Maoists blockade Nepal's capital
AFP - Tue Nov 10, 6:54 am ETMaoist activists on Tuesday blocked all roads in and out of Nepal's capital Kathmandu in the latest stage of a two-week protest against the government.
Maoist activists on Tuesday blocked all roads in and out of Nepal's capital Kathmandu in the latest stage of a two-week protest against the government.
More than 500 refugees resettled in the state over the past year, with more than 80 percent coming from the Asian nation of Bhutan.
Islamabad - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, including a mayor, Sunday in troubled north-west Pakistan, police said. The attack took place outside a cattle market in the Adezai area, located 25 kilometres south-west of Peshawar, the capita...
If you read last week’s column, you know that choosing the right long underwear can make all the difference in your comfort level when you are playing outdoors at this time of year. But even the best base layer can’t do it alone, especially when the weather turns nasty.
Honolulu, Hawaii — Sunset on the Beach Nov. 14-15 will feature "Life of a Child," a documentary about children in Nepal with type 1 diabetes; "Monsters vs. Aliens" and three films on Waikiki and hula.
More than 500 refugees resettle in New Hampshire over the past year, with more than 80 percent coming from the Asian nation of Bhutan.
Editor's note: Robynne Locke, a Seabrook native, is on a three-month odyssey of both personal discovery and unselfish giving in India and Nepal. Her chronicles of this journey taken to work with victims of the area's sex trade appears each Tuesday in the...
ANNECY, France (Agence France-Presse) | Western Europe's tallest peak, the snow-capped Alpine giant Mont Blanc, has shrunk by 18 inches in two years, experts said Thursday after an official survey. The new height of Mont Blanc, which lies on the three-way border of France, Italy and Switzerland, is now 15,782.3 feet, just over half that of Nepal's Mount Everest. The volume of snow and ice ...
Now listen closely, commitment-phobes: Choosing between a small rug or a wall-to-wall carpet, a striking or subtle pattern can be tough. Best-case scenario: It brings a room's disparate parts together. Worst case: It draws the eye downward for the all wrong...
Canyon Country resident Jennifer Potter made quite a dent in her to-do list on Saturday. She finished almost all of her holiday shopping in less than an hour.
This Week: UN to relocate more than half its international staff in Afghanistan, protests in Nepal, pirate attack aborted in the Arabian Sea, and Japan celebrates with New York.
An International Adoption information meeting sponsored by: The Welcome House Adoption Program of Pearl S. Buck International will be held from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m., Tuesday, November 10 at Ludington Library, 5 S. Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr.
Get FREE Daily Headlines by email! Guru Sant Singh Khalsa returned to New Mexico last week, more than seven months after he jumped bail in India, where he says he is wanted as a fugitive from fraud charges.
More than 500 refugees looking for better lives in America resettled in New Hampshire over the past year -- the most since at least 2002.
It seems clear who really won the lottery. So give Willis Willis his money.
Nepal is to hold a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen, a minister said on Monday.