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Court rejects request to block access to Pirate Bay website
Oslo - Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor Friday welcomed a Norwegian court ruling that the firm was not obliged to block its customers from accessing the controversial Pirate Bay file- sharing website. The International Federation of the Pho...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Construction of France's largest mosque set to begin
Paris - The construction of France's largest mosque, with room for some 7,000 visitors, was officially launched Friday when Marseille Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin handed over the construction permit. The mosque will cost 22 million euros (32.6 million do...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Foreign students shocked at college closures in Australia
Sydney - Thousands of foreign students studying in Australia were left shocked and angry on Friday after the collapse of four private colleges in Melbourne and Sydney. Students, many of them just weeks from graduating, turned up for class, only to fi...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

War crimes tribunal appoints attorney for Karadzic - Summary
The Hague - The war crimes tribunal in The Hague said Thursday it has appointed an attorney for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, and adjourned the trial until March 1. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said it ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Reconstructed hymens are forbidden, Saudi religious scholars say
Riyadh - Saudi religious scholars remain firm in their position that hymen-reconstruction surgery was haram, or religiously forbidden, contradicting Egyptian clerics, the Saudi daily Okaz reported Thursday. It is not permissible to repair a hymen ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Doors shut as psychologist testifies at German murder trial
Dresden- A psychologist briefed German judges behind closed doors Thursday on the mental state of Alex W, the xenophobic unemployed man who killed an Egyptian woman and wounded her husband with a knife in a Dresden courtroom in July. The stabbing dea...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Around 5,480 people convert to Islam through mobile hotline
Riyadh - Around 5,480 people converted to Islam in Saudi Arabia through the Bring me to Islam cell phone hotline service, media reports said on Thursday. The service, provided in 12 languages, was launched to raise awareness among foreign communiti...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Opel workers to strike over General Motors U-turn
Berlin - Workers at all four of troubled-carmaker Opel's plants in Germany were set to strike Thursday, following owner General Motors' surprise announcement that it would not now sell off its European subsidiary. The Detroit-based automotive giant s...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Cars (General) ]

Lifestyle trends, 5th November 2009
New York - People who work in offices where the lunchroom has a shared refrigerator know the problem: Colleagues sometimes steal each other's lunch. ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Homes (General) ]

Save your relationship by tango dancing
Frankfurt - Tango dancing could help patch up troubled relationships, according to the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention (DGSP). It cited a study done at Frankfurt University in which levels of the stress hormone cortisol and the sex ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Homes (General) ]

 

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