Situation in Palestine to be restored to pre-factional clashes period
Hamas, Fateh sign peace deal In a last ditch effort to achieve reconciliation, Fateh and Hamas on Sunday signed a seven point Yemeni-sponsored reconciliation plan after nine months of hostilities.
Pope baptises Muslim scribe Italys most prominent Muslim commentator, who has long spoken out against Islamic fanaticism and received death threats as a result, has converted to Roman Catholicism during the Vaticans Easter vigil service presided over by the pope.
Green Zone under fire in Baghdad, 47 dead A wave of attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed 47 people, while insurgents fired a barrage of mortars at Baghdads heavily fortified Green Zone, sending US embassy staff scurrying into bunkers.
Paedophile charges no more against Clarke Describing the late visionary science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke as the pride of Sri Lanka, the government on Sunday said the decade-old allegations of paedophile levelled against him have been dropped.
Depressed Rowling wanted to die In a revelation, Harry Potter author J K Rowling has said that she had contemplated suicide while suffering from depression as a struggling single mother.
A Kurdish youth holds up a portait of rebel Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan during Newroz celebrations in Istanbul, on sunday. Two demonstrators died on Sunday as clashes between the police and Kurdish protestors continued for a third day, government and health officials said. The unrest erupted when celebrations to mark March 21 -- Newroz Day or the Kurdish New Year -- degenerated into demonstrations in favour of Kurdish rebels fighting the government as authorities banned gatherings in some cities. AFP
Does Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen’s decision to leave India indicate a setback to the country’s liberal image? Deccan Herald had invited its readers to opine on the issue. Many of our readers said India’s liberal image will not be tarnished by Taslima’s decision to leave and even termed her comments as ungrateful. Some others opined that the country has lost its credibility as a democracy because it bowed down to fundamentalists and Leftists of West Bengal.
