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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:22 PM


Lebanon's Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement has handed over to military police the culprit behind the downing of a military helicopter that killed an army officer, a judicial source said on Friday. "Hezbollah has handed over the person who fired at the helicopter to military police," the source told AFP.<br /><a target=...

Helicopter shooting culprit handed to police

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:22 PM

Lebanon's Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement has handed over to military police the culprit behind the downing of a military helicopter that killed an army officer, a judicial source said on Friday. "Hezbollah has handed over the person who fired at the helicopter to military police," the source told AFP.<br /><a target=...

UAE blamed for Australian 'man drought'

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:22 PM

The UAE has been blamed for a gender imbalance in Australia, which has seen single women down under suffering a severe ‘man drought’. New Australian census figures have revealed there are almost 100,000 more females than males in Australia, according to a report by British broadcaster the BBC on Saturday.<br /><a targe...

Benazir Bhutto widower fears for life

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:22 PM

Pakistan presidential hopeful Asif Ali Zardari has moved to a top security location in Islamabad due to fears of attacks being made on his life, the country's prime minister said Friday. Zardari, the widower of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto, plans to run in the September 6 poll to succeed Pervez Musharraf ...

Yemen arrests wanted Jihad leader

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:22 PM

Yemeni authorities have arrested a leader of the Islamist Jihad movement in the south of the country after a five-year search, a security official said on Saturday. The arrest came after an exchange of fire between police and supporters of Khaled Abdel Nabi, who had taken refuge in a house in the town of Jaar in the so...

Aluminium: Endless possibilities

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:22 PM

As an extraordinarily versatile material, aluminium can take on many forms and is available in a variety of surface finishes, which makes it a natural fit for the construction industry, reports Shikha Mishra. The world demand of aluminium is expected to reach 46 million tonnes by 2011 and 55 million tonnes by 2015. The...

Keeping company costs cut

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:22 PM

Corporations must understand why costs escalate in the first place to avoid the need for frequent cost cutting. Going after structural issues alone while ignoring the three other critical strands of every organisation's DNA - decision rights, information, and motivators - will not help to cut costs and keep them cut.

Tronox Announces Increases in Titanium Dioxide Prices in Europe, Africa and the Middle East

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:53 PM

-- euro 50 per tonne in all Euro markets -- US$150 per tonne in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe -- Other increases may be announced locally within each region

Warnings given two years before fatal blaze

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:36 PM

Dubai authorities issued warnings to the owner and tenants two years before a fire this week killed 11 labourers, the city's chief building inspector has revealed. The ground floor of the two-storey house in Naif that burned down on Tuesday had been partitioned into at least 30 rooms, with as many as 20 workers living ...

UAE protest letter arrives at UN Security Council

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:36 PM

The UAE government has handed in its official letter of protest to the UN Security Council regarding Iran's occupation of Abu Musa island. The letter, which was lodged on Thursday in New York, reiterates the UAE's protest after Tehran established a maritime rescue office and a ship registration office on the island.