88 die in Russian passenger plane crash

Sunday, September 14, 2008 MOSCOW: An Aeroflot Boeing-737 jet crashed near Ural Mountains city Perm killing all 88 passengers including the 6 crews on board.
Russian Airline Boeing-737 was on way to its destination taking off from the Moscow airport and crashed near the city Perm in the Mountains of Ural, the plane was flying at a height of 1800 meter, while about to land lost contact with the control. Russian Radio said that none among the passengers and the crew was left alive, while the relief teams have left for the scene of incident.

100 injured as fire erupts in Bangladesh textile mill

Sunday, September 14, 2008 DHAKA: A fire broke out in a textile mill in Ghazipur in Bangladesh, injuring at least 100 people.

According to Mill administration, the fire erupted at 10:30pm at night after running machine. However, laborers working in the mills managed to control the fire after switching off the power supply.The fire caused damage worth 50, 000 Taka.

Topalov beats Norwegian prodigy in Grand Slam Chess final

Sunday, September 14, 2008 MADRID: Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov on Saturday won the Grand Slam Chess Final Masters in Spain, beating 17-year-old Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen who had hoped to become the youngest ever world number one.
With four wins, five draws and one loss, Topalov collected 17 points and took home the 150,000-euro (210,000-dollar) first prize.
Carlsen had three wins, four draws and three losses to score 13 points, the same as Armenia's Levon Aronian.
India's Viswanathan Anand, who had eight draws and two losses to finish last at the tournament in the northern city of Bilbao and ceded his number one ranking to Topalov, according to an unofficial chess listing. Anand is now in fifth.

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US troops in Iraq head to Afghanistan

BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.

Cuba's world-famous cigar festival closes in Havana

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Berlin Celebrates the Day the Wall Fell

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 BERLIN: World leaders and partying Germans are descending on Berlin Nov. 9 to mark the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall was breachedIt is a day for celebrations and commemorations, for festivities and sober reflection. Berlin is marking 20 years since the fall of the Wall on Monday with a series of events, big and small. Leaders from around the world are descending on the German capital to help celebrate the momentous events of Nov. 9, 1989, a date that has come to symbolize the end of communism in Eastern Europe. The main focus of events will be the historic Brandenburg Gate, where 20 years ago, joyful East and West Berliners gathered together to dance on top of the wall and celebrate the sudden opening up of the Iron Curtain. The iconic gateway had once stood in the midst of no man's land, surrounded by barbed wire and machine guns. Now 20 years on, a concert and fireworks display will recall those heady moments. A line of 1,000 foam dominoe...

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