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ASAN: The founder of the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, held his first mass wedding ceremony in years on Wednesday, blessing 20,000 people from around the world at a college he founded.Moon, who founded the church officially called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and his wife were on hand for the mass ceremony, where 1,000 couples took their wedding vows and another 18,000 renewed their vows."As men and women representing the 6 billion mankind, go out and become the builders of the world of peace and ideals," Moon told the couples gathered on the sprawling grounds of the Sun Moon University, about 100 km (60 miles) from Seoul.Moon and his wife sprinkled holy water over a dozen select couples called onto the stage and declared them tied in wedlock. He declared in 1992 that he and his wife were messiahs.One of Moon's sons, Hyung Jin, has taken over the day-to-day running of the church with an estimated 5 to 7 million followers around the world, ...

Friday, October 16, 2009 PESHAWAR/pakistan: Thirteen people have been killed and many wounded in a suicide attack hit CIA police station investigation cell in cantonment area here.Interior minister has directed IG NWFP to submit report of the incident. According to Geo News correspondent Saiful Islami Saifi, a personnel present at the gate told that a person riding on a motorbike with a woman reached at the gate of the police station. When security official tried to stop the burqa clad woman, she detonated herself. Exchange of fire also took place between security personnel and motorbiker. At least thirteen ten people have been killed in the blast.The blast severely damaged the building of the police station and destroyed several vehicles. The injured including many prisoners have been rushed to hospital. Interior minister Rehman Malik, MQM chief Altaf Hussain , leader of ANP Zahid Khan and other political leaders have strongly condemned the blast.

BEIJING: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned major powers on Wednesday against intimidating Iran and said talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme was "premature".Putin, who many diplomats, analysts, and Russian citizens believe is still Russia's paramount leader despite stepping down as president last year, was speaking after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Moscow for two days of talks."There is no need to frighten the Iranians," Putin told reporters in Beijing after a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation."We need to look for a compromise. If a compromise is not found, and the discussions end in a fiasco, then we will see.""And if now, before making any steps (towards holding talks) we start announcing some sanctions, then we won't be creating favourable conditions for them (talks) to end positively. This is why it is premature to talk about this now."Clinton failed t...

Thursday, October 15, 2009 NAIROBI: Parents in some of Africa's poorest countries are cutting back on school, clothes and basic medical care just to give their children a meal once a day, experts say. Still, it is not enough.A record 1 billion people worldwide are hungry and a new report says the number will increase if governments do not spend more on agriculture. According to the U.N. food agency, which issued the report, 30 countries now require emergency aid, including 20 in Africa.The trend continues despite a goal set by world leaders nine years ago to cut the number of hungry people in half by 2015."It's actually a world emergency that calls for action from both developing and developed countries," said Otive Igbuzor, the head of international campaigns for ActionAid International."We know a child dies every six seconds of malnutrition," he said.Spiraling food prices have added to hardships, especially in the world's most desperate countries wher...

Thursday, October 15, 2009 WELLINGTON: An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Thursday, seismologists reported, two weeks after a violent quake caused a tsunami that devastated Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa. No immediate tsunami alert was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii following the quake, which struck at 6:00 am (1800 GMT Wednesday) at a narrow depth of 10 kilometres (six miles). The epicentre was 365 kilometres southwest the Samoan capital of Apia, the US Geological Survey said.

2009 LONDON: The pulsating beats of bhangra reached the royal environs of the Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth hosted a reception for Indian-origin achievers ahead of a state visit by President of India Pratibha Patil later this month, an Indian news agency reported Wednesday.Leading British-Indian citizens from the field of sports, writing, acting and business gathered together Tuesday night to watch a performance by cultural group Nutkhut in the palace ballroom, under the shadow of a 30-ft domed red velvet canopy, used at the coronation durbar of King George V and Queen Mary in Delhi in 1911.Performers from the dance group Nutkhut, founded by husband and wife team of Ajay Chhabra and Simmy Gupta, performed a 15-minute extract from the couple's show Bollywood Steps, inspired by Indian movies.The couple said they were honoured to be representing Indian arts at the palace.Chhabra, speaking about the opulent surroundings of the royal residence, said "We felt the setting lea...

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 NEW YORK: A warship built with steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center set sail for New York Tuesday.Hundreds of people lined the banks of the Mississippi river near New Orleans as the USS New York sailed through the fog, local media reports.Its bow stem contains 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the rubble following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."That steel means a whole lot more than just metal," Ronnie Harris, mayor of nearby Gretna, Louisiana told the local Fox News station amid a swell of patriot music."The entire country comes together in the form of that bow stem and I'm so proud that this event puts it in the history books and in people's minds."The 208-meter (684-foot-) long ship's main mission is to transport and deploy combat and support elements of Marine expeditionary units, the US Navy said.It will carry approximately 720 troops and can deploy helicopters and other aircraft from it...