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Monkey delays Air China flight from New York

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0530

LONDON, May 27 -- An escaped monkey in a plane's cargo hold delayed a fight from New York's JFK International Airport for nearly four hours. It managed to free itself from its crate inside the plane's hold before takeoff. Passengers aboard the flight didn't seem to be aware of the ensuing hunt below their floor.Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.

BROKEN WIRE SCUPPERS GILL'S CHARGE

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0530

Mumbai, May 27 -- After a daylong drizzle on Friday, it was a clear sky on Saturday at the International Rally of Queensland Asia-pacific Rally Championship here, but it didn't turn out good for Team MRF driver Gaurav Gill, who was forced to quit the event due to an electric problem.Gill held a slender 0.4 second lead over Australian Christopher Atkinson after the first three stages and that too despite a puncture in the second stage. ...

U.N. says more than 92 killed in Syria, 32 of them children

Sun, 27 May 2012 07:58:08 +0530

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. The bloodied bodies of children, some with their skulls split open, were shown in footage posted to YouTube purporting to show the victims of the shelling in the central town of Houla on Friday. The sound of wailing filled the room. ...

Japan says Fukushima spent-fuel risk contained

Sat, 26 May 2012 23:49:02 +0530

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese officials said on Saturday the unprecedented effort to remove spent fuel rods from one of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors was on track despite lingering concerns about the structure's vulnerability to another earthquake. "I don't think the situation is unstable," said Goshi Hosono, Japan's minister in charge of the response to the nuclear crisis. He was speaking to reporters after his first tour of the twisted and partly destroyed building that houses Fukushima's No. 4 reactor. ...

Strauss century puts England in driving seat

Sat, 26 May 2012 23:03:40 +0530

NOTTINGHAM (Reuters) - Captain Andrew Strauss hit his second century in as many matches to leave England in the driving seat and in clear sight of West Indies' first innings score of 370 at close on the second day of the second test at Trent Bridge on Saturday. England had reached 259-2 with Strauss on 102 and the aggressive Kevin Pietersen on 72. It was the 21st century of Strauss's career and puts him only one short of England's joint record holders Wally Hammond, Colin Cowdrey and Geoff Boycott. ...

Islamist and ex-PM vie for mantle of Egypt's revolt

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:57:02 +0530

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood and a military man close to ousted leader Hosni Mubarak courted defeated first-round candidates in Egypt's presidential election on Saturday, each trying to claim the mantle of the uprising before a run-off next month. State television said the Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi led this week's vote with 26.4 percent, against 23 percent for ex-air force chief Ahmed Shafiq, according to preliminary results. Hamdeen Sabahy, a secular leftist came a close third with 21.5 percent, followed by independent Islamist Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh. ...

Astronauts float inside SpaceX Dragon capsule

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:53:49 +0530

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station opened the hatch and floated inside a Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon capsule on Saturday, the first privately owned spaceship to reach the orbital outpost, NASA said. Running ahead of schedule, station commander Oleg Kononenko and flight engineer Don Pettit opened the hatch to Dragon just before 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT), NASA mission commentator Josh Byerly reported from Mission Control in Houston. The bell-shaped capsule, which was making its second test flight, arrived at the space station on Friday. ...

Biden tells West Point cadets: prepare for new threats

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:51:52 +0530

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most of the cadets who graduated on Saturday from West Point were in elementary school when hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and enrolled in the U.S. military academy with wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan. Vice President Joe Biden lauded the brave choices of the Class of 2012 - and their so-called "9/11 generation" - with a commencement address focused on the United States' new foreign policy challenges including cyber threats and a rising China. ...

Spain's Bankia eyes stake sales after record bailout

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:54:09 +0530

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's fourth biggest lender, Bankia, on Saturday prepared to sell stakes it holds in companies to meet European competition rules after a state rescue that has so far cost 23.5 billion euros. Bankia's parent company BFA asked for a higher-than-expected 19 billion euros in government help on Friday, in addition to 4.5 billion the state has already pumped in, to cover possible losses on repossessed property, loans and investments. ...

Cricket: Afridi, Malik given Pakistan contracts

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:10:11 +0530

KARACHI, May 26, 2012 (AFP) - Pakistan on Saturday awarded former captains Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik central contracts, which saw players given a 25-percent hike in their monthly salaries.

Test cricket triumphs as Laxman has proved he's Australia's nemesis: Roebuck

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:54:23 +0530

Mohali (Chandigarh), Oct. 6 (ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has described the recently concluded Mohali Test between India and Australia as a triumph of the longer version of the game.

New Zealand squad is happy with facilities, cautious about health

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:40:23 +0530

New Delhi, Oct.5 (ANI): The Commonwealth Games squad from New Zealand have said that they are satisfied with the facilities but they are careful about their health aspects.

Spectator turnout for Delhi CWG will pick up soon: Organizing Committee

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:04:38 +0530

New Delhi, Oct 5(ANI): The Delhi Commonwealth Games organizers have dismissed talks that locals are boycotting the event, and insisted that the spectator turnout at venues will pick up soon.