Month: June 2010

Toronto, June 26: A Canadian woman is set to escape charges after flashing her breasts at a five-year-old boy to settle a noise dispute.

Marika De Florio said the boy was driving her mad by driving a loud all-terrain vehicle past her house.

She decided to go topless in the street so the boy’s grandparents would be forced to call him inside.

The raunchy tactic did the trick but horrified the boy’s grandparents, Mike and Nancy Berry. Mike called the police in Seeley’s Bay, Ontario, to report her.

Toronoto, June 26: World leaders and donor groups have pledged $7.3 billion in aid by 2015 to reduce child mortality and save women in poor countries from dying in childbirth, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday.

The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrial economies have pledged $5 billion, while non-members such as New Zealand, Norway and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have pledged a further $2.3 billion, Harper said.

Johannesburg, June 26: South Africa, host to thousands of foreign visitors for the soccer world cup, warned Friday of spread of flu during next couple of weeks.

The country’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases said the number of influenza cases are expected to increase in the next two to three weeks during winter, Xinhua reported.

The FIFA World Cup continues until July 11.

The current number of flu cases are “low to moderate”, an official at the institute said in a statement.

Vienna, June 26: The world’s largest gold coin, weighing 100 kg with a diameter of 52 cm, was sold for 3.27 million euros (about $3.99 million) at an auction here.

Spanish dealer Oro Direct offered the price and became the owner, Xinhua reported.

Six bidders were registered for the auction. Oro Direct offered the bid in a written form, while the other five applicants participated through telephone.

The coin was originally owned by Auer von Welsbah (AvW), an Austrian investment management company, which went bankrupt in May 2010.

Washington, June 26: The United States has expressed its appreciation for the increasing dialogue between Pakistan and India, saying it’s in their self-interest and larger US interest to reduce tensions through talks.

“Just as we’ve said many, many times, we appreciate and certainly endorse increasing dialogue between Pakistan and India,” State Department spokesman Phillip J Crowley told reporters Friday when asked about the talks in Islamabad.

Toronto, June 26: As Toronto virtually went under lockdown before the G-20 summit beginning Saturday, anti-globalisation protesters marched through city streets to give the security forces a tough time. In one such anti-poverty protest, Mahatma Gandhi figured prominently.

As more than 200 protesters played hide and seek with security forces, one could read this message from Gandhi on a few T-shirts:

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and

to deny him the ordinary amenities of life

Is worse than starving the body;

It is starvation of the soul,

New Delhi, June 26: Indian officials noted with satisfaction the statement issued by the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) on the prospect of civil nuclear cooperation with it but were wary about the stance taken by the 46-member body on the proposed China-Pakistan nuclear deal,
Indian officials, who were closely watching the developments of the June 21-25 meeting of NSG, said these were largely to New Delhi’s satisfaction.