London: An NRI doctor has been jailed for 11 years in the UK who drugged & raped a prospective Indian bride & attempted to commit the same offence on another victim after inducement them through a matrimonial website.

Venezuelan authorities confirm that the top Colombian drug Wilber Varela killed. Police said Wilber Varela was the main leader of Colombian drug-trafficking groups. The underworld is awash with tales of his brutality that made him a household name in Colombia.
Colombia’s police chief, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, reminded reporters that Varela, a former police officer himself, had entered the drug underworld as a hired killer. Gen. Oscar Naranjo,”Wilber Varela in the last few years was truly ….

A pop singer Britney Spears is admitted in a medical centre in Los Angeles, her parents have won temporary control on her property by order of the LA Court Commissioner. The singer was admitted to the psychiatry ward of the UCLA medical centre late Thursday night, & reports say that Britney kept accusing her mother of trying to steal her paparrazo boyfriend Adnan Ghalib.

A senior al Qaeda leader Al-Libi killed in Pakistan who was believed to have plotted and executed attacks against U.S. & coalition forces, including a February 2007 bombing at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney. He was a “most wanted” terrorist which was issued in October by the Combined Joint Task Force 82 an anti-terror unit in Afghanistan. Earlier, Al-Libi’s death was confirmed by a knowledgeable Western ….

Anna Loginova, a 29 years old successful model killed in carjacking in Moscow. She ran a private security firm of female bodyguards & highly trained in martial arts. One notable client was Russian boxer Kostya Tszyu. A carjacker who was stolen her car pulled Loginova out of her Porsche Cayenne Sunday in Moscow. Loginova grabbed onto the door handle as the car picked up speed and she was dragged along the street before letting go ….

Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion cash & stock bid for Yahoo on Friday, a deal that shakes up the competitive & lucrative market for Internet search. The deal would pay to the Yahoo shareholders about $31 a share, which represents a 62% premium from Thursday’s closing price.
Microsoft’s statement said the offer allows Yahoo (Y’HOO, Fortune 500) shareholders to elect to receive cash or a fixed number of shares of Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) common ….

Toronto: The (AI) Air India public inquiry commission, which investigate the systemic failures that led to the tragic Kanishka plane bombing in 1985, will hold special hearings in mid-February before drafting its final report to be submitted to the Canadian government. The panel said in a statement that the commission, which concluded its 16-months hearings and presented an interim report to the Canadian government before the Christmas holidays, reconvenes on February 14 for a two-day ….

A witness told that a group of six men opened fire with automatic weapons on the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, wounding five people including a “foreign woman” on Friday. “None of the embassy staff, Israeli or Mauritanian, had been hurt”, Ambassador Booz Bismuth said.
Ambassador Booz Bismuth said,”I confirm that shots were aimed at our embassy from the street, I confirm that no one was wounded among the embassy staff or among the ….

Baghdad: Powerful bombs blasts in two busy Baghdad markets on Friday, in whicht 43 people killed and 85 people injured, officials said.
One bomb hidden in a cardboard box shattered through crowds in popular al-Ghazl pet market mid-morning while a bomb exploded soon afterwards in another crowded market in the city’s southeast al-Jadida. “At least 34 bodies had been received, we have a disaster here. There are too many bodies to count. Many of them are ….

Schneider arguing that she supported the threat of force as a means of avoiding fight. That’s a complicated case to make & it still leaves the question why did she think President Bush had the same judgment she did? But here’s a new angle she hasn’t used before in these debates that she would never have contemplated an invasion of Iraq. It’s another way of trying to
draw a distinction between her views and the president’s. ….

According to police reports Britney Spears has been taken to hospital again. Police said that Britney Spears has taken to a hospital for tests to see if she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs & for a psychological evaluation after the situation at her home, but Officer April Harding said Friday she could not confirm that or other reports that Spears was hospitalized for mental evaluation. Harding said, “For her own welfare, she was ….

A suicide bomber killed the deputy governor of Helmand province Haji Pir Mohammad & five other people killed inside mosque in southern Afghanistan. Another 18 people were injured when the bomber detonated explosives among worshippers at afternoon prayers in the mosque in the Helmand province town of Lashkar Gah. Deputy provincial health director Nisar Ahmad said,”Six bodies were brought to the hospital including the deputy provincial governor, Haji Pir Mohammad”. The deputy governor Haji ….

17 die in Turkish fireworks building blast the authorities told DailyNews Reporter John Mathew that a blast occur in a building in an industrial neighborhood of Istanbul on Thursday, in which 17 people killed. The authorities believed that the fireworks stored in the building caused the blast. The explosion took place at 9:45 a.m. on the 3rd floor of a four story building in Davutpasa, Muammer Guler the district governor of Istanbul said that ….

Osama bin Laden said to have a new mission to deter crime.Fernando Aguirre patrols the streets of Santa Fe, dressed as the al-Qaeda leader and said to be his son.On September 11, 2001, Aguirre adopted the look of Osama bin Laden in the belief his presence on the streets of Bogota would help cut crime and bring order to an area abundant with crime, prostitution and drug-dealing.While United States forces in Afghanistan remain engaged in ….

Douglas County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Halsey said, Police was still investigating the death of 30 years old Chere Rhodes, but got no success. Son of “Beverly Hillbillies” star Max Baer Jr. Baer, 70 years old who played “Jethro” in the 1960s “Hillbillies” series, summoned authorities to his Lake Tahoe home last Thursday after he found Rhodes with a single gunshot wound to the chest, said Jim Halsey. Douglas County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Halsey said,”She was conscious ….

   Ethan Hawke Buxbaum said to DailyNews on Wednesday “I can confirm and they are thrilled,No further details will be made available”. After marriage to Uma Thurman Hawke has two children. Ethan Hawke screen credits include “Training Day,” “Dead Poets Society,” “Great Expectations” and “Before Sunset”-DailyNewsReport.

  Two sources inside his campaign said that Former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina quit the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Edwards has told his top advisers about his decision. It is expected he will announce it in a speech in New Orleans, Louisiana  also at 1300 hours (ET) on Wednesday. An Edwards aide said the candidate was not getting the media attention that he needed to get his message out and win delegates, especially ….

  A heavy snowfall blanketed Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land in snow on Wednesday causes closing schools and stores and grounding public transportation. The Israelis were in  excitement & used to warm Middle Eastern weather, was palpable. Children threw snowballs on slushy streets, and weather reports topped local newscasts, eclipsing an upcoming government report on the 2006 war in Lebanon that could pressure Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign. Snow often falls in Jerusalem ….

The Federal Reserve of US on Wednesday reducing the federal funds rate by a half point & cut a key interest rate for the second time in just over a week. It signalled that further rate cuts were possible. The half-point cut Wednesday followed news that the economy had slowed significantly in the final three months of last year with the Gross Domestic Product expanding at a barely discernible pace of 0.6%, less than half what ….

Asif Ali Zardari Co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party has said that his wife Benazir Bhutto’s “martyrdom” is the biggest proof that the February 18 general elections in Pakistan will be rigged. Interacting with a delegation of five-members of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency headed by former chief justice of Pakistan Justice Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui at Bilawal House at Kararchi on Tuesday. Zardari said the nation was hurt after Benazir’s assassination ….