
| Surviving members of Hong Kong tour party whose bus was seized by a disgruntled former police officer returns home |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Musician Wyclef Jean plans to appeal his rejection as a candidate in Haiti's November presidential election, his spokeswoman said on Sunday. |
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| In what takes green concerns several rungs higher in the ladder of governance priorities, around Rs 1,900 crore will be disbursed by the Planning Commission to states in 2010-11 based on environmental performance. |
| Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today cancelled a mining lease for Vedanta, rejected its environment clearance and suspended an approval for a six-fold expansion of its refinery. Chetan Chauhan reports. Listen to podcast | Highlights of panel report |
| After Maoists claimed to kill one of four kidnapped Bihar policemen, Sub-Inspector Abhay Yadav on Wednesday, they have threatened to kill the other three too if the government failed to respond before the expiry of the third deadline - 10 am on Friday. |
![]() | A hard-line Iranian newspaper has called the French first lady a "prostitute" and recommended she be put to death for supporting a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for adultery. |