Port-au-Prince, March 11 (IANS) The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) will set up a committee to help restore the Haitian cultural heritage damaged in a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean nation.
Unesco director-general Irina Bukova said this at the end of her two-day visit to Haiti Wednesday.
Bukova said the
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Melbourne, March 10 (IANS) Gursewak Dhillon, a part-time taxi driver who dumped three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa's body nearly 20 km from his home in this Australian city, was being probed for 'possible immigration fraud', an official said Wednesday.
Immigration officials were probing allegations that Dhillon was in the country on a
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Santiago, March 10 (IANS/EFE) Chilean police have recovered roughly $3 million worth of goods that were looted in the southern city of Concepcion and neighbouring towns after the Feb 27 earthquake, authorities said.
A total of 168 people have been arrested for acts of pillage and vandalism, police Col. Hermes Soto
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Shimla, March 10 (IANS) Three children were killed when abandoned ammunition exploded near an army firing range in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district, police said Wednesday. The children were trying to remove scrap from the used mortar shells.
'Three children, aged 10 to 12 years, were killed Tuesday when they tried to
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Wellington, March 10 (DPA) A 17-year-old New Zealand youth was sent to prison Wednesday for 15-and-a-half years for murdering a taxi driver who was a refugee from Afghanistan.
Shannon David Boyes-Warren, was 16 at the time he stabbed Abdulrahman Ikhtiari, 39 and a father of five, to death with a 13-centimetre
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Athens/Nicosia, March 10 (DPA) Cypriot authorities Tuesday arrested two people, including an Indian national, for allegedly stealing the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave three months ago and said the suspects had earlier demanded a ransom.
Police arrested an Indian national and a Greek Cypriot after they confessed
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Shimla, March 10 (IANS) Bodies of three schoolchildren, believed to have been killed in an explosion of abandoned ammunition, were found Tuesday in the forests of Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district, police said.
Police had launched a search after parents lodged a complaint when their children did not return home from school
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Raipur, March 9 (IANS) Over 600 poor people from Chhattisgarh's Janjgir-Champa district alone have been kept as bonded labourers in others states, a minister told the state assembly Tuesday.
'Hundreds of people from Chhattisgarh have been kept as bonded labourers in various states and the government is doing its best to
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Ghaziabad, March 9 (IANS) Over 80 children have been reported missing from Ghaziabad in the last one year, police said Tuesday.
As many as 83 children are currently missing from the city. This year, so far 25 children were reported missing and of them police managed to recover 17.
In 2009, 136
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New York, March 9 (DPA) The United Nations mourned Tuesday 101 of its personnel who were killed by the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January.
'Today, we commemorate the single greatest loss the UN has suffered in its history,' UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a ceremony at UN headquarters
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