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(edit)Hong Kong-based British photographer Richard Jones encountered the 43-year-old wife of Robert Mugabe as she walked down a street near her luxury hotel in the heart of the city to go shopping.She punched him in the face when he tried to take pictures of her on January 15, leaving Mr Jones with bruises and cuts where her diamond-encrusted ring had smashed into his face. Mr Jones told AFP: "I think it's a disgrace for the Hong Kong government to allow a person to walk on a street in Hong Kong, punch a member of the media, and walk free from...

NEW DELHI: Post-Diwali Delhiites will not be starved of excitement. US President Barack Obama, on his first visit to the country, will be coming down to the capital for two days on November 7. Obama and his wife Michelle will be staying at ITC Maurya where the grand presidential floor is specially being prepared for them. Obama is the third American President after Bill Clinton in 2000 and George Bush in 2006 to be staying at the hotel. He will be staying at the hotel for two nights at the presidential floor, which boasts of its own library, a 12-seater...