Thimpu, Nov 7 : World renowned choreographer and dancer Astad Deboo''s troupe on Friday performed at the Chang Lime Thang National Stadium in Thimpu at a ceremony to greet Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk on his coronation as the fifth king of Bhutan.
The troupe performed to the beats of over 30 Manipuri traditional drummers, as part of the two-day celebrations.
Bochum, Germany - German prosecutors on Friday charged former Deutsche Post chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel with tax evasion in connection with funds salted away in the Alpine principality of Liechtenstein.
Zumwinkel, 64, was detained in February after prosecutors obtained evidence from Germany's BND foreign intelligence service on trusts managed by the Liechtenstein Bank LTG on behalf of wealthy tax-shy Europeans.
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged Friday that the global financial crisis helped to turn round his political fortunes, as the ruling Labour Party celebrated a crucial by-election victory in his native Scotland.
The surprise win in Glenrothes, a constituency neighbouring his own in Fife, Scotland, amounted to a vote of confidence for the government's response to the economic downturn, Brown said in London Friday.
Manila - A fisherman was killed in a rare shark attack in the northern Philippines, a police report said Friday.
The report said 38-year-old Joel Bacud suffered shark bites in his rib cage and chest in a rare attack on Thursday off the town of Paoay in Ilocos Norte province, 435 kilometres north of Manila.
Moscow- President Dmitry Medvedev warned of the ongoing threat of terrorism on Friday as the death toll rose to 12 in a suspected suicide bombing of a minibus in the worst attack in over a year in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.
Geneva - Children have been recruited as soldiers by rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and woman and girls have suffered sexual violence, UN officials said Friday.
"The rebels need to immediately release the children," said Veronique Taveau of UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, adding that her organization was using the radio in Congo to issue this message to the fighters.
Thimpu, Nov 7 : World renowned choreographer and dancer Astad Deboo''s troupe on Friday performed at the Chang Lime Thang National Stadium in Thimpu at a ceremony to greet Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk on his coronation as the fifth king of Bhutan.
Bochum, Germany - German prosecutors on Friday charged former Deutsche Post chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel with tax evasion in connection with funds salted away in the Alpine principality of Liechtenstein.
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged Friday that the global financial crisis helped to turn round his political fortunes, as the ruling Labour Party celebrated a crucial by-election victory in his native Scotland.
Manila - A fisherman was killed in a rare shark attack in the northern Philippines, a police report said Friday.
Moscow- President Dmitry Medvedev warned of the ongoing threat of terrorism on Friday as the death toll rose to 12 in a suspected suicide bombing of a minibus in the worst attack in over a year in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.
Geneva - Children have been recruited as soldiers by rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and woman and girls have suffered sexual violence, UN officials said Friday.
