British women giving birth in lifts, toilets: Report »
IANS 27 August 2009, 10:29am IST
LONDON: A shortage of midwives and hospital beds is forcing thousands of British women to give birth outside maternity wards, putting the lives
of babies and mothers at risk, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The Daily Mail said births outside maternity wards - in locations ranging from lifts to hospital toilets - went [...]
West Asia peace talks likely to resume soon »
Breakthrough talks: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (left) and George Mitchell in London on Wednesday.
LONDON: A meeting here on Wednesday between U.S. President Barack Obama’s special envoy George Mitchell and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was reported to have paved the way for resuming the stalled peace process in West Asia.
The meeting, which took [...]
One-team domination has ended: Dravid »
— PHOTO: AP
CLOSE RACE: Rahul Drvaid feels the No. 1 spot in Tests could change hands a few times in the next couple of years.
London: The one-team domination in Test cricket has ended with Australia’s decline, feels veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid, who foresees the No. 1 spot changing hands every few months between India, [...]
World economy: Looking for exit signs »
August 21st 2009
FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT
With the global economy now seemingly having bottomed out, and with many economies now showing signs of recovery, the question of when the current phase of extraordinarily loose monetary policy might end is coming to the fore. Given the mix of orthodox and unorthodox monetary-policy approaches in use in [...]
Sri Lanka rejects ‘execution’ video »
The footage is said to have been recorded on a Sir Lankan soldier’s mobile phone [Channel 4 News]
The Sri Lankan High Commission has denied its forces carried out atrocities against ethnic Tamils after a video apparently showing a man being executed by Sri Lankan soldiers was aired on British television.
The footage, appearing to show a [...]
Obama ‘heartbroken’ by Kennedy death »
Updated on 26 August 2009
By Channel 4 News
US President Obama says he is heartbroken to hear of the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, the last surviving brother of president John F Kennedy, who died at the age of 77.
He was the most influential and longest-serving senator in American politics, serving representing Massachusetts in the Senate [...]
Leader of the Central Provincial Council S.B. Dissanayake speaks to the Daily Mirror »
United National Party National Organizer and Opposition Leader of the Central Provincial Council S.B. Dissanayake speaks to the Daily Mirror on the upcoming Provincial Council elections, a possible imminent Presidential election and the leadership and elitist persona of the United National Party.
Hitherto unpublished Pictures of Air power drills of the LTTE conducted before their leaders »
(Lanka-e-News 23.Aug.2009 6.00PM) On May 19th ,the super leaders of the LTTE and their other leaders ended up at the Nandikadal Lagoon. The LTTE came by an unexpectedly disastrous end in the fourth Eelam war, despite being considered as the world’s only guerilla movement to have had an Air power .
The LTTE attacked the South [...]
After Decades, Japan Prepares for Likely New Ruling Party »
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: August 25, 2009
TOKYO — Japanese voters finally seem willing to oust the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party. But after decades of a virtual one-party state, the Japanese now are confronting what a change of power would actually mean.
Yukio Hatoyama is the leader of the opposition Democrats.
Opinion polls show the main opposition Democratic Party [...]
Gambia Holidays »
Under 6 hours from London and with no time difference, The Gambia is an English speaking former British colony and an exciting destination all year round. This winter The Gambia is increasingly popular as it is outside of the Eurozone and is unaffected by the current poor exchange rates. In fact the Dalasi to Pound [...]
