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NEW DELHI, Aug 8, 2006 (AFP) – India accounts for six percent of global road accidents but has only one percent of the world’s vehicles, a safety research consultant said Tuesday.The country has the world’s fourth highest annual tally of road accidents, said Jeya Padmanaban of consultancy JP Research, according to a Press Trust of […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – If you had a billion dollars in the bank and lived a jet-set lifestyle out of a string of luxury homes filled with valuable artworks, your taxes would be pretty hefty, right?Well not entirely, according to a Senate probe that has examined hundreds of documents and issued 74 subpoenas […]

LAS VEGAS, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – Locks commonly used at homes and businesses worldwide were so easy to pick that children could do it, computer hackers practicing the skill were shown on Sunday.In a Las Vegas casino meeting room devoted to the art of lock picking for the course of a three-day DefCon hackers […]

LAS VEGAS, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – The most vexing weakness in computer security is not in the hardware or the software, it is in the people who use the machines, according to top hackers and cyber safety specialists.“It really is more of a human problem than a technical problem,” Dan Kaminisky of Dox Para […]

HARARE, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Zimbabweans last week flooded banks to hand in old notes after the central bank slashed three zeroes from the local currency, but analysts said the new money would not provide relief from record inflation. Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank slashed three zeroes from its currency last Monday to help consumers battling […]

HARARE, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Zimbabwe has ordered a new freeze on prices of goods following a spate of increases on the heels of last week’s currency reforms to combat the effects of the country’s nearly 1,200 percent inflation, a state-run paper said Sunday.The country’s isolation from its traditional trading partners in Europe following […]

HONG KONG, Aug 4, 2006 (AFP) – Hong Kong people have the least sex in the world, managing it less than once a week, a survey has found. “Pressures from life and the relationship of a couple will also affect sex ability,” he said, urging couples to communicate better about their love lives to enhance […]

NEW DELHI, Aug 4, 2006 (AFP) – India’s Supreme Court has told US beverage giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to supply it with details of the chemical composition and ingredients of their products, a report said Friday.The notice to the two companies was issued after a study released this week said their drinks contained unacceptable levels […]

TOKYO, Aug 4, 2006 (AFP) – The Bank of Japan faced a fresh scandal Friday as it admitted giving 73 million yen (632,800 dollars) in excessive travel expenses to officials for business trips over the past seven years.The central bank, which is working to regain public trust after its governor’s private investment scandal, said it […]

GENEVA, Aug 4, 2006 (AFP) – Overnight bombings in Lebanon cut off an “umbilical cord” for relief supplies and halted evacuations from the country to Syria, international and UN agencies said Friday.Israeli warplanes wrecked four bridges along the coastal highway in the Christian heartland north of Beirut, cutting off practically the last landlink with neighbouring […]

NEW DELHI, Aug 3, 2006 (AFP) – In India’s rough and tumble political world he was always the “gentleman politician”. But now, former foreign minister Jaswant Singh stands accused of sparking a spy chase that has gripped India in a bid to boost sales of his just-released memoirs “A Call to Honour”. The book has […]