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• US Congressman, 81, caught reading Playboy on flight
• SC to decide if criteria for judges' appointment be made public
• France to hunt again for Rio-Paris flight that crashed in 2009
• Parliament adjourned again over JPC deadlock
• Nearly 1,200 women killed in Pakistan in 2010: Report
• Heavy fog delays flights at Delhi airport
• South Korea's Lee names adviser to top defence post: Media
• Second-hand smoke kills 600,000 a year - WHO study
• Burkina Faso president re-elected by landslide
• Plane skids off runway in UK's Newcastle airport
• Number of world's poorest countries doubled since 1970s: UN
• French ex-PM Villepin questioned over Pakistan arms scandal
• No such thing as 'pure chocolate': EU court
• Kasab demands retrial, assails delay in recording confession
• Bring 26/11 attackers to justice: US tells Pakistan

US Congressman, 81, caught reading Playboy on flight Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:55 PM PST Detroit Democratic Congressman John Conyers was on a plane headed to Washington when a fellow passenger filmed him flicking through pages of the magazine, reports the Daily Mail.

SC to decide if criteria for judges' appointment be made public Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:38 PM PST A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court would examine whether a citizen is entitled to know the criteria adopted for appointment and transfer of judges of high courts and the apex court.

France to hunt again for Rio-Paris flight that crashed in 2009 Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:18 PM PST The French government has said it will conduct a fourth search for the flight recorders of an Air France jetliner that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris 18 months ago.

Parliament adjourned again over JPC deadlock Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:13 PM PST Sticking to the pattern of the last 11 days, both houses of Parliament were adjourned till 12 noon as opposition members pursued their demand for a parliamentary probe into the 2008 2G spectrum allotment.

Nearly 1,200 women killed in Pakistan in 2010: Report Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:31 PM PST Of the 1,195 women murdered in Pakistan this year, 98 were killed after being raped, says a report by the country's first helpline for women and children.

Heavy fog delays flights at Delhi airport Posted: 25 Nov 2010 08:27 PM PST Heavy fog at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here disrupted air services this morning, delaying six domestic flights.

South Korea's Lee names adviser to top defence post: Media Posted: 25 Nov 2010 05:39 PM PST South Korean President Lee Myung-bak named his security adviser as defense minister on Friday, news reports said, replacing Kim Tae-young who quit following criticism of a slow response to an artillery attack by North Korea.

Second-hand smoke kills 600,000 a year - WHO study Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:09 PM PST Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organisation researchers said on Friday.

Burkina Faso president re-elected by landslide Posted: 25 Nov 2010 03:34 PM PST President Blaise Compaore, one of Africa's last remaining 'Big Men' who seized power in a bloody coup 23 years ago, was re-elected by a landslide in a vote rejected by the opposition.

Plane skids off runway in UK's Newcastle airport Posted: 25 Nov 2010 03:21 PM PST A passenger plane has been evacuated at northern England's Newcastle Airport following reports the aircraft skidded slightly off the runway.

Number of world's poorest countries doubled since 1970s: UN Posted: 25 Nov 2010 02:15 PM PST The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fold, a UN think-tank has warned.

French ex-PM Villepin questioned over Pakistan arms scandal Posted: 25 Nov 2010 01:18 PM PST A French judge questioned former prime minister Dominique de Villepin about corruption allegations linked to the deaths of 11 French engineers in a Pakistani bombing in 2002.

No such thing as 'pure chocolate': EU court Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:49 PM PST There is no such thing as "pure chocolate", the EU high court ruled today, ending an EU-Italy food fight over chocolate labels.

Kasab demands retrial, assails delay in recording confession Posted: 25 Nov 2010 08:36 AM PST Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab today pleaded in the Bombay High Court for a fresh trial in the 26/11 terror attack case, claiming that key witnesses were not examined and norms not followed in appointing lawyers to defend him.

Bring 26/11 attackers to justice: US tells Pakistan Posted: 25 Nov 2010 07:22 AM PST US today said it was Pakistan's "duty and obligation" to bring the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice as quickly as possible.

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