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Spain's Socialist government fought to avert an unprecedented thrashing as campaigning opened for November 20 elections overcast by sky-high unemployment and a stalled economy. At the stroke of midnight, Spain on Friday entered the official campaign period, almost certain to end with an overwhelming victory for the conservative opposition Popular Party. Latest polls give the Socialist Party 30.3-31.0 percent support compared to 45.3-47.4 percent for the Popular Party as 36 million voters take revenge over economic misery and a third quarter unemployment rate of 21.53 percent. If the polls prove correct on election day, it would lead to the Socialists'...

he Clintonistas are coming....in a panic borne of the necessity - to dispel the truth regarding how the Clinton administration failed on numerous occasions to apprehend or kill bin-Laden - the Clintonistas and Democrat party hacks like Richard Ben-Veniste alike are rising en-masse in a last ditch attempt to censor ABC's upcoming 6 hour docudrama "The Path To 9/11." Clinton representatives drafted a four page letter to Disney Chair Michael Iger - ABC's parent company - demanding the film be censored or barring that its suppression. "The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the...

MUMBAI: Sheila Bhosle, a 34-year-old woman constable, put her male counterparts to shame on Tuesday when while on patrol duty at Malad she disarmed a gun-toting former criminal. She displayed enormous pluck and courage when she jumped onto her motorbike and chased the fleeing crook. She eventually caught him, thrashed him soundly, and then confiscated his gun. The man turned out to be an ex-convict, who had earlier been booked for murder by the Byculla police. "It all happened within minutes. I was on bandobast duty for Eid near a mosque at Pathanwadi from 8 am. The area, which falls...