| Pakistan's elite behave like foreign agents: AQ Khan |
Islamabad, Aug 13: Pakistan’s elite “toe the American line and behave like foreign agents”, said disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan who lamented the “current inept and corrupt rulers have destroyed the country in every sense of the word”.
In an article Bad habits don’t die in the opinion section of the News International, Khan said that the... |
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| Allow Sikhs to wear turban, beard: New York official |
New York, Aug 13: In the wake of the tragic Wisconsin gurdwara shooting, a senior New York City official has asked Mayor Michael Bloomberg to allow Sikh police officers to serve without forsaking their turbans and beards.
In a letter to the mayor, the city’s chief financial officer, Comptroller John C Liu commended Bloomberg for his words of comfort and support to the city’s... |
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| 'We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give' |
London, Aug 13: “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give,” former British prime minister Winston Churchill is known to have said once. And, now researchers have established the key behind the advantage of giving over receiving.
According to the study, thinking of being generous encourages people to be more helpful while contemplating gifts received ma... |
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| Top military dismissals are in Egypt's interests: Morsi |
Cairo, Aug 13: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Monday said the dismissal of the country’s powerful defence minister and a top military general has been done in the country’s interest. On Sunday, Morsi signed decrees on the retirement of Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, and the military chief of staff, Lt Gen. Sami Anan. Tantawi, the defence minister headed the military counc... |
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| Forced marriages, insecurity worry Pakistani Hindus |
Islamabad, Aug 13: Forced marriages of their women and security issues have emerged as major concerns for Pakistani Hindus, according to a body formed by Asif Ali Zardari. Its head Maula Bux Chandio, however, said the issue was not as serious as was being portrayed in the media. But he acknowledged that Hindus suffered from a sense of deprivation, Geo News reported. In 2011, a total of 7,000 Pakis... |
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| Stethoscope helps doctors win patients' trust |
Sydney, Aug 13: Doctors sporting ‘iconic’ medical symbols like stethoscope during e-consultations seem to win their patient’s trust, says a new Australian research.
The six-month e-health project was undertaken by researchers at the Curtin University Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) and funded by Curtin’s Office of Research and Development.
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| Arctic ice could vanish within 10 years: Scientists |
London, Aug 13: Arctic sea ice could vanish within 10 years as it is melting much faster than previously believed, thanks to global warming, warn scientists, claiming that the process is 50 per cent faster than the current estimates. New satellites being operated by the European Space Agency paint a grim picture of 900 cubic km of ice already having melted over the last year. This is 50 per cen... |
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| Chinese man who slices fruits and veggies with playing cards |
London, Aug 13: A man from China, is trying to create a Guinness world record, with the help of his unique ability to cut fruits with simple plastic playing cards. Ye Tongxin (48) is attempting to set a record of most fruits cut with playing cards under a minute. It may look simple, but he has been honing this ability for the past 10 years. During the day, he is a manager of school buses in his ho... |
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| Palestinian prisoner's wife delivers baby via smuggled semen |
Ramallah, Aug 13: A Palestinian prisoner’s wife on Monday delivered a baby conceived through artificial insemination after the father’s semen was smuggled out from his Israeli prison. The baby was born in a hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus and doctors said the process was unprecedented, Xinhua reported. “The operation and the birth succeeded and the mother and the baby ar... |
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| Chinese woman held for smuggling deer genitals |
Moscow, Aug 13: A Chinese woman has been held in Russia while trying to smuggle dried deer genitals in her purse. Employees at the Blagoveshchensk-Heihe international passenger checkpoint in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur Region detained the Chinese woman, said a customs official Vitaly Shebanov on Monday. Deer genitals are used in alternative medicine as an aphrodisiac in China and thought to tr... |
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| US ready to aid Iran in quake relief |
Washington, Aug 13: The White House has expressed condolences over the loss of life in Iran’s latest earthquake, and said Washington was ready to help. “The American people send the Iranian people our deepest condolences for the loss of life in the tragic earthquake,” Xinhua quoted White House spokesman Jay Carney as saying on Sunday. “Our thoughts are with the families of ... |
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