Saudi police arrests woman for driving
London, May 22 ANI: A Saudi woman has been arrested by the police after she launched a campaign against the driving ban for women in the ultra-conservative kingdom and posted a videotape of herself behind the wheel on Facebook and YouTube to encourage others to copy her  read more

Posted by aniin on Tuesday May 24
Google dumps efforts to digitize newspaper archives
London, May 22 ANI: Google has shut down its five-year-old effort to scan and digitize newspaper archives dating back to the 18th century. "We don't plan to introduce any further features or  read more

Posted by aniin on Tuesday May 24
Osama planned Manchester Easter bomb plot
London, May 21 ANI: Osama bin Laden was directly linked to a terrorist cell in Manchester that plotted to bomb Easter shoppers in 2009, documents seized by US Special Forces from Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in Pakistan have revealed  read more

Posted by aniin on Sunday May 22
Australia to consider bid for 2022 World Cup again
Melbourne, May 21 ANI: Australia has said that it will consider another shot at hosting the 2022 World Cup amid revelations from FIFA boss Sepp Blatter that there might be a re-vote if corruption claims against current hosts Qatar are proved true  read more

Posted by aniin on Sunday May 22
'Obama is black mascot of Wall Street,' says varsity professor
New York, May 20 ANI: A leading African-American intellectual has reversed his support for Barack Obama, calling the U.S. president Wall Street's black mascot. Cornel West, a professor at Princeton  read more

Posted by aniin on Saturday May 21
Indian Premier League goes unseen in Australia, New Zealand
Auckland, May 20ANI: The fourth edition of the Indian Premier League IPL has passed by unseen in Australia and New Zealand, as television channels in both the countries failed to secure the Twenty20 tournament's broadcast rights  read more

Posted by aniin on Saturday May 21
Forest rights activists protest against POSCO project in Orissa
Bhubaneswar, May 20ANI: Members of a voluntary group along with many forest rights activists on Friday protested against the decision of the Orissa government to resume land acquisition for the mega POSCO project  read more

Posted by aniin on Saturday May 21
Clinton urged to designate Pak as 'country of particular concern' over religious intolerance
Washington, May 19ANI: The Congressional International Religious Freedom Caucus Co-chairs and over two dozen American NGOs and rights bodies have asked US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to designate  read more

Posted by aniin on Friday May 20
Texas University students demand release of Iranian physics graduate
Austin, May 17 ANI: The student community at the University of Texas has called for a release of jailed Iranian physics graduate student Omid Kokabee. Kokabee who is lodged in a prison in Iran since February, failed to return to the university after the winter break  read more

Posted by aniin on Thursday May 19
Rights activists charge Bahrain police of sexual assault, psychological abuse
Manama, May 17 ANI: A prominent Bahraini rights activist tried to tell a judge how he was sexually assaulted and threatened with rape while in government custody, but Abdulhadi al-Khawaja was forcefully removed from the courtroom  read more

Posted by aniin on Wednesday May 18
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