Rio de Janeiro, April 29: A Roman Catholic priest in Brazil is facing charges that he abused eight boys in cases dating back to 1995, prosecutors have said, adding to a growing list of allegations against clergy in Latin America.
Father Jose Afonso, 74, is accused of abusing altar boys between the ages of 12 and 16, Sao Paulo state prosecutors said in an e-mailed statement on Wednesday.
Washington, April 29: Alleging that Iran is evading its international responsibilities, the Obama administration has accused Tehran of indulging in “rope-a-dope diplomacy”.
“While Iran is travelling around the world doing what I would call, to use a boxing term, rope-a-dope diplomacy, trying to evade responsibility, we are in New York committed to the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), strengthening the global regime, and we want to see countries play a constructive role,” Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs PJ Crowley said.
Washington, April 29: A flight carrying 45 passengers from Houston to Washington was diverted on Wednesday after a message threatening a terror attack was found in the plane’s washroom, officials said.
“A threatening message was written on a lavatory mirror on board Continental Airlines flight 3006 from Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to Washington Dulles Airport (IAD),” the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said in a statement.
Mumbai, April 29: Arjun Rampal’s mentor and pal designer, Rohit Bal, is out of the hospital and back at home, recuperating slowly after a heart attack.
Says Arjun, “It was a scary wake-up call for Rohit. He is recovering. But it will take time. He will now be far more cautious about his health. Who doesn’t want to live? We all need to exercise restraint and keep regular hours.”
Arjun has two very contrasting releases, Raajneeti and Housefull, coming up one after another. Everyone is wondering why he is missing from the promotional songs of Housefull.
London, April 29: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown goes into his final pre-election debate on Thursday trying to rescue his Labour Party from defeat while fending off a gaffe in which he called one of his traditional voters “bigoted”.
Brown, whose critics paint him as socially unskilled and bullying, was caught on tape on Wednesday complaining about a woman in her 60s who had challenged his 13-year-old Labour government’s approach to immigration
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New York, April 29: Former US first lady Laura Bush writes in her forthcoming autobiography that she and her husband George W Bush may have been poisoned when they became ill at a summit in Germany in 2007, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Writing in her book ‘Spoken from the Heart’, due to be released in May, Laura Bush says that the US Secret Service probed whether the presidential delegation may have been poisoned at the G8 summit.
George W Bush spent part of the summit bedridden.
Mumbai, April 29: Read on, it’s all easy to follow and very encouraging! 1. It’s summer time and our body gets dehydrated very fast in the scorching sun.
This makes us feel slow even before its evening. So it’s very important for one to drink plenty of water.
As it helps maintain our energy levels, flushes out all the toxins of the body and makes skin glow by keeping it clean and clear.
Remember to chuck the sodas and canned juices and instead carry bottles of water around! 2. All of us want to get in shape or maintain.
Mumbai, April 29: Apple Inc may charge about $1 million for displaying advertisements on its mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal said, citing advertisement executives.
The rates may be even more to be among the first to advertise, the paper said.
Apple’s new advertising platform for the iPhone and iPad — dubbed iAd — marks Apple’s first foray into a small but growing market, and is sure to please the thousands of application developers who make their living off those devices, providing them with a new revenue stream.
Gaza City, April 29: Four Palestinians were killed and 10 injured when a smuggling tunnel under Gaza’s border with Egypt collapsed, medical sources have said, as security officials on the other side said they destroyed tunnels.
Witnesses said the cave-in occurred on Wednesday after an explosion on the Egyptian side of the tunnel, but security services in Gaza did not confirm that account.
However, Egyptian security officials said they had destroyed four tunnels north of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza, although they were unaware of any casualties.
Mumbai, April 29: It has been a roller coaster ride for Akshay Kumar. Ironically, he faltered at his own game. The Action King turned Comedy King following the success of a few of his comedy films. Following the failure of his actions films, he is back with a comedy flick.
After belting out hits like Namastey London, Welcome, Singh is Kinng and Heyy Babyy, Akshay Kumar went on to do five films last year. He seems to have learned his lessons with the debacle of Chandni Chowk to China and 8×10 Tasveer. Now, he is back with Housefull, a romantic comedy.
Pyeongtaek, April 29: South Korea honoured 46 sailors on Thursday with a tearful military funeral a month after a blast sank their warship, and officials vowed retaliation for those responsible as speculation mounted that North Korea may have torpedoed the vessel.
Beijing, April 29: A knife-wielding man wounded 28 children and three adults on Thursday at a kindergarten in eastern Jiangsu province, the second such violent assault at a Chinese school in two days.
Five of the students were in critical condition in hospital, said Zhu Guiming, an official with the propaganda department in Taixing city. Zhu said two teachers and a security guard also were hurt.
The attacker was a 47-year-old local man, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Mumbai, April 29: Akshay Kumar, who developed a knack for comedies with blockbusters like ‘Heyy Babyy’, ‘Singh Is Kinng’, ‘Bhagam Bhag’ doing wonders at the box office, is combining with sizzling hot Lara Dutta in Sajid Khan’s upcoming romantic comedy ‘Housefull’ to create a laugh riot for the audiences.
The movie is due for release tomorrow the world over and the hoi polloi has already become very excited to watch this latest offering from the Khiladi Kumar.
Beijing, April 29: China has agreed to build two new civilian nuclear reactors in Pakistan, a report said on Thursday, amid persistent concerns about the safety of nuclear materials in the restive south Asian state.
Chinese companies will build at least two new 650-megawatt reactors at Chashma in Punjab province, a newspaper said.
China began building a reactor at Chashma in 1991 and broke ground on a second one in 2005, which is expected to be completed next year, it said.
Bangkok, April 29: The Thai Army said on Thursday it would step up efforts to stop anti-government protesters in Bangkok getting more weapons, a day after a soldier died in the latest clash in a seven-week campaign to force early elections.
The violence stoked fears of more unrest ahead which could sink consumer confidence in southeast Asia’s second largest economy. The central bank is due to release growth forecasts later on Thursday.
Moscow, April 29: A bust-size statue of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin will be erected in the Russian city of Tambov ahead of the World War II Victory Day celebrations.
“The republican
committee of the North Ossetian Communist Party made the bust to express gratitude to the Tambov regional committee for helping South Ossetia during the conflict with Georgia (in August 2008),” Andrei Zhidkov, branch head of the Russian Communistic Party, said on Wednesday.
Mumbai, April 29: Bollywood beauty Amrita Rao met Ritesh Deshmukh’s Dad, not to complain about Riteish to his father, Incidentally they were on same flight.
Amrita Rao and Riteish’s Father and former CM Vilasrao Deshmukh had been together recently on a flight journey. Sources claimed that they had a nice time chatting, not about films but also about politics.
Bangkok, April 29: Thailand’s anti-government “Red Shirt” protesters on Thursday called for the European Union to send observers to Bangkok to prevent a crackdown as rival “Yellow Shirts” readied their own rally.
A day after clashes between the opposition demonstrators and troops left one soldier dead and 18 people injured, the Reds said they would go to the European Union delegation in Bangkok to ask the body to help in the crisis.
Santiago, April 29: A 16-year-old boy stabbed his brother, 18, to death in the Chilean capital here after a quarrel while playing a videogame, police said.
The incident occurred Tuesday night when the two siblings were playing a videogame with two other friends, police said Wednesday.
The victim, Manuel Munoz Gonzalez, and his brother, whose name has been withheld, lived with their adoptive mother, who is at present on a business trip to Belgium, they said.
—-IANS
New Delhi, April 29: The Union Health Ministry has admitted that proper guidelines were not adhered to while carrying out trials of HPV vaccine among young girls in Andhra Pradesh.
The admission was made by the Secretary Department of Health Research V M Katoch to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on health, headed by Amar Singh.
New Delhi, April 29: Come July, all postgraduate courses of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) will switch over to the semester system. Unlike Delhi University (DU), which is struggling to introduce the same at the undergraduate level, the new format at JMI is being ushered in without any apparent opposition from the faculty or students.
Hyderabad, April 29: A sudden surge in the number of passport seekers, shortage of staff and software glitches have conspired to cause a logjam at the Regional Passport Office (RPO), and applicants are frustrated.
The pendency of application now stands at little over 50,000 and applicants will have to be patient for a few more months.
“There is no immediate solution.
But we are taking a series of steps and the delivery mechanism will improve in 2-3 months,” says Regional Passport Officer Srinivas Gotru.
New Delhi, April 29: Over 200 institutions, including the Indian School of Business and ICFAI Business School, have been identified as unapproved institutions which are running courses in violation of regulations of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).
A total of 201 unapproved institutions offering technical and management courses have been identified by AICTE, a statutory body to standardise and regulate technical education, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
New Delhi, April 29: A celebrated actress from southern India was celebrating last night after the country’s supreme court cleared her of a series of criminal charges relating to an interview she gave in which she said it was all right for women to have pre-marital sex.
New Delhi, April 29: Taking exception to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s announcement outside Parliament rejecting demand for JPC into the IPL and phone tapping rows, BJP has given privilege notices in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
“I have got the notice. It is under my consideration,” Speaker Meira Kumar observed in the Lok Sabha after the BJP Deputy Leader Gopinath Munde supported by several of his party colleagues including Yashwant Sinha raised the matter.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari has also received a similar notice from BJP member Prakash Javadekar.