Palash Ghosh

The 105-year-old, 20-story luxury hotel is currently jointly owned by El-Ad Properties, an Israeli-owned real estate firm; and Kingdom Holdings, a company based in Saudi Arabia.

Goodfellas was the greatest gangster movie ever made, but it took a lot of creative license when it came to its characters.

At the outbreak of World War II, the Irish Defense Forces numbered some 42,000 people ? but over the course of the war, more than 7,000 deserted.

Escalating ethnic violence between minority Rohingya Muslims and dominant Buddhists has already claimed at least 25 lives and the destruction of hundreds of homes.

Most of the dead were Shia Muslim pilgrims who were assembling for a religious festival.

Royal, who lost the French presidential election in 2007 to Nicolas Sarkozy, won 32 percent of the vote for the parliamentary seat in La Rochelle during last weekend?s election, to 29 percent for Falorni.

The British minister held discussions with both Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and added that he urged a quick reconciliation.

Indian border officers have killed almost 1,000 people at the Bangladesh-West Bengal border over the past decade (including both Bangladeshi and Indian nationals).

Muslims, who form a 4 percent minority in Myanmar as a whole, are concentrated in Rakhine and are part of a community called the Rohingya.

The mini-war killed more than 900 people on both sides and wounded another 1,800.

Green Acres presented an entirely new paradign for sitcoms ? it created a world (Hooterville) that seemed to exist outside of the laws of logic and reality.

Argentina wants to negotiate a handover of the islands to Buenos Aires, while London adamantly refused to do any such thing.

Forbes has upped its wealth estimate for Aliko Dangote, founder and chief executive officer of the Dangote Group, to $11.2 billion.

Since the eruption of violence, 500 houses have been burned or razed in the region, while 5,000 people have become homeless.

The Socialists and other leftist parties gained about 46 percent of the total vote, well ahead of the 34 percent tally scored by the centrist-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party of Sarkozy, and its allies.

Both Poland and Ukraine, which are jointly holding the tournament, have been warned by European soccer officials to stamp out any signs of racism during the games.

The incident took place in Rakhine province, near the Bangladesh border, where Muslims are concentrated

Without a stronger effort by the central banks -- in the form of a coordinated quantitative easing measure to correct the ailing European banking system -- the global economy (at best) will only limb along.

Prime Minister David Cameron endorsed the law, calling forced marriage completely wrong and tantamount to ?slavery.?

Pillay says such measures raise serious legal issues.

Malawians have faced severe shortages and other economic problems since the IMF drastically reduced lending facilities last year.

The British Army will see its manpower to 82,000 soldiers by 2020 from the current 102,000 level.

Germany, Holland and Austria have also threatened a similar boycott.

Syrian authorities have denied they perpetrated the atrocity.

Singh wants the Indian economy to be humming along at 9 percent annual growth again.

anetta?s bluntness suggests that the façade of cordiality between Washington and Islamabad has all but evaporated

Syrian businessmen from around the world have established a $300 million fund to help finance rebel groups fighting the government forces of President Bashar al-Assad. And half of the money has already been spent, Wael Merza noted.

The HRCP cited the widespread availability of weapons in the city.

This is not a threat, she told reporters in Lahore. This is a straightforward plan to kill me.