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Couple escapes unhurt as car falls into 150-metre cliff
A German couple had a miraculous escape with only minor injuries after their car swerved off the road and plummeted 150 metres down a cliff in Australia's Victoria state.
The two tourists were travel
Obama to fight Chindia for jobs
Aug. 5: The US President, Mr Barack Obama, has vowed to give tough competition to India and China for millions of potential jobs in the American clean energy industry, once again raising the bugaboo o
Civilian succumbs to bullet injury, Kashmir toll rises to 47
The violence in Kashmir Valley claimed its 47th victim since June 11 when a civilian on Thursday succumbed to a bullet injury he received during protests here a day earlier.
Fifty-year-old Gulam Muha
34 fall ill in China gas leak
At least 34 people were hospitalised after poisonous gas leaked from a chemical plant in China, authorities said on Thursday. Titanium tetrachloride, a gas with pungent odour, leaked from the plant in south China on Tuesday night when workers were cleaning it.
UK secret file says massive UFO spotted
A spaceship that was "20 times the size of a football field" was spotted hovering over Britain's Manchester airport nearly 15 years back, says a secret defence ministry file that was released on Thurs
White House gatecrasher to auction red sari
The vibrant red sari that a White House gate crasher wore to the President, Mr Barack Obama's first state Dinner for Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, last November is being put on the auction block.
Complicated heart surgery on Assam CM in Mumbai
A 20-member team of doctors on Wednesday began a complicated double heart surgery on Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi at the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai.
Prices can be tamed but states must cooperate: FM
Every step was and will be taken to tame prices, but the public at large must appreciate that certain factors like supply shortfall and hoarding were beyond the federal government's control, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday.
Nepal army, Maoist fighters begin fresh sabre-rattling
Four years after a peace agreement ended the decade-old Maoist insurgency in Nepal, the Army is locked in a fresh dispute with the former guerrillas with both sides vowing to recruit new blood. The UN warned that the move would violate the peace pact.
Major gunfight between Maoists, cops in Chhattisgarh
A major gunfight between heavily armed Maoists and police personnel broke out on Wednesday in a forest in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada area, sources at the police headquarters here said.
