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Mbabane, December 27: Police in Africa's last absolute monarchy Swaziland have banned women from wearing miniskirts and midriff-revealing tops saying they provoke rape, local media reported today. Offenders face a six-month jail term under the ban, which invokes a colonial criminal act dating back to 1889. "The act of the rapist is made easy, because it would be easy to remove the half-cloth worn

Bugarach (France), December 22: Diehard doomsayers hunkered down to await the apocalypse on Friday, but most took a lighthearted view of the Mayan “prophecy” of the world's destruction, laying on stunts and parties to while away the end. “If you're in an underground bunker with a lifetime's supply of baked beans how stupid do you feel now?” asked one person on Twitter, which saw dozens of posts

Washington, December 19: Hinduism is the third largest religion of the world after Christianity and Islam and 97 per cent of all Hindus live in three Hindu-majority countries – India, Nepal and Mauritius, according to a study. India, which accounts for majority of world's Hindus, is also home to almost all the major religions of the world, a Pew research said Tuesday. Pew demographic study – based

New Delhi, December 18: More than incoming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's professed proclivity towards India, New Delhi is hoping that the next Government in Tokyo will be more decisive on strategic issues. The trend of India-Japan relations under three Prime Ministers of the previous Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) remained positive but India's responses had to be re-calibrated because each

Islamabad, December 16: At least 10 people died in Pakistan Saturday night when Taliban militants stormed an airport after ramming their explosives-laden vehicle into its outer wall. The militants attacked the Bacha Khan Airport in Peshawar around 8.30 p.m. According to local media reports, five rockets were fired by the militants at the airport and two of them hit the runaway. Five attackers were

Washington, December 15: US President Barack Obama wiped tears from his face, choked on his words and spoke of his grief as authorities scrambled to find answers to what prompted a heavily armed young man to storm a Connecticut elementary school and gun down 28 people, including 20 children, in cold blood. Over 100 people have died in campus shootings across the US in the last two decades largely

Santaana (California), December 15: A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body "will not permit that to happen". The California commission on judicial performance voted 10-0 to impose a public admonishment on Thursday, saying superior court judge Derek

Newtown (Connecticut), December 15: A man opened fire Friday inside two classrooms at the Connecticut elementary school where his mother was a teacher, killing 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in corners and closets and trembled helplessly to the sound of shots reverberating through the building. The 20-year-old killer, carrying two handguns, committed suicide at the school

Washington, December 13: Despite Malaysia's high-profile anti-corruption crusade, half of the corporate executives surveyed by a global corruption watchdog believe that competitors have obtained business in the country through bribery. Transparency International said Malaysia scored worst in the 2012 Bribe Payers Survey. It asked nearly 3,000 executives from 30 countries whether they had lost a

London, December 12: Britain's Ministry of Defence says a Sikh soldier has become the first guardsman to parade outside Buckingham Palace while wearing his traditional turban. Fifty family members were on hand today as Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar as he took part in the changing of the guard at the London home of Queen Elizabeth II. Bhullar, a 25-year-old soldier with the Scots Guards