Palash Ghosh

The trapped miners are receiving food and water.

Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand ? an area that stretches across 1,400 miles ? have been affected by the power cut.

Neither Saudi nor Syrian sources have confirmed the alleged assassination.

The couple were buried up to their necks and pelted with stones.

France produces more than 16 million tons of foie gras every year, principally by force-feeding corn to ducks and geese in order to enlarge their livers.

Vietnam is an odd country to considering legalizing gay marriage since it has a poor record on human rights.

A total of 39 suspects underwent a trial that lasted nearly six months before the verdict was announced.

There are estimated to be at least 30,000 wild peacocks in the Thai desert, but their numbers have been steadily declining in recent years.

Mr. al-Ayoubi has told us that he is no longer willing to represent a regime that has committed such violent and oppressive acts against its own people.

“The country is facing a huge supply shortfall this summer."

Conservationists have warned that the global wild tiger population, which totaled some 100,000 in 1900, has since shrunk to about 3,000. The animal could be extinct in the wild within two decades, they add.

Austrian media reports that the opera will likely have to raise ticket prices.

Potatoes are eaten in 95 percent of Irish households, making it the island’s pre-eminent staple.

Rwanda has denied that they are helping the Congolese rebels.

The premature baby needed the incubator in order to survive and died shortly after being taken away from the life-saving machine.

Ever since the Good Friday agreements of 1998 (which basically legitimized Republicans in Ulster politics and commenced a new era in Northern Irish affairs), dissidents had become marginalized.

Rationing was so severe, that British athletes were forced to consume whale meat for sustenance.

A group of Syrian government officials visited Tehran, one of Damascus’ few remaining allies, to approve the deals.

De Klerk reserved particular venom for current ANC leader, President Jacob Zuma, who spoke of the “white control” of South Africa’s economy during a June policy speech.

Du Toit will be sentenced at a later date.

Ankara may consider sending troops into the region to quell any Kurdish takeover of northern Syria.

Pakistani militants have vowed revenge for the Burmese attacks on Muslims.

The proportion of kids who drank at least once a week plummeted from 20 percent in 2001 to 7 percent last year.

80 new prisoners enter the country’s prison system every day. Under Iran’s penal code, more than 1600 separate offenses are punishable by imprisonment.

India has an extremely conservative attitude towards pornography and nudity – indeed, kissing is banned from Bollywood films, while couples who show affection in public are largely scorned and sometimes even spat upon and attacked.

Suu Kyi, however did not explicitly mention the Rohingya by name, and has been strangely silent on the issue of the ethnic clashes in Rakhine.

The UK government (which represents England and Wales) is expected to pass same-sex marriage by 2015.

Thirty years ago (ironically, about the same time Mubarak seized power in Egypt), the Taiwanese initiated the path towards forming a democratic state.

By taking policy rates to close to 0 percent and pushing deposit rates below zero, the move by Denmark may have opened the window for the ECB to take action at their meeting next week.