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Sri Lanka troops capture LTTE's last airstrip in Mullaitivu - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
The Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) said that troops of the 58 Division commanded by Brigadier Shavendra Silva Tuesday morning captured "the seventh and apparently the last some 2 km long LT  more ...

DNA vaccine to protect against more virulent 'uncommon cold' - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
Adenovirus type-3 is known as the "uncommon cold" because its symptoms - runny nose, sore throat, cough and fever - are eerily similar to those of the common cold which is caused by the rhinovirus.  more ...

Respect for rights no better under Raul: Cuban dissidents - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
"The worst scene in all of Ibero-Americo continues to prevail in the matter of civil, political and economic rights, due to the fact that the Cuban government tramples on each and every one of those s  more ...

Pakistan to brief envoy to India on Mumbai probe - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
"He was called to Islamabad for holding important consultations with the officials of the foreign and interior ministries in connection with the Mumbai attacks," The News said Tuesday, quoting foreign  more ...

Depression set to become killer disease worldwide - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
However, despite extensive investigations, the exact mechanisms that lead to major depression or MD have not been identified. A series of studies highlight some of the current advances in biologi  more ...

Dhaka poll was cancelled due to threat: army chief - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
In a book just out, Gen. Moeen U. Ahmed does not indicate who the "powerful countries" are who threatened to request the UN to disqualify Bangladesh Army personnel from well-paid peacekeeping jobs.  more ...

First transgender choir strikes gay rights chord in Nepal - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
Kathmandu, Feb 3 (IANS) Bhakti Shah faces an uphill struggle to get her job back a year after Nepal's army sacked the physical training instructor for being involved in a lesbian relationship with a t  more ...

Turkish PM granted honorary Tehran citizenship - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
Tehran mayor’s move followed a heated debate at the WEF in Davos in which the Turkish prime minister told Israeli President Shimon Peres that “when it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill”  more ...

Indian Canadian admits to beheading two-year-old daughter - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
Forty-eight-year-old Lakhvinder Singh Kahlon had slit the throat of his toddler on the morning of Jan 18 last year at the family home when his wife, Manjit, was away to drop their two elder daughters  more ...

After 'Slumdog', US critics bitten by 'Luck By Chance' - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) The success of Mumbai-set "Slumdog Millionaire" seems to be opening the eyes of American movie critics to films set in India going by the rave reviews for Zoya Akhtar's "Luck  more ...

Dhaka asks US for money siphoned off by Zia's son - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith Monday said he was "optimistic" about getting back the money siphoned off by Arafat Rahman Koko, Zia's younger son. "We are trying to get the money back and some step  more ...

Surgeons pull out healthy kidney through donor's vagina - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
"The kidney was successfully removed and transplanted into the donor's niece, and both patients are doing fine," said Robert Montgomery, chief of the transplant division at Johns Hopkins University Sc  more ...

Australian Muslims jailed on terrorism charges - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
The Islamists were rounded up in November 2005 and found guilty in September 2008. Algerian-born Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 48, who told his followers it was "permissible to kill women, children and the  more ...

Dhaka, Delhi may renew trade pacts, discuss terror - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
Bangladesh is as yet 'undecided' about acceding to India's long-pending plea for transit facility to the latter's northeastern region, and a minister has termed commerce "a weapon in politics". Ban  more ...

Transmitting data 16 times faster @ 640 billion bits per second - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
This slicing and dicing is generally done with an electro-optic modulator, a device for allowing an electric signal to switch a laser beam on and off at high speeds. Reading that fast data stream with  more ...

Did tigers ever take the 'Silk Route' to Russia? - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
A team of scientists from Oxford University and NCI Laboratory of Genomic Diversity in the US have shown that the Caspian tiger from Central Asia, which became extinct in 1970, was identical to the li  more ...

Bangladesh Cricket Board blocking practise: cricketers - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
The BCB has barred the Dhaka Warriors from using the grounds and practice facilities owned by it and its affiliated organisations. The board had slapped a 10-year ban on the cricketers for joining the  more ...

Smuggler stopped with pigeons in his pants - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
The 23-year-old arrived on a flight from Dubai and was discovered to be wearing tights that held a bird tightly to each leg. A customs check found he had also broken quarantine rules by trying to s  more ...

Dutch internet search engine claims to offer total privacy - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
Ixquick (www.ixquick.com), established in 1998, is a so-called meta-search engine, which uses the search results of several search engines to provide its own list of results. The search is available i  more ...

Nikkei up 0.1 percent in morning trading - Dt( 2009-02-03 00:00:00 )
At 11 a.m., the benchmark Nikkei 225 Average gained 7.62 points to reach 7,881.60. --Xinhua (46 Words) 03020811 NNNN  more ...