World News

Rome, Sept. 24 -- Champions Inter Milan drubbed Napoli 3-1 to go top in the Italian Serie A football, one point clear of Juventus, who could leapfrog them when they visit Genoa late on Thursday.

World leaders committed to reaching a significant agreement to curb climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the year, but promised few specifics during the largest-ever summit on global warming.

India is attempting to muster international opinion in its favour on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly with regard to the perceived lack of meaningful action taken by Pakistan against the accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks.

Two of the largest companies involved in tracking and analysing web traffic are joining forces to measure digital audiences more comprehensively. The partnership involves comScore Inc and Omniture Inc, which announced that it agreed to a $1.8 billion takeover by Adobe Systems Inc.

Mad Men has been named 'Outstanding Drama Series' for the second year running at this year's Emmy Awards.

The European Union on Sunday strongly condemned comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust. "The presidency of the European Union condemns statements by President Ahmadinejad at the Quds Day rally in Tehran, where he repeated denials of the Holocaust and of the right to exist of the state of Israel," the EU statement said.

The Obama administration has communicated to the Indian government that it believes that India?s credentials to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are ?unimpeachable.?

Washington, Sept. 19 -- A suspect in an alleged terrorist plot in New York has told investigators he has ties to Al-Qaeda and could plead guilty, US media quoted unnamed sources as saying on Friday.

Russia on Friday dropped a threat to place missiles on the borders of the European Union, a military source said, easing tensions after the United States scrapped a controversial missile shield.

Despite India's recent economic boom, at least 46 per cent of its children up to the age of 3 still suffer from malnutrition making the country home to a third of the world's malnourished children, a study said on Thursday.

Sydney, Sept. 17 -- An Australian kept his daughter as a sex slave for 30 years and fathered her four children in the Melbourne house he shared with his wife, the Herald Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.

That Saturday morning, it was Anand?s turn to fetch baby from her music class down the road. As usual, at quarter past 11, I was ready with hot chocolate in a thermos flask, a sipper, car keys and trying to nudge Anand out of the house. ?It?s getting late, Anand,? I said, bugged with him for not getting off the phone.

Washington, Sept. 16 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested the US is prepared to engage in direct talks with North Korea to encourage the communist country to rejoin negotiations over its nuclear programme.

Washington, Sept. 16 -- US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a vaccine designed to protect against the swine flu and hopes to make it available within a month.

US Open officials admitted partial defeat on a day of demoralizing rain, with women's semi-finals cancelled and the conclusion of the interrupted men's quarter-finals between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Gonzalez in danger from the weather.

London, Sept. 13 -- Indian professionals who move to Britain on inter-company transfers will no longer be eligible for permanent settlement after the government accepted a recommendation to that effect from a key migration committee.

President Barack Obama today led Americans in remembering the nearly 3,000 people perished in the world's deadliest terror strike by Al-Qaida eight years ago, saying the US will "never falter" in struggle against the terrorist organisation.

Six people, including two policemen, were killed and three others injured in two separate attacks in Iraq on Wednesday, according to the government.

Barack Obama will on Wednesday tell the US schoolchildren to work hard and fulfil their responsibilities to themselves and their country, in a speech criticised in advance for being too political and prompting conservative calls for parents and schools to boycott the address.

Rabat, Sept. 7 -- Over 70,000 graduates in Arab countries move abroad each year in search for job.
With reference to the international NGOs reports, a report in Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat said on Sunday that shortage of local jobs, low salaries and multiple bureaucratic impediments force the young to leave their home countries.