Tuesday, May, 21, 2013
TODAY'S PAPER
Republicans out to get Obama
THE thing people often forget about the story of the boy who cried wolf was that, at the end of…
US denounces hatred against Muslims, Jews
WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday denounced what it called a rising tide of both…
Obama asks Myanmar to stop killing of Muslims
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Monday saluted Myanmar President Thein Sein for his leadership in pushing through startling political…
Of passions inside a nuclear plant
The metaphor levels are set to maximum on Grand Central, an overwrought, overthought tale of leaking passions inside a nuclear…
Asia-Pacific leaders warn of water conflict
CHIANG MAI (Thailand): Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from…
Wave of attacks kills 86 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 20: A wave of attacks killed at least 86 people in different parts of Iraq on Monday, officials…
Hong Kong launches plan to tackle waste crisis
HONG KONG: Hong Kong on Monday launched a 10-year plan to reduce waste by 40 per cent per person as…
Garment workers seek wage hike in BD
DHAKA: Bangladeshi police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of garment workers on Monday as they demanded a…
Gunman shoots four dead at bank in Israel
JERUSALEM, May 20: A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Monday, killing four…
Tornadoes slam central US; two dead in Oklahoma
SHAWNEE (USA), May 20: Several tornadoes ravaged parts of the American heartland, reducing portions of a mobile home park to…
Abu Qatada denied bail in UK
LONDON, May 20: Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada was on Monday denied bail in his latest skirmish with British authorities,…
Annotated ‘Harry Potter’: first edition on auction
LONDON, May 20: A first edition copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” that contains author J. K. Rowling’s…
Gandhi’s blood sample up for auction
LONDON, May 20: Two microscope slides bearing the blood of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi are to go on sale…
Bomb attacks in Russia leave eight dead
MOSCOW, May 20: At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Monday in twin car…
