The United Nations Security Council has placed sanctions on Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front organization of banned Lashkar-e-Toiba, declaring it a terrorist organization.  

Imposing the sanctions, the Council asked all member States to freeze their assets and imposed travel ban and arms embargo against them.

The decision was taken late Wednesday by the Council's committee on Al-Qaeda and Taliban which put JuD and four individuals on the Consolidated List of persons and entities connected with al Qaeda and Taliban.

 "These actions will limit the ability of known terrorists to travel, acquire weapons, plan, carry out, or raise funds for new terrorist attacks," a UN spokesman said.

London, Dec 11: The “best meal” Prince Harry had had during his secret 10-week deployment was a charity box containing Sainsbury's packet curry.

This revelation was made at the Woman's Own Children of Courage award ceremony, where the Prince gave young children bravery awards.

Keaton Peppiatt, 10, from Bexhill in East Sussex, who was being awarded for his donation of 400 provisions boxes to frontline troops in Afghanistan to raise morale, was among the children who spoke to the Prince.

Athens - As dusk settled upon the Greek capital, downtown Athens, the commercial hub normally bustling two weeks before Christmas, was eerily empty of customers.

Instead, amid a sea of broken glass and charred debris, many shops stayed shut, with boarded windows to prevent further damage after days and nights of violence triggered by the shooting death by police of a 15-year-old youth Saturday in the bohemian Athens district of Exarchia.

Workers and shopkeepers wearily attempted to take inventory of their remaining stock, the majority refusing to abandon their businesses fearing they could be be burned or looted in another spree of violence.

Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam - Two teenage girls were severely injured at a coffee festival in the central Vietnamese town of Buon Ma Thuot when a helicopter carrying a giant coffee cup hit a tree, witnesses said Thursday.

The helicopter was carrying a 6-ton stainless steel coffee cup suspended on ropes Wednesday, bearing the logo of the Vinacafe Bienhoa company. Buon Mat Thuot Coffee Festival organizers claimed the 2.3-metre-wide coffee cup was the largest in the world.

"The helicopter was flying too low," said Nguyen Thi Dung, a witness at the scene.

The helicopter's tail rotor clipped a large branch off a tree, which fell on the heads of two 16-year-old students.

Washington, Dec. 11: Media networks in the United States spent over three million dollars more covering Barack Obama’s campaign than they did on his rival John McCain.

According to Politico, media outlets paid 8.5 million dollars to fly Air Obama compared to 5.8 million dollars to ride McCain’s Straight Talk Express during this year’s general election, a difference of 32 percent.

London, Dec 11: Nine out of ten women are taking time out to pleasure themselves, reveals a new UK research.

The Gossard Big M Survey quizzed more than 1,000 UK women aged 18-30 with an extensive questionnaire to find out all about their sexual attitudes, habits, fantasies and practices – and found that more ladies than ever are regularly taking time out for some solo action.