Shanghai - Proud Roger Federer has pronounced himself massively dissatisfied with his current label of "second best" in tennis after losing the number one ranking last August to Rafael Nadal.
Wednesday Lahore, Nov 8 : African-American Democrat Barack Obama won the Nov 4 presidential poll because the White votes outnumbered non-White votes and in the end, the scope of Obama’s victory showed that he enjoyed significant, broad-based support from Americans of all racial backgrounds,” the Daily Times quoted an article published on the blog Asian-Nation as saying.
The article further stated that 52 percent of voters earning at least 200,000 dollars per annum voted for Obama as opposed to 46 percent who voted for his rival Republican candidate John McCain.
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir), Nov 8 : Security has been beefed up in the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, ahead of the seven-phase polls beginning from November 17.
Soon after the announcement of the election dates, the Election Commission had said that there would be a massive deployment of security forces across the region during the polls.
Around 70 companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been deployed in Poonch District alone.
London, Nov 8 : A film showing Turkey''s founding hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, as a frustrated loner and heavy drinker with a smoking habit, has caused an uproar in the country where he is worshipped.
Titled Mustafa, the film was released on the 85th anniversary of the Turkish Republic founded by Ataturk.
Seen by nearly half a million people in its first five days, Mustafa is playing to packed audiences that include busloads of schoolchildren.
But, an apparently human portrayal of the man has upset many in the secularist establishment.
Ataturk is the man who abolished the Islamic Caliphate and set Turkey on the road to modernisation.
London, November 7 : A New Age guru says that success was written in Barack Obama’s name, but he adds that the U. S. President-elect may face an assassination attempt next year.
Laurence Y. Payg says that he has used a 3,000-year-old Chinese technique to study Obama’s destiny, by linking the letters in his name with a numbers grid.
“This adds up to 18 and indicates people naturally go to him with problems and difficulties,” the Daily Star quoted him as saying of how he saw the new hero’s first name ‘Barack’.
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Wednesday Lahore, Nov 8 : African-American Democrat Barack Obama won the Nov 4 presidential poll because the White votes outnumbered non-White votes and in the end, the scope of Obama’s victory showed that he enjoyed significant, broad-based support from Americans of all racial backgrounds,” the Daily Times quoted an article published on the blog Asian-Nation as saying.
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir), Nov 8 : Security has been beefed up in the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, ahead of the seven-phase polls beginning from November 17.
London, November 7 : A New Age guru says that success was written in Barack Obama’s name, but he adds that the U. S. President-elect may face an assassination attempt next year.
