj-Netrakona districts of
CWG venues' lockdown delayed, two Aussie athletes back out
New Delhi: In yet another hiccup, security agencies could not complete the lockdown of all the Commonwealth Games venues and the Village on Saturday midnight as work was still in progress at some of t
4 cops, 6 Maoists killed in Jharkhand
Four security personnel and six Maoists have been killed in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district since Saturday, when the security forces launched a massive operation against the rebels, police said on
Powerful quake jolts Indonesia
An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Maluku province on Sunday, Xinhua reported.
The quake occurred at 17.12 GMT at a depth of 59 km, the Meteorology and Geophysics Age
Branded a witch, woman beaten to death
A woman was beaten to death and another critically injured for allegedly practising black magic in Jharkhand's Bokaro district, police said on Sunday.
Mukta Devi and Guruwari Devi were brutally thras
CPI demands new land acquisition act
Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Sunday said his party wants a new land acquisition act that "will benefit the poor, the farmers and the displaced".
"We want a new lan
Woman to hug 10,000 strangers to spread love
A young woman in Taiwan launched a Free Hugs campaign on Sunday, hoping to hug 10,000 strangers within three months to spread love.
Yeh Jo-ling, 23, kicked off her campaign at the Taipei Railway Stat
Minister fired for sex with King’s wife
London, Sept. 25: The king of Swaziland, who has 14 wives, has sacked his justice minister after the politician was caught red-handed having sex with one of the women in the southern African kingdom,
Google to help develop New Zealand's pedal monorail
Internet giant Google will grant a sum of $1 million
to develop a first-of-its-kind pedal-system monorail for use in "traffic-clogged, skyscraper-strewn cities" in New Zealand.
A New Zealand company,