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18-yr-old is first female victim in Syria crackdown
LONDON: An Syrian teen,whose mutilated body was discovered by her family in a morgue while there to identify her brothers corpse,is thought to be the first woman to die in custody in the unrest,Amnesty International said Friday. Zainab al-Hosni,18,had been decapitated,her arms cut off and skin removed.
NASA satellite will fall in Indian Ocean
WASHINGTON: Russian space experts have forecast that the six-tonne NASA satellite which is set to crash on Earth soon,is likely to fall in the Indian Ocean,north of the Crozet Islands. But NASA said it was still too early to predict the exact crash site.
DSK,French writer to face each other in court
PARIS: Former IMF chief Dominique Strass-Kahn and French writer Tristane Banon,who has accused him of trying to rape her in 2003,have been ordered to appear before a judge to tell their stories as part of an investigation into the case.
Head of troubled Korea bank kills himself
SEOUL: Jeong Gu-Haeng,head of South Koreas Jeil 2 Savings Bank,jumped to his death on Friday as prosecutors expanded their investigation into an alleged corruption scandal by raiding his and six other banks.
US reopens mission in post-Gaddafi Tripoli
TRIPOLI: The US formally reopened its embassy in Libya Thursday. The returning ambassador said the US was cautiously optimistic about the future and trying to help American companies do business here.
