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All Rights Reserved. http://www.webindia123.com/123menu.jpg http://www.webindia123.com/ 144 28 Visit webindia123.com http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120210/1924870.htmlA study about British childrens knowledge of wild birds has revealed that they can name just three birds on an average.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120210/1924867.htmlAt least 14 people died in floods triggered by torrential rains in Peru, authorities said.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120210/1924862.htmlUS Defence Department Thursday announced it will open up over 14,000 positions to women, including those in direct ground combat units.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120210/1924861.htmlThe US said Thursday that it considered the new government in the Maldives as legitimate, calling for a peaceful settlement to the ongoing political unrest in the Indian Ocean island nation.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120210/1924853.htmlThree German tourists drowned Thursday when their submarine sank in the Red Sea off the Egyptian coast.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120210/1924852.htmlChina is probing a chemical spill from a South Korean cargo ship that partially contaminated the drinking water source of a city in eastern part of the country.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924829.htmlThe Maldives ousted president Mohamed Nasheed Thursday appealed to the world community to help restore democracy in his country, claiming that he was toppled by a small group of police officers and that police and the military were brutally suppressing people.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924804.htmlThe Maldives ousted president Mohamed Nasheed Thursday appealed to the world community to help restore democracy in his country, claiming that he was toppled by a small group of police officers and police and the military were brutally suppressing people.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924801.htmlA 19-year-old youth in a Chinese city has been detained for allegedly raping, robbing and killing a 91-year-old woman.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924800.htmlA 13-year-old girl in Britain had a contraceptive implant fitted at her school since she felt like having sex with her boyfriend.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924759.htmlA middle-aged woman in Britain was killed before her five children while trying to prevent the family dog from attacking them.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924753.htmlAuthorities in a Chinese city are planning to cut long speeches of officials that often leave issues at hand undecided and others at meetings quite bored.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924692.htmlThe Maldives ousted president Mohamed Nasheed Thursday appealed to the world community to help restore democracy in his country while stating that he was toppled by a small group of police officers.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924688.htmlAbout 1.5 million people have been affected by drought in Chinas Yunnan province, a media report said Thursday.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924631.htmlA day after he was ousted as the Malidivian president, Mohamed Nasheed has said what happened in the country should be traced to former dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayooms network and a result of his own vice presidents suspected role in planning the coup.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924582.htmlLiterary lothario Salman Rushdie, who is known to do rounds of fashion shows and art events, showed up at Vladimir Restoin Roitfelds West Village opening for Ouattara Watts art show, Vertigo.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924569.htmlHeavy snow Thursday halted traffic on a section of the China-Nepal highway, which links southwest Chinas Tibet autonomous region and Nepal, said traffic officials.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924524.htmlEgypt has refused to backtrack in a row with the United States over its onslaught on non-profit groups despite Washingtons threat to cut aid.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924521.htmlMalacca has become the first state outside India to recognize the ancient folk dance of Kolattam (a stick dance) in its annual tourism calendar.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924515.htmlThe crisis in the Maldives deepened Thursday with a court ordering the arrest of ousted president Mohamed Nasheed, who assured that he doesnt want a war as his family fled the country and took refuge in Sri Lanka.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924512.htmlOver 500 elephants have been killed by poachers at DR Congos Virunga national park since 2010, a senior government official has revealed.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924509.htmlSeveral e-mails posted on the web site of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission show an agency struggling to figure out how to respond and deal with the American public while cutting through what one official called the fog of information coming out of Japan with regard to the Fukushima nuke plant radiation leak crisis.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924507.htmlA Moldovan ballet dancer, who was allegedly dining with the captain of Costa Concordia before the Italian luxury cruise ship capsized, has denied claims that she was his lover, and rubbished reports suggesting her lingerie was found in his cabin on the night of disaster.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924505.htmlPrince Harry, who spent 10 weeks as an infantry soldier in Helmand in 2008, will return to Afghanistan after qualifying as a front line Apache attack helicopter pilot on Wednesday.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924499.htmlTurkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TUSAS) has delivered three modernized F-16 aircraft to Pakistani Air Forces.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924496.htmlThe international community may be forced to militarise the crisis in Syria unless President Bashar al-Assad stops the onslaught on his people, a senior US official has warned.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924495.htmlEuropean Council President Herman Wan Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will arrive here on a four-day visit beginning today to participate in the annual India-EU Summit scheduled to take place on Friday.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924492.htmlA US teen who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing her neighbours nine-year-old daughter because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone, has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924491.htmlThe Duchess of Cambridge took up her new role as a charity patron by visiting the National Portrait Gallery for her first major solo engagement.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924490.htmlA collection of Adolf Hitlers private photographs showing the Nazi leader in a series of bizarre poses to rehearse his public speeches has been released.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924484.htmlTeenagers in Britain now prefer using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to pass time rather than watching television, a survey has revealed.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924483.htmlThe US drone attack in a Miranshah compound near the Pak- Afghan border in early hours of Thursday killed an Al Qaedas chief in Pakistan, one of the US main targets, officials have said.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924443.htmlIndia should be worried over the quick-paced developments in the Maldives that saw the president quit and violence spread across the country, said an expert here.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924442.htmlA total of 55 people stranded on Chinas Xinjiang-Tibet highway since Tuesday following heavy snowfall have been rescued, a rescue team official said Thursday.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924431.htmlPakistani nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has said army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is answerable for the US drone attacks because he has taken an oath to safeguard the security of the country.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924430.htmlSaudi Arabias King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has ordered the arrest of a local newspaper columnist who was accused of blasphemy and abusing Prophet Mohammed.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924429.htmlPakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who took 24 wickets for Pakistan in the three Test series against England, has surprised the International Cricket Council with the claim that it had given him special dispensation to bend his arm 23.5 degrees.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924428.htmlFormer US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen has written a letter to the Pakistan Supreme Court to appear before the judicial commission investigating the Memo Gate scandal.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924427.htmlExternal Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, who is presently on a three-day visit to China, has proposed that 2012 should be celebrated as a year of friendship and cooperation between the two nations.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924347.htmlPakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that if Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani wrote the letter to the Swiss authorities for re-opening graft cases against President Asif Zardari, the case would be settled.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924333.htmlGutted vehicles and buildings in the picturesque Maldivian atoll Addu, which hosted the SAARC summit last year, are a stark reminder of the violence that swept through it following the ouster of Mohamed Nasheed as president.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924289.htmlA court in Maldives Thursday ordered the arrest of ousted president Mohamed Nasheed and former defence minister, a media report said.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924287.htmlAs violence spread across the Maldives Thursday, a lawmaker who is a supporter of ousted president Mohamed Nasheed said the new government of Mohamed Waheed is not a legitimate government.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924279.htmlA new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that President Barack Obama has relied on armed drones far more than his predecessor George W. Bush, and expanded their use beyond Americas defined war zones to counter terrorists.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924273.htmlA Chinese policeman, who has acquired a reputation for cracking down on organized crime, has reportedly gone a holiday, amid rumours that he is under investigation for corruption.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924272.htmlThe Pakistan Supreme Court has directed lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan to remove objectionable paragraphs from his appeal in connection with a contempt of court case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924265.htmlThe Islamabad High Court has rejected former defence secretary Lieutenant General (retired) Khalid Naeem Lodhis plea to temporarily restore him to his post by staying the implementation of his removal notification.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924264.htmlAl-Qaeda is currently at its weakest state since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, a top security adviser of Britains Home Office has said.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924232.htmlJohn F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as possible just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo, which subsequently made them illegal, it has been revealed.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924229.htmlIn a bid to shore up his power, new Maldives President Mohamed Waheed has appointed two new ministers including an army colonel who will be the minister of defence.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924199.htmlThe worlds biggest and most magnificent trees face a dire future - thanks to logging, deforestation, pest invasions and effects of climate change.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924196.htmlThe family of deposed Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed has fled the country and sought refuge in Sri Lanka following unrest, a media report said.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924195.htmlEgyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri has said that the countrys ruling military authorities would stay in power until June 30, despite the recent calls for an earlier transfer of power to a civilian administration.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924194.htmlYemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered a crackdown on Arab Spring protesters in 2011, which killed at least 270 people nationwide, a US-based human rights organisation has claimed.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924188.htmlThe Human Rights Watch has called on the United States to pressure the Pakistan government to curb crimes in Balochistan province, including extra-judicial killings, torture, illegal detention, disappearances and forced displacement.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924187.htmlThe family of deposed Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed has fled the country and sought refuge in Sri Lanka following unrest, a media report said.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924182.htmlApp economy could become the future job leader in the US as it has led to the employment of 466,000 workers in the last five years- a trend that will only continue to grow, a new study has revealed.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924179.htmlA drone attack targeting a house killed four people in Pakistans North Waziristan province in the wee hours of Thursday.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924178.htmlA group of 17 Indian men in the UAE, who were sentenced to six months in jail over bootlegging and murder charges are likely to be deported soon, their lawyer has said.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924162.htmlA senior US envoy scheduled to tour South Asia will make a stop in the Maldives Saturday, as the island nation is grappling with violence after a new president was sworn in, the State Department said.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924154.htmlChina, once a nation of bicycles, is reverting to it as a means of movement once again in a measure to push government vehicles off the roads at least once a week in a nationwide effort to conserve energy and curb pollution.http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20120209/1924145.htmlA suicide car bomber Wednesday struck a hotel frequented by officials in Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people.