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| November 05, 2008 | Wednesday | Ziqa'ad 6, 1429 |
Americans flock to vote
WASHINGTON, Nov 4: Americans crowded polling stations on Tuesday to vote in their historic election....
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Bush stays invisible
WASHINGTON, Nov 4: US President George Bush, weighed down by record unpopularity, was to stay invisible on Tuesday as US voters decided the race to succeed him come January, the White House indicated on Tuesday....
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Congo govt rejects rebel call for talks
GOMA (Congo), Nov 4: Congo’s government rejected a rebel warlord’s demand for direct talks to solve the conflict that has left hundreds of thousands hungry and homeless in a mineral-rich eastern province....
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German girl’s rape: Indian minister’s son arrested
PANAJI (India), Nov 4: Police arrested the son of the local education minister on Tuesday in Goa on charges of raping a 14-year-old German girl. Rohit Monserrate, 21, turned himself in to authorities after evading police for three weeks....
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Obama’s grandma dies on poll eve
CHARLOTTE (North Carolina), Nov 4: US presidential front-runner Barack Obama suffered heartache on Monday with the death of his grandmother, losing his last beloved link to the family who raised him, just hours from election day....
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421,000 people poisoned by snakebites every year: study
HONG KONG, Nov 4: More than 400,000 people are poisoned by snakebites worldwide every year and 20,000 of them die, with most cases occurring in the poorest countries, researchers say....
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Canada deports paralysed Sikh
OTTAWA, Nov 4: Canadian authorities deported a paralysed Sikh with alleged separatist links overnight to India despite protests from hundreds in the local community, a border official said on Tuesday....
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Obama is ‘American Gorbachev’ who will destroy US: Zhirinovsky
MOSCOW, Nov 4: Barack Obama is the “American Gorbachev” who will ultimately destroy the United States, militant Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky said on Tuesday....
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Obama does not lack command
Only in America. Tonight, or early tomorrow, if John McCain makes a close race of it, the world will learn who is to be the 44th US President....
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A vote on US future
LONDON: Sometimes it felt as if this day would never come. But today the 21 long months of the 2008 presidential campaign, a saga packed with higher drama than any contest in living memory, finally comes down to a straight choice....
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End of Reagan era?
CHICAGO: The 2008 election is poised to end the Republican era in American politics – an era that began in reaction to Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the Vietnam war and the...
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