The women were involved in prostitution: Pak hardliners
Chinese hostages freed The foreign women were involved in prostitution in a massage centre, the religious students who kidnapped the nine people said in a statement before their release.
Finally, EU clinches reform treaty deal The deal could relaunch the political integration of Europe after two years of gloom and introspection since referendums sank the constitution, dramatising public disaffection with a project seen as remote and bureaucratic.
Lanka crisis to be studied by donor nations The Co-Chairs will explore ways and means in which the group, as a whole or as individual countries, can continue helping the parties to cease violence and return to the negotiating table.
Threats hound UKs first Muslim MP The 54-year-old Labour MP told party activists that he would not be contesting his Glasgow Central seat at the next election because his family was threatened by a gang allegedly linked to the racist murderers.
A Turkish woman, wearing a mask of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk, marches with a national flag during a silent protest in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday.Thousands of people marched in a silent demonstration to protest attacks by separatist Kurdish rebels in Turkey's southeast. AP
The nations conscience is divided between whether to retain incumbent President Abdul Kalam or anoint a woman president in the form of Pratibha Patil. Will the UPA candidate Ms Patil make a better constitutional head than Mr Kalam? Certainly not, feel a majority of Deccan Herald readers. Since Ms Patil will become a pawn in the hands of her political boss, they want someone with a firm hand to be in the post.
