Indian High Commission owes 2 million pounds in London

Press Trust of India | Thursday May 24, 2012, London

The Indian High Commission owes London authorities over 2 million pounds towards congestion charge, which is levied on vehicles entering busy central London roads during the day on weekdays.

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Facebook causing a third of all divorces: UK survey

Press Trust of India | Thursday May 24, 2012, London

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to 'married' recently, but his social-networking website is causing a third of all divorces, a new UK survey has claimed.

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Strong aftershocks hit Italy's quake zone

Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 24, 2012, Rome

Two new strong aftershocks rattled northeast Italy overnight today, sending people outdoors and further damaging buildings hit by a weekend earthquake, local officials said. The aftershocks struck around midnight with the first one measuring 4.3 and the second 3.2, and local media said a total of 18 aftershocks had hit the area during the night.

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When a boy found a familiar feel in a pat of the head of state

Jackie Calmes, The New York Times | Thursday May 24, 2012, Washington

For decades at the White House, photographs of the president at work and at play have hung throughout the West Wing, and each print soon gives way to a more recent shot. But one picture of President Obama remains after three years.

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Pakistani Doctor jailed over bin Laden 'in poor health'

Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 24, 2012, Peshawar

The Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years for treason after being recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to help find Osama bin Laden is in poor health, a jail official told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday."His health condition is bad, a team of doctors will examine him in jail today," Samad Khan told AFP from the central prison in the northwestern city of Peshawar, where officials have said Shakeel Afridi is being held.

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Don't try this at home. He leapt 2400 ft from plane without parachute

Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 24, 2012, London

After plunging at a speed of approximately 130 kilometres (80 miles) an hour the 41-year-old landed successfully

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Drunk Chinese couple bury alive a woman they knocked down

Reuters | Thursday May 24, 2012, Beijing

Chinese police have arrested a young couple who buried an old woman alive believing she was dead after their car hit the 68-year-old, newspapers said on Thursday, in a case which has sparked outrage over declining public morality.

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Indian man sentenced by US court for treating wife as slave

Press Trust of India | Thursday May 24, 2012, New York

An Indian man, who had been convicted of sexually abusing his wife and treating her like a slave has been sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to do over 200 hours of community service.

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120 Afghan schoolgirls sick after poison attack by Taliban: Reports

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday May 24, 2012, London

Over 120 schoolgirls in Afghanistan fell sick following a suspected poison attack by the Taliban, a media report said.Most of the girls were treated and discharged, but 30 of them were still under treatment, an official told the BBC.

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NATO strike: White House rules out apology to Pakistan, says time to move ahead

Press Trust of India | Thursday May 24, 2012, Washington

The White House has ruled out an apology to Islamabad for November 26 incident in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a NATO cross border fire and said it is time that the two countries move ahead, two days after such a demand was made by Pakistan People's Party leader Bilawal Bhutto.

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