Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
Monday, November 16, 2009 BERLIN: Scores of celebrants assembled in Berlin in the pouring rain last night to watch nearly a mile of giant dominoes drop as a stand-in for the Berlin Wall. One thousand giant domino pieces fell in a little less than a minute, stretching from the site formerly known as Checkpoint Charlie to the Reichstag building. The Goethe Institute distributed the oversized Styrofoam dominoes around the world so they could be decorated before the "Festival of Freedom." Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed world leaders Gordon Brown, Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy at the Brandenburg Gate, which divided the city 20 years ago. Former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and former Polish President Lech Walesa also attended.
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