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After stumbling with remarks suggesting he was indifferent to America's poor, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney was endorsed on Thursday by one of the country's most famous wealthy businessmen - real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump. .... more »
Indian-American attorney Preet Bharara, nicknamed the Sheriff of Wall Street for prosecuting the likes of Rajat Gupta, the poster boy of Indian business in America, has made it to the cover of Time magazine. .... more »
An unemployed Greenlander who suddenly found himself a krone millionaire thanks to a bank error and began giving away the cash was ordered to pay it back by the Danish supreme court.
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A sleepy snake came to a rather untimely end after having its head half chewed off by a fearless toddler in an Arab town in northern Israel, the child's family said on Friday. .... more »
Pakistan's former envoy to the US Husain Haqqani was on Monday permitted to travel abroad by the Supreme Court, which is probing a memo sent to Washington saying President Asif Ali Zardari had feared a military take over in the wake of Osama bin Laden's killing last year. .... more »
More than 400 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested in Oakland during a night of skirmishes in which police fired tear gas and bean bag projectiles, the city said on Sunday, marking one of the biggest mass arrests since nationwide economic protests began last year.
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A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early on Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded. At least 10 people were killed. .... more »
The US has come to the defence of US television host Jay Leno and said the visual of Golden Temple in Amritsar during The Tonight Show was a 'satirical' reference to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's vacation home. .... more »
U.S. President Barack Obama has been ordered to appear in court on Thursday to answer claims he isn’t a natural born citizen, and therefore, can’t be US president.
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The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy may soon have company. London's iconic Big Ben too is tilting. .... more »
A 71-year-old man who turned up at an Italian hospital with symptoms of cardiac trouble surprised doctors when it was discovered that he had two hearts.
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Wooing the increasingly affluent Indian tourists, President Barack Obama has issued an Executive Order to make it easier for travellers from emerging economies to get visas to visit the United States. .... more »
A 10,000 square feet strip-mall is reportedly being converted to a Hindu temple in Tracy, California. .... more »
Top Republican presidential candidates have denounced the contentious internet piracy bill arguing that it comes in the way of internet freedom and increases governmental control in the free cyber world.
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An Indian tourist visiting America in 2010 spent at an average more than Rs 2 lakh during their stay here, thus contributing an estimated whopping USD 2.86 billion to the US economy. .... more »
Michael Jackson's family has dropped a claim for compensation from the King of Pop's former doctor Conrad Murray over the star's sudden death in 2009, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. .... more »
An 11-year-old boy who saved eight of his school mates from a burning van in Uttar Pradesh, and a 14-year-old girl who rescued her brother from the Maoist attack in Chattisgarh are among the 24 children named for the National Bravery Awards this year for their exemplary acts of courage. .... more »
Gunmen killed at least 51 people in the latest ethnic clashes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, the region's governor said on Tuesday. .... more »
The captain of a doomed Italian cruise liner returned home to the Amalfi coast under house arrest on Wednesday, as fears grew that bad weather could hamper rescue efforts on the wreck.
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Around 400 of Britain's Nepalese Gurkha fighters will lose their jobs as part of defence cuts announced on Tuesday, which will see more than 4,000 posts slashed from the armed forces in total. .... more »
High levels of radiation have been detected in a condominium building in Japan’s Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture, which was built using crushed stones taken from an evacuation zone created in the aftermath of the nation’s nuclear crisis. .... more »
An Indian-origin woman in the US has given birth to her first child on a commuter train to New York.
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Indian-American South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has said the United States can't afford to have Barack Obama as the president for another four years. .... more »
Google India, which along with 20 websites is facing criminal case for allegedly hosting objectionable materials, on Monday told the Delhi High Court that blocking was not an option as democratic India is not a 'totalitarian' regime like China. .... more »
Rebello Russell Terrance, an Indian crew member on board the Italian cruise ship which ran aground in the Mediterranean Sea, is missing and has not been traced yet, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said.
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Michelle Obama delighted elementary and middle school children at the Hayfield Secondary School when she performed a ‘random dance’ along with cast members of the Nickelodeon show ‘iCarly’.
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In a strongly worded statement, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to immediately stop violence against his own people. .... more »
Media baron Rupert Murdoch used his new Twitter account this weekend to attack the Obama Administration's opposition to parts of proposed legislation designed to combat Internet piracy. .... more »
Mexican officials said Wednesday almost 13,000 people died in drug violence in the first nine months of 2011, pushing the death toll since the start of a five-year military crackdown above 47,000 .... more »
A Spanish navy ship on Thursday fought off a gun attack by pirates in the Indian Ocean, then chased and captured six of the attackers while one was reported killed, Spain's defence ministry said. .... more »
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