http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us Stockholm: A special corruption procecuter told AFP on thursday that several Nobel Science Prize Committees are being investigated for possible bribery. Special corruption prosecutor Nils Erik Schultz said he had launched a preliminary investigation. He said he was looking into... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2056761 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:44:05 -0800 Mumbai: Human Rights Watch says that India could be in breach of international law if the surviving Mumbai attacker is refused legal representation, amid strong public calls for harsh retribution. Rights groups say that if no lawyer comes forward, Kasab... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2053025 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:36:52 -0800 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered plans to be drafted for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, the Pentagon says. A team was looking at moving inmates from the facility in a way that continued to protect... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2050712 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:58:54 -0800 Former senior defence official Theoneste Bagosora has been convicted of instigating Rwanda's 1994 genocide and sentenced to life in prison. Bagosora and two co-defendants were found by a UN tribunal to have led a committee that plotted the massacre of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2048038 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:41:29 -0800 The oil producers' cartel Opec has agreed to make a record cut in output, slashing 2.2 million barrels per day from its current supply. Opec has made two other cuts since September, meaning it has cut a total of 4.2... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2042319 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:06:50 -0800 Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is backtracking on flag-ship reforms, a year and a half after he came to power on a platform of sweeping changes, fearing the student protests and the party revolt will turn into a social explosion.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2039817 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:10:06 -0800 ZURICH: Former world heayweight champion Evander Holyfield claims that he is in great shape and could well become the oldest ever heavyweight world champion when he takes on Russian giant Nikolai Valuev here on Saturday. The 46-year-old American - a... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2039695 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:43:45 -0800 GENEVA: US actress and campaigner Mia Farrow yesterday slammed Western “apathy” over abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo, saying people cared more about the region’s gorillas than their fellow humans. “I think if the population in Nord-Kivu had been... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2036012 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:28:03 -0800 Sean Mercer, a gun-obsessed teenager, was today sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison after being found guilty of the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones , one of Britain's youngest victims of gangland violence. In sentencing Mercer, the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2033114 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:53:41 -0800 James Frey is moving on from his drugs and booze-soaked memoirs to write the third book of the Bible, in which his version of Jesus will perform gay marriages. Talking to online magazine The Rumpus.net, Frey said he had just... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2032921 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:19:44 -0800 The story of British born Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla explains how a peace loving, young doctor decide to kill innocent people by setting off massive bombs. Dr Bilal Abdulla is one of the byproduct of the Iraq war. BBC's Dominic... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2032121 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:27:01 -0800 London: An Iraqi doctor born in UK has been convicted of conspiring to mass murder in London and Glasgow in a failed attack. A jury at Woolwich Crown Court found Bilal Abdulla guilty of plotting the home-made bomb attacks in... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2031498 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:25:49 -0800 Baghdad: Al Baghdadia television journalist Munthadhar Al Zaidi emerges as the hero of angry Arabs and his chosen weapon become the symbol of resistance. US military patrol in Najaf was pelted with shoes by Shia protesters, as crowds gathered around... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2027922 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:38:33 -0800 Forty-six people were injured when two bottles of what's thought to be acid fell onto a busy street in Hong Kong. The incident happened on Saturday in a crowded pedestrian zone in the Mong Kok area of Kowloon. Police suspect... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2025798 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:50:14 -0800 Madonna has paid former husband Guy Ritchie around $70m - $90m as part of their divorce settlement. The pop star's US spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press (AP) the figure included the value of the couple's Ashcombe home in... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2025197 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:08:11 -0800 Mumbai: The 105-year-old Taj Mahal hotel, one of two luxury hotels hit by Islamist militants in the Mumbai attacks, is set to reopen its doors on December 21, its owner said on Saturday. Gunmen took scores of guests hostage and... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2025046 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:56:52 -0800 Some of the world's biggest banks have revealed that they are victims of a fraud which has lost $50bn. Bernard Madoff has been charged with fraud in what is being described as one of the biggest-ever financial scandal. Among the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2022541 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:26:31 -0800 NEW YORK: An unpublished federal draft report depicts the US-led reconstruction of Iraq as a $100bn failure doomed by bureaucratic infighting, ignorance of basic elements of Iraqi society and waves of violence there, the New York Times reported in its... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2020562 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:47:53 -0800 Dhaka: Judge Syed Mahmod Hossain ordered Humayra Abedin’s parents to return her passport, driver’s licence and credit card. “It perplexes me as to why the parents kept her confined and interfered with her personal life,” said Hossain. “I am shocked.”... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2020441 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:22:51 -0800 A surprise visit by US President George Bush to Iraq has been overshadowed by an incident in which two shoes were thrown at him during a news conference. In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, a reporter... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2018846 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:34:23 -0800