| Fri, 3 Sep 2010 Two-year-old kicks the butt
| London, September 03: A two-year-old boy in Indonesia, who used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day, has quit smoking after entering rehab. | Child protection officials sent Aldi Rizal for therapy and, after three months of treatment, he has kicked the habit. He is now playi... | The bitter fall of a sugar king
| For those of us who grew up in the United States in the '60s, there were three places that held our fascination because of their inaccessibility: the moon, Maoist China and Castro's Cuba. Even today, Cuba remains so close and yet so far away. It's complex. Confusing. ... | Cost of an election
| Some of the prices candidates in Haiti's upcoming legislative and presidential elections can expect, not including food, fuel for generators and vehicles, tires, hiring of election day monitors, billboards, headquarters rental and other campaign costs: | • $200-$... | U.S. denies `Cuban Five' prisoner swap
| The U.S. State Department Thursday flatly denied reports that the Obama administration is considering swapping the ``Cuban Five'' spies in U.S. prisons for a U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Havana. | The denial came a day after Cuban-Americans in Congress expr... | Pakistan's bomb has prevented war with India: A.Q. Khan
| Washington, September 03: Pakistan's nuclear arsenal has prevented a conventional war with India and made the "nation walk with heads held high", boasts notorious Pakistani scientist A Q Khan, considered the father of Islamabad's clandestine nuclear weapons programme.... | Japan imposes additional sanctions on Iran
| Tokyo, Sep 3 (Reuters) Japan slapped additional sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme today, following the United | States in pressuring Tehran despite Tokyo's reliance on oil imports from the country. | The measures that go beyond requirements in a UN... | 1.3 mn Haitians still in camps months after quake: UN
| New York, September 03: Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake, an estimated 1.3 million Haitians are still living in temporary shelters while the country struggles with reconstruction and rebuilding a government, the United Nations said Thursday in an upda... | Famous Nazi hunter worked for Mossad: book
| Jerusalem, September 03: Austrian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, Simon Wiesenthal, who became well-known for dedicating his life pursuing Nazi war criminals and documenting their crimes, was in fact an agent of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, a new book released on Thursd... | Three killed in small plane crash in California
| San Francisco, September 03: Three people were killed in a small plane crash Thursday in a lagoon in the US state of California, authorities said. | The plane, a twin-engine Beech 65 Queen Air, crashed in the Redwood Shores area at around 11:51 a.m. local time, just 3... | Indonesian volcano erupts again
| Jakarta, September 03: An Indonesian volcano spewed another column of hot ash Friday, a vulcanologist said. | Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province erupted for the first time in about 400 years Sunday and Monday, forcing 30,000 people to flee their homes to tempora... | |
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