Saturday, 11 October 2014

Poland stun world champions Germany with first win

Poland stun world champions Germany with first win

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WARSAW - Poland struck twice on the break to stun wasteful World Cup winners Germany 2-0 on Saturday, earning their first ever victory over their illustrious neighbours and taking control of Euro 2016 qualifying Group D.

India, Pakistan in new gunfire in Kashmir

JAMMU - India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire across the Kashmir frontier on Saturday, Indian military officials said, ending a pause in fighting that has already killed 17 civilians in the two countries in the worst skirmishes in a decade.
South Asia 11 Oct 2014

India evacuates 150,000 as cyclone Hudhud intensifies

PUDIMADAKA - About 150,000 people were evacuated on India's eastern seaboard on Saturday as cyclone Hudhud bore down and grew in sheer force, threatening to devastate farmland and fishing villages when it hits the coast on Sunday morning.
11 Oct 2014

Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO - Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
World 10 Oct 2014

Kurds urge more air strikes in Kobani; monitor warns of defeat

MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT - Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday.
Syria, World 8:36am IST

Indian peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi to "join hands" with Pakistan's Malala

NEW DELHI - India’s Kailash Satyarthi dedicated the Nobel Peace Prize that he shared on Friday to children in slavery, pledging to "join hands" with fellow laureate Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan as their two countries fought over the territory of Kashmir.
10 Oct 2014

Malala becomes lightning rod for anger over neglect of her hometown

MINGORA Pakistan - In the hometown of Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai, the students at the government-run Girls' High School Mingora sit cross-legged on sacks and sheets on the floor because there is not enough furniture.
South Asia, World 11 Oct 2014

Medical evacuation services balk at flying out Ebola patients

LONDON - Leading companies offering medical evacuation services are balking at flying Ebola patients out of West Africa for treatment abroad as the cost and the complexities of the deadly epidemic grow.
World 11 Oct 2014

Federer halts Djokovic run to reach Shanghai final

SHANGHAI - Roger Federer brought world number one Novak Djokovic's juggernaut to a halt when a 6-4 6-4 victory in the Shanghai Masters on Saturday set up a final against unseeded Frenchman Gilles Simon.
11 Oct 2014

"I can't explain the joy each time I've freed a child" - Nobel winner Satyarthi

NEW DELHI/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the 34 years since Kailash Satyarthi gave up his job as an electrical engineer to campaign for children's rights, the Nobel Peace Prize winner has been beaten, seen his home attacked and his colleagues killed.

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