A leading rail union called today for an urgent inquiry after a laptop containing personal details of 150,000 workers in the industry was stolen.According to The Independent, the computer was in a bag taken from an employee of Deloitte which until recently was the external auditor for the RPMI, which administers railway pension schemes.
A helpline […]
at least 4,181 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,385 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
The AP count is one […]
The candidate from Thailand’s main opposition party has been re-elected governor of the capital, Bangkok, leaving his rival from the main party in the national coalition government trailing far behind.
Incumbent Apirak Kosayodhin from the Democrat Party won 991,081 votes in Sunday’s election, in which only 54 percent of the 4.09 million eligible voters turned out, […]
A U.S. soldier pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of accessory to murder and was sentenced to eight months in prison for his role in the killing of four Iraqi prisoners who were bound, blindfolded, shot and dumped in a canal.
Spc. Steven Ribordy, 25, of Salina, Kansas, also will receive a bad conduct discharge from the […]
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday said she would accept any conditions to salvage a pro-West coalition amid fears the pro-Russian opposition would seize control.
“We will close our eyes and accept any ultimatums in order to preserve Ukraine’s strategic orientation, to preserve the parliament and not to throw the country into a new crisis,” […]
Iraq’s Sunnis on Tuesday marked the start of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which ends the fasting month of Ramadan, by filling mosques in greater numbers than in previous years due to the drop in violence.
Thousands across the country filled mosques at dawn and visited the graves of loved ones as they began the three-day festival […]
The list of products caught in China’s tainted milk scandal grew Friday to include baby cereal in Hong Kong and snack foods in Japan, while Taiwan reported three children and a mother with kidney stones in the island’s first cases possibly linked to the crisis.
The Japanese government also said it had suspended imports of milk […]
China has set the time of 9.07 p.m. (1307 GMT) on Thursday for its third manned space flight that will include a space walk, an official for the space programme said on Wednesday.In October 2003, China became the third country to put a man in space with its own rocket, after the former Soviet Union […]
Olympics bronze medalist boxer Vijender Kumar walked the ramp for designer Rohit Bal at the India Couture Week in Mumbai on Sunday, adding a befitting touch to the grand finale.Innovative designs with outstanding colour combinations ruled the ramp at Bal’s show. The boxer, said, he was quite confident while walking on the ramp. Meanwhile, Manish […]
Malaysia will turn to nuclear energy to generate electricity by 2023 as supplies of fossil fuel eventually run out, a minister said according to Saturday news reports.
Energy, Water and Communications Minister Shaziman Mansor said the use of nuclear energy was also an alternative to counter high global oil prices, the Star newspaper reported.
“I will be […]