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A sheen of oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill is nearing the white sand beaches of north-west Florida, officials say. The slick, containing thousands of tar balls, is only nine miles (15km) from Pensacola on the Florida “panhandle”. “It’s inevitable that we will see it on the beaches,” said Keith Wilkins, an Escambia County [...]
— A taxi driver went on a shooting spree across a rural area of northwestern England on Wednesday, police said, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself. The rampage in Cumbria was the deadliest mass shooting since 1996 in Britain, where gun ownership is tightly restricted and handguns are [...]
More than 12 years after she died in a car crash in Paris, a leading defence lawyer has alleged that Princess Diana was murdered over her plan to expose UK’s arms dealers. Queen’s Counsel Michael Mansfield has claimed that the late Princess of Wales even intended publishing an “explosive” diary to unmask those most closely [...]
Al-Qaida announced Monday that its No. 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family — perhaps one of the most severe blows to the terror movement since the U.S. campaign against al-Qaida began. A U.S. official said al-Yazid was believed to have died in a U.S. missile strike. A statement [...]
Nikhil Advani’s film Patiala House will feature a cameo by former British captain David Gower. Recently,the crew shot a few scenes with Kumar and Gower at the Oval, says a media report.Akshay, who is being trained under Balwinder Singh Sandhu as reported, is quite excited to meet Gower. A source reveals, “ Akki plays Gattu, [...]
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is all set to realize his dream of launching a cricket academy in Ranchi. Dhoni has approached Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) for the setting up of a cricket academy to nurture young talent and budding players from Jharkhand and Bihar. The central coalfields felicitated him for his contribution to the [...]
Suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Tuesday accused the BCCI of harassing him through show-cause notices which he termed as a “ridiculous affair”.After submitting the hard copy of Modi’s reply to the second show-cause notice, his lawyer Mehmood Abdi said the third notice slapped Monday night on his client was basically another way to harass [...]
The BCCI on Tuesday announced that it will not send either the men’s or the women’s cricket team for this year’s Asian Games in China where the game makes its debut in its Twenty20 format. The 16th edition of the Games will be held in Guangzhou, China from November 12 to 27 and the BCCI’s [...]
