African Famine: 'Hundreds of thousands of children could die'


JNN 12 Aug 2011 : Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa’s famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp filed with hungry Somalis. Continue reading

African Famine: ‘Hundreds of thousands of children could die’


JNN 12 Aug 2011 : Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa’s famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp filed with hungry Somalis. Continue reading

Bomb Kills 2 in Beirut , Lebanon


JNN 12 Aug 2011 Lebanon : At least two people have been killed when an explosion rocked a suburb of the Lebanese capital, says a police official. Continue reading

3 Pakistani Muslims Killed by the London Rioters


JNN 12 Aug 2011 BIRMINGHAM: With police nowhere to be seen, the Muslims of Dudley Road armed themselves with bricks and stones, clubs and cricket bats to fend off carloads of marauding gangs. Continue reading

Pakistan’s first Communications Satellite PAKSAT-1R launched


JNN 12 Aug 2011 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s first Communications Satellite PAKSAT-1R, as a part of Pakistan’s Space Programme 2040, was launched on Thursday at 2117 hrs on board China’s Satellite Launch Vehicle from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. Continue reading