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PESHAWAR, March 17: The government has ordered regular troops and paramilitary forces to move immediately to the South Waziristan tribal region as suspected militants fired rockets into a scouts fort, officials said. They said orders had been given to Pakistan Army and the paramilitary Frontier Corps to immediately dispatch more troops into South Waziristan to reinforce the single army brigade stationed at Zari Noor and the over 4,000 militia force. The officials would not give the exact number of troops to be moved to the troubled region for security and operational reasons, but said the reinforcement would help take decisive...

Bhutan won’t stop cracking down on N-E militants Jaideep Mazumdar and PTI Kolkata/Samdrup Jongkhar, December 18 Bhutan on Thursday rejected the Ulfa's appeal for a ceasefire and vowed to continue the "short but decisive" military operation to flush out anti-India insurgents from its soil. The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) has met with major successes in expelling the 3,000-odd militants of the Ulfa, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) who had taken refuge in the Dragon Kingdom. According to reports, so far more than 150 militants have been killed and hundreds captured, including Ulfa publicity secretary...

That title is from a Car and Driver article of the mid-1980s, about the results of the editors' putting two engines into a little Honda CRX. The Hubbas are even more fitting today, as Honda keeps building the best cars in the world, forcing other automakers to work hard to keep up. Some are having more success than others. How does Honda do it? In Honda's case, as with any corporation, much of what the consumer sees comes from the top. Soichiro Honda, the founder, was a daring, hard-headed, friendly entrepreneur and engineer. He thwarted the good-ol'-boy Japanese business environment...

<p>CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Sho Yano's mother hands him his lunch for school in a brown paper bag -- a turkey sandwich and cookies included.</p> <p>"You don't need any bones today? No bones?" Kyung Yano asks her quiet, spectacle-wearing 12-year-old, who shakes his head "no" as they head out their apartment door. She wants to make sure he isn't supposed to take his samples of spinal bones and a human skull to class, where he's learning about human anatomy.</p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, said protecting the Iraqi people was his main priority when he took the job.</p> <p>Vieira de Mello, 55, died when a truck drove into the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad laden with explosives. Although he managed to make a phone call from the ruins of the building, he later died.</p>

Gangster ends life by consuming lizard Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Aug 18: An arrested gangster committed suicide by consuming a lizard in the lock-up of Satwari Police Station. Police spokesman said that the gangster was arrested by DySP Special Branch Pritam Singh on August 15 and was kept in the Satwari Police Station for questioning. After two days of interrogation, the gangster reportedly consumed a lizard in the lock-up.Some police personnel saw him consuming the lizard and shifted him to Government Medical College Hospital Jammu. Doctors attending on him provided him stomach wash but he could not survive. A case under...

Terrorists chop off villager's head in Jammu and Kashmir Press Trust of India Jammu, August 15 Terrorists chopped off head of a villager in Poonch district even as an Al-Badr commander and a BSF jawan were killed in separate incidents in Rajouri and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir since Thursday night, official sources said on Friday. A group of armed terrorists intercepted a shop owner Abdul Kareem in Hari village of Surankote tehsil of Poonch district on Thursday night and abducted him, they said. Karim was severely tortured throughout the night, they said and later his head and limbs...

A disco in Sandefjord, Norway was fed up with 'sleazy old men' and started refusing entry to men older than 35. «When men who look older than 35 approach the club we inform them that CatMan's is a disco for younger guests. This information makes most of them leave voluntarily, said the leader of the club, Kim Clausen. According to Clausen, the guests want to get rid of the men who are older than 35. »On Thursdays the age limit is 18. 18-year-old girls look great and mature men know this«, said Clausen. Clausen explains that young girls have been...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed in a six-hour firefight Tuesday when U.S. forces, acting on a tip from an Iraqi informant, surrounded and then stormed a palatial villa in this northern Iraqi town, a senior American general said. Four coalition soldiers were wounded and two other Iraqis were killed in the raid, but Saddam was not among them. The house belonged to one of Saddam's cousins, a key tribal leader in the region. "We are certain that Odai and Qusai were killed today," said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez at a news conference in...

Well what can I say? You have to SEE this to BELIEVE it. It's unreal,...yet maybe prescient....awesome animated satire on the Wicked Witch of the White House (?) Go to the JibJab site, choose "Geezers Musical" from the main menu, when the animated window pops up choose episode 5 from the list. Enjoy! CAUTION: some mildly foul language.