`Colombia now South America’s No. 2 economy’
September 1st, 2012 - 12:48 pm ICT by IANS
Bogota, Sep 1 (IANS/EFE) Colombia has moved ahead of Argentina to become South America's second-largest economy, the outgoing Colombian finance minister said Friday."Colombia surpassed Argentina in GDP, we are the ... Read more...
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Male weightlifters do better after watching porn
August 20th, 2012 - 11:12 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 20 (IANS) Male weightlifters can lift heavier objects after watching erotic videos, a study has found.Scientists showed different types of video clips to male athletes and then studied ... Read more...
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Mexican Supreme Court official held for links to drug cartel
August 13th, 2012 - 12:48 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Aug 13 (IANS/EFE) A Mexican Supreme Court official was arrested and arraigned in federal court for allegedly having links to a drug cartel, said authorities.Juan Carlos de la ... Read more...
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Olympics: India men bow out, Deepika now lone hope (Archery Intro Roundup)
August 1st, 2012 - 12:33 am ICT by IANS
London, July 31 (IANS) India's challenge in men's individual archery event at the London Olympics came to an unceremonious end with all three participants crashing out in eliminators here Tuesday.Chekrovolu ... Read more...
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Olympics: End of road for Indian men (Archery Roundup)
July 31st, 2012 - 11:54 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 31 (IANS) It was the end of campaign for the Indian men archers as Rahul Banerjee and Tarundeep Rai bowed out from the prequarterfinals at the Olympic Games ... Read more...
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Colombia’s rebel group releases two pilots
July 30th, 2012 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANS
Bogota, July 30 (IANS) The rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Sunday released two civilian helicopter pilots kidnapped 20 days ago, said the International Committee of the Red Cross ... Read more...
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Archery: Indian men a big let down on opening day (Lead)
July 27th, 2012 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 27 (IANS) In an anti-climax to the pre-competition hype, Indian archery hit a new low on Day One of the 30th Olympic Games at Lord's with the men ... Read more...
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Boca Juniors hint at signing Maradona as coach
July 16th, 2012 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, July 16 (IANS) Boca Juniors vice-president Juan Carlos Crespi has revealed club legend Diego Maradona could return to the Argentine outfit as coach.Maradona was last week sacked ... Read more...
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Argentine comedian Jorge Luz is dead
July 16th, 2012 - 12:10 pm ICT by IANS
Buenos Aires, July 16 (IANS/EFE) Argentine actor Jorge Luz, who stood out during his prolific career as a comedian, died in Buenos Aires, his family said Sunday. He was 90.The ... Read more...
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Police chief gunned down in Mexico
July 2nd, 2012 - 12:11 pm ICT by IANS
Culiacan (Mexico), July 2 (IANS/EFE) The police chief of Choix, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, has been shot dead, officials said.Hector Echavarria died at a hospital ... Read more...
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Villarreal name Lotina as new coach
March 20th, 2012 - 4:52 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, March 20 (IANS) Miguel Angel Lotina has been named the new coach of Spanish La Liga football side Villarreal after the Sunday night sacking of Jose Molina.Molina lost his ... Read more...
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Villarreal sacks coach Molina
March 19th, 2012 - 9:02 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, March 19 (IANS) Spanish Primera Liga side Villarreal Monday sacked coach Jose Molina, the club confirmed.Molina lost his job as a direct result of Villarreal's 0-1 defeat away to ... Read more...
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Venezuela nabs three for Mexican envoy’s abduction
February 7th, 2012 - 11:34 am ICT by IANS
Caracas, Feb 7 (IANS/EFE) Three people who abducted and later released Mexican Ambassador Carlos Pujalte and his wife Jan 29 in Venezuela have been arrested, a minister said.Among those arrested ... Read more...
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Villarreal beat Sporting Gijon, climb out of bottom three
January 24th, 2012 - 5:20 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Jan 24 (IANS) Villarreal climbed out of the bottom three of the Spanish La Liga football with a 3-0 win over Sporting Gijon.The win lifted Villarreal over Sporting in ... Read more...
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Atletico confirm coach Manzano’s sacking
December 23rd, 2011 - 4:47 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Dec 23 (IANS) Gregorio Manzano was sacked as coach of Spanish La Liga side Atletico Madrid after a series of poor results, the club confirmed.Manzano becomes the fourth coach ... Read more...
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Villarreal sack coach Garrido after Cup humiliation
December 22nd, 2011 - 3:09 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Dec 22 (IANS) Spanish Primera Liga football club Villarreal have sacked coach Juan Carlos Garrido following a poor start to the season.Garrido, who was the former coach of Villarreal's ... Read more...
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Two held for exorcism in Bolivia
December 21st, 2011 - 12:17 pm ICT by IANS
La Paz, Dec 21 (IANS/EFE) A judge in the central Bolivian province of Cochabamba ordered the arrest of two members of an evangelical group after a young woman drowned during ... Read more...
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Four separatists jailed for over 50 years in Spain
November 17th, 2011 - 6:30 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, Nov 17 (IANS) The Spanish National Court has sentenced four members of a separatist group ETA to jail for over 50 years, Xinhua reported.The Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna, or ETA ... Read more...
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Mexico’s first face implant performed
August 10th, 2011 - 12:32 pm ICT by IANS
Monterrey (Mexico), Aug 10 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's first face implant was carried out on a seven-year-old boy who was bitten by a dog here in this northern metropolis, doctors said."The child, ... Read more...
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Male bustards’ success is measured by their ‘beards’
February 9th, 2011 - 5:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 9 (ANI): For the first time, a study has shown that the 'beards' and the design of the neck are 'reliable' indicators of the weight and age of the great ... Read more...
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Woman Survives Miraculously After Falling From 23rd Floor
January 25th, 2011 - 8:38 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Jan 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A 30 year old woman who jumped from the 23rd floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires has managed to survive miraculously! Had not she fallen ... Read more...
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Woman survives 23rd storey hotel jump after waiting taxi breaks her fall
January 25th, 2011 - 12:29 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 25 (ANI): A woman, who jumped from the 23rd storey of a Buenos Aires hotel, has managed to survive after a waiting taxi broke her fall.The 30-year-old woman, who suffered ... Read more...
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Football team president gunned down in Ecuador
January 17th, 2011 - 8:56 am ICT by IANS
Quito, Jan 17 (IANS/EFE) The president of Ecuador's Delfin Sporting Club football team was gunned down in the coastal city of Manta, according to a media report.Honorio Cevallos was speaking with his ... Read more...
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11 prisoners freed from Argentine police station
December 28th, 2010 - 12:18 pm ICT by IANS
Buenos Aires, Dec 28 (IANS/EFE) Eight armed people Monday attacked a police station on the outskirts of the Argentine capital and freed 11 prisoners. One of the escapees was later recaptured."It was ... Read more...
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Argentine glacier recedes due to global warming
December 14th, 2010 - 10:31 am ICT by IANS
Buenos Aires, Dec 14 (IANS/EFE) The Ameghino glacier in Argentina has receded four kilometres over the past 80 years due to the effects of global warming, non-governmental environment organisation Greenpeace has said.Greenpeace ... Read more...
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Colombia elects woman attorney general
December 3rd, 2010 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
Bogota, Dec 3 (IANS/EFE) Colombia's Supreme Court has elected Viviane Morales as the country's new attorney general, ending 16 months of uncertainty stemming from feuds between the previous government and the judiciary, ... Read more...
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79 people rescued from collapsed building in Chile
March 3rd, 2010 - 1:57 pm ICT by IANS
Concepcion (Chile), March 3 (IANS/EFE) Seventy-nine people were rescued from the ruins of a building here that collapsed last weekend during the earthquake that left at least 795 dead in central and ... Read more...
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Mallorca ahead of Sevilla in battle for fourth place
February 8th, 2010 - 5:42 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Feb 8 (DPA) The weekend's most important development in the Spanish league football was the re-emergence of modest Mallorca in the battle for fourth place.
Coached by wily old fox Gregorio Manzano, ... Read more...
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Journalist arrested in Cuba
February 2nd, 2010 - 2:30 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, Feb 2 (IANS/EFE) The Cuban government's arrest of independent journalist Juan Carlos Reyes Ocana indicates that there is no positive move toward more press freedom on the communist island, said Reporters ... Read more...
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Valencia battle out draw in la Coruna and stay fourth
December 21st, 2009 - 4:53 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Dec 21 (DPA) Valencia managed to battle out a 0-0 draw away to luckless Deportivo Coruna, a result which keeps "Los Ches" in fourth place in La Liga.
Deportivo would have snatched ... Read more...
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Model Solange Magnano dies after undergoing cosmetic surgery
December 1st, 2009 - 9:25 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Buenos Aires, Dec 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Model Solange Magnano, who is a former Miss Argentina, died of a pulmonary embolism after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Buenos Aires.The charming beauty queen Solange ... Read more...
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Argentine model dies after cosmetic surgery
December 1st, 2009 - 7:42 pm ICT by IANS
Buenos Aires, Dec 1 (EFE) Model Solange Magnano, a former Miss Argentina, died of a pulmonary embolism after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Buenos Aires, a media report said.
Magnano, 38, travelled Thursday from ... Read more...
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Ex-Miss Argentina dies from cosmetic buttocks surgery
December 1st, 2009 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 1 (ANI): Former Miss Argentina lost her life after going under the knife to get firmer buttocks.Solange Magnano, 38, who was crowned Miss Argentina in 1994, died of pulmonary embolism ... Read more...
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Valencia cruise up to joint fourth in La Liga
October 26th, 2009 - 8:41 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Oct 26 (DPA) Valencia cruised up to joint fourth in La Liga with an impressive 3-0 win away to Almeria, with second-half goals from Spain strikers David Villa, Pablo Hernandez and ... Read more...
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Former Uruguayan dictator condemned to 25 years in jail
October 23rd, 2009 - 5:59 am ICT by IANS
Montevideo (Uruguay), Oct 23 (DPA) Former Uruguayan dictator Gregorio Alvarez was condemned Thursday to 25 years in jail for his involvement in the deaths of scores of leftist activists during the 1973-85 ... Read more...
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