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.
Barely 24 hours had passed since Barack Obama's election win and Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was, it seems, unable to resist making an unfortunate quip on the US president-elect's racial background.
The 72-year-old, three times Italian premier, had initially greeted Obama's election triumph in almost avuncular terms.
He would, he said, offer the 47-year-old US president-elect "some advice given my age and experience."
Beijing- Chinese leaders on Friday called for developed nations to take the lead on climate change and share technology to help developing nations to reduce carbon emissions.
Developed nations should "take responsibility and obligations in addressing climate change" and "alter their unsustainable way of life," Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech at a UN-sponsored conference on climate change.
London, Nov 7 : One in three Brit teachers believes that the theories of creationism and intelligent design should be given the same status as evolution in the classroom, according to a new survey.
According to the survey of 1,200 teachers, 53 per cent thought that creationism should not be taught in science lessons, while 29 per cent thought it should, reports Timesonline.
However, 88 per cent said that if students raised the issue in a science lesson, they should be allowed to discuss it.
Creationism is based on a literal interpretation of scripture as an explanation for the origins of life.
Intelligent design is a more modern version, which says that life is so complex it cannot be explained solely by evolution.
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.
Rome - Oops he's done it again.
Beijing- Chinese leaders on Friday called for developed nations to take the lead on climate change and share technology to help developing nations to reduce carbon emissions.
