Online banking has been around for a while now, but many people have been slow to take advantage of it until recently. With people having such hectic schedules they are turning more and more to their computers to get things done.  With online banking being so convenient many people are finding it hard not to [...]

Traveling in North East India is an experience in itself. You have the varied options of feeling the whiff of fresh air as your eyes are riveted at the wonderful scenery – whose beauty is simply enchanting. The north-eastern portion of India is made up of the six sister states of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, [...]

An impressive 70 per cent of the people turned up to vote in Sri Lanka’s first post-LTTE presidential election, but the former bastions of the Tamil Tigers saw a low turnout in the fiercely fought polls between the incumbent and his one-time confidant.
This is the first presidential election in Sri Lanka since 1972 that was [...]

US President Barack Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, and for increases no greater than inflation after that, an initiative intended to signal his seriousness about cutting the budget deficit, administration officials said on Monday.
The officials said the proposal would be a major component both of Obama’s State [...]

Sri Lankans crowded polling stations on Tuesday to choose between two Sinhalese war heroes — the president and his former army chief — in an election that could be decided by minority Tamils, who suffered most from the government offensive to end the civil conflict. (Read: Sri Lanka presidential candidate profiles)
While voting among the Sinhalese [...]

Profiles of the two main candidates in Sri Lanka’s presidential election Tuesday:
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Incumbent President Rajapaksa, 64, is a scion
of a renowned political family. He has become a hero to the Sinhalese majority for leading the offensive that destroyed the Tamil Tigers last year after more than two decades of brutal civil war that killed [...]

Key facts about Sri Lanka, which is holding its presidential election Tuesday.
Geography: A tropical island off India’s southern tip. Plantations of coconut, rubber, tea, cinnamon and other spices, with large, sparsely inhabited areas of forest and scrub in its 25,500 square miles (66,000 square kilometers).
People: Population about 20 million: 74 per cent Sinhalese, 18 per [...]

Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana, friends from a military school in Pakistan and facing charges of conspiring 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, have not been in contact with each other or met despite being in the same federal lock-up.
“They are not in contact with each other at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre. They are [...]

Maxi Extralien, a twig-thin 10-year-old in a SpongeBob pajama top, ate only a single bean from the heavy plate of food he received recently from a Haitian civic group. He had to make it last.
“My mother has 12 kids but a lot of them died,” he said, covering his meal so he could carry it [...]

An Ethiopian jet carrying 90 people plunged into the sea off the coast of Lebanon in a ball of fire just after takeoff in stormy weather early on Monday with no sign of survivors, officials said.
Helicopters and navy vessels rushed to the crash site as President Michel Sleiman ruled out foul play.
Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi [...]

Iraq’s government spokesman says Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin “Chemical Ali” was executed on Monday – about a week after being sentenced to death for the poison gas attacks that killed more than 5,000 Kurds in 1988.
News of the hanging came shortly after three suicide car bombs struck downtown Baghdad. It was not immediately clear whether [...]

The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper knows the 24-hour news cycle as well as anyone, and last week, he lamented that the survivors of the Haiti earthquake would soon fall victim to that reality.
“We all know what’s going to happen” in a week or two, he said to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the CNN medical correspondent and [...]

Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaida, spoke publicly for the first time about the botched Christmas Day airliner bombing, praising the attempt – but not explicitly taking credit for it – in an audiotape broadcast Sunday that was aimed personally at President Barack Obama.
Bin Laden said that the bombing attempt was a heroic act [...]

American filmmaker Dan Woolley, who lay trapped beneath Haiti’s earthquake rubble for some 66 hours used medical application installed on his iPhone to survive until help arrived.
American news network NBC reported that Wolley used the light from his iPhone to locate his injuries and diagnosed it as a broken foot. He, then, used the instructions [...]

In what seems to be another celebrity death hoax circulating across the Internet, Hollywood actor Johnny Depp was rumoured to have died in a car crash near Bordeaux in France.
The rumour circulated on various online portals that claimed the Golden Globe award-wining actor was involved in a fatal car accident.
The rumour was fuelled by a [...]

America’s most wanted terrorist, Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, is back in news. In an audio message released on Sunday, Laden has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day airline-bombing attempt in Detroit, and vowed further attacks on the US.
The message suggests that Bin Laden wants to show he remains in direct command of Al-Qaida’s many [...]

South Africa’s tourism slogan is “It’s Possible.” For those wishing to travel to the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, the first to be held on the African continent, the initial thought might be that travel to South Africa to attend the tournament will be anything but possible. However, according to South African Airways, planning [...]

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan promoted his upcoming movie ‘Rann’ (Battle) here on Saturday. His latest film is based on the difficulties and challenges faced in the world of journalism, be it the news of an event or an issue.
Speaking about his film journey, Bachchan said that at this age he is portraying only the character [...]