Passionate lovers should not drink if they want to escape law trouble after having car sex.At least, this was the lesson learnt by an amorous couple that was hauled in for drunken driving after having sex in their car, parked at a disabled space outside a police station.
The duo, after attending a university event, had […]
While the rest of the world is facing a financial meltdown, the Iraq Stock Exchange is booming.
The ISX index soared nearly 40 percent during September, boosted by increasing confidence in security gains.
The ISX is only open two hours a day, three days a week and brokers track trading activity on the floor with colored markers […]
Pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il issued by the communist state may be several months old and possibly taken before his reported illness, South Korean media said on Monday, raising more questions about his health.North Korea’s state TV broadcast pictures of Kim on Saturday inspecting a women’s military unit, as the reclusive country stepped […]
An earthquake in southern Kyrgyzstan has killed 58 people and destroyed dozens of houses in the Central Asian nation, the emergencies ministry said on Monday.
“We are continuing rescue operations to see if anyone may be still buried under the debris,” said an emergencies ministry spokesman from the regional centre of Osh.
The earthquake measuring 6.3 according […]
A leading Iranian nuclear envoy on Thursday suggested the country could reconsider its uranium enrichment program if it gets cast-iron guarantees of regular international fuel supplies for its nuclear power plants.
“We are going to continue as long as there is no legally binding internationally recognized instrument for assurance of supply,” said Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the […]
The European Commission called on Wednesday for a coordinated European Union response to a crisis ravaging the financial sector as it proposed tougher regulations and cross-border oversight.
With confidence in financial markets at rock bottom, commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso assured: “Our system can cope, the European financial system has the ability to respond.”
However, he stressed […]
Microsoft Corp. will use its $1.2 billion purchase of Oslo company Fast Search and Transfer ASA to form key, Norway-based research and development centers for its business search systems, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer announced Tuesday.
Microsoft bought Fast in January in an all-cash deal to strengthen its enterprise search technology in effort to better compete with […]
A billion-euro rescue plan for Alitalia on Monday won the support of two final unions of the nine that have bargained hard on pay and contractual issues at the failing Italian flagship, media reports said.
The two unions representing flight attendants and ground crew signed on to the plan by the Italian Air Company (CAI) investor […]
Sudanese forces on Sunday killed six heavily armed bandits who kidnapped 19 European tourists and their Egyptian guides in a remote desert nine days ago, the army said.
The shootout erupted as Sudanese troops were scouring the desert for the 11 tourists and eight Egyptians who were snatched during a desert safari in southwestern Egypt and […]
A former Iranian president warned the West on Friday that its support for Israel would backfire, as hundreds of thousands of people staged rallies in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who is still considered influential in Iranian politics, said the U.S., Britain and France back Israel — and […]