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Man confesses to killing 16-yr-old stepdaughter

European stocks slump, Euro hits four-month dollar low

Djokovic into Rome last eight after fightback

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Pillay terms fraud claim ‘malicious, concocted story’

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The allegations of fraud and embezzlement in the organisation of the ICT-BPO conference 2011 which have been published in a recent article of a weekly newspaper are enraging the ICT minister, Tassarajen Pillay Chedumbrum as his name was also cited. Speaking at a press meet, he completely denied these allegations which he also termed as [...]

World

Technocrat cabinet to prepare for new vote

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A caretaker technocrat government took office in Greece on Thursday to organise the cash-strapped country’s second elections in just six weeks after an inconclusive May 6 vote jolted the eurozone. The team led by 67-year-old Panagiotis Pikrammenos, the head of Greece’s top administrative court, is made up mainly of prominent university professors, a retired general [...]

Business

Japan bank freezes Iran accounts after court order issue

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A Japanese bank has halted transactions by the Iranian government after a US court ordered a $2.6 billion asset freeze over the 1983 bombing of US barracks in Beirut, a bank spokesman said Thursday. “We have received the order from the US court,” to freeze $2.6 billion of assets, a spokesman for the Bank of [...]

Sports

SPK faces police probe over cricket

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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan faced a police probe and a lifetime ban from Mumbai’s main cricket stadium on Thursday following a furious late-night row with staff at the ground, officials said. The actor, who co-owns the Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders, took a group of youngsters including his daughter Suhana onto [...]

Magazine

Baby blues

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It is not just new mothers who suffer post-natal depression. New fathers are just as likely to experience the anxiety, stress and depression commonly called the baby blues, according to Australian researchers. “What surprised us was that we were seeing rates of problems at the same level as what we were seeing in the mothers,” [...]

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Samsung: Flexible Displays Coming to Smartphones This Year

Added on 12 May 2012

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It’s no secret that Samsung is working hard on producing flexible OLED displays, and that the Koreans eventually want to put bendable displays in all kinds of gadgets, from wristwatches to big screen TVs. Over the last year or so, we got to see all kind of crazy displays from Sammy, including bended displays (how [...]