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News for Thursday, 1 Jan 1970

I cheated: Ranbir

Deepika Padukone might just be saying, “I told you so.” Ex-boyfriend and actor Ranbir Kapoor has finally come out in the open and admitted that he cheated while in a...

Big boss gets bigger

The fifth season of TV reality show ‘Bigg Boss’ promises to get bigger and better with tons of drama and manipulation, having changed its house location to Karjat, besides having...

50 years later, ‘Catch-22’ still resonates

Hyper-cynical anti-war novel “Catch-22” turns 50 next month, and Joseph Heller must be chortling in his grave over how ‘apropos’, the phrase he coined remains today — from the US...

Egyptians press military rulers in new protest

Egyptian activists converged on downtown Cairo on Friday for a demonstration to press military rulers to speed up the transfer of power to civilians and revoke emergency laws once used...

‘Till 2013 do us part? Mexico mulls two-year marriage

Mexico City lawmakers want to help newlyweds avoid the hassle of divorce by giving them an easy exit strategy: temporary marriage licenses. Leftists in the city's assembly -- who have...

Top Kazakh Muslim cleric raps tough religion law

Kazakhstan's top Muslim cleric hit out on Friday at a tough new law on religious activity and warned that the restrictions it imposed on pious Muslims could spur extremism. Article...

Medvedev defends Putin swap plan

President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to overhaul Russia's government next year and defended plans for a job swap designed to return Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin by saying on Friday that...

Sacked reporter warns News Corp over hacking

A journalist at the centre of the phone-hacking allegations which have rocked Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire fired a warning shot at his former bosses on Friday and said those...

Yemeni teen dies after al Qaeda cuts off his hand

A 15-year-old boy died in Yemen overnight after Al-Qaeda militants severed his right hand as punishment for allegedly stealing electric cables, a medic said. Maher Ali's hand had been severed by...

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