The disaster management cell of the Maharashtra state government said the lower figure - down from 195 - was due to "double-counting" of the dead at hospitals in the wake of the militant strikes...
“There are no answers to what happened,” said Rabbi Asher Bronstein of Chabad Lubavitch of Merrimack Valley, who went to the same Brooklyn day school Gavriel Holtzberg attended. “It just shows how crazy the world is and that we should go out and do good in their memory.”..
WITH her murdered husband's body covered in marigolds and draped with the Indian flag, Mansi Shinde pushed away the pallbearers, refusing to let him go...
India's financial capital, Mumbai, was rocked by a series of gun attacks and blasts last night that targeted luxury hotels and restaurants – and especially British and American visitors. At least 80 people were reported to have been killed and up to 250 injured....
His press conference on Monday, to be followed by one on Tuesday and another one on Wednesday, will triple the amount of time he has spent before the cameras since winning the election three weeks ago. His advisers determined that it was time for Obama to come forward and signal that he is taking ownership of the economic crisis...
There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the woman to whom he appears likely to give the job sometime after Thanksgiving...
US preisdent George W. Bush, faced with a fast dwindling number of days in office, has been using his final world summit to try to keep a virulent economic crisis from triggering a retreat into protectionism.....
A day after it lost more than a quarter of its value, rumours were rife on Friday that Citigroup was considering a sellout (in parts or whole) or at least a merger...
In a few weeks, Barack Obama will inherit the mantle of the capitalist system. What will he do with this responsibility? That's the question being asked everywhere...
Japan became the latest major economy to fall into recession on Monday with France close behind, and the IMF said it needed at least $100 billion to fight an economic crisis enveloping the world.
Oscar Reynoso was found by police in a home in suburban Atlanta. Authorities say cartel members had chained and tortured Reynoso over a $300,000 drug debt.
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Back in April of this year, Graham Webster (formerly a journalist and consultant in Beijing, he follows the effects of technology on Chinese politics, the environment, and global affairs) made this new gadget discovery. Interesting find by the way...
Just as personal computers have grown into multimedia environments capable of playing video and music, video games have come to include advanced 3-D graphics, high-quality music, and rich varieties of voices and sound effects...
The number of workers filing new claims for jobless benefits rose by an unexpectedly steep 32,000 last week to 516,000, the highest since the weeks following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the Labor Department said.
Said Medvedev: "I hope... we'll be able to find a way out of these (difficult) situations, which we haven't been able to do with our current colleagues. The new president has a big reserve of good-will. He was elected during a very difficult period. I wish him success in dealing with what lies before him,"...
Financial services companies, particularly banks, which got a fresh lease of life thanks to state intervention — direct infusion of capital or otherwise — could be pressured by their governments to bring back jobs outsourced to countries such as India.
President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas...
Buffett, 78, is finding opportunity amid the turmoil, investing in nuclear power, chewing gum and Wall Street as results slump at Berkshire's insurance units and businesses tied to housing. He committed at least $28 billion this year to acquire companies, finance buyouts and purchase securities as prices fall and competitors are hobbled by limited access to credit.
