Japan quake-hit nuke plant may be shut for a year A Japanese nuclear power plant --the world's biggest -- may be shut down for more than a year while a safety study is made after an earthquake caused radiation leaks and...
Strong rupee hits Indians in the Gulf Weakness of the dollar has dragged the value of Gulf currencies to which it is pegged. As a result, Indian workers' salaries are nearly 30 per cent less in terms of rupee than a year ago.
Suicide bombings in Pak kill 38 31 people were killed, including seven police when suicide bombers hit a convoy of Chinese workers in southern Pakistan and a police academy in the north.
NYT reviews Potter before release The review, by Michiko Kakutani, appeared in the newspapers online version overnight, ahead of the official release of the eagerly awaited Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at 0001 British Summer Time on Saturday or 2301 GMT on Friday night.
Russia expels 4 UK diplomats The Russian move came as a reaction to Londons decision earlier this week to expel four Russian diplomats and imposition of curbs on visas for the Russian officials after Moscow refused to extradite Andrei Lugovoi.
An Iraqi child looks through a fence at a registering center for Iraqi refugees in Doma, a suburb of Damascus, Syria on Thursday. According to official statistics there are over 1.5 million Iraqis in Syria, who have fled the spiraling violence in their country.
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