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LAHORE: A US consulate worker and killer of two Pakistani men, Raymond Davis will be produced in court on charges of shooting dead two persons in a busy bazaar in Lahore, News reported. It is pertinent to mention that yesterday after noon, a US consulate official was arrested for slaying two innocent citizens Faheem and Faizan Haider by shooting the duo. The FIR had been lodged under section 48/11, police sources told media. The accused American, Raymond Davis, will be presented before a civil judge in a Town court.

These small hand axes are at least 100,000 years old. A team of scientists found these tools in the United Arab Emirates. Scientists have discovered new evidence suggesting that modern humans first left Africa to explore Eurasia much earlier than previously thought. An international team of scientists has uncovered a tool kit that indicates that modern humans, who looked and perhaps behaved much like us, must have lived in eastern Arabia about 100,000 to 125,000 years ago. The collection of small hand axes, scrapers and other tools was found in Jebel Faya, United Arab Emirates. A report about the discovery appears in the journal Science. The people who made these tools "are our ancestors, I have no doubt about that," said Hans-Peter Uerpmann, of the University of Tubingen in Germany, who collaborated on the project, at a press teleconference Wednesday. But the findings still do not prove definitively that modern humans made these tools, as the researchers did not find human r...

PETALING JAYA: The Sessions Court here today ruled that Constable V Navindran be discharged and acquitted from facing charges of causing grievous hurt to suspected car thief A Kugan two years ago. Justice Aslam Zainuddin said that Navindran was not required to enter his defence at the end of the prosecution case this morning. He added that the prosecution had failed to establish a prima facie case against the police constable. Navindran, 28, faced two counts of causing grievous hurt to Kugan, 23, at the D9 interrogation room at the Taipan police station, Subang Jaya, at 7am on Jan 16, 2009. The offences carry a maximum 10 years jail and a fine on conviction. Navindran also faced two alternative charges of causing hurt to Kugan at the same place and time, which carry a maximum seven years jail and a fine on conviction. Earlier in the trial, witnesses have testified that Navindran had beaten Kugan with a rubber hose even when it was not his turn to interrogate the suspect. The decision t...

Indonesias state-owned port company Pelindo III will develop Bali provincial port of Benoa to cope with international standard, a top executive said here on Monday. Jarwo Suryanto, president director of Pelindo III, told a parliamentary hearing that in 2010, as many as 53 foreign cruise liners arrived in Bali where half of them entered through Benoa port. Thats why, we want to develop the port by renovate its terminal to cope with international standard, Suryanto said. Besides, he said, it needs a synergy between state-owned enterprises to support the goal. We will cooperate with toll road operator of Jasa Marga and airport operator of Angkasa Pura, among others, to build access to provincial capital citiy of Denpasar and Nusa Dua, one of tourism destination, said Suryanto. Suryanto also unveiled the companys financial performance in 2010. During last year, we booked declining net profit of 514 billion rupiah (about 56.78 million U.S. dollars) from 527 billion rupiah (about 58.21 milli...

LAHORE , At least three people were killed in firing by a foreigner at Qartaba chowk Mozang on Thursday. According to police, foreigner Raymond Davis belongs to USA and he has been arrested. Accused David opened fire at people riding on motorcycle as a result both were injured and succumbed to injuries in hospital. Another motorcyclist was also injured in Daviss firing. The injured has succumbed to his wounds in hospital.

Angry demonstrators in Egypt have torched a police post in the eastern city of Suez, where violence between police and protesters has racheted up amid a security crackdown. Police fled the post before protesters used petrol bombs to set it on fire Thursday morning, witnesses told the Reuters news agency. Police in Suez responded to other demonstrators by firing rubber-coated bullets, water cannons and teargas. Dozens of protersters gathered in front of a second police post later in the morning, demanding the release of relatives who were detained during a wave of unprecedented protests that authorities have failed to quell since they began on Tuesday. Meanwhile, activists calling for the outser of Hosni Mubarak, who has served as Egypt's president for 30 years, clashed with police in the capital, Cairo, in the early hours of Thursday. While the situation had calmed later in the morning, the protests are likely to gather momentum with the arrival of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobe...

KUALA LUMPUR: Saksi kes Liwat I membabitkan Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim pada tahun 1998, Ummi Hafilda Ali memberi amaran kepada pihak pembangkang supaya tidak meganggap dirinya sebagai nyamuk. Malah Ummi berkata dirinya mungkin akan menjadi salah satu penyumbang utama kepada kejatuhan karier politik Anwar. Kalau kaji sejarah Raja Namrud yang menganggap dirinya Tuhan pada zaman Nabi Ibrahim, nyamuk yang kecik itu boleh membawa kemudaratan. Jadi Anwar jangan aggap saya nyamuk kerana dia boleh hilang kuasa, kedudukan, integriti sebagai pemimpin, dan segala-galanya. Apabila kembalinya nyamuk ini, mungkin nyamuk ini mungkin akan membawa kepada kematiannya dari segi karier politik, katanya kepada pemberita ketika mengulas respon Anwar apabila dipelawa berdebat berhubung kebenaran kes salah laku seks. Ummi Hafilda yang juga adik kepada Timbalan Presiden PKR Azmin Ali hari ini hadir di Ibu Pejabat Polis DiRaja Malaysia Bukit Aman untuk berjumpa dengan Pengarah Jabatan Siasatan J...

Lahore:A United States Lahore Consulate employee Thursday killed two persons in what he called an act of self-defence against a purported armed robbery attempt, Police said. Police officer Aslam Tareen said the accused told police in preliminary investigations that he stopped his car at a traffic signal when he saw two motorbike riders coming toward him. One of bike riders had a pistol in his hand, and I fired at him in self-defence, Tareen said, quoting the American national. It is his claim, but we are investigating the case. A spokesman for US Embassy in Islamabad Alberto Rudriguez said the Embassy was trying to glean the circumstances surrounding the killings. But I can confirm that he is employee of our Lahore Consulate. Another person was also killed at the same spot when a car, also from the US consulate, hit him. Later a large number of people gathered at the spot of incident to p...

Karachi:District Coordination Officer Karachi Muhammad Hussain Syed has directed officers of Health, Revenue, Education and Community Development Department to make the 111th anti polio campaign successful while suspending all other routine activities from Jan.29 to 2nd February 2011. He also directed all field officers of city government Karachi to take all possible measures for making this campaign successful with the help of civil society, people's representatives, social and welfare organizations and religious leaders so that our country could be included into the list of polio free countries. He was addressing a high level meeting in the Committee Room of Civic Center on Thursday which was attended by EDO Health Dr. Nasir Javed, EDO E&IP Dr. Saif-ur-Rehman, EDO Education Ibrahim Kanbhar and all DDOs Revenue and other officers. During a briefing on this occasion, it was infor...

BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- China Thursday allocated 1.039 billion yuan (157 million U.S. dollars) for areas hit by natural disasters last year. The relief funds, jointly allocated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance, will be used for disaster survivors to buy food, clothes, quilts and heating devices. A Ministry of Civil Affairs statement said local finance and civil affairs authorities have been ordered to publicly disclose relevant information. In 2010, several natural disasters hit China, including the 7.1-magnitude Yushu earthquake that left 2,200 people dead and the Zhouqu mudslide that left 1,700 people dead or missing. On Nov. 18, 2010, the two ministries jointly allocated 4.1 billion yuan (617 million U.S. dollars) to help natural disaster survivors pass the winter. (Xinhua)

MUMBAI : At Mumbai's open-air Dhobi Ghat, Prem Shankar Kanojia picks up items from a pile of laundry stacked at the side of a concrete washing tank and submerges them in water murky with soap suds and grime. Once the shirts and sheets have been soaked thoroughly, he raises each piece high above his head and smashes it down repeatedly on a large flat stone made smooth by years of pounding. Hard-working "dhobiwallahs", or washermen, like Prem have cleaned Mumbai's clothes and bedding like this for generations, confident that the dirt and sweat of the city will provide them with a constant livelihood. But like many in Dhobi Ghat, Prem, who followed his father into the business, a life of dunking, thrashing and drying up to 1,000 items of clothing each day for just $7, is now not so sure. "The problem is that we are not getting enough proper clothes because ...

Editor's Note : The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers. Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- In a recent trip to Pakistan to report on the recent spike in the region's violence and bloodshed, I heard over and over the same sentiment from people on the ground; America's war on terror is falling flat on its face. The military conflict in neighboring Afghanistan, repeatedly cited by locals, sends a constant flood of guns, refugees, militants and heroin into Pakistan. Heroin is now actually cheaper than hashish in cities such as Lahore. The Kalashnikov culture, the fo...

LABIS, Jan 27 Barisan Nasionals (BN) hope of retaining Tenang by a majority of at least 5,000 votes has been made difficult as the DAPs campaign for the January 30 by-election has begun to gain momentum, particularly among the Chinese. The Malaysian Insider understands that Umno campaigners, who are confident of winning the majority of the Malay votes, have started blaming MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek for his alleged failure to curb the DAPs rising influence since nomination day. I think they have underestimated the influence Lim Kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng have over the Chinese community. They are the crowd pullers here and unlike PAS, DAP ceramahs are only attended by locals, said an Umno official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Kit Siang and his son, Penang Chief Minister Guan Eng, spent one day each in the constituency, addressing two well-attended rallies in the Labis Tengah polling district. Both rallies, held on Monday and Tuesday night respectively,...