CAIRO, 31 January 2011 (AP): Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak swore in a new Cabinet on Monday, replacing one dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests.In the most significant change, the interior minister - who heads internal security forces - was replaced. A retired polic

CAIRO, Jan 30, 2011 ( AGENCIES): Top dissident Mohamed El-Baradei told a sea of angry protesters in Cairo on Sunday that they were beginning a new era after six days of a deadly revolt against President Hosni Mubarak.Nobel peace laureate El-Baradei, mandated by Egyptian opposition groups including t

Google Inc co-founder Larry Page will take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt, a surprise move to make the company more nimble at a time when competition heats up with fast-growing rivals like Facebook.Page's assumption of day-to-day operations marks a return to Google's technological roots, 13 years aft

LONDON/OSLO,19 January 2011(Reuters) : Last year was the world's second hottest behind 1998 in a temperature record dating back to 1850, the director of research at Britain's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Phil Jones said on Wednesday.Jones' unit, compiling data with the Met Office Hadley Centre, is o

MADRID, Jan 18, 2011 (AP): A court in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia has suspended a ban by the city of Lleida on face-covering Islamic veils in municipal buildings.The Superior Justice Tribunal said Tuesday the ban was suspended while the court studies an appeal lodged by a Muslim ass

TUNIS,16 January 2011 (Reuters) - Tunisian politicians were trying to form a unity government on Sunday while the army consolidated its grip on the streets of the capital two days after President Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali was ousted by violent protests.Tanks were stationed around Tunis and soldiers we

With China virtually cut off and Western markets maturing, Wikipedia is targeting India first and possibly Brazil next to reach its goal of 1 billion users, Executive Director Sue Gardner says.The San Francisco-based online encyclopedia, which turns 10 years old on Saturday, also vows to reach that

KARACHI, Jan 9, 2011: Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched in Pakistan's largest city in opposition to any change to blasphemy laws and to praise the man charged with murdering the provincial governor who opposed the legislation.The rally of up to 50,000 people in downtown Karachi on Sund

Washington and New Delhi are inching closer to better tiesAmerica and India will continue to have diplomatic ups and downs, but both countries consider that accommodation is better than confrontation. While Pakistan and Afghanistan are important regionally and internationally, neither Washington nor

JUBA, Sudan, Jan 9, 2011 ( REUTERS): Millions of jubilant south Sudanese voted Sunday in an independence referendum expected to see the region splitting away from the north to create Africa's newest nation.People queued for hours in the burning sun outside polling stations in the southern capital Ju

Washington, January 9, 2011 (ANI)A team of researchers have discovered the type of cell that is at the origin of brain tumors known as oligodendrogliomas, which are a type of glioma -- a category that defines the most common type of malignant brain tumour.Investigators found that the tumour originat

An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing on Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing 71 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. It was not clear what caused

Four solar and two total moon eclipses will be observed in different parts of the world, including in India, in 2011.The first solar eclipse will take place Jan 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible from Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.At maximum eclipse in northern Europe, t

A strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile, driving panicked residents from their homes due to fears of a tsunami but causing no injuries or damage, officials said.Last February, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake caused tsunami waves that devastated coastal towns in the same area of the South Ame

MELBOURNE, December 23, 2010 : Admitting their mistake, Australian government on Thursday formally apologised to Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef and said sorry for wrongly detaining him on terror charges.The formal apology, issued by Australian government, came after Dr. Haneef reportedly received a s

WASHINGTON, December 23, 2010 : The release of secret State Department cables by WikiLeaks will not affect the growing relationship between India and the United States, the two countries have agreed.Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, called Minister of External Affairs S. M. Krishna over telephone

MELBOURNE: Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef has struck a deal with the Australian government for receiving a "substantial" compensation for his wrongful detention, three years after the traumatic experience which he said had a serious impact on his life and career. Haneef, who was detained after bein

MELBOURNE, December 21, 2010,(PTI):Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef has struck a deal with the Australian government for receiving a "substantial" compensation for his wrongful detention; three years after the traumatic experience which he said had a serious impact on his life and career. Dr. Haneef,