JerryKill2 MINNEAPOLIS – Jerry Kill has been hired as the new University of Minnesota football coach, but a history of winning records, bowl games, academic achievement and putting players into the NFL aren’t enough to win over many Gophers fans. Kill will be introduced as the next Gophers coach... [Read More]

06sld1 Huaxi village, set up in 1961, is China’s richest village. It is also called the No.1 Village of China. Here everyone lives in a villa and owns cars — imported cars.Image: New houses are seen at Huaxi village in Jiangsu province.Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters Click NEXT to read... [Read More]

BAGHDAD,Two car bomb explosions targeted Iranian pilgrims in Baghdad on Saturday, killed seven people and wounded 46 others, an Interior Ministry source said. A booby-trapped car explosion targeted Iranian pilgrims at al- Moheet Street in Baghdad’s northern district of Kadhmiyah, killed five people... [Read More]

03sld1 In less than two months, President Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni arrive in India, Ranjan Mathai, India’s ambassador to France, spoke to Rediff.com senior contributor Claude Arpi in Paris.I would like to ask you first why President Sarkozy’s visit to India was so delayed. Dr Manmohan... [Read More]

02train1 These spectacular trains promise the most exciting journeys, though rocky mountains, forests, deserts to snowcapped landscapes. Four trains from India make it to the list of the world’s Top 25 Luxury Trains compiled by The Society of International Railways Travelers. Click NEXT to read... [Read More]

01child14 ‘Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.’  — Walt Disney Today, December 2, is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.This day recalls the date of the adoption of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons... [Read More]

air More than 17.9 million air travellers from over 100 different nationalities took part in a 10-month survey between July 2009 and April 2010 to choose the world’s best airline.At the Skytrax 2010 World Airline Awards, that took place in Hamburg, 40 different airlines from around the world... [Read More]

rio de janeiro RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio’s top security official hailed the taking by authorities of what was long the most dangerous slum in the city that will host the 2016 Olympics, as operations continued Monday to locate drug gang members thought to be hiding inside. Meanwhile authorities,... [Read More]

HaitiVoters Ballot boxes were ripped up and voting papers strewn in the streets, polling stations opened late and were ransacked, and voters could not find their names on lists. The 12 politicians gathered in a hotel ballroom in the capital Port-au-Prince to join hands, denounce Jude Celestin, the chosen... [Read More]

Recently, the independent directors on the company’s board demanded the removal of Pawan Arora, the boss of Air India Express, the low-cost arm of the airline, for misrepresenting facts. The directive was opposed by Chief Operating Officer Gustav Baldauf who told Jadhav the procedure was not... [Read More]

Delivering a televised speech to the nation, Lee offered a rare public apology for the government’s much-criticized response to a rain of North Korean artillery shells on Yeonpyeong Island near the tense Yellow Sea border on Nov. 23. President Lee Myung-bak speaks in a televised speech. The president... [Read More]

moldova-people The polls are closed and the votes are being tallied in the former Soviet state of Moldova after it held its third parliamentary election in two years on Sunday. The election pits the ruling Alliance for European Integration, a loose coalition of liberal-leaning parties, against a Communist... [Read More]

Cyber Monday has arrived and in 2010 there are a world of bargains, available to the Cyber Monday online deal hunter. There is massive competition between online stores for the deepest deals, and the coupons that give the most savingsdiscount. The internet world is going crazy with websites dedicated... [Read More]

25china1 China has surpassed Japan in the second quarter of this fiscal year to become the world’s second-largest economy, with only the United States ahead of it now. The second quarter of 2010 saw China’s gross domestic product standing at $1.34 trillion and Japan’s at $1.29 trillionClick... [Read More]

10sl1 Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano has killed 191 people since it began erupting late last month, with more than 340,000 people in makeshift campMedia sources say that the volcano is still dangerous as eruptions and gas clouds continue to force people to abandon their houses with fear of... [Read More]

18sld1 A full-size prototype of the China-made large passenger aircraft C919, the country’s first home-grown large commercial airliner, was unveiled at the Zhuahai Air Show 2010.Click NEXT to read on… 18sld2 It has a designed capacity of 168 seats for the full economy class version and... [Read More]

23shop1 India: 2.72%Even as scams of various hues and reports of rising corruption continue to ravage the nation, India now has yet another humiliation to contend with.India’s retail industry has once again topped the Global Retail Theft Barometer survey for 2010. Click NEXT to read on . . . 23shop2 Morocco:... [Read More]

Blonde The road into town is a potholed track, passing villages of log cabins and fallow fields that speak to the poverty that has gripped this part of central Russia for as long as anyone can remember. But on a lane where geese waddle through muddy puddles, a brick building holds crate upon crate of... [Read More]

stampede Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving at least 349 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. A panic-stricken crowd  celebrating the end of the... [Read More]

22india1 India: 2,632,694 units With an annual production of about 2,632,694 cars in 2009, India is now the seventh largest vehicle producing nation in the world. It is a milestone the country achieved six years ahead of the set target.The Indian automobile sector is also one of the fastest growing... [Read More]

22ss1 The NATO says it could halt its Afghan combat operations in 2014 if security conditions were good enough.However, civilian casualties have been at their highest in 2010 since the start of the US-led invasion to oust the hardline Taliban from power in late 2001. The United Nations said in August... [Read More]

19train1 Can India have its first bullet train that would run at a speed of 350 km per hour? The proposal is being explored by Indian Railways with the help of three companies, including a French and an Italian firm.The report of the feasibility study, being conducted on 533-km long Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad... [Read More]

11gold1 India owns over 18,000 tonnes of above ground gold stocks worth approximately $800 billion and representing at least 11 per cent of global stock, according to estimates of World Gold Council.This is equivalent to nearly half an ounce of gold ownership per capita, a figure which is significantly... [Read More]

14city1 Three Indian cities are amongst the world’s fastest-growing cities, says a Forbes report.Most of the ‘fastest-growing’ in the world are predominantly in the Asian continent. As would be expected, as many as four Chinese cities find a place in the Forbes list.Fast-growing cities... [Read More]