Wax Indica: India’s Soft Power in World’s Hardball Capital
WASHINGTON (TIP): India's growing soft power has got a brief toehold in the world's hardball capital. Madame Tussauds, the famed…
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(Update 12 minutes ago)Woman, 116, Listed as ‘World’s Oldest’ Dies in US
MONROE, GEORGIA (TIP): The woman who was listed as the world's oldest person died Tuesday in a Georgia nursing home…
Read MoreFrench Court Orders Sipa News Agency Closed
PARIS (TIP): A French court has ordered the liquidation of the text service of the Sipa news agency, and bankruptcy…
Read MoreDebit Cards Come to the Aid of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
ONCUPINAR, TURKEY (TIP): Syrian refugees wait in line for food at a Turkish refugee camp -- not crowding around an…
Read MoreChild Abuse Case: Indian Couple in Norway File Appeal
OSLO (TIP): An Indian software professional and his wife, who were convicted for "serious child abuse" of their seven-year-old son,…
Read MoreEmboldened Hamas Leader to Visit Gaza for First Time in 45 Years
GAZA (TIP): Hamas's exiled leader will step onto Palestinian land for the first time in 45 years on Friday for…
Read MoreMom Kills Boy for Not Memorizing Quran
LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin mother who beat her son "like a dog" for not being able to memorize passages of…
Read MoreMud Throwing at UK Mission Upsets India
LONDON (TIP): The Indian high commission in London is considering lodging a firm protest with the British foreign office about…
Read MoreUK Police Make Child Sex Abuse Arrest
LONDON: British police say they have arrested a man in his 60s in connection to the broad investigation into child…
Read MoreTV Anchor Shot Dead in Russia
MOSCOW (TIP): A television news presenter aged 28 was shot dead in a city centre in Russia's volatile North Caucasus,…
Read MoreUS House Leaders Demand Meeting on Fiscal Cliff, New Offer from Obama
WASHINGTON (TIP): Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday said talks with President Barack Obama to resolve…
Read MoreBritain to Press EU Partners to Amend Syria Arms Embargo
LONDON (TIP): Britain will press its European partners next week to amend the arms embargo on Syria to allow them…
Read MoreBerlusconi Party to Abstain in Italy Confidence Vote: Party Official
ROME (TIP): The centre-right party of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will abstain in a confidence vote in the…
Read MoreHow Crash Cover-up Altered China’s Succession
BEIJING (TIP): "Thank you. I'm well. Don't worry," read the post on a Chinese social networking site. The brief comment,…
Read MoreThai PM Yingluck Shinawatra Survives No-Confidence Vote
BANGKOK (TIP): Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday easily survived a noconfidence vote orchestrated by her opponents in parliament…
Read MoreNew anti-China Asian Trilateral Grouping Emerges; India, Indonesia, Australia to Hold Talks
NEW DELHI (TIP): India, Indonesia and Australia will form the first "troika" to confer on the Indian Ocean, a first…
Read MoreEgypt Mass Protests Challenge Islamist President Mohammed Morsi
CAIRO (TIP): The same chants used against Hosni Mubarak were turned against his successor on Tuesday as more than 200,000…
Read MorePakistan Judge Makes Official Stand Up for Hours As Punishment
LAHORE (TIP): In an action reminiscent of that of a school teacher punishing an errant student, a Pakistani judge made…
Read MorePakistan All Set to go to Polls in May
LAHORE (TIP): Pakistan's next general election will be held in May, information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Tuesday, offering…
Read MoreFBI adds US ‘rapping jihadi’ to terror wanted list
WASHINGTON (TIP): The FBI said on Wednesday it had added to its list of most wanted terrorists the American "rapping…
Read MoreDavid Petraeus sex scandal amuses Taliban
PESHAWAR (TIP): The sex scandal that has brought down CIA chief David Petraeus may be causing heartache in the Washington…
Read MoreMotorcycle Ban in Karachi: Hearing Begins in SHC
KARACHI (TIP): The case pertaining to Sindh High Court’s (SHC) suo moto action against interior ministry’s notification against the day-long…
Read MoreWith top brass under scrutiny, Pentagon chief orders ethics review
BANGKOK (TIP): Defense secretary Leon Panetta has ordered the US military's top brass to look for any gaps in ethics…
Read MoreFemicide to Get Life Sentence in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (TIP): Argentina has passed a bill to increase the prison time for femicide to life sentence, media reports…
Read MoreMYANMAR ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF 452 PRISONERS
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar ordered 452 prisoners to be freed on Thursday in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a historic…
Read MoreAung San Suu Kyi says Myanmar unrest an ‘international tragedy’
NEW DELHI: Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday described violence in west Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a "huge…
Read MoreBritish Petroleum agrees to record criminal penalties for US oil spill
NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (TIP): BP Plc will pay $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to felony misconduct in the Deepwater…
Read MoreXI Jinping takes China’s Helm with many Tough challenges
BEIJING (TIP): Long-anointed successor Xi Jinping assumes the leadership of China at a time when the ruling Communist Party is…
Read MoreIndian Woman Refused abortion Dies: Govt to take up Matter with Ireland
NEW DELHI (TIP): India will take up with Ireland the issue of death of an Indian woman dentist there after…
Read MoreWhy Vadra affairs not being probed, asks BJP
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP on November 14 asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the government to spell out why…
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