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Friday, March 05, 2010 LONDON: Britain's backing for the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was "the right decision," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday as he fought off critics. Facing questions about his role in funding the war as finance minister under Tony Blair, Brown said Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had flouted international law for years. "It was the right decision and it was for the right reasons," Brown said in opening comments to the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the conflict. "This is the gravest decision of all to make," he said, but added: "Fourteen resolutions were passed by the United Nations, and at the end of the day it was impossible to persuade him that he should abide by international law." Witnesses to the inquiry, including the defence minister at the time of the invasion, Geoff Hoon, have said the military lacked sufficient funding and equipment for years before the war. Adding to the pr...

Friday, March 05, 2010 JERUSALEM: Clashes erupted Friday between Muslim worshippers and Israeli riot police at a sacred and disputed hilltop compound following a sermon on a recent Israeli decision to include two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage sites. Worshippers emerging from Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque threw stones at policemen, according to Israeli police. Israeli riot-control forces waiting outside the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary rushed in to restore order, using stun grenades to disperse the crowd, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said. Other Muslim worshippers intervened to try to defuse the clash, and police eventually withdrew in coordination with the Muslim clerics who administer the compound, he said. A small number of light injuries were reported by both sides. Always tense, the compound has recently seen sporadic clashes linked at least in part to the Israeli government deci...

Friday, March 05, 2010 BERLIN: Egypt's long-standing President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei could run in the 2011 presidential election as long as he respected the constitution. ElBaradei, emerging as Egypt's most high-profile dissident, has called for an amendment of the constitution which includes rules that would make it difficult for him to challenge Mubarak at the ballot box. "If he wants to join a party, he could choose whichever one he wants," Mubarak told reporters during a visit to Germany, according to a translation of his comments in Arabic. "If he wants to be a candidate for that party (at the presidential elections), he could do that. If he wants to stand as an independent candidate, he could do that," he said. "The only thing is that he must respect the constitution," he said, adding the country "does not need a new hero". Under Egyptian law, a presidential candida...

Friday, March 05, 2010 MELBOURNE: Australian police Friday launched a major investigation Friday after a three-year-old Indian boy's body was found dumped by a Melbourne roadside, threatening to cast a fresh shadow over ties. Victoria state premier John Brumby said he found the death of Gurshan Singh, who was visiting from Punjab in northern India, "personally distressing" but urged people not to speculate about the case. "What has occurred is an unthinkable tragedy. It's deeply, deeply distressing," Brumby told reporters. "There are no visible signs of the cause of death at this stage... but I think it's very important that no one jumps to conclusions," he added. The little boy disappeared from a suburban house at about 1:00 pm (0200 GMT) Thursday while his mother was taking a shower. He was last heard screaming, upset because his father had left for a nearby library without him. "He stopped shouting and I thought, what happened...

FAMU SexTape Video – - The sextape video issue of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) has astonished people when they heard about it. This sextape video featured some students of FAMU; they are having a group session in this sextape video. This issue is being observed in two major senses, some are in the view that sextape video is real one. On the other hand, some sources have been reporting that video is in fact a virus which hurts our computers. Twitter and another source threw light on the issue; it attracted more people towards it, now it has become an important issue to discuss. We have explored that one of porn video makers is behind the scene and gave rise to this topic. It is reported that an adult and sex videos producing company is searching such university guys who can perform in porn tapes. This company pays some money to the video participants for their role in this video. How would the parents of these students feel when they will come to know ...

It's a departure in every which way for this Bollywood actress on the ascendant. She is playing a deglamorised politician and the Hindi has to be perfect too, but Britain born Katrina Kaif says her role in Rajneeti excites her more because she is now comfortable with the language. Katrina, who has delivered a string of hits playing the urban hip young woman, gets a makeover in Prakash Jha's Rajneeti. Dressed in cotton saris and speaking chaste Hindi, this is a challenging role that she's looking forward to. But the Hindi is passe now for the actress, whose accented Hindi meant that her many early films had to be dubbed. "I am excited about the part (in Rajneeti), but I am not very excited about speaking Hindi because I spoke Hindi in my last 10 films. It's a great role and a great film and I certainly hope people enjoy it," Katrina told IANS over the phone from Dubai. Rajneeti is Katrina's first political thriller and she says she wants to keep her opti...

Thursday, March 04, 2010 LUCKNOW: A stampede broke out at a Hindu temple in northern India Thursday as thousands of people jostled with each other to get free clothes and utensils, leaving at least 63 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said. The force of the stampede was so great, it knocked down a gate at the temple compound in Kunda, a small town 110 miles (180kilometers) southeast of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state. About 44 worshippers were injured in the crush of people at a Hindu temple belonging to a popular local religious leader, said Ashok Kumar, a senior government official. Thousands of farmers and villagers had gathered at the temple around noon to receive free goods to mark the anniversary of the death of the wife of the religious leader, Kripalu Maharaj, said Brij Lal, a local police official. By late afternoon police had cleared the compound and started the process of identifying the bodies, Kumar said. Hundreds of people gathered at a nea...