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Barca set for Spanish title

May 1, 2006

Barcelona moved within two points of its second straight Spanish League title, beating Cadiz 1-0 on Ronaldinho’s 16th goal of the season.

May 1, 2006

Searching for their Western dream, Indians stranded in Sahara

April 29, 2006

42 Indians stranded in Zouerat for months, depend on local handouts, duped by agents who promised them a pass to Europe

April 29, 2006

Lanka air strikes end amid threat of civil hostilities

April 29, 2006

Sri Lanka today reopened roads linking government and Tamil Tiger rebel-held territory after two days of air strikes against guerrilla areas ended...

April 29, 2006

Olmert partners Labour

April 29, 2006

The incoming Israeli government will move swiftly to draw a final border with the West Bank, withdrawing from parts of the area and speeding up construction of a massive separation barrier...

April 29, 2006

Kaavya’s novel taken off shelves

April 29, 2006

A teen novel containing admittedly borrowed material has been pulled from the market. Kaavya Viswanathan, a Harvard University student, had acknowledged that numerous passages in How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life were lifted from another writer.

April 29, 2006

Chirac wants World Bank fund to aid Palestinians

April 29, 2006

French President Jacques Chirac called on Friday for the creation of a World Bank fund to pay the salaries of Palestinian officials...

April 29, 2006

Tough agenda for Nepal MPs

April 29, 2006

Nepalese legislators headed back to work on Friday after a four year-break—their jobs reinstated by a monarch whose regime was left teetering by weeks of unrest...

April 29, 2006

Da Vinci Code judge adds his own puzzle

April 28, 2006

The British judge who presided over the Da Vinci Code trial has put a code of his own into his judgment and said he would ‘‘probably’’ confirm it to the person who breaks it.

April 28, 2006

Publisher spurns Kaavya’s apology for plagiarism

April 27, 2006

Teenage author Kaavya Viswanathan has acknowledged taking material from fellow novelist Megan McCafferty, but says the borrowing was an accident. McCafferty’s publisher does not believe her.

April 27, 2006

Two Islamic militants captured in B’desh

April 27, 2006

Bangladeshi security forces have captured two commanders of an outlawed Islamic militant group blamed for a string of bombings that killed 26 people last year, officials said

April 27, 2006

CIA flights violated treaty: EU probe

April 27, 2006

The US Central Intelligence Agency has conducted more than 1,000 undeclared flights over European territory since 2001 — a clear violation of an international treaty, European Parliament investigators said

April 27, 2006

Lanka is back on boil as Tigers strike army chief

April 26, 2006

Colombo launches air strike after Army chief critical, 10 killed by bomber disguised as pregnant woman

April 26, 2006

Borrowed lines may have been accidental: Kaavya

April 26, 2006

A Harvard University sophomore with a highly publicised first novel acknowledged on Monday that she had borrowed material, accidentally, from another author’s work and promised to change her book for future editions.

April 26, 2006

Egypt resort bombing: Toll rises to 24, police hold 10 for questioning

April 26, 2006

Police arrested 10 people on Tuesday and divers retrieved body parts from the sea after a triple bomb attack that ripped apart a Sinai beach resort at the height of Egypt’s tourist season, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 80, many of them foreigners.

April 26, 2006

Bangladesh axe Ashraful, Rasel

April 26, 2006

Bangladesh are trying hard to make a comeback, in the next limited-overs match versus Australia, and in the effort, their selectors have rested Mohammad Ashraful and swing bowler Syed Rasel.

April 26, 2006

No longer offside: Iranian women allowed into stadiums

April 25, 2006

Iranian women will be allowed to attend soccer matches for the first time since the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran’s president said in a decree posted on his website on Monday.

April 25, 2006

Ahmadinejad may opt out of NPT, calls Israel fake regime

April 25, 2006

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hinted on Monday that Iran would consider withdrawing from the UN nuclear if membership produced no benefit.

April 25, 2006

Pakistan claims no information on Laden

April 25, 2006

Pakistan has no information on where Al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden could be hiding, a cabinet minister said today.

April 25, 2006

At least 22 dead, 150 injured in Egypt’s Sinai resort blasts

April 25, 2006

Three bombs rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of the tourist season on Monday night, killing at least 22 people and wounding more 150 at just one hotel, according to police and the doctor who runs Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula rescue squad.

April 25, 2006

Abbas warns Hamas he can eject them from power

April 25, 2006

The Palestinian president said in an interview aired on Monday that he has the authority to remove the newly elected Hamas government from power, and warned the government that it had little choice but to negotiate with Israel.

April 25, 2006

Lawmakers face coup charges in Philippines

April 25, 2006

Government prosecutors on Monday filed rebellion charges against a former Senator, six left-wing lawmakers and 42 others suspected of plotting a coup in February, officials said.

April 25, 2006

Bombs, corpses: Iraq chaos continues

April 25, 2006

A series of car bombs rocked Baghdad on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring nearly 80, in an apparent campaign to discredit Iraq’s new leadership.

April 25, 2006

China’s Hu Jintao talks to Saudis on building strategic fuel reserve

April 25, 2006

China is interested in Saudi Arabia’s providing oil for a strategic fuel reserve, and President Hu Jintao discussed this with Saudi officials during his weekend visit, a senior Saudi official said Monday.

April 25, 2006

West at war with Islam: Laden

April 24, 2006

Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Sunday, purportedly saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed UN force in Darfur.

April 24, 2006

US Senate leader’s new immigration Bill plans

April 23, 2006

The us senate majority leader is hoping to revive an immigration Bill that would tighten border security while giving illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship, senate Republican aides say.

April 23, 2006

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