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Pakistan’s army lodged a formal protest Friday to “allied forces” in neighboring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike this week that killed 14 people in a Pakistani border village.

 
 
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Myanmar’s military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists from reaching cyclone-battered regions where millions need food and medicine.

 
 
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The cyclone’s official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.

 
 
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Cracked dams and buckled roads, collapsed buildings and toppled factories _ China has begun to tally its losses from an earthquake this week that killed thousands and left thousands more missing, with estimates ranging to over $20 billion.

 
 
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The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar’s military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors’ suffering, two weeks after a killer cyclone left up to 2.5 million people destitute.

 
 
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A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a bus carrying riot police in Sri Lanka’s capital Friday, killing 10 people, including eight policemen, and wounding 85 others.

 
 
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A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl was convicted of a lesser charge Friday during a court martial and sentenced to four years in prison in a case that inflamed public anger at the American military presence on Okinawa.

 
 
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The Sichuan government says the official death toll from this week’s powerful earthquake in the Chinese province has risen to 21,500 people.

 
 
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Suspected Islamic militants have killed a Pakistani soldier in revenge for an alleged U.S. missile strike near the Afghan border, an official said Friday.

 
 
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The Sichuan government says the official death toll from this week’s powerful earthquake in the Chinese province has risen to 21,000 people.

 
 
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May 12 2008 by Atul0 Comments

‘Ambition is the path to success and persistence is the vehicle you arrive in’, I guess the developer of this self-made amphibious call it whatever was purely driven by this famous notion. And look what he got from a dubious heap of inox,...

 
 
May 10 2008 by Leena Komarraju2 Comments

China seems to be getting blow after blow in recent times. Recently it was criticized for bad handling of the Tibet riots by the international community and now, the illegal usage of child labor by its Southwestern factories is fast building up as a...

 
 
May 9 2008 by Atul0 Comments

Remember the advent of handheld videogames, where plastic based LEDs were the serene rulers. Taking inspiration from the bygone era, designer Tuomo Tammenpaa has developed a modern version of an electronic game prototype using tangible LED tiles,...

 
 
May 1 2008 by Arpita Mukherjee1 Comments

Above you see the picture of a young woman, Rukhma, who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan with her three-year-old son. In Pakistan, Rukhma was married to an abusive man who fathered her son, Bilal. Rukhma divorced her...

 
 
Apr 24 2008 by Vikas Shekhawat0 Comments

Moblf’s tagline ‘Web on SMS’ should be enough to tell you about the new service. Yes, I’m talking about the new FriendFeed app released by Moblf that allows you to get updates from various web services delivered to your mobile phones via SMS....

 
 
Apr 24 2008 by Vikas Shekhawat0 Comments

Moblf aims to bring Twitter like SMS functionality via its new FriendFeed app. The service uses text messaging to track 5 updates from your FriendFeed stream. Soon you’ll be able to reply to your friend’s activities via SMS in the form of comments....

 
 
Apr 14 2008 by Pooja5 Comments

She is not abiding by the stereotypical norms of Indian society which ought to be followed by all girls especially that of the rural region. As a girl enters the stage of adulthood, she steps across the threshold of her new phase of married life...

 
 
Apr 8 2008 by Pooja2 Comments

Have you ever witnessed a “human zoo”, a place where humans, more specifically women are exhibited in lieu of just £4? I know it sounds absurd but it ain’t. Women of the Kayan tribal community in Northern Thailand come under the paraphernalia...

 
 
Apr 3 2008 by Bharat3 Comments

Navjot Singh Sidhu, The Indian batting line-up is like a bicycle stand, one goes down and the entire row goes tumbling down.

The above opinion seemed to have been proven otherwise by the ever improving Indian cricket squad, be it down under or the...

 
 
Mar 29 2008 by Deepa0 Comments

The most basic and vital ingredient for living a healthy life is focusing on a proper intake of most basic element Oxygen. All of us know that but most of us cannot put it into practice for reasons best known to us. That’s when the need of...

 
 
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Louis Michel, the EU development commissioner, answers a question during a news conference at Suvarnabhumi international airport after his two-day trip to Yangon, Myanmar Friday, May 16, 2007. Michel said he was cautiously optimistic that Myanmar’s...