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EXTREME weather has been battering Australia this week and winds have become so strong that waterfalls have been blown upwards. The strong winds, which are affecting the waterways of southern Australia, have gone up to speeds of 120kmh. Earlier this week, Sydney saw a month’s worth of rain falling in just one day, according to […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi urged families and tribal leaders from Misrata to fight to take back Libya’s third-largest city from rebels who have pushed his troops away after more than four months of bitter fighting. Libyan TV showed footage of Gaddafi meeting at a conference centre in Tripoli with dozens of notables from Misrata and residents of […]

A SNARLING leopard mauled 11 people in an Indian village and terrorised wildlife officials trying to drive it away before it was tranquillised and died of injuries from the fierce showdown. Forestry officials were forced to flee, dive for cover and even climb up on a jeep to escape the adult, male leopard’s attacks in […]

Source The DEATH toll from last week’s triple bomb blasts in India’s financial hub has risen to 20 as Mumbai police pursue leads gathered from the three blast sites. A police inspector said a man succumbed to severe burn injuries he sustained when a bomb went off in the crowded Jhaveri Bazaar in Mumbai. Mumbai’s […]

THIS real life incident has the making of a scene from some vampire movie. A 22-year-old woman in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh in Bhopal has told the police that her husband drank her blood for the past three years. ‘He used to take a syringe and draw blood from my arms,’ Deepa Ahirwar said. […]

NEPAL has begun a project to re-measure Mount Everest in an attempt to end confusion about the exact height of the world’s tallest peak, a government spokesman in Kathmandu said on Tuesday. Everest, which straddles Nepal and China, is generally thought to stand at 8,848mafter an Indian survey in 1954, but other more recent measurements […]

GO AHEAD. Have that second cup of coffee – or maybe even a third. Despite previous concerns, downing lots of coffee doesn’t seem to increase the risk of high blood pressure, says a US study. High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been linked to heart disease, stroke and a shorter life expectancy, and some scientists […]

TWO months after putting his Hollywood return on hold following a damaging sex scandal, Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to get back into the saddle. The former action star turned politician is scheduled to start shooting the Western movie The Last Stand in September, a film industry source said on Monday, despite being embroiled in what […]

THE Obama administration is suspending and, in some cases, cancelling hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Pakistani military, in a move to chasten Pakistan for expelling American military trainers and to press its army to fight militants more effectively. Coupled with a statement from the top American military officer last week linking […]

JAPANESE consumer confidence fell in March from the previous month to its lowest since June 2009 as a record earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear emergency cast a shadow over the economy. Analysts said the data bolstered the view that the March 11 disasters will force the world’s third largest economy to contract this quarter amid […]