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1. Biometric scanners flooding Oz pub market as fix-all solution to violence : Sydney, Jan 30 (ANI): Many Australian pubs have started using biometric scanners as a way to avoid troublemakers. Thousands of clubbers and pub patrons are being forced to submit to fingerprint and photographic scans to enter popular venues, reports the ...
2. Russia launches military communication satellite : Moscow, May 5 (IANS) Russia has successfully launched a new military communication satellite, Xinhua reported. Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, spokesman for the the Russian Space Forces, said a Meridian satellite, the fourth in a series, atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket blasted ...
3. 'ICT can reduce 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions' : New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) solutions have the potential to reduce 10 percent of the country's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 -- thereby leading to energy cost savings of around Rs.137,000 crore (Rs.1.37 ...
4. Facial reflexology offers relief in stress, insomnia : London, Nov 7 (IANS) Facial reflexology is now increasingly used for hard-to-treat common conditions like stress, insomnia, digestive problems, joint pain, menopausal flushes and memory loss as they yield to the therapy that stimulates pressure points. An estimated 35,000 reflexologists ...
5. Russian satellite crashes shortly after launch : Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS) A Russian communication satellite -- Soyuz-2 -- crashed Friday shortly after being launched in northern Russia, RIA Novosti reported. A Meridian satellite launched from the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia on board a Soyuz-2 carrier ...
6. Man escapes as satellite piece crashes through roof : Moscow, Dec 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Siberian resident miraculously escaped serious injury or even death when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house. A Meridian satellite that was launched Friday from the Plesetsk ...
7. Minnesota baby girl born at 1:11 a.m. on 1/11/2011 : Minnesota, Jan 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) This Tuesday’s date was one of the unique dates of the century. The date was 11/1/11 and many people planned events for that date to ensure that they did not forget it that easily. The ...
8. Johnny Depp's surprise school visit as Captain Jack Sparrow : London, Oct 8 (ANI): It turned out to be a day of surprise and amusement for students at Meridian Primary School, when actor Johny Depp visited them dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow. He broke off filming his fourth Pirates Of ...
9. Tomorrow becomes yesterday in the Pacific : By Christiane Oelrich Singapore, Dec 30 (DPA) Is it Dec 31 or Jan 1, still yesterday or already today? Things get complicated at the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean. When people on the South Sea island of Samoa ...
10. 36 killed in Iraq blasts (Second Lead) : Baghdad, Jan 25 (IANS) A total of 36 people were killed and 71 injured in a series of massive car bomb blasts targeting three big hotels in this Iraqi capital city Monday. "The total number of people killed in the ...