Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Now, Egyptian banker accused of molesting New York maid

Now, Egyptian banker accused of molesting New York maid

Now, Egyptian banker accused of molesting New York maid

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A 74-year-old former chairman of a top Egyptian bank was on Wednesday arraigned and is being held on USD 25,000 bail on charges of sexually abusing a housekeeper in a luxury hotel here, weeks after ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was detained on similar charges.


How far should you sleep from your cellphone?

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Can cellphones cause cancer? As the world debates a worrying new report by the World Health Organization, the man whose agency prepared that report speaks to NDTV about whether users need to think twice before using their phones.


Rats found on Qantas plane just before takeoff

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A flight crew checking the cabin of a Qantas plane before takeoff found rats in a compartment holding medical equipment, grounding the plane for more than a day, a spokeswoman said Thursday.


Japan's PM under pressure to resign over crisis

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Prime Minister Naoto Kan, facing a no-confidence vote in parliament, said Thursday he will consider resigning once Japan's efforts to recover from its earthquake and tsunami disaster take firm hold.


Capture Ilyas Kashmiri and Mullah Omar by July: US to Pakistan

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The United States has given Pakistan time till July to capture Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri and Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar. It has also warned of a military offensive in North Waziristan if they are not captured. The July deadline coincides with NATO and allied forces withdrawing from Afghanistan.


Europe's deadly E. coli is a puzzle

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European health officials tracking one of the worst E. coli outbreaks on record might never know where it came from. It's a sad fact of life in food poisoning cases: There often is no smoking gun.


Photos from stolen MacBook lead to thief's arrest

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The images began arriving in Joshua Kaufman's inbox. The grainy photos are low-lit and intimate: a man curled up on a couch, sound asleep; the same man propped up against pillows on a bed, shirtless.


Hosni Mubarak, sons to stand trial on August 3

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Former President Hosni Mubarak, who held absolute power in Egypt for nearly 30 years, goes on trial August 3 charged with corruption and intentionally killing protesters, a court official said on Wednesday.


European food outbreak soars; mystery deepens

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The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday.


Yemen protests: 41 killed in clashes between security forces and tribal fighters

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Government forces and tribal fighters exchanged gun and artillery fire in Yemen's capital early Wednesday, sending the crackle of gunfire and resounding booms over the city in fresh fighting that killed at least 41 people.


6.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Chile

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A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the south-central coast of Chile today in an area hit by a major temblor last year, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.


Endeavour's final act comes to an end

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Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, ending the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year programme with a safe landing in the middle of the night. Bright lights illuminated the landing strip for the shuttle crew, who made the 25th night landing out of a total of 134 shuttle flights.


ISI denies role in Pakistani journalist's death, calls allegations 'regrettable'

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Pakistan's main intelligence agency issued a rare media statement Wednesday to deny it was behind the abduction and killing of a journalist who was investigating terrorism.


Doctor who treated kids from Osama house

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For paediatrician Mehar Dil Wazir, they were normal children, like the dozens of others he treats daily for tummy upsets, coughs and colds. He thought the same about the two men who brought them to his simple clinic, a well-dressed pair who said they were cousins. But a few days after the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in this northwestern Pakistani town, intelligence agents told him his child patients lived in the same house as the Al Qaeda leader.


Pakistani journalists allowed to carry arms

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Journalists in Pakistan have been allowed to carry small fire-arms for self-defence in the wake of the murder of scribe Syed Saleem Shahzad, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik today said.


Lady Gaga's 'born' number one

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Lady Gaga sold more than 1.1 million copies of her new album "Born This Way" and set a digital sales record last week - with an assist from Amazon.com. Billboard announced Tuesday that "Born This Way" debuted at No. 1 on its Billboard 200 album chart, becoming just the 17th album to sell a million copies in its first week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991 and the top-selling digital debut.


South African envoy found guilty of hate speech

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South Africa's ambassador to Uganda, a country criticized for threatening the rights of gays, has been found guilty of hate speech for an anti-gay column he wrote before his appointment, the South African Human Rights Commission said Tuesday.


IAEA says Japan underestimated tsunami threat

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An International Atomic Energy Agency team says Japan's nuclear authorities underestimated the possibility of a massive tsunami hitting the Dai-ichi power plant but praised the overall response.


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