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 pageTaking cue from India, Sri Lanka asks ministers to curtail foreign trips- June 17, 2008 Perhaps taking a cue from neighbouring India, Sri Lanka Tuesday asked its ministers to curtail foreign trips and slashed the monthly monetary allocations to all the ministries by 50 percent as part of an austerity drive brought on by rising fuel costs and inflation.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371981/cs/1/ British mercenary on trial in Equatorial Guinea- June 17, 2008 The British mercenary Simon Mann was Tuesday set to come before a court in Equatorial Guinea to face charges of plotting a 2004 coup in which the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was also implicated.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371986/cs/1/ Indian American firm to build rural roads in India- June 17, 2008 An Indian American company specialising in infrastructure projects in India has won a $103 million contract to build rural roads in the country.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371987/cs/1/ INX Media to launch entertainment channels in Gulf- June 17, 2008 The Indian television group INX Media has tied up with a Dubai-based media consultancy firm to launch two of its channels in the Gulf and the Middle East.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371994/cs/1/ French defence firm Nexter offers India 21st century artillery- June 17, 2008 French defence major Nexter hopes to interest the Indian Army in its Caesar truck-mounted howitzer that it is projecting as the &039;artillery gun of the 21st century&039;.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371967/cs/1/ Indonesian parliament passes Islamic banking bill into law- June 17, 2008 The Indonesian parliament Tuesday passed a Sharia or Islamic banking bill into law, paving the way for the government to ensure legal certainty in running the sharia banking industry in the world&039;s most-populous Muslim country.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371971/cs/1/ NATO, Afghan forces preparing to storm Taliban-held villages- June 17, 2008 NATO-led Canadian forces were preparing an offensive on Taliban-held villages in Kandahar province, while insurgents were planting mines and destroying bridges to stop it, officials said Tuesday.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371973/cs/1/ Al Qaeda suspects, policemen, TV presenter killed in Iraq- June 17, 2008 The US military said Tuesday it killed four suspected members of the Al Qaeda in Iraq group and detained 10 in operations against the network in northern Iraq while a suicide bomber killed four tribal policemen north of Baghdad and gunmen killed a television presenter in Mosul.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371978/cs/1/ India-Sharjah trade touches $2 billion in 2007- June 17, 2008 India has emerged as the top trade partner of the emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with bilateral trade valued at 7.3 billion dirhams ($2 billion) in 2007.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371950/cs/1/ Hot flushes, memory loss linked in midlife women- June 17, 2008 Hot flushes that women experience in midlife have been linked by a new study to poor "verbal" memory.http://story.heraldglobe.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/371933/cs/1/ |