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Four killed, scores trapped as multi-story building collapses in Mumbai

27.09.2013 21:08
MUMBAI -- A five-story apartment block collapsed on Friday in the Indian financial center of Mumbai, killing at least four people and trapping scores in the latest accident to underscore shoddy building standards in Asia's third-largest economy. The building collapsed at about 5:45 a.m. local time...

Death toll tops 500 after Pakistan quake; area twice size of New Jersey flattened

27.09.2013 21:06
The death toll from an earthquake that devastated an impoverished region of Pakistan has climbed past 500, a provincial official said Friday. Babar Yaqoob, chief secretary of Balochistan, told Reuters 515 people have now been confirmed dead following the 7.7-magnitude temblor which struck the...

U.N. Climate Panel Endorses Ceiling on Global Emissions

27.09.2013 20:58
STOCKHOLM — The world’s top climate scientists on Friday formally embraced an upper limit on greenhouse gases for the first time, establishing a target level at which humanity must stop spewing them into the atmosphere or face irreversible and potentially catastrophic climatic changes. They warned...

Afghanistan militants kill 18 police in Badakhshan

20.09.2013 16:25
The police were in Wardooj district and on their way back to the provincial capital after an anti-insurgent operation when they came under attack. Although the mountainous north-east is relatively peaceful, Wardooj district has become increasingly volatile. The Taliban said that they had...

Nigeria's 'Boko Haram': Abuja sees security forces targeted

20.09.2013 16:20
The clash occurred at about 03:00 local time after a tip off about the location of a suspected Boko Haram weapons cache, Nigeria's spy agency said. The State Security Service did not give any details about casualties. A witness told the BBC he saw nine bodies. Boko Haram is most active in...

India hunt as terror suspect Afzal Usmani flees Mumbai court

20.09.2013 16:19
Afzal Usmani is accused of involvement in bomb attacks in Ahmedabad and Surat. Police said he disappeared after being taken to the court for a hearing with other suspects in the case. Nearly 50 people died in 17 blasts in Ahmedabad on 26 July 2008. The next day 22 bombs were found in Surat,...

Syria 'submits chemical weapons data' to Hague watchdog

20.09.2013 16:18
Syria has begun sending details of its chemical weapons as part of a US- Russia brokered deal to make them safe, the chemical arms watchdog has said. The Hague-based OPCW added that it expected more details from Syria in the coming days and had postponed a meeting planned for Sunday. Syria was...

Jeff Carney: The lonely US airman turned Stasi spy

20.09.2013 16:15
Hundreds of spies betrayed their countries during the Cold War, often motivated by ideology, or financial reward. Jeff Carney was different - he was a lonely, gay US airman who dreamed of a new life in East Germany. Years later, he sees parallels between his story and that of Chelsea, formerly...

Singapore: Demand for jabs to 'create bags under eyes'

20.09.2013 16:13
It seems a South Korea trend, known as aegyo sal or "cute skin", has caught on in the wealthy city state. And while, in the West, eye bags are usually associated with tiredness and ageing, the Straits Times reports how the procedure of adding small bulges to the lower eyelid makes its Singaporean...

Germany Mourns Death of Its Most Famous Critic at 93

20.09.2013 15:57
COLOGNE, Germany – Germany is mourning the death of its most famous literary critic, Marcel Reich-Ranicki , who died this week, aged 93. A Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and settled in Germany after the war, Reich-Ranicki became one of the country's most outspoken and influential critics....
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