Beiging: China on Tuesday said it had successfully tested a surface-to-air missile system designed to intercept other missiles.
The test on Monday of a “ground-based, mid-course missile interception technology” had “achieved the expected objective,” the official Xinhua news agency said.
Sarasota: Grammy nominated Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton will fight a drug charge against him in Tampa instead of Miami.
Banton waived his bail hearing Wednesday in Miami federal court. His case is being prosecuted in Tampa, where he will be transferred.
London: A Worcestershire gynaecologist, who is being sued by a female patient over an alleged sexual assault during an examination, …
Tehran: Iran’s state-run media has accused Israel and the United States of masterminding the assassination of its nuclear scientist with a remote controlled device attached to explosives planted on a stationary motorcycle.
Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, who lectured on neuron physics at Tehran University, was killed in a booby-trapped motorbike blast on Tuesday.
Washigton: America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday strongly refuted reports that Pakistani-origin US national David Coleman Headley, charged for criminal conspiracy in the 26/11 terror attacks, was its agent at any point of time.
“I can’t comment on an ongoing investigation, but any suggestion that this individual worked for the CIA is flat wrong,” CIA spokesperson Marie E Harf said when specifically asked about Headley and his links with CIA.
Mexico City: Mexico opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the 3-year-old battle against drug trafficking — 69 murders in one day.
The country resembled a grim, statistical dart board on Saturday as law enforcement and media reported the deaths from various regions, including 26 in Ciudad Juarez, 13 in and around Mexico City and 10 in the city of Chihuahua.
Washington, 20 November 2009: The US is said to have reopened the investigation into the Watergate saga, more than 35 years after the biggest political scandal in the country’s history forced the then President Richard Nixon to step down.
Forensic investigators have now been called in to investigate exactly what Nixon knew about the Watergate break-in, particularly the extent of his knowledge of the raids on the Democratic National Committee’s offices in Washington.
Philadelphia: Near the end of the film Avatar, the villain snarls at the hero, “How does it feel to betray your own race?” Both men are white — although the hero is portrayed as a blue-skinned, 9-foot tall, long-tailed alien.