January 16, 2014
DUBAI: A 28-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to death by a court here for strangulating his compatriot to death and dumping his body in the garbage in a box.
According to the court records, the accused, identified only by his initials NS, had loaned the victim 8,500 dirhams (around USD 2300) to be paid in three installments.
On May 22 last year, the two men met at the defendant's residence in Deira area in Dubai to discuss the debt.
January 16, 2014
WASHINGTON: Apple Inc will refund consumers at least $32.5 million to settle a longstanding complaint that the technology company billed US consumers for charges incurred by children buying mobile apps without their parents' consent.
January 16, 2014
Foreign women are more vulnerable in India's 'rape capital' say women's rights campaigners
An Indian policeman outside Paharganj police station in New Delhi
January 15, 2014
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill that eliminates the threat of a government shutdown through September 30 and offers lawmakers a chance to end four years of chaotic, crisis-driven budgeting.
January 15, 2014
WASHINGTON: The US military has suspended 34 officers in charge of launching nuclear missiles for cheating on a proficiency test, Air Force leaders said on Wednesday.
The US Air Force has come under growing scrutiny over a spate of embarrassing setbacks linked to the nuclear force.
January 15, 2014
NEW DELHI: In the fiercest attack yet by outside supporter Congress on AAP, senior party leader Salman Khurshid on Wednesday dubbed it as "anarchist" with "Jurassic" ideas out to destroy the system and also with some of the "worst, stinking, third grade" people across the country.
January 15, 2014
The iconic Doomsday Clock remains poised at five minutes until midnight, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced today (Jan. 14).
Tick, tock ... The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for threats to humanity from technology.
January 15, 2014
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would not wait for Congress to pass legislation to advance his policy priorities this year and said he was "getting close" to finishing a review of U.S. surveillance practices - to be unveiled on Friday.
January 14, 2014
NEW DELHI: Poverty among the employed is higher than among the unemployed. If that seems counterintuitive, the fact that 90% of the poor are employed might make it seem less puzzling.
January 14, 2014
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Monday criticized abortion as evidence of a "throwaway culture" that wastes people as well as food, saying that such a mentality is a threat to world peace.
He also urged better respect for migrants. Saying hunger is a threat to world peace, he noted that not only food but human beings themselves are often discarded as unnecessary.
