SAN JOSE, February 8 (Reuters): Laura Chinchilla, a protege of Nobel peace laureate President Oscar Arias, won a landslide election victory in Costa Rica on Sunday to become the country’s first woman elected president. Chinchilla, formerly Arias’ vice president, has vowed to continue his pro-business policies in the Central American nation, expanding free trade pacts …

MELBOURNE, Jan 29 (IANS): Australia, the home of cricket legend Don Bradman, singing sensation Kylie Minougue, is also the land of world’s top sinners, a new study has claimed.
Envy is the biggest weakness of people down under in a study of the seven sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
A team of …

MELBOURNE, January 28, 2010 (PTI): In fresh incidents of violence against Indians in Australia, four community youths, including three cabbies, were attacked in two “Four more attacks on Indians in Brisbane, Queensland, took place,” Sky news reported without giving out any more information about the victims.
“Three of them have been directed at cab drivers, one …

WASHINGTON, January 28, 2010 (AFP): The war in Iraq is ending and all US troops are coming home, US President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address, vowing continued US support of the Iraqi people.
“As we take the fight to Al-Qaeda, we are responsibly leaving Iraq to its people,” Obama told lawmakers.
“But …

YANGON, January 25 (Reuters): Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be freed when her house arrest ends in November, according to a government minister quoted by witnesses on Monday, but critics said that may be too late for this year’s elections. Home Minister Major General Maung Oo told a Jan. 21 meeting of …

Dubai: A purported audio tape of Osama bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera television claimed responsibility for a December 25 attempted bombing of a US-bound plane, and the al Qaeda leader vowed to continue attacks on the United States.
“The message sent to you with the attempt by the hero Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a …

London, Jan.22 (ANI): Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden’s fourth son, Omar, has told the Rolling Stones magazine in an interview that his father is worth more to the United States alive than dead because his death could unleash “very,very nasty” attacks by militants.
The interview, which was conducted in part in a Damascus strip club, …

New Delhi (PTI): A UN report on the state of the world’s indigenous peoples Thursday said about 90 percent of the world’s languages which are spoken by indigenous peoples may be extinct in the next 100 years.
It further said indigenous peoples across the globe suffer from disproportionately high rates of poverty, health problems, crime and …

Thursday, January 14, 2010 : Several ethnic leaders elected in Burma’s 1990 election reaffirmed this week that they will not participate in the planned election this year without a review of the 2008 Constitutional and the release of all political prisoners—two major demands they have been pressing for since early last year.
“We will not found …

By JOSé DE CóRDOBA, DAVID LUHNOW AND JOHN LYONS
International aid groups scrambled to deliver food, medicine and other supplies to Haiti, where the strongest earthquake in more than two centuries has toppled buildings and raised fears that thousands are dead.
Haitian President Rene Preval described the devastation as “unimaginable,” in an interview with the Miami Herald. …

Hilegu, Myanmar, May 10, 2008 (AP): Voters in Myanmar trickled into polling booths on Saturday for a referendum that was expected to solidify the ruling junta’s hold on power, even though the military rulers appeared overwhelmed by a devastating cyclone that killed tens of thousands.
But in a country where the last election was held 18 …

Los Angeles, Jan 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The pop singer Michael Jackson died in the summer last year from drug overdose that was administered by his personal physician. After the autopsy a complete investigation was done and now the police are saying that there is a chance that the doctor might get charged with negligence in …