Mar 31 2007
The latest wizard film in the Harry Potter series differs in one major aspect from the movies that preceded it. The child actors who acted wonderfully as wizards and witches and robbed the hearts of millions of children around the world have all now...
Mar 30 2007
Fidel Castro, the Cuban president on medication, has made caustic remarks about the plans of United States of America to raise the level of biofuel consumption in order to bring down the use of fossil fuels that damage the environment. Biofuels...
Mar 27 2007
London is planning to have its own communications satellite to cut the expenses on erecting several hundred mobile phone masts. The satellite could also possibly be used for monitoring motorists from space, local authorities said on Monday. The...
Mar 27 2007
Zimbabwe plans to kill thousands of elephants in its forests to control the growing population of these majestic animals. Parks and Wildlife Authority of Zimbabwe has said that the number of elephants in the country has crossed 100,000, way above...
Mar 26 2007
The Sri Lankan air force base near the Colombo International Airport was bombed by LTTE aircraft on Monday. Three Sri Lankan airmen were killed and many more were wounded in the predawn attack. The so-called LTTE air force used two light aircraft in...
Mar 26 2007
President Chavez of Venezuela has unveiled his blueprint for land reforms in his country that will take away land ownership from private individuals and vest it with the centralized government at Caracas. The president’s second and the last...
Mar 26 2007
India lost all chances of playing as Bangladesh won Bermuda in the World Cup group B match held in Trinidad on Sunday. Bangladesh put India out of the World Cup tournament as they qualified for the Super 8 stage in a rain-affected match. The match...
Mar 25 2007
The seized British sailors and marines have confessed to having entered Iranian waters, the semi-official FARS News Agency of Iran said on Saturday. Britain had said that the sailors captured at gunpoint on Friday were not in Iranian waters and...
Mar 24 2007
And now it is final. Putting to rest weeks of speculation Emma Watson, who is in her mid-teens now, has announced that she will play the role of Hermione Granger in the forthcoming Harry Potter movies. Rupert Grint, the inseparable friend of Harry...
Mar 24 2007
The over-burdened American soldiers in Iraq are about to be given one more assignment. This time, it is the job of containing the Kurdish fighters from Turkey in northern Iraq. Turkey says that about 4,000 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...