World News latest RSS headlines - Herald Globe.comProvides the latest RSS feeds for World News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home pageMilitants drop ransom demand for Ces Drilon in favour of development aid- June 17, 2008 Manila: Islamist militants in the southern Philippines on Tuesday indefinitely postponed their deadline to execute one of three hostages and instead agreed to consider an offer of development assistan...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603174/ Philippine minimum wage earners get tax exemption- June 17, 2008 Manila: President Gloria Arroyo on Tuesday signed into law a measure exempting minimum wage earners from paying income tax. According to Arroyo, Republic Act 9504 is expected to partly ease the burden...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603173/ Four killed in suspected sectarian attack- June 17, 2008 Kohat: Suspected pro-Taliban militants gunned down four people in the northwestern region on Tuesday in what appeared to be the second deadly sectarian attack in two days. A Shiite leader attributed a...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603171/ Mumbai NGO helps slum children get birth certificates- June 17, 2008 Mumbai: A non-governmental organisation here is helping hundreds of children living in slums get birth certificates. Most people take the birth certificate for granted, a document that parents get fro...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603170/ Self-help may ease pregnancy back pain- June 17, 2008 Lower back pain is common during and after pregnancy, but learning a few self-management techniques may ease the pain for many women, a study suggests. In a clinical trial involving 126 women with lin...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603167/ Unions to join Thai protest rally, but not strikes- June 17, 2008 Bangkok: Thai state unions voted on Tuesday to join a long-running anti-government rally but said they would only go on strike if the government used force to break up the protest. "The State Ent...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603172/ Parents also guilty of their children- June 17, 2008 New Delhi: Parents of underage children who break the law - by driving vehicles, for example -will be punished too, if Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury has her way. "We will ...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603156/ Computer from office of minister stolen- June 17, 2008 London: A computer was stolen from the office of a British cabinet minister in a break-in, an aide said on Tuesday, in the second serious security breach involving a senior government official in a we...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603157/ Sikh teenager goes to court over bangle ban in Wales school- June 17, 2008 London: A Sikh girl went to court on Tuesday over her exclusion from a school in Wales for wearing a bangle she says is essential to her faith. Sarika Singh, 14, said it was discriminatory to exclude ...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603158/ Degree norm dilution in UK feared- June 17, 2008 The total number of students taking their first degree rose by just 20 per cent over the same period. Examining bodies and ministers have repeatedly denied accusations that school and university exams...http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/15603159/ |