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International News for July 2, 2008

Mukherjee calls on Mubarak, discusses possibility of greater bilateral cooperation
Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and discussed the possibility of enhancing existing bilateral ties between the two countries. ANI

Meet the Brit man who is turning into a woman - naturally!
A Brit man is seeking help from medical experts after he started turning into a woman naturally. ANI

Prince Williams Navy ship pulls off œ40m cocaine bust
Prince William has been involved in a 40 million pounds cocaine bust during his first week of operations with the Royal Navy, reports the Ministry of Defence. ANI

Wooden floors dramatically spike up Brits sex lives!
Britons love having kinky sex on hard wood floors -but cant stand the idea of doing it on carpets, according to a new research. ANI

Security guard forces teen to pay with sex for shoplifting
A suspected 15-year-old female shoplifter in Papua New Guinea has claimed that she was forced to pay for her crime with sex. ANI

The bride and groom that said I Do in church and the dance floor!
When Charlotte Peagam and Ian Moriarty exchanged vows, they sealed their relationship not once, but twice in a day. ANI

Bank blunder makes schoolboy temporary multi-millionaire!
A schoolboy became a temporary multi-millionaire after a mistake by his Lloyds TSB branch in Telford, Shropshire, UK. ANI

Church of England bans nicknames on gravestones
The Church of England has banned nicknames on the gravestones, it has been revealed. ANI

80s brainteaser the Rubiks Cube set for Christmas comeback
Eighties brainteaser the Rubiks Cube is set to make a comeback as one of the most popular toys this Christmas, according to Woolworths. ANI

All My Loving is Gordon Browns favourite Beatles song
British PM Gordon Brown has revealed that his favourite Beatles song is All My Loving. ANI

UN reforms, bilateral ties review to be focus of India, Egypt FM talks
U.N. reforms, energy cooperation and a review of overall bilateral ties and ways to enhance them further are expected to dominate the talks between visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Aboul Gheit here today. ANI

HRW warns against exempting ISI, Pak military under PPPs constitutional package
The constitutional package proposed by the PPP-led government, ostensibly to restore the Supreme Court judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, should not exempt the Pakistan military and its intelligence agency ISI from the rule of law, as, in the past, they have been found grossly violating human rights by way of torture of innocent citizens, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) executive-director Kenneth Roth. ANI

Arrested Hindraf coordinators wife says party leaders not helping her
K. Vickneswary, the wife of Hindu Rights Action Force coordinator K. Vasantha Kumar detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), has said that most of her husbands Hindraf associates have abandoned her and her two daughters. ANI

Saunas, karaoke bars and dance halls corrupting morals of Chinese soldiers
The morals of Chinese soldiers are being corrupted by the plethora of saunas, karaoke bars and dance halls that have sprung up around their remote base, an officer has complained. ANI

West made Pak a petrie dish of international terrorism, says Zardari
The West has always used Pakistan as a ground for encouraging extremist elements, and was now paying a heavy price for using it for its short-term political objectives, as Pakistan had lately become a centre of international terrorism posing threats to the West, said PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari. ANI

Malaysian Govt. to set up special unit to monitor Tamil schools development
The Malaysian Government will set up a special unit under the Education Ministry to monitor the development of Tamil schools as well as their problems. ANI

New UFO witness reopens 1970s Welsh Roswell mystery
One of Britains greatest UFO riddles reopened when a new witness emerged - 34 years after the alleged close encounter. ANI

Afghanistan summons Pak diplomat over beheading of two Afghans
The Hamid Karzai government in Kabul has condemned the beheadings of two Afghans by the Taliban in Pakistan, and the countrys foreign ministry has summoned Pakistans Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan Asif Durrani to explain why the incident was allowed to happen. ANI

Unique Gandhi festival in America
A unique first of its kind eco-friendly festival celebrating Mahatma Gandhis life and message will be held in Nevada in USA on July 26. ANI

US military copied Guantánamos coercive training chart from Chinese
The US military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart copied word by word from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners ANI

Hindraf leaders under detention say their families need them
The five Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders held under the Internal Security Act in Malaysia have pleaded to the advisory board for their release, citing poor health and their desire to return home. ANI

Zardari wants Musharraf to continue, as his removal may lead to chaos
A Pakistani journalist has said that it was not the US but PPP Chairman Asif Ali Zardari who wanted to see President Pervez Musharraf continuing in his office and chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry not reinstated. ANI

Pak journo says US mediation may help break India, Pak logjam
A senior Pakistani journalist based in London has said that US could act as an interlocutor between India and Pakistan, because the countries do not trust each other. ANI

Nepal Constituent Assembly meeting today
The Nepal Constituent Assembly (CA) meeting will take place today as a three-party panel formed to draft the supplementary Constitution amendment bill, as demanded by Terai-based parties. ANI

Nepal Cabinet extends UN missions term by six months
The Nepal Cabinet has decided to extend the term of United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) by six months. ANI

The honey trap hunk who gets paid to test fidelity of wives, girlfriends!
When Richard Martinez goes out clubbing at night, its not partying that surrounds his mind - the British blokes target is to flirt and flatter a woman, so that he can test their fidelity. ANI

Average Aussie woman has 13 different sex partners in lifetime
The average Australian woman has 13 different sex partners in her life, according to a new book based on an anonymous online survey of 2000 women. ANI

US has pact allowing it unilateral strikes against Osama in Pak territory
Soon after Pakistan had joined the US-led war on terror, President Pervez Musharraf had granted the US the right to launch attacks on Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, if traced in the rugged terrains of tribal areas, from across the Afghanistan border without prior permission from Islamabad. ANI

Puppies on police postcards prove offensive for UK Muslims
Muslims living in UKs Dundee area have complained over a police advertisement featuring a puppy sitting on an officers hat. ANI

Bush signs bill allowing Mandela visit to US
President Gorge W Bush has signed a bill allowing former South African President Nelson Mandela to visit the United States without the secretary of state having to certify that he is not a terrorist. ANI

African Union asks Mugabe to form unity government
African Union has asked Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to hold talks with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party over how to form a unity government. ANI

Cherie Blair fears for her children in UKs gun and knife struck streets
The wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Cherie Blair, has said that she feared for her children when they went out in the street, and warned that knife and gun crime among teenagers could be more common than official figures suggested. ANI

Boucher tells Nawaz to lay off Musharraf
PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif should avoid pressing for removal of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, and the latter should be given an opportunity to decide about quitting his office as his stay in power had become irrelevant, said US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher. ANI

Qaedas headquarters in Pak tribal areas pose gravest threat to UK
International terror organization Al Qaeda may have been marginalized in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it has been resurging particularly in Pakistan, besides Somalia and Algeria, Western intelligence and defence sources have said. ANI

Paul Burrells life with Di to become a movie?
Former royal butler Paul Burrell may be making some more money off Princess Dianas memory with a movie focusing on his time working for her. ANI

Musharrafs cobbler-friend in Old Delhi wants to meet him
A cobbler based in Old Delhi claims that he is a childhood friend of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, and that the duo played together in Neher Wali Haveli, the ancestral house of Musharrafs family located near Golcha Cinema in Old Delhi. ANI

Laden on death bed, claim CIA officials
Two officials of the US intelligence agency CIA have claimed that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was on death bed as he suffered from a terminal kidney disease, and may live only for a few months. ANI

Arysta LifeScience Completes Acquisition of Callietha Investments
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McDermott Will & Emery: Patent Case Results in Favorable Jury Verdict for Linear Technology
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Contactless Mobile Payment: Five Major French Banks Use Gemalto's Secure Services for the "Payez Mobile" Program
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JDR to Build Inter-Array Cables for the 140 Wind Turbine Generators of the World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm
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3M Rochford Thompson is a Euro 2008 Winner for Swiss Border Police
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