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Hitler is in the news again. This time, he's been caught in bed. According to newswires, Das Comitee, a Hamburg advertising agency has come out with a 45-second AIDS commercial aired on German TV and in cinemas recently, for awareness group Regenbogen. It shows a couple having sex and as the ad progresses, the man's face turns into Hitler's as he looks straight into the camera.

America's top envoy to the United Nations said that Non-Aligned Movement and other cold-war era groupings are "outdated and irrelevant" and they do not serve the interests of their member countries.

Barely weeks after it failed in its attempt to block Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds to a project in Arunachal Pradesh, China has successfully struck back.

US ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer on Thursday said his country was taking former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's admission that US military aid meant for the war on terror was diverted for strengthening defences against India "very seriously".

The students filed into their social studies class just after lunch and slumped into desks where they had learned about the Civil War, Lewis and Clark, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Nepal's new Army Chief Gen Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, who received training at the prestigious Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, assumed office on Wednesday, becoming the first person from this country's indigenous tribes to ascend to the top post.

US President Barack Obama has said given a chance he would like to have dinner with Mahatma Gandhi, whom he considers a real hero.

Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan has said his country was short of anti-aircraft missiles during the 1999 Kargil War, so General Pervez Musharraf sent him to North Korea to purchase 200 missiles.

A Mongolian ship transporting iron ore to China sank in the Bay of Bengal, six km off the Paradip port, on Wednesday night, officials said, adding that one of the crew members was feared drowned while the rest 26 were rescued and safe.

Wajahat Ali, a 28-year-old lawyer and playwright, is busy sending out e-mails to people, urging them to buy tickets for a play that's close to his heart, not just because he has written it but also, and perhaps more importantly, because, as a Pakistani American Muslim, it is an opportunity for him "to showcase White America what it is to be a Pakistani American Muslim".

Even the first time visitor to Moscow quickly learns to find her bearings by catching sight of Stalin's Seven Sisters, those immense Baroque and Gothic structures rising high above the city's skyline.

Close on the heels of revelations that Pakistan has been illegally modifying US-made Harpoon missiles with the objective of targeting India, come two reports from Washington asserting that Islamabad has been steadily working towards increasing its nuclear capabilities, both in terms of numbers as well as quality.

With India strongly taking up the attack on two Indian priests at Pashupatinath Temple on Friday, Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said that stern action would be taken against those responsible for the assault.

The Western Ghats, known for their extraordinary biological richness, are home to about 350 species of butterflies, some of which look so similar to one another—as in the case of the butterfly family Lycaenidae—that they cannot be distinguished without the help of experts.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talked of "a special relationship defined by special trust" as President Pratibha Patil met him on Friday.

Two newly appointed priests in the famous Pashupatinath Temple — who were set to take up their duties from Saturday — were on Friday beaten up allegedly by workers of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M).

The continuities and breaks in the history of Russian power show up in different ways.
Within the red walls of Moscow's Kremlin, a short walk away from the Grand Kremlin Palace, where the Russian President receives his state guests, is the Tsar Bell. At more than 100 tonnes, it was constructed more than 300 years ago and continues to be the world's biggest bell.

They gather five days a week at a mall called the Hub, sitting on concrete planters and sipping thermoses of chai.

Parmananda Jha, the first Vice-President of Nepal, on Sunday turned down a government request to take fresh oath in Nepali, a year after his election, in the light of a Supreme Court order.

It was a humble filing cabinet that came to author L Frank Baum's rescue. Legend has it that having already settled for 'wizard' as part of his title for a book about a young girl from Kansas who is transported to an enchanted land by a cyclone, Baum's eyes strayed to a filing cabinet marked O-Z. The rest, as they say, is history.