Divorce-hit Terengganu wants to spice up sex life of newly-weds

KUALA TERENGGANU: Body odour, humdrum sex and boring pyjamas have been blamed for the high divorce rate in Terengganu and the state government is coming up with innovative ways to improve sexual relations, especially among newly-weds.
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PM questions Asri’s arrest

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has jumped to the defence of  former Perlis Mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin when he today questioned the motive for the maverick scholar’s arrest. Dr Asri, who was arrested on Sunday night, was released on a police bond this [...]

Over 20 feared dead as boat sinks off Australia

Over 20 feared dead as boat sinks off Australia
More than 20 people were feared dead today after a boat carrying about 40 sank in rough seas far off northwest Australia during a rescue attempt by a passing merchant ship and fishing vessel.
Defence chief Angus Houston said the unidentified boat capsized and then sank after the [...]

From Prisoner to Prime Minister

Waiting to meet Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her suite in a Manhattan hotel, I hear a baby’s cries coming from the bedroom. Ms. Hasina, an aide tells me, is feeding her grand-daughter and will be with me shortly. Ms. Hasina enters the room dressed elegantly in a lime-green sari, and settles into an [...]

TIME:McMandela? Protecting the Brand of a Legend

Nelson Mandela was still in jail when the first street was named after him. By the time he retired as President of South Africa, hundreds of streets, squares and schools bore his name, as did many more pop songs, books and movies. Not hard to understand. After all, Mandela, who endured 27 years of incarceration [...]

NYT:5 Easy Steps to Stay Safe (and Private!) on Facebook

When the President of the United States warns schoolchildren to watch what they say and do on Facebook, you know that we’ve got a problem…and it’s not one limited to the U.S.’s borders, either. People everywhere are mindlessly over-sharing on the world’s largest social network, without a second thought as to who’s reading their posts [...]

Haruki Murakami: “Pain is inevitable but the Suffering is optional.”

Haruki Murakami: “Pain is inevitable but the Suffering is optional.”
NEW YORK, Nov 2 – In the weeks before the New York City Marathon, as he grappled with shin splints and a sore Achilles’ tendon, the actor Edward Norton fixated on a mantra he had plucked from a book by the Japanese author Haruki Murakami: “Pain [...]

NYT:Britain Sets Tough Laws for Texting While Driving

OXFORD, England — Inside the imposing British Crown Court here, Phillipa Curtis, 22, and her parents cried as she was remanded for 21 months to a high-security women’s prison, for killing someone much like herself. The victim was Victoria McBryde, an up-and-coming university-trained fashion designer.
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Reuters:Facebook gets $711 million damages in anti-spam case

(Reuters) – Social networking website Facebook was awarded $711.2 million in damages relating to an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace, court documents show.
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Reuters:Nokia to close gaming service N-Gage

HELSINKI, Oct 30 – Nokia Oyj will close its battered gaming service N-Gage next year, acknowledging failure in its first major services offering.
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5.0 magnitude quake rocks Yunnan

BEIJING, Nov 2 – An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale jolted southwest China’s Yunnan Province early Monday morning, said the National Seismological Network of China, reports Xinhua.
The quake struck the Binchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture at 5.07am (Beijing Time). Todate, no immediate reports of casualties or damage are available.
The epicentre was detected [...]

China sacks education minister

BEIJING, Nov 2 – China’s legislature has removed the country’s unpopular education minister amid widespread public dissatisfaction with the education system.