New Delhi, Nov. 12 : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit on Wednesday said that the preparations for the Commonwealth Games is in full swing and promised that facilities for the games would be ready well before the event gets underway in 2010.
Taipei - Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian was remanded into custody Wednesday after his arrest on graft allegations, becoming the first former president to be detained in Taiwan's history.
He is now known as 2630, a number he would be referred to so long as he is kept at the Taipei Penitentiary.
Like what other Taiwanese detainees have encountered, he was made to strip and given a thorough bodily search before putting on clothes for detainees, a penitentiary spokesman said.
Washington, November 12 : Researchers at Indiana University''s Kinsey Institute have for the first time shown differences in brain activity as women considered masculinised and feminised male faces, and whether the person was a potential sexual partner.
The researchers claim that they have identified regions of the brain that respond more strongly to masculine faces.
According to them, the differences between women’s preference of masculinized and feminised faces appeared strongest when they were closer to ovulating.
Mogadishu - Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has taken over the port town of Merka, 90 kilometres southwest of the capital Mogadishu, after government forces abandoned their posts overnight, residents said Wednesday.
"Heavily armed Islamists entered Merka without any resistance," Aweys Dahir, a resident in Merka, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa by telephone. "They have already set up two bases in town and are patrolling the streets."
The fighters also took over two other towns in the region.
Algiers, Paris - Both houses of the Algerian parliament convened on Wednesday to vote on a constitutional amendment allowing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to serve a third term.
The five amendments up for vote - which would also severely limit the powers of the prime minister - must receive the support of at least three quarters of the 525 lawmakers sitting in both houses of the parliament.
Rome/New Delhi - Representatives of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.
The fungus is capable of causing heavy damage to wheat crops and is a major threat to food security, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a statement.
New Delhi, Nov. 12 : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit on Wednesday said that the preparations for the Commonwealth Games is in full swing and promised that facilities for the games would be ready well before the event gets underway in 2010.
Taipei - Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian was remanded into custody Wednesday after his arrest on graft allegations, becoming the first former president to be detained in Taiwan's history.
Washington, November 12 : Researchers at Indiana University''s Kinsey Institute have for the first time shown differences in brain activity as women considered masculinised and feminised male faces, and whether the person was a potential sexual partner.
Mogadishu - Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has taken over the port town of Merka, 90 kilometres southwest of the capital Mogadishu, after government forces abandoned their posts overnight, residents said Wednesday.
Algiers, Paris - Both houses of the Algerian parliament convened on Wednesday to vote on a constitutional amendment allowing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to serve a third term.
Rome/New Delhi - Representatives of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.
