• Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

  Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

• British Open squash World no.1 Nicol too hot for Joshana

  World No.1 and defending champion Nicol David outclassed India's Joshana Chinappa in the first round of the Allam British Open Squash Championships here Tuesday. The Malaysian squash great took 30 minutes to get past her 26th ranked opponent 11-4, 11-5, 11-4 at the KC Stadium. Joshana had qualified for the main draw. Dipika Pallikal, India's highest ranked player at 15, plays her first round ...

• 2018 World Cup infrastructure inadequate

  Russia is struggling to beef up its hospitality infrastructure ahead of the 2018 World Cup, with seven of the 11 host cities lagging behind in the number of hotel rooms on offer. Only Moscow, Sochi, St. Petersburg and Kazan meet the FIFA requirement of 60,000 hotel rooms for host cities, World Cup deputy CEO Alexander Djordjadze said Tuesday at the Football Build Expo here. "It's no secret ...

• Hyundai Motor commences Trophy Tour for ICC Champions Trophy 2013

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• India expects greater backing from Russia in UNSC quest

  India, with its "time-tested relationship" with Russia, expects greater backing from Moscow in its quest for permanent membership of the UN Security Council, a diplomatic officical said here Tuesday. "India's interest in securing permanent membership of UN Security Council is supported by Russia, but there is now an expectation that our Russian friends need to do more - and be seen to be doing ...

• 4 killed 68 wounded in bomb attacks in Iraq

  Beijing, May 21 (Xinhua-ANI): At least four people were killed and 68 others wounded in deadly bomb attacks in war-torn Iraq on Tuesday, police said. At least three people were killed and more than 43 others wounded when two car bombs exploded in the Hussein district in Tuz Khormato, some 170 km north of Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The blasts caused ...

• Spain not yet on Brazils level Iniesta

  Andres Iniesta says Spain cannot yet claim to be on the same pedestal as Brazil in football's international hierarchy. The Barcelona midfielder has been a key member of a Spain team that has won the two European Championships and the 2010 World Cup. In an interview with Brazilian daily O Globo, Iniesta said Brazil had maintained a unique aura owing to the country's rich football history. "To ...

• 2018 FIFA World Cup stadium may be delayed until 2017

  The completion date for Zenit St. Petersburg's $1.1 billion stadium has been put back again and it may not open until 2017, a decade after construction work began, the head of the government agency auditing the project said. The stadium is to host a 2018 World Cup semifinal, but the new date means there could be a rush to prepare it for scheduled Confederations Cup games in 2017. "The ...

• Russia announces cash prizes for World University medallists

  Russia's federal government will pay out roughly $5,400 to Russian gold medallists at this summer's University Games in the Russian city of Kazan, according to a decree signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Silver medallists, meanwhile, will receive a bonus of just over $2,600, while bronze medallists will earn about $1,600, as Russia looks to finish first in the medal table for the ...

• High public debt raises fiscal crisis risk IMF official

  An official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned here that high public debt would raise the possibility of fiscal crisis. "We tend to underestimate the cost of fiscal crises before they occur," Carlo Cottarelli, director of IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, said Monday during a luncheon speech hosted by the Washington-based think tank Peterson Institute for International Economics ...

• Indian sand artist wins Danish grand prize

  Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the Danish 'grand prize' at the 2nd Copenhagen International Sand sculpture festival 2013 for his 15-foot coloured sand sculpture created on the "Go green, Save Earth" theme. Pattnaik got the award Monday at the prestigious festival being held in Denmark's capital city for his maiden coloured sand sculpture on foreign land. It took him seven days to ...

• Zardari holds national international conspiracies responsible for PPPs defeat in polls

  Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that "conspiracies" hatched by national and international institutions led to the Pakistan Peoples Party's defeat in the general elections. The News quoted Zardari, as saying that the PPP could have won 40-45 seats in the Punjab. He added that his party would play the role of opposition with full vigour. Zardari said he could not take part in ...

• Chicago man crushes Ferris Wheel ride world record

  A man from Chicago rode Ferris Wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - to break the existing world record. Clinton Shepherd, a park operations manager of Chicago's Navy Pier, who spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier's Ferris wheel over the weekend, said that he thought that Chicago - birthplace of the ride - should have the title, People magazine ...

• US report says discrimination against Jews Muslims on rise across globe

  Discrimination against Jews and Muslims is on the rise around the world, according to a new report in the US. The annual US Department of State report for 2012 has revealed an increase in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia. The report also said there was growing anti-Semitism, especially in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran. According to the BBC, the International Religious Freedom Report ...

• Indo- Swiss bilateral meet held at Geneva

  Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad and Minister of Health Switzerland Alain Berset held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of World Health Assembly at Geneva with the aim of giving further impetus to cooperation in the field of healthcare. Speaking on the occasion, Azad said that friendship between India and Switzerland goes as back as Independence of India, ...

• World Bank UN chiefs to visit African Great Lakes region

  The World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a joint visit to Africa's Great Lakes region, a World Bank statement said Monday. The visit is to be undertaken in support of a landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in the troubled region. "The visit will draw attention to the plight of fragile and conflict-affected countries ...

• In Kabul UNESCO chief spotlights Afghanistans educational and cultural gains

  20 May 2013 150 Education is not against any religion, the head of the United Nations educational and cultural agency told Afghan authorities and families during a visit to the country to promote learning for women and girls, and to highlight the importance of Afghan cultural heritage as a vital economic asset. "Providing education to girls and women is not against religious beliefs," said ...

• UN praises Bangladeshs preparedness response to tropical storm Mahasen

  20 May 2013 150 The United Nations has commended the work carried out by the Bangladeshi Government ahead of tropical storm Mahasen, which hit the country last Thursday, noting it saved thousands of lives. "While tropical storm Mahasen reached the coastline of Bangladesh on Thursday weaker than anticipated, the preparedness work undertaken by the Government and humanitarian partners saved ...

• Indigenous culture youth among key topics as UN permanent forum opens 12th session

  20 May 2013 150 Around 2,300 indigenous participants are expected to discuss culture, education and health during the 12th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which will include a special focus on youth, indigenous groups in Africa and the importance of strengthening ties with international financial institutions. "We must have a better understanding of the ...

• Wave of Attacks Kills At Least 76 in Iraq

  A wave of car bombings and suicide attacks against Shi'ite Muslims ripped through Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding scores more, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew from the country in December 2011. The attacks increased the number of Iraqis killed in sectarian clashes over the past week to more than 200, including 70 who died Friday ...

• 61 killed in Iraq attacks

  A series of car bombings and shootings, mainly targeting Shia Muslim areas across Iraq, Monday killed at least 61 people, including Iranian pilgrims, and wounded around 200 others, officials said. The worst violence occurred in Baghdad, when eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods in the capital city, killing 12 ...

• Europe oil probe seeks market abuse evidence in 2010-2013

  By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Peg MackeyLONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission is asking oil traders across the continent to provide evidence of market abuse to determine whether companies sought to manipulate prices reported to leading price-setting agency Platts.Authorities last week raided the London bureau of ...

• Europe stocks trade mixed London beats 13-year peak

  LONDON (AFP) - European stock markets diverged on Tuesday, as London shot past its 13-year peak amid stimulus policies from top world central banks and a barrage of company results, dealers said."Global equity markets have held their levels this morning, as the growing appetite for risk assets continues despite the generally weak macro environment," said analyst Matt Basi at traders ...

• Female Saudi Everest climber happy to change views

  Raha Moharrak, the first Saudi Arabian woman to scale the world's highest peak Mount Everest, talks to the media at Yak and Yeti Hotel in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. According to mountaineering officials, Moharrak was among 64 climbers who successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain. May is the most popular month for Everest climbs because of more ...

• 2 donkeys suspected in mauling death in Hungary

  BUDAPEST, Hungary -; Hungarian police say they are investigating an incident in which an elderly man may have been mauled to death by two ...

• Saudi Arabia says arrests 10 from Iranian spy ring

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -; A Saudi official says police have detained 10 more members of an alleged Iranian spy ring - eight Saudis, one Lebanese and one Turkish ...

• Afghanistan Deadly 24 hours leave 14 police dead

  KABUL, Afghanistan -; A coordinated Taliban assault on checkpoints in southern Afghanistan killed four police before a counterattack drove the insurgents back, Afghan officials said Tuesday. Also, at least 10 other police died in two attacks in the country's ...

• Clashes between Egypt troops and gunmen in Sinai

  An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013. Security officials said 17 military and more than 20 police armored vehicles were deployed in northern Sinai Monday as a response to the kidnapping by suspected militants of six policemen and a border guard there last ...

• Cholera outbreak hits Malian refugee camp in Niger

  NIAMEY, Niger -; The United Nations refugee agency said that they are working to contain a cholera outbreak in Niger in a refugee camp for people fleeing the conflict in ...

• Karzai expected to seek Indian military aid

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, is greeted by his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee after he received an honorary degree at the Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan, India's archrival, an aide said. ...

• Syrian Hezbollah troops fight rebels in key town

  This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man checking his destroyed house that was damaged by a Syrian forces air strike in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Several members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group died of wounds ...

• Cuba lifts ban on energy-hogging appliances

  FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, a man transports a new Chinese made refrigerator in the trunk of a old car in Havana, Cuba. Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts. Islanders can now bring up to two such appliances per person into the ...

• Israeli military chief warns Syrian regime

  ALTERNATE CROP -- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, May 19, 2013. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose air force struck suspected weapons shipments to Hezbollah from Damascus twice this month, warned at a weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday that Israel is prepared for any eventuality in Syria. (AP Photo/Ronen ...

• Uganda leaders legacy at stake in generals case

  Ugandan Police surround the offices of the Daily Monitor newspaper, preventing all journalists from leaving according to the paper's political editor, in Kampala, Uganda Monday, May 20, 2013. Ugandan police forcibly entered the premises of the independent newspaper to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed ...

• Massive power failure strikes southern Thailand

  BANGKOK -; A massive power failure has affected more than 8 million people in Thailand's 14 southern provinces, including popular tourist areas such as Koh Samui and Phuket, in one of the country's biggest blackouts in recent ...

• Two Car Bombs and Suicidal Attacker Kill 13 in Iraq

  Baghdad, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Car bomb attacks in two northern cities and a suicidal attack against soldiers patrolling a town near the capital killed 13 people today in Iraq, caught in a whirlwind of sectarian, confessional and territorial violence. Three people died in Tuz Khurmato city after an explosive device attached to a car exploded some time before another similar device exploded near ...

• Russian International Olympic University signs cooperation agreement with Kazakhstan

  Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...

• SEO Traffic Lab Celebrate Wins at Digital Marketing Event Internet World 2013 in London

  SEO Traffic Lab were delighted to announce the success of their first appearance at the UK's leading digital event, Internet World. A core team of four consultants travelled down to the capital to exhibit for three days at Earls Court 2, the location for Europe's leading digital marketing event. Throughout the time at the show, the consultants from the agency, spoke with hundreds ...

• Russia to Scrap World’s Biggest Nuclear Subs

  MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will decommission and scrap two of the largest submarines in the world by 2018, a defense industry source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The Severstal and the Arkhangelsk, both Project 841 (Typhoon-class) ballistic-missile submarines, based at Severodvinsk on the White Sea, will be withdrawn from the Navy by the end of this year and will begin to be ...

• Dont count Obama out

  >Editor's note: Joseph S. Nye is a professor at Harvard and author of the new book "Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era. " In 1993 and 1994, he was chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates intelligence estimates for the president. In 1994 and 1995, he served as assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs.(CNN) -- Many a ...

• Iran acts to expand sensitive nuclear capacity diplomats

  VIENNA (Reuters) - A U.N. nuclear agency report due this week is expected to show Iran further increasing its capacity to produce material that its adversaries fear could eventually be put to developing atomic bombs, Western diplomats said on ...

• Kerry visits Oman for arms deal talks on Syria Mideast

  CORK/DUBLIN - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments and had no special rate deal with the company after the U.S. Senate said it paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish ...

• Iraq bleeding from north to south

  22/01/2013 17:34 CET At least six people have been killed in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, after three car bombs exploded near a market on Tuesday May 21. A local resident said: ';They didn’t distinguish between Arab, Kurd and Turkmen in the market. But this is the destiny of the Iraqi people – no more bloody Tuesday or bloody Wednesday because Iraq is bleeding from ...

• Dozens dead in Moore 101 pulled alive from rubble

  >Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Even for a city toughened by disaster, Moore has never seen this kind of ...

• Opposition 31 Hezbollah militants allied with Assads forces in Syria killed in battle for Qusair

  BEIRUT Three members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group died of wounds sustained while fighting for control of a strategic Syrian town near the Lebanese border, activists said Tuesday, as the battle in the area raged for its third straight day. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the deaths brought the total number of Hezbollah fighters killed since Sunday ...

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