Medical use of marijuana costs some a job |
- Medical use of marijuana costs some a job
- Can Porsche shine at Volkswagen?
- Gurkha regiment in Britain to become history?
- Indonesia issues red alert as volcano erupts
- Older people play catch-up on Facebook: Study
- China's growing HIV crisis, a result of social stigma
- Osama bin Laden is a CIA agent: Fidel Castro
- Pakistanis scramble to stay ahead of floodwaters
- Pakistan security forces end hostage drama in Peshawar
- A Russian spy resurfaces in provocative photos
- UN Congo report offers new view on genocide era
- Mosque near Ground Zero has America divided
- Neglected British boy becomes a dwarf
- Hostage crisis in Pak military compound after militant attack
- Pak refuses to accept flood aid directly from India
- Politician raffles breast implants to raise campaign money
- Insurgents attack 2 US bases in east Afghanistan
| Medical use of marijuana costs some a job Posted: Residents in 14 states and Washington can now appeal to their doctors for prescriptions for medical marijuana to help them with their pain. Their employers, however, may not be so understanding.
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| Can Porsche shine at Volkswagen? Posted: The formal merger of Porsche and Volkswagen is not supposed to happen until next year at the earliest, but at the factory that produces Porsche Cayenne SUV's, it seems to have started years ago.
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| Gurkha regiment in Britain to become history? Posted: World-famous Gurkha regiment, part of the British army for almost 200 years, may be among those axed unless the Ministry of Defence's demands for more money to fund the replacement of Trident nuclear missile submarines are answered.
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| Indonesia issues red alert as volcano erupts Posted: Indonesia issued a red alert after the Sinabung volcano on the island of Sumatra erupted, spewing smoke and ash 1,500 metres into the air and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people.
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| Older people play catch-up on Facebook: Study Posted: Social networking groups are no more an exclusive domain of teenagers or youngsters as it was a few years back, but now it is catering more for all those who are older but still young at heart.
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| China's growing HIV crisis, a result of social stigma Posted: 43-year-old Bei Fang is a former Chinese television anchor. But these days he is a counsellor for men who have sex with men, also known as MSM. His new role is crucial given the fact that homosexual transmission of HIV is increasing rapidly in China. Over 12 per cent MSM are infected with HIV.
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| Osama bin Laden is a CIA agent: Fidel Castro Posted: Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said that Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent who always popped up when former US President George W Bush needed to scare the world, arguing that documents recently posted on the Internet prove it.
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| Pakistanis scramble to stay ahead of floodwaters Posted: This town had already been evacuated because of the threat of flooding, but it filled up again on Saturday with tens of thousands of people fleeing floodwaters that had inundated surrounding districts and villages after the Indus River broke its embankments in several places.
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| Pakistan security forces end hostage drama in Peshawar Posted: Security forces stormed an army intelligence office in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday and freed two people who had been taken hostage by escaped militant prisoners, officials said.There were no fatalities in the operation and the militants surrendered.
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| A Russian spy resurfaces in provocative photos Posted: Anna Chapman, the young Russian who garnered more attention for her looks than her skullduggery in the espionage scandal this summer, resurfaced here this week with the publication of provocative photographs of her posing in a hotel room overlooking the Kremlin.
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| UN Congo report offers new view on genocide era Posted: A forthcoming United Nations report on 10 years of extraordinary violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo bluntly challenges the conventional history of events there after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, charging that invading troops from Rwanda and their rebel allies killed tens of thousands of members of the Hutu ethnic group, including many civilians.
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| Mosque near Ground Zero has America divided Posted: The national motto of the United States is e pluribus unum - out of many, one. In most of our lifetimes, no moment has exemplified this better than 9/11. Now, almost a decade later, a proposal to build an Islamic centre and mosque - two blocks from the World Trade Centre (WTC) site - has sharply divided the country.
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| Neglected British boy becomes a dwarf Posted: A nine-year-old boy in Britain was neglected so badly by his mother that it shunted his growth, leaving him a dwarf. The boy, who was not named, developed a condition called 'psychosocial dwarfism', in which body stops producing a growth hormone due to extreme stress. This left him significantly shorter than his six-year-old brother.
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| Hostage crisis in Pak military compound after militant attack Posted: Captured militants, who were being interrogated at a Pakistani military intelligence compound near the US consulate in Peshawar, overpowered their guards today, sparking a hostage crisis in the northwestern city.
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| Pak refuses to accept flood aid directly from India Posted: Government sources have told NDTV that Pakistan has refused to accept flood aid directly from India. Islamabad wants the aid routed through the United Nations. Government sources indicate that the $5 million in aid will be sent to the UN.
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| Politician raffles breast implants to raise campaign money Posted: A Venezuelan politician is holding an unusual raffle to raise campaign cash. The grand prize: breast implants. For a little under $6 a ticket, donors get the chance to win the pricey operation free of charge.
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| Insurgents attack 2 US bases in east Afghanistan Posted: Insurgents launched pre-dawn attacks on Saturday on a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistan and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing. NATO said there were no coalition casualties and the attacks were repelled.
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