A car bombing in a crowed residential street in the Syrian capital killed 17 people on Saturday.The blast smashed car windshields and shattered windows in nearby residential buildings and a large crater filled with water at the blast site.
He Pingping, the world's smallest man, 74.61 cm tall ( 2 ft. 5.37 in.) is from Mongolia and 20 years old. At the time of birth he was no bigger than his father's palm.
Russian Svetiana Pankratova has the longgest legs measuring at 132 cm. ( 4 ft. 3.9 in.).
The first US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to visit tripoli on September 6 in 55 years was a historic visit to Libya.
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday September 9. Zardari, 53, will succeed Pervez Musharaf as president of Pakistan.
At least 31 people were killed and 23 injured in a rock slide which hit a slum area east of Cairo. Around 35 houses were crushed by massive rocks on Saturday morning, September 6, a shantytown at the foot of Al Moqattam Hills near a highway in the Egyptian capital.
The month of Ramadan is coming on September 1 and is welcome by all Muslims. Welcoming the advent of the holy month, the believers are to adhere strictly to the teachings of the Qur'an and the traditions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) during this period.
Presiden Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono di kurniakan cucu pertama dengan di beri nama Almira Tunggadewi Yudhoyono yang lahir tepat di Hari Kemerdekaan. Almira adalah putri kepada putra Presiden, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono dan istrinya Annisa Pohan.
Almira artinya putri yang mulia dan Tunggadewi, tokoh wanita abad ke-14, Ratu Majapahit yang setia dan berani. Yudhoyono nama keluarga.
AN Egyptian woman gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria after taking fertility drugs in effort to produce a son.The babies were delivered by Caesarean section, four boys and three girls, weigh between 1.45 kilograms and 2.8 kilograms are in stable condition. The Caesarean section had to be done during the woman's eight months of pregnancy due to the pressure on her kidneys. The woman is the wife of a farmer, is already the mother of three girls. In rural Egypt, sons are preffered to daughters.
Black and white twins was born to a German couple on July 11, 2008. The first baby that was born has light skin and blue eyes. His brother is darked-skinned with brown eyes. The father Stephen Gerth is German and white. His wife, Florence Addo Gerth, is from Ghana and has dark skin.
The glittering opening ceremony of Beijing 2008 Olympics, on Friday night, 080808, inside the new National Stadium or Bird's Nest in the capital, was witnessed by more than 100,000 in the stands and by billions in China and around the world as it was live broadcast.
Former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, took a false name and changed his looks, allowing him to live unrecognized in the Serbian capital until arrest, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Karadzic was captured in disguise near Belgrade after 11 years on the run and had been working as a doctor.
Spain finally ended their 44-year wait for a trophy when the first-half goal gave them 1-0 victory over Germany, Sunday 29/06/2008. The exquisite goal was delivered by Fernando Torres during the first half.
Friday, June 27 2008, North Korea, brought down a cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, a Soviet-era nuclear plant. The move was part of a process of dismantling the country's nuclear programme in return for easing its international isolation and creating a nuclear-free zone on the Korean peninsula.
Mona Al Jeddawi is the first Saudi female photojournalist to work for a local newspaper in Jeddah. She entered the field of press photography by pure chance. She had 34 years practical photography as a hobby and then take up the profession seriously through her husband.
Many vehicles, stranded in several feet of sea water at the Wakrah beach in Doha during a sudden surge of high tide. The vehicles belonging to picnickers, had been parked on the beach during low tide. Their owners were caught unawares by the high tide which whipped up by strong winds, engulfed their vehicles. They tried in vain to pull the vehicles away from the gushing tide but their vehicles drifted away.
A disturbed young Japanese auto worker who killed seven people on a stabbing spree in downtown Tokyo had posted dozens of warnings of what he was going to do on internet bulletin boards.
The assailant, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato, is a graduate of a prestigious high school who went on to do manual work at an auto components factory. On Sunday he drove a rented two-tonne truck some 100 kilometers to Tokyo, swerving the vehicle into pedestrians before bursting out and stabbing at random with a survival knife. He wounded 17 people, seven of whom died before police overpowered him.
In Tanzania, albinos has a price for their pinkish skin. They are in danger of being hunted. Discrimination against albinos is a serious problem through out sub-Sahara Africa. Recently in Tanzania it has taken a wicked twist. At least 19 albinos including children, have been killed and mutilated in the past year being victims of a growing criminal trade in albinos body parts. As a matter of fact they believe albinos have magical powers. Officials from Tanzania say witch doctors are now marketing albinos skin, bones and hair as ingredients in portions that are promised to make people rich.
The killings go on and spread to neighbouring Kenya, where an albino woman was hacked to death, with her eyes, tounge and breasts gouged out. Witch doctors are also selling albino skin in Congo.
Huda Nonoo of Arab Jewish is Bahrain ambassador to the US. Her appointment as ambassador in Washington is still waiting for the approval of the US government.
Huda, 43, will be the third woman ambassador from Bahrain after Shaikha Haya Bint Rashed Al Khalifa who served in France Bibi Al Alawi, the current ambassador to China.
Bulan Mei lalu matan President RI Abdurrahman Wahid atau Gus Dur terima anugerah Medal of Valor dari Shimon Wresenthal Center (SWS) di US. Di samping itu beliau juga sama sama ikut merayakan hari kemerdekaan Israel ke 60. Dalam acara tersebut tokoh tokoh Zionis Amerika dan Israel juga turut serta termasuk Rabbi Marvin Hier ( dinobatkan oleh Newsweek sebagai Rabbi paling berpengaruh di US tahun 2007 ) dan Rabbi Abraham Cooper( Rabbi paling berpengaruh di US tahun 2008 )
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A copy of the Holy Quran was found riddled with bullet holes at a shooting range near Baghdad on May 11. The Quran had been peppered with 14 bullet holes and offensive language had been scrawled inside. An American soldier had used the holy book for shooting practice. This is an insult to the Islamic faith.
The soldier was disciplined and the REWARDS was ordered to leave Iraq and of course the military had made an apology so as to calm down the situation.
The Royal Malay Regiment taking part in the changing of-the guards ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
Hundreds of protesters in the town of Sukabumi in western Java have set fire to a mosque belonging to the minority Muslim Ahmadiyya sect.
The Ahmadiyya has around 200,000 followers in Indonesia and also faces persecution in other Muslim countries.The Ahmadis believe their own founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who died in 1908 in India, was a prophet.
At least 66 people are dead and hundreds injured after a pre- dawn trains collision early Monday in eastern China.
Metal thieves blacked out the entire state of Sabah, Malaysia, Monday 21, April, 2008. They removed steel pieces from a 132 KV transmission tower that led to its collapse triggering a major power blackout affecting 300,000 consumers.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani greeted US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Baghdad, Sunday April 20, 2008.
While Putin denied the rumours, he seemed to delight in projecting a new image to the world as a lady's man.
Putin 55, divorced his wife, Lyudmila, two months ago and planned to marry Alina Kabayeva, 24, a former champion rhythmic gymnast.
Kabayeva, who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Games, is now a member of the lower house of Russia's parliament from the pro-Kremlin party.
In Saudi Arabia thieves dismantle steel support beams of high tension electricity pylons because of the lure for lucrative gains from the sale of the high price metal. The black market in scrap metal is a booming business nowadays, so much so that construction or public work sites are targets of metal thefts.
Five years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, his memory lives on through wrist watches as people in his home town and birth village seek reminder of a time of safety, jobs and cheap living.
Watches featuring an image of the former Iragi leader on the watches sell like hot cakes in his hometown of Tikrit.
Prince Harry returned to Britain on March 1, 2008 after his 10-week stint serving in Afghanistan was cut short by media disclosure of his secret deployment. Harry, soldier prince, third in line to the British throne, a second lieutenant, was withdrawn from his deployment after the once closely guarded secret became public.
His mission had previously gone undisclosed under an agreement between the Ministry of Defence and major news organizations designed to protect the 23-year-old prince and his fellow soldiers.
According to a report, Taliban intelligence knew of the prince's presence, despite the media blackout and its deputy commander, Mullah Abdul Karim, had received an urgent message from Taliban intelligence in late December or early January that "an important chicken" had joined British troops in his area of operations. Karim sent his men hunting for the prince. "He is our special enemy" he said. "Our first option was to capture him and the second to kill him"
The former Chief Judge of Malaya, Tan Seri Dato Siti Norma Yaakob, was appointed as one of the six new judges of the DIFC courts in Dubai. The new judges swore the oath in front of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai on January, 28, 2008.
The former President of Indonesia Soeharto, 86, died Sunday, 27 January 2008 of multiple organ failure at Pertamina Hospital after being treated at the hospital for more than three weeks. He was pronounced dead at 1.10 pm local time.
A week of national mourning was declared. The state funeral for former president of Indonesia at Astana Giri Bangun family mausoleum, Karanganyar, Central Java on Monday. Soeharto's wife, Indonesian royal, Siti Suhartinah, who died in 1996, was also buried at the same cemetery.
Palestinian militants blew up part of the wall between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 and tens of thousands of Palestinians scrambled their way into Egypt to stock up on food and fuel in short supply due to an Israeli blockade.
Residents of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah said a group of militants including members of Hamas, set off a series of explosions overnight, demolishing about 200 meters of the border wall.
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, 88, died of heart failure last Friday. State funeral has been planned for January, 22, 2008.
In 1953, he at the age of 33 and Sherpa mountaineer, Sardar Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the 29,035 foot summit of Mount Everest.
Snow has fallen in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, for the first time in living memory, though it mostly melted into puddles on touching the ground.
Everyone in Baghdad is delighted because it is the first time that it snows in Baghdad.
