Manila - Millions of Filipinos flocked to the cemeteries throughout the Philippines on Saturday in the annual tradition of remembering their dead.
Police and military forces have been deployed around the cemeteries and other key public installations to ensure that the two-day event would be peaceful.
Different government agencies and volunteer organizations have set-up booths just outside the cemeteries to provide assistance to those needing help.
The Philippine National Red Cross said it mobilized thousands of volunteers nationwide to provide medical assistance to people going to the cemeteries.
Washington - The United States late Friday confirmed that Libya has paid 1.5 billion dollars into a US-controlled account to compensate US victims of a 1988 terrorist attack and other attacks, saying the step had removed "the last obstacle to a normal relationship between the United States and Libya."
"We will work on that now going forward," said David Welch, assistant secretary of state for near east affairs, in a briefing.
The payment follows the meeting in September in Tripoli between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, who formally ended a half century of hostility.
London, November 1 : U. S. Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s effigy will be loaded with explosives and torched at the site of the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex when Britons celebrate the Bonfire Night.
According to reports, the ''hockey mom'' Alaska Governor has been made into a giant effigy dressed as Rambo, complete with bulging muscles, a machine gun and with bullets draped over her neck.
UTI Mutual Fund, the country's oldest fund house has introduced ‘UTI Fixed Term Income Fund Series V-VIII’, a close-ended income scheme in the market.
The investment objective of the scheme is to generate regular returns by investing in portfolio of fixed income securities normally maturing in line with the maturity period of the plan.
The scheme will invest up to 5-100% in debt including securitized debt and 0-95% in money market instruments. The scheme may invest up to 100% in the securitized debt.
London, Nov 1 : Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter a sex prisoner for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, is terrified he will be locked up with dangerous mental patients, according to a psychiatric report.
The report claims that Fritzl was sane and fully responsible for his actions when he raped his daughter repeatedly, forcing her to bore him seven children.
However, the report also recommends that, if convicted, he should be sent to a top security mental hospital, reports the Daily Express.
London, Nov 1 : Thanks to genetic modification, scientists have created the word’s first blue roses, which took nearly two decades of scientific research to develop.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the blooms are genetically modified and have been implanted with a gene that simulates the synthesis of blue pigment in pansies.
The blooms are genetically modified and have been implanted with a gene that simulates the synthesis of blue pigment in pansies.
The flowers, which were displayed at the International Flower Expo (IFEX) Tokyo, will go on sale commercially next autumn.
London, November 1 : U. S. Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s effigy will be loaded with explosives and torched at the site of the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex when Britons celebrate the Bonfire Night.
UTI Mutual Fund, the country's oldest fund house has introduced ‘UTI Fixed Term Income Fund Series V-VIII’, a close-ended income scheme in the market.
London, Nov 1 : Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter a sex prisoner for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, is terrified he will be locked up with dangerous mental patients, according to a psychiatric report.
