Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Scandal grows over UK tabloid hacking girl's cell

Scandal grows over UK tabloid hacking girl's cell


Scandal grows over UK tabloid hacking girl's cell

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Political pressure is bearing down on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of the News Corporation in Britain, following allegations that one of the company's newspapers hacked the cellphone of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002, when Ms. Brooks was its editor.


Christine Lagarde's first day as IMF chief

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Christine Lagarde arrived at the Washington, DC, headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday, the first day of her five year tenure as the managing director of the international fund.


Sudan boat tragedy: Nearly 200 migrants feared dead

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Nearly 200 African migrants were feared drowned Tuesday after a boat carrying them to Saudi Arabia caught fire off Sudan's northeastern coast, a semiofficial news agency reported.


Lagarde takes over as the new chief of the IMF

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Christine Lagarde on Wednesday took over as the new chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), replacing Dominique Strauss-Kahn, as it gears to play a key role in shaping the global economic future, giving more voice to emerging economies like India.


Women Afghan MPs fight, water bottle thrown

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An ugly brawl erupted in parliament between two female Afghan MPs on Tuesday after a row about one of the country's vice-presidents.


Strauss-Kahn accuser files libel suit

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The woman's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, filed the claim on Tuesday in Bronx state Supreme Court. A series of Post articles over the weekend said the 32-year-old was a "prostitute," and "hooker" and that she "traded sex for money."


Man kills ex-wife for calling him 'eunuch'

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An Australian chef killed his former wife after she allegedly called him a "eunuch" and "sexually incompetent", a media report said on Tuesday.


One in three women take pills to beat depression: Study

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One in every three women in UK take the help of anti-depressants to relieve despair at some point in their lives, a new study has found.


US believes ISI ordered murder of reporter Saleem Shahzad

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Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials.


World's longest sea bridge draws safety concerns

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Questions have been raised over the safety of the world's longest sea bridge that connects China's eastern Qingdao city with Huangdao Island, a media report said on Tuesday.


Tabloid accused of hacking into murdered girl's phone

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A lawyer for the family of a murdered British schoolgirl has accused The News of the World tabloid newspaper of hacking into her mobile phone after she went missing. The new claims add to a widening scandal surrounding the tabloid, which is under police investigation and battling lawsuits into its alleged phone-hacking activities.


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