In what is seen as a major embarrassment for the Kremlin, which has repeatedly promised to tighten safety checks after a number of marine accidents in recent years, an accident occurred on the Nerpa, an Akula II-class attack submarine, due to a gas leak that killed 20 people .
According to the experts, the fatalities aboard the submarine in the Sea of Japan, were the result of Freon gas spewing into the craft after a malfunction in its fire extinguishing system.
The much applauded first unmanned lunar mission of India Chandrayaan-1, has entered the lunar orbit and will spend the next two years mapping the moon's terrain. This mission has put India in league with the five great nations in space exploration sector, namely US, Russia, Japan and China. The success of the current mission has encouraged scientists to compete with China and Japan to put a man on the Moon by 2025.
Amsterdam - The sexual morals of Dutch youth has gone astray, the country's youth and family affairs minister was on Monday quoted as saying in a report by the daily Algemeen Dagblad.
"A girl is seen as an object and sex as a currency. The meaning of love does not play any role anymore in the lives of youngsters," Minister Andre Rouvoet said.
Rouvoet said he wants to raise debate about the subject and emphasized he was not proposing specific legal measures.
Bonn, Germany - German mail delivery giant Deutsche Post AG said Monday it was slashing the workforce at its US DHL operations by a further 9,500 after forecasting the express delivery offshoot would post a full-year 1.5 billion dollars loss.
Deutsche Post's job cut plans will reduce DHL Express' 18,400 US workforce to about 3,500 with the American express postal delivery company hit by the rapid deterioration in the US economy following the world financial crisis.
Beirut - Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked militant movement, on Monday denied any links with the September 27 bomb attack in the Syrian capital that killed 17 people.
"We deny any involvement in the Damascus blast ... and the allegations which were shown on (Syrian) television," Fatah al-Islam said in a statement faxed to the media in Beirut.
The statement followed allegations by alleged Fatah al-Islam members in a 40-minute television report aired on state-run television in Syria last week.
Prague - The Czech Republic may set a eurozone entry date next year if the country shows it can meet the adoption criteria in the long run, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Monday.
Speaking to reporters after meeting Czech bankers, Topolanek said that the country should focus on catching up with the eurozone rather than on setting the euro target amid the global financial crisis.
"Next year will reveal whether we are meeting the criteria, whether we can meet them in the long term," he said.
In what is seen as a major embarrassment for the Kremlin, which has repeatedly promised to tighten safety checks after a number of marine accidents in recent years, an accident occurred on the Nerpa, an Akula II-class attack submarine, due to a gas leak that killed 20 people .
The much applauded first unmanned lunar mission of India Chandrayaan-1, has entered the lunar orbit and will spend the next two years mapping the moon's terrain. This mission has put India in league with the five great nations in space exploration sector, namely US, Russia, Japan and China. The success of the current mission has encouraged scientists to compete with China and Japan to put a man on the Moon by 2025.
Amsterdam - The sexual morals of Dutch youth has gone astray, the country's youth and family affairs minister was on Monday quoted as saying in a report by the daily Algemeen Dagblad.
Bonn, Germany - German mail delivery giant Deutsche Post AG said Monday it was slashing the workforce at its US DHL operations by a further 9,500 after forecasting the express delivery offshoot would post a full-year 1.5 billion dollars loss.
Beirut - Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked militant movement, on Monday denied any links with the September 27 bomb attack in the Syrian capital that killed 17 people.
Prague - The Czech Republic may set a eurozone entry date next year if the country shows it can meet the adoption criteria in the long run, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Monday.
