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One-month-old baby girl Khushi, which means `happiness` in Hindi, would not have been alive had her mother, Sumanjeet, given in to pressure from some relatives and neighbors.
Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:18 |
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(Reuters) - Detroit`s Anibal Sanchez was denied a no-hitter but still struck out 12 batters in a pitching gem as the Tigers sent the Minnesota Twins crashing to their 10th straight defeat with a 6-0 victory on Friday. Sanchez was heading towards a second career no-hitter with one out in the ninth inning before Joe Mauer punched a single up the middle to deny the Venezuelan a chance to become the 28th pitcher in Major League history with multiple no-hitters. ...
Saturday, May 25, 2013 07:40 |
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By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saddled with Middle East problems ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, President Barack Obama now faces one that is both old and new: Iraq. Unresolved sectarian tensions, inflamed by the raging civil war in neighboring Syria, have combined to send violence in Iraq to its highest level since Obama withdrew the last U.S. troops in December 2011, U.S. officials and Middle East analysts say. A Sunni Muslim insurgency against the Shi`ite-led Baghdad government has also been reawakened. ...
Saturday, May 25, 2013 06:13 |
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque, killing 12 people.
Saturday, May 25, 2013 09:34 |
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The December gang-rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi has stirred consciences in India in a way I have never before experienced: It has forced Indians to confront a terrible truth that for our girls and women, violence and discrimination are facts of daily life, an epidemic that, researchers say, claims nearly 2 million lives in India each year.
Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:18 |
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May 24 (Reuters) - American left-hander Russ Cochran reeled off five birdies in six holes around the turn on the way to a share of the Senior PGA Championship lead in Friday`s second round at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri. Cochran, who clinched his maiden major title in the over-50 ranks at the 2011 Senior Open Championship, fired a five-under-par 66 to end the day at seven-under 135, level with good friend and fellow Kentucky native Kenny Perry, who also returned a 66. ...
Saturday, May 25, 2013 03:15 |
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(Reuters) - The former chief executive of a failed U.S. bank in Norfolk, Virginia, and three others were convicted Friday on bank fraud conspiracy and other charges for concealing loan losses in a scheme that contributed to he bank`s 2011 collapse. Edward Woodard, the former chief executive of Bank of the Commonwealth, was along with two other executives a federal jury in Norfolk found guilty following a multi-week trial, the U.S. Justice Department said. The verdict came in one of several cases pursued by federal prosecutors steeing from the U.S. ...
Saturday, May 25, 2013 00:29 |
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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) Heather Bowie Young made five straight birdies while jumping from one side of the golf course to the other. Silvia Cavalleri was hitting the ball so well Friday she was sorry the Bahamas Classic was held on only 12 holes.
Saturday, May 25, 2013 02:07 |
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