Los Angeles - Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce won major honours at the NAACP Image Awards Thursday night, where The Secret Life of Bees was named best picture.
But both Rihanna and Chris Brown stayed away from the most prestigious African-American awards show of the year, which took place less less than a week after Brown,
19, was arrested for making criminal threats against Rihanna, 20.
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she plans to attend an international donors conference in Egypt next month to help rebuild the Gaza Strip following Israeli's military assault in the tiny enclave.
The Karnataka government and the US-based networking technologies giant Cisco Systems has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, endorsed by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and Cisco chief executive John Chambers, to develop Bangalore as most sustainable place in terms of public safety, transportation, buildings, energy, health care and education.
Washington - US President Barack Obama's economic recovery package was set to clear its final hurdles Friday as both houses of Congress voted on a nearly 
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Washington - The United States is prepared to normalize relations and sign a peace treaty with North Korea if the Stalinist state abandons its nuclear weapons programme, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.
