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The minister of higher education has said that women in Syria are barred from wearing the niqab full-face veil while attending university.

Syrian media has revealed that the decree follows a pronouncement by his counterpart, the minister of education, that disallowed fully veiled schoolteachers in lower and infant schools. Last month, around 1,200 schoolteachers wearing the face veil were dismissed from their jobs.

The Minister of Higher Education Ghiath Barakat said that the ban in universities was done to promote moderation within society.

According to the victim, a Virginia man's car was broken into in Iowa, and thieves took his late wife's cremated remains among other items pertaining to her death.

The Des Moines (Iowa) Register reported on Tuesday that Charles Duttweiler, 73, said he doesn't care about the other items stolen, including a new computer and thousands of dollars' worth of other items. He said he really only wants back his wife's cremains, her photographs, her death certificate and a laminated copy of her obituary.

A poll released on Tuesday indicated that U. S. residents remain split on abortion, with 33 percent saying the debate should be reopened and 51 percent disagreeing.

It has been reported that Angus Reid Public Opinion found a gap between respondents' personal feelings on abortion and what they think the law should be. For example, 30 percent said there should be no legal restrictions on abortion, while 20 percent believe abortion is morally right in any circumstance where a woman believes it is necessary.

Mumbai, July 21 : For the first time in his 15-year-old career, Bobby Deol of the romance and action movies has attempted to do a supernatural thriller - a not-so-popular genre. But the actor is taking his chances, saying there is "no guarantee what will work and what won't".

"It's not only horror films that didn't work this year. There are many others that didn't either. There is no guarantee what will work and what won't," Bobby, the younger son of Bollywood veteran Dharmendra, told IANS.

The port of Dalian was operating normally for the most part on Tuesday in the aftermath of an oil pipeline explosion, Chinese officials have said.

The shipping operations that had been suspended were getting back to normal, except in the area around the terminal where crude oil is unloaded, Dalian Port Co. said in a written statement.

Dalian, located in northeastern China, is China's largest crude-receiving port.

According to an official, a Maryland state employee was put on administrative leave and may face further discipline for posting Social Security numbers on a Web site.

The Baltimore Sun reported on Monday that a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Resources in Baltimore, Nancy Lineman, said there is no evidence the posting of Social Security numbers and other personal information of nearly 3,000 clients was used for identity theft, but affected clients will receive an offer of a year of credit monitoring.