The Hindu newspaper reported that the bizarre incident happened on Air India's flight IC-727 that was heading to Yangon with 135 passengers on board. More...
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In a recent incident, a client known as Ping said he was asked to lie on the bed before choosing a free DVD pornographic movie to watch as a "warm-up". More...
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Incidentally, the report said that domestic tourists were"overwhelmingly involved" in sex with commercial sex workers while foreign tourists were "engaged" in paedophilia and sex with minors through short-term marriages. The study, however, clarified that foreign tourists visiting India for sex were restricted to a few places rather than the entire country. More...
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Adjuvants are additives that boost the body's response to a vaccine and lowers the dose needed. They are not licensed in the US at present because of widespread public suspicion of new vaccine ingredients. More...
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They also called for all police - including support staff - to place their own DNA on the national database in a show of solidarity with a public being routinely placed under suspicion. More...
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And while it is criticized by animal-rights protesters, the festival is defended as a centuries-old tradition. More...
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Living conditions for Swedish pigs are worse than previously realized, an animal rights group claims, citing its own video evidence.
On one pig farm owned by the chairman of the board of Swedish Meats, an association representing more than 17,000 livestock farmers in Sweden, the group recorded footage of pigs chewing on the carcass of a dead pig.
The Animal Rights Alliance (Djurrättsalliansen) has visited hundreds of farms over the last two years, according to Sveriges Radio (SR).
The group claims to have found grave violations of Sweden’s animal protection laws at basically every farm it visited. More...
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Onion and garlic are traditional remedies in Moldova where they are widely believed to boost the immune system. More...
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Speaking to reporters, Police inspector Rajesh Kumar Gautam said, "In the incident, the woman suffered a miscarriage. She is undergoing treatment at a hospital." More...
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But nothing could have prepared him for being told his dad was... serial killer CHARLES MANSON.
Over a five-week period in the summer of 1969, Manson and his Family of commune followers committed a series of nine gruesome murders. Victims included pregnant actress Sharon Tate, wife of film director Roman Polanski.
Matthew, 41 - who bears a haunting resemblance to his father - sank into depression after discovering his identity.
He has since been in contact with his dad in a series of letters to his California prison and Manson has replied - each time chillingly signing off with a swastika. More + photos...
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As countries around the world prepare to flex their negotiating muscles at next month's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has begun to question the Western model of computing global warming statistics.
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh released a report last week that says there is no conclusive evidence that climate change has caused the melting of the Himalayan glaciers. The report says that not all of the glaciers are receding at alarming rates and that a few are even advancing.
The report, an analysis of data from the past four decades, is part of India's efforts to produce a body of indigenous research assessments on the subject. More...
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It was an emotional and nostalgic journey for Nirmala Rajasingham - the first woman to be detained under Sri Lanka's anti-terror laws in 1982 - when she visited her home town after nearly three decades. More...
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After that, if you believe the goody-goody accounts provided by the girls and their employer, they are bussed demurely home to shared accommodation, where they sleep the sleep of the just. Next quarter, next month or next week, Miss Seema, Miss Ritu, Miss Kareena and Miss Sonam might give way to Miss Anjali, Miss Rita, Miss Sonali and Miss Divya. It doesn’t matter much. ‘‘These aren’t their real names, new girls in the 19 to 27 age group are always available and change keeps everything fresh,’’ explains Sadanand Shetty, the 30-something owner of Dhamaal, which is expanding as an Indian entertainment club chain despite the recession. More...
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But experts investigating the death say it was likely to have been caused by the patient’s ‘significant underlying health conditions’ rather than the vaccine itself. More...
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It is likely not what Karl Marx had in mind when he imagined a society transformed "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," but Juventud Rebelde reported on Friday that the silicon and silver penis implants are set to become more common. More...
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But the payments dried up this fall and when Blanchard called Manulife, she says she was told she was available to work because of Facebook. More...
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Ainsi, le réchauffement tant prophétisé et les hausses de températures qu’on avait observées pendant les années 90 commencent à montrer des signes de stagnation, voire de diminution, ce qui fiche un peu mal des modèles climatiques dont on vantait naguère la justesse. Suite...
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Des dizaines de chats vivent dans les cellules et les locaux occupés par des prisonniers Palestiniens dans plusieurs prisons israélienneqs et, apparemment, les chats essayent de les aider.
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M. Cregan a isolé dans le lait maternel ces cellules souches qui jouent un rôle dans l'immunité. "Le lait maternel est le seul tissu adulte dans lequel plus d'un type de cellule souche a été découvert. C'est vraiment unique et cela en dit beaucoup sur l'impressionnante activité biologique du lait maternel et les bénéfices pour l'enfant ainsi nourri", a-t-il expliqué au magazine. Suite...
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La graisse était achetée pour être commercialisée dans des laboratoires européens de cosmétologie, a expliqué le procureur chargé de l'enquête. Elle pouvait se vendre 15 000 $US le gallon (près de 4 litres) dans ces pays, a précisé le directeur de la division criminelle de la police péruvienne. Suite...
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Dans une lettre dont l'AFP a obtenu copie vendredi, la comédienne, reconvertie depuis plus de vingt ans dans la protection des animaux, demande au chef de l'Etat Ram Baran Yadav d'interdire les sacrifices animaux à des fins religieuses, qualifiant cette pratique de "violente, cruelle, inhumaine". Suite...
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A Singapore court on Saturday sentenced a celebrity Buddhist monk who ran one of the city-state's most popular charities to 10 months in jail for fraud, a media report said.
Shi Ming Yi, 47, and his former personal assistant Raymond Yeung, 34, were convicted in October of conspiring to take an unauthorised loan of 50,000 Singapore dollars (36,000 US dollars) from the Ren Ci charity in May 2004.
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The high-living Ming Yi, founder of charity Ren Ci Hospital which provides medical care for the elderly, had been described by local media as "the monk with the five C's" - cash, credit card, car, condominium units and country club membership. Full story...
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Police in Germany, Britain, Austria and Switzerland cracked down on the ring on Thursday, staging simultaneous raids that resulted in 15 arrests in Germany and two in Switzerland. More...
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The dog reportedly climbed up the roof of a three-story building and leapt to its death in the dead of the night.
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But then, just as my pencil was being sharpened to commit heresy, Roy Keane entered the debate, like the snarling, vile, putrid pitdog that he is. More...
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A man who was captured by the Taliban spent 24 days being starved and beaten in Afghanistan persuaded his tormentors to release him by cooking them curry.
Somen Debnath was travelling through the war-torn country as part of a five-year bicycle ride through 33 countries to promote Aids awareness.
But he was taken by armed militants – who assumed he was a spy – as he travelled through the remote region of Herat.
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But after realising that one of his captors had a very basic grasp of English, he convinced him to allow him to cook them all a meal.
The Taliban kidnappers were so impressed with his banquet they decided he was ''safe'' and let him go. Full story...
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Your blog provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba. It is telling that the Internet has provided you and other courageous Cuban bloggers with an outlet to express yourself so freely, and I applaud your collective efforts to empower fellow Cubans to express themselves through the use of technology. The government and people of the United States join all of you in looking forward to the day all Cubans can freely express themselves in public without fear and without reprisals. More...
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"She went to the music room at about 3.30pm without suspecting anything amiss. He then proceeded to strip and fondle her private parts before performing oral sex on her." More...
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Her remarks came during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that prohibits the kind of punitive treatment Israelis have been accused of by human rights groups. More...
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The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement, without proof or evidence or trial), as well as a plan to beat the hell out of the video-game industry with a new, even dumber rating system (why is it acceptable for the government to declare that some forms of artwork have to be mandatorily labelled as to their suitability for kids? And why is it only some media? Why not paintings? Why not novels? Why not modern dance or ballet or opera?). More...
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The minister was talking in reference to poor facilities for disposing municipal waste in a majority of Indian cities. More...
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