The U.S. Postal Service has announced that the images of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa and Hollywood actress Katherine Hepburn will appear in 2010 mail stamps. It has been a yearly tradition of this agency to put out stamps honoring either important persons or momentous events and even geographic landmarks. Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian Roman [...]
A two year study conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research, a leading state-run center, said its initial findings showed that 60 percent of men in the financial capital of Mumbai have penises about 1 inch shorter than international standards manufactured condoms. Over 1,200 volunteers representing the whole of India in terms of class, [...]
Five Muslim widows branded as witches by villagers and a local cleric were paraded naked, beaten, and forced to eat human excrement in a remote village of Deoghar district in India. “On Sunday morning the victims were taken to a playground where hundreds had assembled to watch the ghastly incident,” deputy inspector general of police [...]
Chevron Corp. claimed to have discovered a new natural gas deposit in the giant Gorgon gas field being developed off the western coast of Australia. Chevron, which owns half of the project with a 50-percent stake and is the field operator, partners with Shell and ExxonMobil, each with a 25-percent stake. They will develop the [...]
Indian health officials said that more than 100 people have now died from the H1N1 virus. New deaths were reported from the states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, with the worst-hit that of the state of Maharashtra. Deaths were reported in at least eight Indian cities. The death toll is highest in Pune. According to reports, some [...]
A 7.6 magnitude quake occured in the Indian Ocean off India’s Andaman Islands triggering a tsunami alert for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh. The alert was later canceled as officials from Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services said there was no chance of a tsunami. Fortunately, there were no reports of any casualties [...]
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