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Indian American to groom US Muslims for public service
A Mysore-born Indian American public affairs specialist has been charged with revitalising the Muslim Public Service Network that grooms young American Muslims for public service and to take on civic...


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Digital romance clicking with lonely-hearts
Online dating has not only shed its stigma but has surpassed all forms of matchmaking in the United States apart from meeting through friends, a new study has revealed.

The digital revolution in...
Amir Khan takes American fiancee for sightseeing in Bolton
British Olympic boxing medallist Amir Khan recently took his fiancee Faryal Makhdoom for a tour of his hometown Bolton, England.

Last month, Makhdoom had showed him around her native New York.

The...
Katy Perry gives special shout-out to Tim Tebow at Super Bowl weekend
Katy Perry, who performed her first U.S. concert since splitting from Russell Brand in Indianapolis on Saturday night, dedicated a song to Tim Tebow at the pre-Super Bowl Concert.

The 27-year-old...
Giants cruise past Patriots in final minute to win Super Bowl title
The New York Giants have won their second Super Bowl title in four years and fourth overall after beating the New England Patriots in the final.

The Giant's Eli Manning engineered a nine-play,...
French actor Gerard Depardieu to play Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Gerard Depardieu will star as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film by US director Abel Ferrara about the New York sex scandal that caused the former IMF chief to resign.

Ferrera met Depardieu, 63, at...
JFK took White House intern's virginity in his wife's bedroom
In a tell-all memoir, President John F Kennedy's teenage mistress describes how she lost her virginity to the former U.S. President when he seduced her in his wife's bedroom following a pool party...
Egypt to prosecute 44 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, for illegal acts in country
Egypt will prosecute 44 non-governmental organization workers, including 19 American nationals, on charges of allegedly receiving foreign funds illegally and being involved in banned activities in...
Clinton talks military cooperation with Bulgarian PM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday paid a short visit to Bulgaria and discussed energy issues and military cooperation with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Xinhua reported.

At a...
L.A. Reid signs up for 'The X Factor'
L.A. Reid has reportedly signed up to be a judge on the second series of the American version of "The X Factor".

The 55-year-old has reportedly signed a contract to reprise his position on the panel...
Super Bowl crowds tempting to terrorists, say security officialsSuper Bowl crowds tempting to terrorists, say security officials
Security officials say the crowds expected in Indianapolis for the NFL's Super Bowl championship game are tempting targets for terrorists.

An operation in place to protect the Super Bowl 46 site...
Joan Rivers had over 700 surgical operations
American comedian Joan Rivers claims she has had a total of 739 surgical procedures.

According to showbizspy.com, the 78-year-old TV personality has gone under the knife more than 700 times, and...
President Kennedy 'took virginity of intern'
Then US president John F. Kenendy took the virginity of a White House intern in a side room a few feet away from where staffers were drinking at an after-work party, the Daily Mail Sunday quoted a...
Gilani to travel to Qatar over Taliban office set up talks
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will travel to Qatar on Monday for talks on the Taliban's plans to set up a representative office in the Gulf state, Pakistani officials have said. ...
US plans to keep special forces in Afghanistan after NATO mission ends in 2014
The United States has planned to keep its Special Operations forces, which hunt insurgent leaders and train local troops in Afghanistan, despite its decision to end the NATO mission in the war-torn...
US congressmen want US citizenship for Pak doc who aided CIA to track Osama
A group of congressmen has sought the US citizenship for jailed Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, who helped the CIA track down and kill former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden last year in his...
Daniel Radcliffe gets marriage proposal from fan on TV Show
Daniel Radcliffe had to go through an awkward moment during a TV interview in Los Angeles when a fan got down on one knee and asked him to marry her.

The Harry Potter star, who is dating production...
In Nevada Romney romps inIn Nevada Romney romps in
Former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 White House contender Mitt Romney secured his third victory of the GOP primary season, as television networks declared him the winner of Nevada's...
Despite ceremony, NY fort's skeletons not buried
A stone memorial from the 1950s marks where the remains of an unknown soldier from the French and Indian War lie near the Fort William Henry Memorial Cemetery at Fort William Henry in Lake George,...
Nalbandian, Clinton discuss Karabakh
On February 3-4 Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian participated in the 48th council on security issues in Munich. Delegations of nearly 70 countries participated in the...
Hillary Clinton's Bulgaria Visit Was Routine - Foreign Minister
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Sunday visit to Bulgaria was not urgent but routine, according to Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov. "The visit was planned a long...
No. 7 Duke knocked off by Miami in OT, 78-74
DURHAM, N.C. -- No. 7 Duke won four national championships over the years while being driven by what Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski says was energy, effort and hunger.When the Blue Devils...
Clinton calls for stronger reaction to Syria's Assad
Hillary Clinton has called for "friends of democratic Syria" to unite against President Bashar al-Assad following China and Russia's veto of a tougher UN response to his regime, which...
NFL: New York Giants 21, New England 17
Confetti rains down on New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning after beating the New England Patriots at Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 5, 2012 in Indianapolis. New York beat New...
Is Bachelor Pres Aquino III Dating Korean TV HostWith Dragon Years Luck in Love
MANILA, Phils. -- Did President Benigno Aquino III go on a date with popular Korean TV personality Grace Lee last week? Grace Lee (Korean: ???; born Lee Kyung Hee) is a Korean television host and...
Indian Americans Take Up Guns in Wake of Robberies
After a spate of violent home invasions and robberies in recent months, Indian Americans living in Roswell, a suburb of northern Atlanta, Georgia, are taking up guns and being helped by the local...
Group Forms to Aid S Korean Indicted for Espionage
A group of Korean scholars recently launched a campaign to support and vindicate a Korean-American who was indicted by the U.S. government on an espionage charge while he served as a North Korea...
Hispanics Say They Have the Worst of a Bad Economy
new national survey by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.Large shares of Hispanics report that they or someone in their household has been out of work in the past year (59...
Film Reveals The Invisible War on Women in Our Military
The documentary "The Invisible War" premiered last week at Sundance, and it is already bringing much needed attention to the problem of rape in the military. Watching clips from the film...
Apalc Condemns Antiimmigrant Radio Show
The Asian Pacific American Legal Center condemns derogatory remarks against Korean Americans expressed by co-host John Kobylt (KFI 640) during the Jan. 5 broadcast of Clear Channel’s "The...
New York protesters rally against Yemen president
Protesters rallied in New York City on Sunday outside the hotel of the embattled president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is visiting the United States for medical treatment. When Saleh was seen...
Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart: The State of White America’
WASHINGTON - When Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein’s book "The Bell Curve" appeared in 1994, it was denounced by social scientists, liberal pundits and a little-known Chicago...
India Ink: American Universities Woo High-Paying Foreign Students
a recent article in The New York Times says.With state financing cut by more than half in the last three years, officials at University of Washington have ';decided to pull back on admissions...
Police clear DC Occupy site, protesters look to a new day
1 of 5. A worker clears a tent and the belongings of Occupy DC demonstrators from McPherson Square in Washington February 5, 2012. Police removed protesters as they confiscated bedding and most tents...
We need Madonna’s super show for America’s Super Bowl
';Bad girl'; Madonna, 53, danced her way back toward worldwide visibility Sunday as the halftime attraction for the Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the American National...
San Francisco faces legal action over street banners promoting abortion
The City of San Francisco wants more time to examine a pro-life group's challenge to an ad campaign using public property to advocate for abortion."We heard from the city yesterday, and...
US White House hopeful Romney aims to take Nevada
Mitt Romney looks set to romp to victory in the Nevada caucus Saturday, cementing his position as Republican presidential frontrunner four days after his crushing Florida win. Despite a wobble...
New York Wins Close Super Bowl Over New England
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Some Say New York City Health Ads Should Inspire, Not Scare
The city's health department uses no sugar-coating in its latest ads, which feature images of overweight people whose mobility is impaired to warn of the dangers of ever-growing portions of unhealthy...
Egypt to try 19 American citizens
CAIRO -- Ignoring a U.S. threat to cut off aid, Egypt on Sunday referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used...
New York lets loose after Giants' victory
New York Giants fans celebrate the last touch down of New York Giants during the fourth quarter at Times Square in New York January 5, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo...
Top 25 basketball: Miami upsets No. 7 Duke in overtime
Kenny Kadji added 15 points for the Hurricanes (14-7, 5-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), who blew a 16-point lead in the second half, then regrouped to claim their first victory at Cameron Indoor...
Great American Home Show wraps up
PARKERSBURG - The Great American Home Show had another successful year, with around 3,500 people in attendance throughout the weekend.The annual show wrapped up Sunday afternoon with around 750 in...
Gabrielle Union talks about her favorite Miami hot spots
Gabrielle Union ’s calendar for the next few months, it would be pretty full. The actress, who splits her time between L.A. and Miami, has a handful of projects in 2012, among...
FCC: Chicago station can drop graphic antiabortion ad during Super Bowl
Antiabortion activist Randall Terry, a write-in candidate for president, demanded that a Chicago station run an ad showing aborted fetuses during the Super Bowl. The FCC ruled against...
Some blacks now say, 'I'm not African American'
The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from...
Anglo American Seen Takeover Bait by Glencore-Xstrata: Real M&A
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Already one of the cheapest major mining companies, Anglo American Plc is becoming an even more likely takeover target with Xstrata Plc and Glencore International Plc’s...
Tim Kawakami: Super Bowl XLVI was the San Francisco 49ers' type of game -- and a game they could have won
The 49ers and their fans don't want to hear this, but they know it's true, even as they shut their eyes and clasp their ears shut:The New York Giants played a thoroughly 49ers kind of game...
Goldman's Blankfein campaigns for gay marriage
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, listens during testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee hearing on ''Wall Street and the...