Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Chinese President Hu Jintao in Yekaterinburg on Monday night, setting the tone for the talks between their Special Representatives on boundary question on August 7.
Singh met Hu soon after his arrival for the Summits of Shanghai Cooperation Organisations (SCO) and Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC), which will begin from Tuesday.
The two leaders discussed [...]

MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja was arrested early Monday on rape charges Shiney Ahuja has been arrested on rape charges after preliminary tests conducted on his domestic help confirmed sexual assault on Monday.
after preliminary tests conducted on his domestic help Shiney Ahuja has been arrested on rape charges after preliminary tests conducted on his domestic [...]

In a bid to ease tensions with the new US administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the creation of a limited Palestinian state for the first time, saying it would have to be disarmed.
“Israel cannot agree to a Palestinian state unless it gets guarantees it is demilitarised, “Netanyahu said in his much [...]

It is the first swine flu death in the United Kingdom; the victim is a 38-year-old woman who gave birth prematurely at a hospital. It is the first death reported outside the US.
As many as 1,261 cases of swine flu has been confirmed in the UK and an increasing number of sporadic cases are being [...]

A Chinese submarine’s reported “inadvertent encounter” with an underwater sonar apparatus towed by a US destroyer in the South China Sea was probably an accident, the state media reported on Monday.
Citing Chinese military experts, ‘China Daily’ said that the submarine’s collision with the sonar array connected to the USS John S McCain while sailing near [...]

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday ordered an investigation into allegations of election fraud, marking a stunning turnaround by the country’s most powerful figure and offering hope to Opposition forces who have waged street clashes to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
State television quoted Khamenei directing a high-level clerical panel, the Guardian [...]

Expressing concern over 100,000 innocent lives lost in the just concluded “cruel war” against LTTE, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said his latest challenge is to rehabilitate the displaced Tamil civilians.
Rajapaksa currently on a state visit to Myanmar, his first one after the conclusion of the three decade war with the LTTE, said that his [...]

Hollywood’s action legend Arnold Schwarzenegger could become the President of his home country Austria after his term as the Governor of California ends next year, a British newspaper has claimed.
Even Schwarzenegger has told his home country: “I’ll be back… as President.”
As he is prevented from running for American President because he wasn’t born in the [...]

A new research has revealed the origins of swine flu after scientists discovered that the transmission of the H1N1 influenza A virus to humans occurred several months before recognition of the existing outbreak.
India has confirmed a total of 23 cases of swine flu in the country, with the World Health Organisation declaring the outbreak as [...]

Superstars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan were declared the ‘Actors of the Decade’ at the IIFA awards in Macau.
Aishwarya won two honorary awards for her work in Indian and international cinema while Khan was honoured for his work in popular Indian cinema, Bollywood.
The 35-year-old actress who also performed at the awards gala received both [...]

Ashutosh Gowariker’s epic love story, Jodha Akbar swept the music and technical awards at the International Indian Film Academy extravaganza in Macau on Saturday as A R Rahman continued his winning streak.
Double Oscar winner Rahman won in the Best Music Direction and Best Background Score category while fellow Academy award winner Resul Pookutty got a [...]

The suicide attack on a five star hotel in Peshawar has killed 15 people and wounded more than 60. Two UN officials, one from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office and the other from UNICEF are among those killed. Two other UN officials are still missing.
The UNHCR official was part of an emergency team [...]

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
(Cairo,Egypt)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE               June 4, 2009
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
ON A NEW BEGINNING
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
1:10 P.M. (Local)
PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Thank you very much.  Good afternoon.  I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions.  For over a thousand years, [...]