56 Hindu couples marry in Karachi

ISLAMABAD: Amid traditional songs and dances, 56 Hindu couples got married Saturday night at a glittering mass wedding in Karachi organised by the Pakistan-Hindu Council.

The Prague Post - Business - Škoda auto sales surge in East

More than half of Škoda cars will soon be produced outside the Czech Republic.
Off of booming third-quarter results, Škoda Auto continued to hit big numbers in October, building growth that's come largely thanks to the company's increasing market share in Russia, China and India.

US drone strike kills six in Pakistan: Security officials

MIRANSHAH: A US drone attack killed six suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal belt on Sunday, security officials said, a day after Islamabad rejected reports the covert missile campaign could expand.

With Afghan control by 2014, Obama sees combat end

LISBON, PORTUGAL: NATO leaders on Saturday set 2014 as the date for moving Afghans into the lead role in fighting the Taliban, with President Barack Obama saying for the first time he wants U.S. troops out of major combat in Afghanistan by the end of that year.

Not just models, kids get airbrush too

Oliver Tracy showed up for his first-grade portrait with a crisp white shirt tucked into navy slacks, and not a lock of his sun-streaked blond hair out of place.

Blood continues to stain Nepal's peace pact

KATHMANDU: As the tattered peace pact, that had seen Nepal bid a farewell to arms after a decade of armed insurrection, turned four years old on Sunday, there was however little to cheer with commitments made by the political parties forgotten, human rights violations still rampant and blood continuing to stain the agreement.

British teachers can now frisk students

LONDON: Britain will lay out new rules soon which would allow school teachers to frisk pupils for mobile phones, electronic gadgets and even pornography and cigarettes in a bid to prevent disruption in classrooms.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad urges girls to marry at 16

 

TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged young girls to marry at age of 16 in his latest rejection of the country's once effective family planning program, local newspapers reported on Sunday.

Paul Holmes : It's fairy tale time again

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Princess Diana and Prince Charles barely knew each other. Photo / AP

I loved it. I couldn't have been happier the other morning when I read of the engagement of William and Kate. She is beautiful. She has extraordinary style. She is the perfect woman to marry the man who will one day be the King of England.

North Korea Working With Uranium at Vast New Plant - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal or build a far more powerful type of atomic bomb.