Breaking News – Newsletter for February 15, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Oz property listing video featuring scantily clad model goes viral
MELBOURNE – A video for a property listing in Australia has gone viral around the world after it featured a scantily clad model.
Gold Coast real estate agency NEO Property gained much attention after it emailed its newest property listing of a house at Binda Place, Sorrento, to 100 clients.
The video clip comes complete with music, …. Read the original article : Oz property listing video featuring scantily clad model goes viral.
1m kids in UK ’suffer abuse’
LONDON – Almost a million children in UK have suffered abuse or neglect, a survey has revealed.
According to the poll of 2,200-plus children, one in five youngsters aged 11 to 17 have been beaten up, hit with weapons, raped or seriously neglected.
“Physical violence, neglect and forced sex are harming the lives of hundreds of thousands …. Source article : 1m kids in UK ’suffer abuse’.
President, Vice President greet nation on Milad-Un-Nabi
NEW DELHI – President Pratibha Devisingh Patil and Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari have greeted the nation on the auspicious occasion of Milad-Un-Nabi, which is being observed tomorrow to mark the birth of Prophet Mohammad.
President Patil in her message said: “On the auspicious occasion of Milad-Un-Nabi, the birthday of the Holy Prophet Mohammed, I convey … Original article on : President, Vice President greet nation on Milad-Un-Nabi.
Budget Session: Cabinet approves President Patil’s address to Parliament
NEW DELHI – The Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to President Pratibha Devisingh Patil’s address to the joint sitting of Parliament on the opening day of the Budget Session on February 21.
The cabinet gave its approval at a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, which will outline the United Progressive …. Original article : Budget Session: Cabinet approves President Patil’s address to Parliament.
Kerry on ‘fire-fighting’ trip to Pak to “reaffirm partnership” amid Davis standoff
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has dispatched Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John F. Kerry to Pakistan to try to repair the deteriorating US-Pak relations in the wake of double-murder accused US diplomat Raymond Davis’ detention issue.
The urgently organized trip, which has been confirmed by committee staff and a senior US official, is the latest … Read more >>>.
More than half of Americans consider China as world’s leading economic power
WASHINGTON – A majority of Americans consider China as the world’s leading economic power.
In a recent poll conducted by Gallup, fifty-two percent chose China while 32 percent chose the United States as the world’s top economic power. Seven percent pointed to Japan, while the remaining options, that included Russia and India, were chosen by three … Read more : More than half of Americans consider China as world’s leading economic power.
Income Tax returns: ‘I have nothing to hide’, says former CJI
NEW DELHI – National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson and former Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan, reacting to the controversy over his unwillingness to disclose his Income Tax returns has said he has nothing to hide.
“I wrote to authorities not to disclose my I-T returns because it has my PAN number and bank account … Read this article on Gaea Times at : Income Tax returns: ‘I have nothing to hide’, says former CJI.
Seven charged by US for ‘aiding Taliban efforts against America’
WASHINGTON – Seven people including two Americans have been charged by the United States for conspiring to aid the Taliban, ccording to US officials, two Americans, identified as Alwar Pouryan and Oded Orbach were arrested in Romania for conspiring to sell missiles to protect Taliban-run heroin laboratories in Afghanistan.
The other five defendants named as Maroun …. Source article : Seven charged by US for ‘aiding Taliban efforts against America’.
World’s first skyscraper ‘Jericho tower’ built to intimidate masses
ISRAEL – Israeli archaeologists have said that the Jericho tower, which was constructed 11,000-years-ago, was built to promote farming and to entice people to abandon their nomadic ways and to settle down.
Long before its Biblical walls came tumbling down, Jericho’s residents were being enticed to give up hunting and gathering and start farming for …. Read the original article : here.
Displaced persons from India- Bangladesh border stage a protest rally in Agartala
AGARTALA – Hundreds of displaced persons from the India-Bangladesh border region in northeastern state of Tripura staged a rally at Agartala, the capital of Tripura to pressurise the state government to consider and implement their demands for apt rehabilitation.
The people were displaced due to the erection of barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
On death anniversary, Ghalib’s haveli languishes in squalor
NEW DELHI – Mirza Ghalib, the best-known of the Urdu poets of Delhi during last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar’s rule, wrote: “Hum ne mana ke taghaful na karoge lekin/Khak ho jayenge hum tumko khabar hone tak! (You will not be indifferent, I know/ Nevertheless, dust I’ll be by the time you get my news).”
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Women fear stereotyping by male service providers
WASHINGTON – Women prefer female service providers in situations where they might fall prey to stereotypes about their math and science abilities.
“One of the most widely held stereotypes in North America is that women’s competence and aptitude in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) domains is less than men’s,” a study’s authors wrote. …. Read the original article : here.
Pune farmers protest to lift the ban on onion export
PUNE – Hundreds of farmers of Maharashtra in western India, engaged in cultivating onions, gathered at Pune to stage a protest rally demanding withdrawal of ban on export of their produce.
Farmers said that the government has failed to lift the embargo on export though onion prices have now come down in the domestic market …. Original article on Gaea Times at : Pune farmers protest to lift the ban on onion export.
Pakistani stalker of JFK’s granddaughter wants to go to trial
NEW YORK – The Pakistani man, who has been stalking President John F Kennedy’s granddaughter, wants to take the case to court.
Naeem Ahmed, 41, has told a court appointed psychiatrist that he wants to take his case before a jury, meaning 20-year-old Tatiana Schlossberg would have to testify against him in a Manhattan courtroom.
Ahmed has … Read this article on Gaea Times at : Pakistani stalker of JFK’s granddaughter wants to go to trial.
Fritzl’s secret dungeon to be welded shut after becoming teen party venue
LONDON – Josef Fritzl’s underground cellar, where he sexually abused his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years, is to be sealed with a welded steel door by Austrian authorities – because teenagers have been partying in the secret dungeon.
The cellar has been violated in the months before contractors move in to demolish the house, reports the …. Source : Gaea News Network.
Davis affair cost Qureshi his job: Pakistani daily
ISLAMABAD – The refusal of Shah Mahmood Qureshi to “recognise Raymond Davis as a diplomat or accord him immunity ultimately cost him his job” as the foreign minister, a Pakistani daily said Tuesday.
An editorial in the News International Tuesday said: “An incident on a Lahore street in which three people died, two shot and …. Read the original article : here.
UK father raped teenage daughter to have baby for infertile girlfriend
LONDON – An English father, who repeatedly raped his 16-year-old daughter, has said he wanted her to provide a child for his interfile girlfriend.
The 46-year-old from Cambridgeshire village groomed and then abused the girl, who has the mental age of a 7-year-old, on a daily basis after his wife left him three years ago, reports … Original source on Gaea Times at : UK father raped teenage daughter to have baby for infertile girlfriend.
Four Maoists surrender in Chhattisgarh
BASTAR – Four Maoists have been surrendered before the top brass of the district police at Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region.
Superintendent of Police, Bastar, Sundar Raj P. has stated that the four Maoists Jan Militia members-Sonaram Yadav, Dharma Nage, Massa Netam and Tulsiram Netam residents of village Barda under Badedonger police station area of Bastar …. Original source : Four Maoists surrender in Chhattisgarh.
After Valentine’s Day mush celebrate Singles Awareness Day today
WELLINGTON – Right after Valentine’s Day, comes Singles Awareness Day, when people celebrate their freedom and possibilities.
Wellington accountant Hilary Combes, the founder of SaRC – Singles are Really Cool – says Wellington is a hive of activity for single people.
“We have more than 560 people on our mailing list, and about 100 in our social …. Original article : After Valentine’s Day mush celebrate Singles Awareness Day today.
Why do people pay so much for celebrity items?
WASHINGTON – Why would someone pay a fortune for an item that had belonged to Jackie Kennedy or for a celebrity’s footstool?
Study authors from Yale and Bar-llan Universities, seeking to find an explanation, researched the concept of “contagion” — the belief that a person’s essence can be transferred onto an object through contact.
…. Read the original article : here.