First woman Speaker elected; PM candidate finalised
Oppn votes PPP's choice PPP nominee Fehmida Mirza, a loyalist of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was on Wednesday elected as the first woman Speaker of Pakistan's National Assembly (NA), the lower house of the parliament.
India to pay 42.4 mn tax A US court has ordered India to pay a real estate tax of US 42.4 million dollars after it rejected New Delhi's argument that a 26-storey building occupied by its diplomatic staff is exempted from tax under international treaties.
Wolf in monk's robe, says China to Lama China on Wednesday called Dalai Lama a "wolf in monk's robes" and further said it was locked in a "life-and-death battle" in Tibet after facing the strongest challenge to Beijing's rule in two decades.
Sci-fi guru dies at 90 Science fiction author Arthur C Clarke, 90, who died on Wednesday, captured the world's imagination with his vision of the future in books such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and predicted communication satellites.
Clarke predicted space age Arthur C Clarke's work was also prophetic in nature: his detailed forecast of telecommunications satellites in 1945 came more than a decade before the first orbital rocket flight.
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