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Tehran, June 13: Iranian incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won the 10th presidential election with the majority of votes, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

By getting more than 75 percent of votes in the rural areas of the country, Ahmadinejad determinately wins the election, the IRNA said.

The report came just minutes after Iran’s reformist candidate and former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi called himself “definite winner” in the presidential election.

Hyderabad, June 11: A girl Sumera Khatoon who was critically injured yesterday when a Financer pushed of Old city pushed off from Historic Monument Charminar. The dead body of victim girl was preserved in the Mortuary of the Osmania General Hospital.

The long and unhappy odyssey of the Guantanamo Uighurs, from China’s Xinjiang province to Cuba via Afghanistan, is apparently about to end in a remote archipelago some call a Pacific island paradise.

The government of Palau, a nation of 20,000 people about two and a half times the size of the US capital, Washington DC, has announced it will accept up to 17 ethnic Uighur detainees following a request from the US.

Palau is better known for its coral reefs and lakes full of gently pulsating jellyfish than as a power player in international politics.

Washington, June 11: Israeli TV newscasters Tuesday night interpreted a photo taken Monday in the Oval Office of President Obama talking on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “insult” to Israel.

They saw the incident as somewhat akin to an incident last year, when the Iraqi reporter threw a shoe at President Bush in Baghdad.

It is considered an insult in the Arab world to show the sole of your shoe to someone. It is not a Jewish custom necessarily, but Israel feels enough a part of the Middle East after 60 years to be insulted too.

Hyderabad, June 10: In a daring daylight operation armed robbers looted 16 lakhs cash from a employee of a private firm in the Saidabad area of city.

The police went tizzy after the incident as robbers on point of knife kidnapped one Ramchander an employee of Jyothy Marketing by sprinkling chilli powder into his eyes from Saidabad Colony and later robbed the cash meant for the business purpose. The victim was let off in the Ramanthapur area city.

Jerusalem, June 10: Friedman, who today travels the country as a Chabad speaker, showed a less warm and cuddly side when he was asked how he thinks Jews should treat their Arab neighbors.

“The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle),” Friedman wrote in response to the question posed by Moment Magazine for its “Ask the Rabbis” feature.

Friedman argued that if Israel followed this wisdom, there would be “no civilian casualties, no children in the line of fire, no false sense of righteousness, in fact, no war.”

Washington, June 09: FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday defended the agency’s use of informants within U.S. mosques, despite complaints from Muslim organizations that worshippers and clerics are being targeted instead of possible terrorists.

Mueller’s comments came just days after a Michigan Muslim organization asked the Justice Department to investigate complaints that the FBI is asking the faithful to spy on Islamic leaders and worshippers. Similar alarm followed the disclosure earlier this year that the FBI planted a spy in Southern California mosques.

Hyderabad, June 08: In a gruesome incident a 10 year old boy who was kidnapped 20 days ago was murdered in city outskirts by his father’s business partner. Syed Osman Quadri who is the son of Syed Waheed Pasha Quadri was kidnapped on May 20 from Qazipura area and a case was registered in the Shahalibanda Police station.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed on Friday arguments that Israel and the Bush administration had an understanding under which Israel could keep expanding Jewish settlements on the West Bank.

Dov Weisglass, chief of staff to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said in an op-ed piece published this week in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot that the Bush administration and Israel had an understanding under which Israel could expand settlements within their existing boundaries.

Karachi, June 05: According to unconfirmed reports, wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Anees Ibrahim has allegedly been shot dead by unidentified assailants in Karachi late last night. Elder brother Dawood was also injured in the shootout, however, the degree of injuries are yet to be confirmed.

Sources revealed that the assassination bid is being attributed to members of the Bhatti faction, a local gang that has an interest in controlling the drug trade in Pakistan. It is believed that the Bhatti gang is associated with Dawood’s arch rival the Chota Rajan gang.

The election of four women, despite attacks on their wardrobe, suggests that Kuwaitis were voting for change this year.

Four years to the day after the election law was changed to give Kuwaiti women full political rights it looked as though the battle had been won as four outstanding women were elected to the national parliament.

Offering a glimpse of his much-anticipated speech to Muslims across the globe, US president Barack Obama said he will try to introduce, rather than impose, the United States and its set of “universal” values as a role model to the Muslim world.

“The thing that we can do most importantly is serve as a good role model,” Obama told, only two days before his speech on US-Muslim relations.

In the interview, Obama said he believes that “American” and Western values in general could be shared with the Muslim world.

Some important documents related to the Babri Masjid case seem to have been destroyed in the Lucknow secretariat of the Uttar Pradesh government as it has been unable to produce them before the special court since 2002.

Watch Karisma & Kareena on Salman`s 10 Ka DumWhat’s common to the tracks ‘Oonchi Hai Building Lift Teri Bandh Hai…’ (from the film Judwaa) and ‘Kyon Ki Itna Pyaar Tumse Kartein Hai Hum’ (from the film Kyon Ki)? Well, its not rocket science to figure out that, both the songs, which were picturised on Karisma and Kareena respectively, had the one and only Salman Khan in the lead!

And the hunky-dory Salman Khan is all set to be back with a bang, on the TV show that catapulted him straight into every Indian household and also sent the TRPs of Sony Entertainment Television shooting sky high.

Mumbai, May 27: Salman Khan probably feels it is high time he buries the hatchet between him and Shah Rukh Khan.

I mean, half his family is on best of terms with SRK. Maybe, he figures, it’s time he let bygones be bygones. What else could be the reason behind his decision to appear on one of SRK’s shows.

A cartoon YouTube video set to a Hannah Montana song made waves over the weekend for its whimsical depiction of numerous ways to murder a sixth grade schoolgirl.

The video was made by girls at a Spanaway, Washington school who apparently had a falling out with a classmate, Piper. The clip carries illustrations of Piper being shot, made to commit suicide, thrown off a cliff and poisoned.

“I was horrified,” Beth Smith, Piper’s mother, told KING5.

Sydney, May 25: Parents are being urged not to allow their kids to use website Wikipedia without supervision after an entry on a famous children’s book was edited to contain pornographic material.

Last week, sexual and violent acts between characters were added to the online plot summary for Mrs Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, which is recommended for students in years 5 to 9.

The edited page for the book, on the list for the Premier’s Reading Challenge, was visible for about an hour before it was changed to the original text.

One of Bollywood’s most popular singers, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, finds himself embroiled in a communal controversy for badmouthing the Muslim practice of namaaz and terming a reputed Indian advocate “a member of Taliban”.

The singer, who owns three flats at the Versova Breeze building in Andheri, Mumbai, has apparently been letting out his flats to a large group since more than two years, with about 40-50 people staying in them at a time and without obtaining the mandatory permission from the society or getting a police verification done.

Almost a quarter of Israel’s seven million citizens would consider leaving the country if Iran becomes a nuclear military power, according to a new poll.

The poll also shows that over 40 per cent of Israelis believe that their military forces should strike Iran’s nuclear installations without waiting to see whether US President Barack Obama’s plans for diplomatic engagement with Tehran work or not.

The Pakistani newspaper the Nation reports that, Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.”

The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan. It was disclosed by reputed US journalist Seymour Hersh while talking to an Arab TV in an interview.

Vivek Oberoi, whose name is now being linked to sitar player Anoushka Shankar, says good friend Kareena Kapoor pesters him most to find a suitable match for himself and settle down soon.

“The pressure (of getting married) is on, not only from my family but from even Bebo (Kareena’s pet name), ” Vivek, who will be seen with Kareena and Saif in Rensil D’Silva’s untitled film, told in an e-mail interview.

Muslim women who wear the face veil in Denmark will now have to bare their faces when their travel passes are being checked, Arriva — one of the country’s leading transport operators — said Tuesday.

“All bus companies have recently come to an agreement on this point as it is normal that passengers holding photo travel passes should identify themselves to the driver or the conductor,” Arriva spokesman Martin Wex said.

” I don’t drive with veiled women because I don’t drive with masked passengers ”
Bus driver

With skyrocketing divorce rates and a flurry of cases in which older men married young girls, Saudi Arabia is considering a new law to prohibit girls marrying before the age of 18, according to press reports Saturday.

Recognizing changes in contemporary society and the prevalence of divorce among girls married before they turn 18 years old, Justice Minister Mohamed al-Eissa declined to disregard fatwas that permit minor marriages but said that such religious rulings do not address its drawbacks.

Riyadh, May 1: An eight-year-old Saudi girl got divorced from her 50-year-old husband after the marriage drew severe criticism, the girl’s lawyer said Thursday.

Abdullah al-Jeteily said that the court in Onayza city approved the divorce decree after several officials in the region talked with the husband.

Two request by the girl’s mother for a divorce were rejected before, and one judge ruled that the girl would be able to file for divorce herself only after she reaches puberty.

HYDERABAD, April 22: Expressing serious concern over the lack of security for the lower-level judicial officials, several judges of the AP High Court on Tuesday conveyed their apprehensions to the Chief Justice Anil Ramesh Dave after the Tuesday’s acid attack on one of the district judges in East Godavari district.

The chief justice has called for a report on the alleged incident from the district and sessions judge of East Godavari.