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TEXAX: At least 7 people have been killed and 12 injured in a shooting at Fort Hood, a military base near Killeen Texas. One gunman is in custody and another is on the loose. The base, which is home to nearly 50,000 active and enlisted service members, is currently on lockdown.According to US media assailants were clad in military uniforms.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 LONDON: A survey, conducted by the European Commission, found that few companies are prepared for the switch from the current naming protocol, IPv4, to the new regime, IPv6. Web experts have warned that we could run out of internet addresses within the next two years unless more companies migrate to the new platform. The IPv4 and IPv6 protocols refer to the way in which web addresses are created and assigned. Each website has a unique IP address, represented by a string of numbers, such as 192.168.1.1, which are then given a user-friendly web address, such as telegraph.co.uk, to make them easier to remember.The IPv4 protocol uses 32-bit addresses, which enables the web to support around 4.3 billion unique addresses. By contrast, IPv6 uses 128-bit web addresses, creating billions of possible new web addresses – experts estimate it could assign a unique address for every blade of grass on the planet. The EC survey found that of the 610 government, educational ...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 MUMBAI: When Dhundiraj Govind Phalke decided to make a movie in 1911, he faced ridicule and a severe shortage of funds. Undeterred, he sold most of his belongings to create India's first feature film, "Raja Harishchandra", sowing the seeds for what is today the world's largest film industry.Nearly a century later, when Mumbai-based theatre artist Paresh Mokashi decided to make his first film, he chose to tell Phalke's story, but he found his own plight wasn't very different from that of his subject."I mortgaged my house, pulled out every penny that I had in my pocket. A lot of people weren't sure of the script and the subject," Mokashi, who completed "Harishchandrachi Factory" (Harishchandra's Factory) in 2008, said.Mokashi's story has a happy ending: "Harishchandrachi Factory" is India's entry to next year's Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. And UTV Motion P...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 NEW YORK: Backstage, renowned novelist John Irving tells a story about the 300-pound (165-kg) man he found in the sauna at his New York hotel that morning.The portly man was lying perfectly still when Irving found him. Upon cautious approach, fearing the worst, he was shocked and relieved to hear the man break suddenly into a loud snore."I thought he was dead!" Irving said, laughing.It was a snippet of pure Irving storytelling -- absurd, funny, preoccupied with death -- and typical of a writer whose trick over a 40-year career has been to mold real life into classic fiction.His 12th novel, "Last Night in Twisted River," follows a father and son running from the law across America. The lead character, Danny, accidentally kills his dad's lover with a frying pan, thinking she's a bear. The pair set off on a 50-year journey that takes them from New Hampshire to Iowa, Vermont, and eventually Ontario in 2005."This novel has been in...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 KABUL: A "rogue" Afghan policeman shot dead five British soldiers in Afghanistan Wednesday, raising new questions about the safety of coalition troops as world leaders work to boost training of local forces.The Afghan attacker on Tuesday opened fire at a checkpoint in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province -- where the vast majority of Britain's nearly 9,000 troops are based -- before fleeing the scene.The soldiers killed had been mentoring Afghan police and living at the checkpoint. Brown condemned the incident as "terrible and tragic"."What we know is that the Taliban have claimed responsibility for this," Brown told lawmakers in London."It may be that the Taliban have used an Afghan police member or that they have infiltrated the Afghan police force," he added.The killings underscored the increasing complexity of the eight-year war in Afghanistan, where Western military and political leaders have put ...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 ASUNCION: President Fernando Lugo fired Paraguay's military chiefs Wednesday, a day after denying he had worries about a coup amid calls for his impeachment.In a statement given to journalists at the presidential palace, Lugo named new commanders for the army, air force and navy without explaining his reasons. The new chiefs will assume their posts Thursday, said the statement signed by the president.There was no immediate reaction from the military or from the political opposition, which controls Congress.The new military commanders must be approved by the Senate. Lugo did not immediately submit a formal request for their approval Wednesday, but he did schedule promotions and retirements for other military officers for Nov. 11, meaning more changes could happen soon

Thursday, November 05, 2009 MELBOURNE: A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said on Thursday.The child, known only as "Baby Z", was facing a painful death of seizures and brain damage from molybdenum cofactor deficiency, a genetic defect which causes a build-up of toxic sulphite and usually kills in months.But she made an amazing recovery just three days after first being given the untested treatment which was flown in from Germany and rushed through the courts."We are looking at her now and she is just an absolute miracle -- she has defied everybody," her mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told reporters.Baby Z started having seizures within 60 hours of her birth in May 2008, prompting her family to appeal to biochemist Rob Gianello to help beat the previously incurable condition which affects just one i...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 PARIS: Men in PLO T-shirts march through noisy, chaotic streets; their leader, all in white, stands before the wrought iron gate of a Zoroastrian fire temple urging followers to pledge purity and denounce outsiders.Welcome to the fictitious world of the Parsi Liberation Organisation led by a buffoon character in a zany movie that looks at India's Parsis -- both their excesses and endearments -- as a minuscule minority of some 70,000 in a country of more than one billion people.Veteran screenwriter-turned-director Sooni Taraporevala has put the spotlight on the Parsis, an ethnic-religious group whose name derives from their Persian origins, in a film and in a book of photography because, for starters, she's one of them."When you're a Parsi you're just used to nobody knowing who you are -- and always having to explain yourself," she said before a screening of her film at the Quai Branly museum in Paris, where her Parsi photographs als...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 TOKYO: Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said Thursday.High-tech company NEC has come up with a device that it says will allow users to communicate with people of different languages.Shaped like a pair of eye-glasses, but without the lenses, the computer-assisted Tele Scouter would use an imaging device to project almost real-time translations directly onto the user's retina.The text -- provided instantly through voice recognition and translation programmes -- would effectively provide movie-like 'subtitles' during a conversation between two people wearing the glasses."You can keep the conversation flowing," NEC market development official Takayuki Omino said at a Tokyo exposition where the device was on display."This could also be used for talks involving confidential information," negating ...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 NEW DELHI: A 12-year-old has scored 439 runs in a school cricket tournament in Mumbai that was used as a launch pad for the career of current Indian superstar Sachin Tendulkar, local media reported on Thursday.Sarfaraz Khan faced 421 balls and hit 12 sixes and 56 boundaries for his Springfield Rizvi school against a hapless Indian Education Society in a three-day Harris Shield match on Wednesday, a local newspaper reported.It was in this tournament in 1988 when Tendulkar, then a prodigal 15-year-old, made 329 during a 664-run partnership with childhood friend Vinod Kambli, who also went on to play international cricket.Tendulkar made his Test debut a year later and became the most successful batsman in history with a world record 12,773 runs and 42 hundreds in Tests and 16,993 runs and 44 centuries in one-dayers.As television cameras and reporters surrounded the young Khan after his mammoth knock, he joked that it was easier scoring 400 than posing for the m...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 HYDERABAD DECCAN: India’s master batsman Sachin Tendulkar has achieved the honour of becoming the first player to make 17,000 runs in One-day International cricket.He reached the coveted milestone in his 435th one-dayer.Besides making the most runs in one-day internationals, Tendulkar also holds several other world records in cricket.He is the highest run-getter in Test cricket also by scoring 12,773 runs in 159 Test matches.Tendulkar holds the records of making the most centuries in both Test and ODI cricket. He made 42 Test and 44 ODI hundreds. He has also made the highest number of one-day international appearances.