LIVERPOOL: Liverpool ended a winless run of five games in impressive fashion on Sunday as they whipped an under-strength Swansea 5-0 in their Premier League clash.Victory saw Liverpool leapfrog Swansea into seventh spot and give former Swans manager Brendan Rodgers something to smile about at the end of a week that saw defeats by West Brom and then Zenit St Petersburg in the Europa League.A...
Lokpal, right to reject can eliminate graft: Anna Hazare
Label: LifestyleHYDERABAD: Declaring that he would mobilize six crore people over next one and a half years for his anti-graft campaign, Anna Hazare on Sunday said Jan Lokpal alone cannot root out corruption and called for comprehensive electoral reforms and empowering of village-level bodies.Addressing a public meeting, he said his fight was for changing the entire system and called upon youths to join hands with...
Pictures: What the Presidents Brought Home
Label: HealthPhotograph by Bill Ray, Time Life Pictures/Getty ImagesWhen paleontologist Paul Olsen (pictured left, in 1970 at 17 years old) first started looking for dinosaurs in 1967, he never dreamed that he'd end up the subject of White House memos between President Richard Nixon and his senior advisers.Or that one of the dinosaur footprints he discovered would find its way into a presidential collection.But...
White House: Leaked Immigration Bill Draft Is Plan B
Label: Business Feb 17, 2013 11:48am Leaked draft legislation reportedly authored by the White House would be used as a backup proposal should negotiations fail in Congress over comprehensive immigration reform, administration officials said today.White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough was asked about the USA Today story on political talk shows this morning. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host...
Feb
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Football: Beckham to make PSG bow against Marseille
Label: Technology PARIS: David Beckham will make his Paris Saint Germain debut in next weekend's Ligue 1 headline clash against Marseille, coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Saturday.The 37-year-old Beckham, who signed a five-month contract with the French leaders last month, will skip Sunday's trip to Sochaux as he needs more time to get his fitness levels up to scratch, the Italian explained."No, he'll...
Irish hospital's doctors failed to treat Savita Halappanavar, leaked death probe report says
Label: LifestyleLONDON: Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar died as a result of a litany of failures by hospital staff, a leaked draft of a probe report said, proving her family's claim that her death was avoidable. The report by Ireland's health ministry revealed that doctors caring for the 31-year-old dentist seriously failed to investigate, recognize and treat the infection which led to her death. Savita died...
Picture Archive: Making Mount Rushmore, 1935-1941
Label: HealthPhotograph from Rapid City Chamber of Commerce/National GeographicThere's no such thing as Presidents' Day.According to United States federal government code, the holiday is named Washington's Birthday, and has been since it went nationwide in 1885.But common practice is more inclusive. The holiday expanded to add in other U.S. presidents in the 1960s, and the moniker Presidents' Day became popular...
Uncle: Pistorius Is 'Numb With Shock as Well as Grief'
Label: Business Oscar Pistorius is "numb with shock as well as grief" his uncle told reporters Saturday as the Olympian amputee spent his second night behind bars in a South African jail for the allegedly killing his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp."All of us saw at firsthand how close [Steenkamp] had become to Oscar during that time and how happy they were," he said. "They had plans together...
Feb
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EU agrees to test for horse DNA in food labelling row
Label: Technology BRUSSELS: The European Union agreed on Friday the immediate launch of tests for horse DNA in meat products to reassure nervous consumers that their food is safe and to halt the horsemeat scandal spreading across Europe.The test programme will also look for the presence of phenylbutazone, an anti-inflammatory treatment for horses which is harmful to humans and by law supposed to be kept...
PM extols Sonia in Meghalaya rally
Label: LifestyleSHILLONG: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday urged the people of the poll-bound state to extend their support to AICC chief Sonia Gandhi even as he promised to empower tribal governing bodies and improve women's representation in decision-making administrative units in matrilineal Meghalaya."Under the guidance of Sonia Gandhi, the UPA has been working hard for inclusive development of not only...
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