Osama tells Europeans to quit Afghanistan Osama bin Laden urged Europeans to break ranks with the United States and quit Afghanistan, while stressing he alone was behind the 9/11 attacks, in a tape attributed to him on Al-Jazeera television on Thursday.
56 killed in Turkish plane crash A Turkish domestic airliner crashed in the mountains in south-west Turkey on Friday, killing all 56 people on board, officials said.
Putin snips off Cold War arms cut treaty Amidst worsening ties with the US, President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree suspending Russias obligations under the cornerstone arms cut treaty with the West inked at the end of the Cold War by the ex-Soviet Union.
Anti-polio campaign gets $200 mn infusion The nearly two-decade-old global effort to eradicate polio, now in a difficult stage in trying to eliminate the last places where the virus still paralyses children, has received a major financial infusion with a $200 million commitment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rotary International.
Indian American in Capitol Hill An Indian American student who doomed a US senators re-election bid in 2006 with a camcorder has resurfaced in the presidential contest.
Was the West Bengal government right in nudging controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen into leaving Kolkata? Should the Centre extend political asylum or Indian citizenship to her as she says she can’t go back to Dhaka?
Deccan Herald had invited its readers to send their opinions. Most readers opine that persuading Taslima Nasreen to leave the state was an extreme move and that granting asylum is humane although extending citizenship to her is debatable. A few others insist that she must now return home to Dhaka as her views have hurt the sentiments of Muslims.
