Former Brazil coach urges Neymar to shun Barcelona
September 5th, 2012 - 2:12 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Sep 5 (IANS) Former Brazil and Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo has urged Neymar to resist offers to join Barcelona and remain in Brazil until the 2014 ... Read more...
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Prosecutors move to drop charges against Strauss-Kahn
August 23rd, 2011 - 11:23 am ICT by IANS
New York, Aug 23 (IANS/EFE) Prosecutors Monday asked New York state Judge Michael Obus to drop all charges against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn for sexual assault and attempted rape."Manhattan ... Read more...
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Berlusconi will defend himself in under-age prostitution trial
March 6th, 2011 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 6 (ANI): Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian PM, will defend himself in the court for having allegedly paid for sex with a Moroccan teenager.His lawyer said that is going to defending ... Read more...
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Ponzi King Madoff’s son found dead in New York apartment
December 12th, 2010 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Dec. 12 (ANI): The eldest son of disgraced American financier Bernard Madoff was found dead in his New York apartment on Saturday.According to the Boston Herald and ABC News, ... Read more...
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Honeymoon murder: Husband won’t return to South Africa for probe
November 26th, 2010 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 26 (IANS) An Indian-origin man whose newly-wedded wife was murdered while they were honeymooning in South Africa, would not return to that country, his publicist said Friday after a media ... Read more...
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Kanye West Remains Tame At The VMAs
September 13th, 2010 - 6:35 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Sep 13, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Rapper Kanye West was by far the most talked about artists before the VMAs this year after his controversial actions in the awards last year. With ... Read more...
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Plot to smear Beckham in a bid to wreck England World Cup hopes
May 25th, 2010 - 3:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 25 (ANI): In a bid to wreck England's World Cup hopes in South Africa, ace footballer David Beckham was at the center of "dirty tricks" and unfounded personal allegations ... Read more...
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Singapore man gets 32 years in jail for child rape
January 16th, 2010 - 10:33 am ICT by IANS
Singapore, Jan 16 (DPA) A Singapore court sentenced a man to 32 years in jail after he raped and abused a girl for more than seven years, a media report said ... Read more...
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Twin suicide bombings kill 11 in Peshawar
October 16th, 2009 - 7:46 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Oct. 16 (ANI): Two deadly bomb blasts on Friday left 11 people dead and 15 injured in Pakistan's north-western city, Peshawar.Three police officers, two women and two children were among ... Read more...
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Payout cut for raped drinkers
August 13th, 2008 - 7:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug.13 (ANI): A sense of outrage prevails among 14 rape victims who had their compensation slashed because they had been drinking.
The Sun quoted the women as saying that the ... Read more...
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Asian killed in London ‘teenage girl gang’ blast
May 10th, 2008 - 7:12 pm ICT by admin
London, May 10 (IANS) An innocent Asian man was killed after a powerful blast blew up three houses in a London suburb that police said could have been set off by a ... Read more...
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Seventy years on, Austrians still struggle with Anschluss
March 11th, 2008 - 9:43 am ICT by admin
By Ivonne Marschall
Vienna, March 11 (DPA) In March 1938, Nazi troops marched into Austria and 250,000 cheered the return of Adolf Hitler to his native country on Vienna's Heldenplatz square. In their ... Read more...
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