Los Angeles, March 28 (IANS) Singer Miley Cyrus’s meeting with seven-year-old Miley Hodge, a patient of bone cancer, didn’t go as smoothly as it was planned to be, sources have said. Hodge suffers Stage IV Osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, and doctors told her family in December 2013 that she has just four to […]
Vilnius, March 28 (IANS) Lithuania is ready to meet the target of using two percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defence expenditure in the next five years, President Dalia Grybauskaite said Thursday. “It is necessary to renew without any delay the national agreement between all political parties on foreign and security policies, and also […]
Manama, March 28 (IANS) The Bahraini government Thursday announced a two week grace period for citizens fighting in “jihad” missions abroad or regional conflicts to return, saying no criminal charges will be pressed. After the two weeks the government will take strict actions, including revoking passports against returnees who are found to be involved in or […]
Los Angeles, March 28 (IANS) The news of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s forthcoming baby may have come as a surprise to many, but a source close to the couple says they had been talking of having children since a year. “They are both beyond ready to be parents,” said a source close to Kutcher. “They’ve […]
Baghdad, March 28 (IANS) At least 18 people were killed and 45 others wounded in violent attacks and clashes across Iraq Thursday, police said. A car bomb attack near a market in Baghdad’s northern district of Adhamiya killed five people and wounded 21 others. The blast also damaged several shops and cars nearby, Xinhua reported. A […]
Bangkok, March 28 (IANS/EFE) The Philippine government and the country’s largest Muslim guerrilla group signed an accord Thursday that aims to end decades of armed conflict. President Benigno Aquino and the leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Al Haj Ebrahim Murad, put their signatures to the document in a ceremony at Manila’s Malacañang palace. The […]
Los Angeles, March 28 (IANS) Paul Walker’s mother Cheryl and his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Soteros will reportedly fight a legal battle over the custody of the late actor’s 15-year-old daughter. Meadow, who is Paul and Rebecca’s daughter, had been living with Cheryl Walker since August, three months before Paul died. After Paul’s death, Rebecca flew from Hawaii […]
Moscow, March 28 (IANS/EFE) The dolphins and sea lions trained by the Ukrainian navy in Crimea for military operations are now in the hands of the Russian navy following the peninsula’s absorption by Russia. The Ukrainian navy resumed the programme, which was scrapped just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 2012 at one of […]
Nicosia, March 28 (IANS) An outgoing UN envoy in Cyprus said Thursday that the island’s economic crisis may be a blessing in disguise regarding a peace deal eluding Greek and Turkish Cypriots for many decades. Alexander Downer, a former foreign minister of Australia who served as UN secretary general’s personal advisor in Cyprus for seven years, […]
Mexico City, March 28 (IANS/EFE) Latin America’s largest solar power plant, a facility with 39 MW of generating capacity, has gone online in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The Aura Solar I photovoltaic power plant was inaugurated by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Wednesday and will supply electricity to the city of La […]