The Delhi police tonight arrested 142 protesters who barged into the residence of Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to stage a protest demanding reservation for Jat community and a case of rioting has been slapped against them.

Jailed Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy today moved a special CBI court here, seeking directions to the central agency to act as per the Supreme Court order with regard to filing of charge sheets in connection with the case against him for his alleged quid-pro-quo deals.

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, charged here last month with conspiring to kill American nationals, will face trial in January next year, a US judge has ruled. 

Executive manager of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, Mahmoud Jafari, said Wednesday that the structure of Bushehr nuclear power plant is strong enough to resist earthquakes at the scale of 8 Richter, official IRNA news agency reported.

A New York federal judge has set the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law for January after defense lawyers said US budget cuts would make it hard to prepare by an earlier date. 

Congress today said it is "premature" for it to take action against Jagdish Tytler till "something conclusive" comes out against the party leader in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. 

India today assured Maldives that bilateral ties would continue to flourish and that it gives "highest priority" to further strengthen relations between the two countries. 

British Prime Minister David Cameron today led the tributes to Margaret Thatcher at a special session of Parliament convened in her honour, saying the Britain's 'Iron Lady' "made the country great again". 

Officials in northwestern Pakistan say unknown gunmen shot and killed a policeman and wounded another, as they were protecting a team of female polio workers administering vaccines.

Two days after the death of Margaret Thatcher, as divided Britons sought to define her contentious and transformative legacy, Prime Minister David Cameron lauded her on Wednesday as a woman who had broken through Britain's "glass ceiling' from her beginnings as the daughter of a greengrocer to make Britain "great again.' 

At least 33 people went missing when a bus with some 55 people onboard plunged into a river while boarding a ferry in southwestern Bangladesh today. "We fear 33 passengers are missing ... rescue efforts have been launched to retrieve them," district police chief Mohammad Ehsanullah told PTI on phone. 

 In a major security breach at Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's house in New Delhi, about three to four protesters entered the premises today, reports NDTV.

Police says around 200 protesters had gathered outside Shinde's residence this afternoon and were demanding that they meet the home minister, not knowing that he is currently in Russia.

Read the full report here

CNN-IBN reports: The Delhi police has reportedly blamed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the fiasco outside the Planning Commission building on Tuesday, during which one of her ministers was injured.

According to sources, the Delhi police, in its report, has stated that the security incharge of the Commission building had informed the resident commissioner of West Bengal that Mamata must enter the premises via the back gate to evade the protesters.

  In wake of collapse of an illegal building in Mumbra township which claimed 74 lives, the Thane Municipal Corporation today started a 24-hour call centre to receive complaints regarding the unauthorised constructions in the city.

The TMC receives complaints from time to time from various persons regarding the unauthorised constructions in the city. To effectively deal with these complaints, the call centre has been set up, an official release by TMC said.

PTI reports: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee admitted to a private clinic after return from Delhi, clinic sources.

A day after she was gheraoed and her minister Amit Mitra manhandled by Left protesters in New Delhi, an upset Banerjee returned to Kolkata saying that the national capital was unsafe.

A robbery case involving five December 16 gang-rape accused was today transferred to a sessions court in New Delhi for start of trial proceedings.

During a closed-door hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain transferred the case to a sessions court as the offences for which the accused have been charge-sheeted are exclusively "triable" by a sessions judge.

The case will come up before the sessions court tomorrow. The police had earlier provided documents, filed along with the charge sheet, to the advocates appearing for the accused.

The six persons, including a juvenile, had allegedly beaten and robbed a carpenter before raping and assaulting a 23-year-old girl in the moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, last year. Accused Ram Singh allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail on March 11. The juvenile is facing proceedings in the case before Juvenile Justice Board.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here on a three-day visit seeking greater business ties with Germany as India takes steps to boost domestic investments and attract foreign capital. Singh is accompanied by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah, Human Resource Development Minister M M Pallam Raju and Science and Technology Minister S Jaipal Reddy.

Commerce Minister Anand Sharma reached here earlier in the day from Geneva. Prior to his departure, Singh had said in New Delhi that Germany is a key partner for India in areas like infrastructure, manufacturing, science and technology, higher education, vocational training and clean and renewable energy.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was taken to a premier private clinic here for a check up after she returned from Delhi today. "She was taken to the clinic for a check up," a senior Trinamool Congress functionary said.

Panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee, who returned from Delhi along with Banerjee, said that the chief minister was taken to the clinic, but did not know whether she was admitted.

Bellevue Clinic sources were tight-lipped about the chief minister's admission. The chief minister cancelled a meeting with Union Finance minister P Chidambaram in Delhi and returned to Kolkata in the afternoon.

Yesterday, SFI members had blocked the chief minister's passage and heckled finance minister Amit Mitra in front of Yojna Bhavan while they were going to attend a Planning Commission meeting. The chief minister subsequently fell ill and was administered oxygen while Mitra was put under observation at AIIMS.

Former union minister Jagdish Tytler says he has nothing to hide, nothing to say, on the Delhi court's decision to reopen the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against him. 

Meanwhile, Zhang Liangui of the Central Party School, the most quoted Chinese analyst on N Korea, estimates 70-80% chances of war.

A senior Pentagon official says there is intelligence information indicating North Korea could be planning "multiple missile launches" in the coming days. The official did not have specifics on the numbers of missiles and launchers spotted by US satellite imagery, but said the two intermediate-range mobile missiles North Korea has placed along its eastern coastline may have been feints to distract attention from the multiple launches that may be coming. This is a tactic the North Koreans have used in the past, the official said.

One in two women does not feel confident about the way they look, a new survey has found. Ironically, 88 per cent of women polled also said that they thought that confidence, not youth, was the secret of true beauty, despite so few saying that they felt confident about their looks themselves. Read more

In other news: The wife of the Dutch tourist accused of murdering a British backpacker in India yesterday told how her children had asked her: 'Why has daddy killed that woman?'

Thai bride Uma Rupanya said her husband of ten years, Richard de Wit, had become increasingly paranoid and psychotic before abandoning the family six months ago to go travelling. Read more

Rajiv Gandhi's statement during the 1984 riots: When a big tree falls the earth shakes."

Excerpts from the Nanavati Commission of Inquiry into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Shri K.R. Malkani (W-148), a Journalist and ex-Member of Parliament has spoken about two rumours, which were circulating in Delhi on 1-11-84. One was that a train load of Hindu bodies had reached Delhi Railway Station from Punjab and the other was that the water supply in the City was poisoned. He has stated that both these rumors were reported to have been circulated by the police. He has also spoken about what late Shri Rajiv Gandhi is alleged to have said to a senior officer when he landed in Delhi on 31-10-84. As reported to him, Shri Rajiv Gandhi had whispered into the ears of that senior officer that "Yes, we must teach them a lesson'. The officer then whispered something into the ears of Shri Rajiv Gandhi and this time he was heard saying "please do not ask me that'. He has stated those senior officers had told Shri Shyam Khosla, a senior journalist and Shri Krishan Lal Maini, a former Minister about it conversation and that he had come to know about this from them.

HS Phoolka, Lakhwinder Kaur's lawyer tells NDTV: "The government only talks about Gujarat, Gujarat, Gujarat. Yes, those accused should be punished. But what about the victims of the 1984 riots? Aren't we human beings too? It's been 28 years, how long do we wait for justice?"

The closure report filed by the CBI in 2009, was challenged by Lakhwinder Kaur, whose husband was killed in the riots.

Read:The full report of the Justice Nanavati Commission on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 

First reactions from the Congress on the court ordering the 1984 anti-riots case against Jagdish Tytler to be reopened: If proof is found, strict action will be taken. 

R.S. Bains tweets: 'I survived 1984 in New Delhi. 3000 plus were killed, media kept quiet, SC never ordered SITs, no Maut ka Saudagar.'

The CBI says it will study the order first and then decide whether it will move a higher court. The CBI had filed a closure report in 2009 citing no evidence against Jadish Tytler. CBI has now been told to re-examine all witnesses. 

Pic: Protestors outside the Karkardooma court in Delhi this morning, demanding punishment for culprits of the 1984 Sikh riots/ANI.

The Delhi court has asked the CBI to further probe the killing of three persons (Sikhs) who had taken shelter in a gurudwara. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob to killing the three. Witnesses will now be re-examined.

Read the 2001 Rediff.com story of how celebrated writer Khushwant Singh was told to "stay in a Hindu's house' during the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. 

The Supreme Court also upheld the life sentence awarded to four persons for burning two men to death during 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

A bench of justices P Sathasivam and M Y Eqbal turned down the plea of the convicts that they could not be held guilty of murder as the body was not recovered by the Delhi police and there was delay in lodging FIR in the case.

"It is well-settled that discovery of dead body of the victim has never been considered as the only mode of proving the corpus delicti (evidence) in murder.

"In fact, there are many cases of such nature like the present one where the discovery of dead body is impossible, specially when members of a particular community were murdered in such a violent mob attack on Sikh community in different places and offenders tried to remove the dead bodies and also looted articles," it said.

A Delhi court has ordered the re-opening of  a 1984 riots case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had earlier given a clean chit to Tytler in 2007 and in 2009 claiming there was no evidence against him.

However, challenging the closure report filed by the CBI in 2009, Lakhwinder Kaur, whose husband was killed in the riots, argued that the investigating agency had not recorded the testimonies of two key eyewitnesses who have since the riots moved to the United States.

During the arguments on April 4, the CBI prosecutor had sought the dismissal of the plea filed by the victim saying the probe has made it clear that Tytler was not present on November 1, 1984 at Gurudwara Pulbangash in North Delhi where three people were killed during the riots.

The prosecutor said at the time of the incident, Tytler was at Teen Murti Bhawan, the residence of the then late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Tytler was among the three prominent leaders named in the reports on anti-Sikh riots. Two other leaders named were Sajjan Kumar and the late HKL Bhagat.

Kolkata yesterday witnessed the spectacle of industrialists repeatedly breaking into applause -- the last round went on for over a minute -- in the middle of a politician's speech. Narendra Modi, one of the most polarising public figures in the country, was on the podium, adding to his conquests another trophy audience in another city. Read

Most victims of sexual violence in conflict zones are children who are suffering rape and abuse at an appalling rate, said campaigners who described the attacks as the "hidden horrors of war".  Read the report on Reuters

In his speech to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on April 4, 2013, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said his advisers had told him to "not go into the India-China cliche." Gandhi should have paid heed to them. Read

Vivekananda believed that no religion was superior to another. There can be no meeting point between his message and that of the sangh parivar. Read

His Tata Indica Vista and Honda two-wheeler appear to be more popular than Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) youth wing's state president Rajesh Mukherjee, 35.And the politician is not amused. Here's why. Read more

TMC-CPM supporters have reportedly clashed outside Presidency College, Kolkata. TMC goons have allegedly ransacked labs. Early reports suggest a few students have been injured, while a few teachers have been assaulted. The TMC held protests in West Bengal all through the day and much of yesterday. National Highway 2 was blocked for one hour and TMC leaders also staged a rail blockade at the Sealdah Basirhat line.

In a scientific tour-de-force worthy of the search for the elusively small Higgs boson, scientists have discovered that size really does matter to women when it comes to the length of a man's manhood. Read

During the second world war, great composers were imprisoned at the Terezn concentration camp near Prague. They were permitted to perform and compose music -- before being sent to their deaths in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Read

The Shiv Sena today asked why NCP chief Sharad Pawar was "silent" on the issue of the controversial remarks made by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on drought and loadshedding.

"Where is Sharad Pawar....What is Pawar exactly doing, when his nephew has harmed the culture of Maharashtra? Even the people from Baramati would be asking this question," an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana said today.

Where is the Union Agriculture Minister, who usually acts like a consultant and a guide and sometimes even reprimands the one who commits mistake, the editorial said. "In spite of bringing some relief to the drought afflicted people, Ajit Pawar has made some crass remarks," it mentioned.

The editorial further said that a case of sedition should have been registered against Pawar and he should be sacked from the Cabinet. But, he instead apologised by reading from a piece of paper and even Sharad Pawar used twitter--microblogging site to apologise to the people.

Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy is taking no chances. He and top executives are now at the SEBI Bhavan today on an order of the Supreme Court, which had ruled as illegal a Sahara investment scheme and ordered the company to repay Rs 24,000 crore to Sebi, which the market regulator would then return to about three crore investors. The SC had ruled that if Roy did not appear before Sebi today, his properties were to be attached.

The actor and comedian recalls a bizarre recent encounter with the Iron Lady, and how it prompted him to think about growing up under the most unlikely matriarch-figure imaginable. Read

Groped at a club? Catcalled on the street? If you complain, you might be told to 'lighten up.' Laura Bates, founder of the popular blog Everyday Sexism, on how she's fighting that mindset. Read

Menachem Bodner is a soft-spoken 73-year-old, who thinks carefully before he describes his first memory as a three-year old child.

"I remember my mother. What she was wearing. A green skirt with white flowers and a white blouse," he says in Hebrew. "On the left, there was a bed and my brother was sleeping. I remember I had a brother."

That memory is crucial. Until a few months ago, Bodner had no evidence his brother even existed. Read the full story here.

Meanwhile, security has been increased at Mamata Banerjee's residence at Kolkata, while CPI-M activists have been gathering at the party headquarters in the city fearing retaliation by the TMC. 

UPA spokesperson Manish Tiwari reacting to Mamata Banerjee's statement that there were "outside elements" present when Amit Mitra and she were heckled yesterday, says, the UPA has nothing to do with the conflict between the CPM and the Trinamool. 

West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan today said the "attack" on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra in Delhi was "unprecedented" and "a blot on India's cherished democratic values".

He said the incident deserved to be condemned in the strongest terms and deserved a public apology from the CPI-M politburo.

"The shocking pre-meditated assault on the chief minister, the finance minister and other senior ministers of West Bengal in the national capital is an extremely unfortunate incident and a blot on India's cherished democratic values," the Governor said in a statement issued here.

"This kind of attack on a democratically-elected chief minister, the finance minister and their cabinet colleagues is unprecedented in India's modern history and is serious enough to warrant a public apology by the politburo of the CPI(Marxist)," he said.

Narayanan said those responsible for the attack and their instigators have forfeited their right to function within a democratic framework. The Governor also urged the ruling Trinamool Congress as well as others in the state to maintain calm.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's statement in New Delhi, a day after her finance minister Amit Mitra was heckled by Left activists outside the Planning Commission.

A calm Mamata Banerjee said that a day after the attack on Mitra, it is only because of her that a bloodbath was prevented in West Bengal. "After 35 years  I have been able to stop a bloodbath in Bengal. Our cadres are peaceful, and all the ruckus is being created by CPM cadre," she said of the protests happening across Bengal.

She said she has cancelled all her meetings today in Delhi, including her meeting finance minister P Chidambaram and would return to Kolkata this afternoon.

She said the PM had called her up and apologised for the incident. "I believe this is the first time such a thing is happening in Delhi. Delhi is not safe. I was manhandled. When I tried to get down at the Planning Commission HQ, the police did not cooperate at all. I also believe, outside elements were involved."

She said she was unwell and had been advised rest. When told that the CPM had condemned the incident, she said, "What condemned? On the one hand, they will kill people, and on the other hand they will condemn the incident. It's all drama."

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today expressed anguish over the killing of five Indian army personnel during a United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.  

In his condolence message to the bereaved families, Dr. Singh said: "I pay tribute to our brave soldiers.'  

A Lt. Colonel was among the five army personnel killed yesterday when their 32-member convoy came under attack in Gumuruk in the volatile state of Jonglei, South Sudan. Four others were injured in the attack.  

Jonglei has been the scene of widespread ethnic conflict since South Sudan became independent in July 2011. Much of the trouble has been in Pibor county, where the UN peacekeeping force is based.

Since Indian President Pranab Mukherjee came to power in July, he has turned down mercy pleas for at least 10 people handed the death sentence. The question is why Mr. Mukherjee, who was finance minister before becoming president, is taking such a hardline stance on capital punishment. Read

Disgraced scientist A Q Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme, has said he doubts North Korea will explode an atomic device in its current face-off with the United States and South Korea. Khan said he did not think the North Koreans are "trigger happy" and that the regime of Kim Jong Un is "not very stupid".

In a phone interview with Fox News, Khan said: "Oh, no, no, no, they (the North Koreans) are not very stupid... few people blow it up and get hype, blow it up against proportion."

He said North Korea was a "small country" and if the US "drops a single bomb, there won't be any North Korea on the map of the world". "The North Koreans know it very well and the Americans know it very well, but for sheer propaganda and publicity both play the game," he added.

In West Bengal, CPI-M leaders allege that Trinamool Congress leaders are attacking CPI-M party offices across Bengal.They also accuse police of inaction.

Twelve candidates. One vote. Cast it now and choose India's next prime minister. Right here, right now.

Sahara Group chief Subrato Roy and top executives are set to appear before SEBI today. If he doesn't, the economic offences wing will attach his properties. Sebi is acting on an order of the Supreme Court, which had ruled as illegal a Sahara investment scheme and ordered the company to repay Rs 24,000 crore to Sebi, which the market regulator would then return to about three crore investors.

The Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance of a media report about detention of a 10-year-old girl by police in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh. The SC issues notice to UP government seeking its response by Monday.

"It was a misunderstanding", is the rather incredulous explanation offered by cops for why a 10-year-old alleged rape survivor was held inside police lockup for over 10 hours in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr.

The incident, that has sparked shock and outrage, happened inside a women's police station on Sunday night when the girl's distraught mother told the cops that a 24-year-old local villager had sexually assaulted her child. Instead of taking action, the women cops allegedly abused the mother and forced her to leave, putting the little girl behind bars for the entire night. Video footage of the incident filmed and circulated by a local journalist later resulted in the release of the girl on Monday. Read the full story here

Original camel presented to Franois Hollande in thanks for helping repel Islamist rebels eaten by family he left it with. Fun read

Men die in their forties here. A sad tale of silicosis. Read

If  Maharashtra is facing its worst drought in 40 years, can neighbouring Gujarat be far behind? The impending crisis '" which has hit three of Gujarat's six regions, Saurashtra, Kutch and north Gujarat -- was obvious since December but it had managed to elude the eyes of the state government.

And now, while chief minister Narendra Modi is busy selling his development model across the country, at home, thousands are walking miles under the scorching sun to get water to drink. Read

They were clever . They interacted through the online utility , 'Whatsapp' , and exchanged calls through secret numbers which were known to none . They did all they could to dodge cops and succeeded, too, for two weeks.

A night before the murder , Nitesh went to a nightclub as well to have an alibi about his whereabouts . However , small mistakes like breaking his phone on the day of the murder and petty lies like claiming not to know Sehrawat or Pratibhanand finally proved to be the undoing of Nitesh Kumar and Baljeet Sehrawat , who allegedly conspired to kill Deepak Bharadwaj  Read

The forthcoming electoral contest of 2014 is fast passing into pop culture. The Battle of the 'Bachelors' - Rahul Gandhi vs Narendra Modi is a colourful confrontation. Pappu vs Chappan, RaGa vs NaMo, Yuvraj vs Hindu Hriday Samrat: you know a political contest has caught the public imagination. Read Sagarika Ghose's column on Hindustan Times.  

Tension over the hanging of Afzal Guru might have subsided but the scar it has left on the minds of people would continue to haunt the state.

Also the embarrassment Government of India had to face at the International level at least over the way the hanging took place cannot be brushed aside easily. In Kashmir, however, we again proved that lack of strategy has remained the hallmark of pursuing the issues with which people have deep connection. Read

Narendra Modi obviously has a great track record as Gujarat's chief minister, so if LK Advani's I'm-still-active-in-politics will allow it, this is what the BJP is trying to sell to the electorate'"you've had a dramatic fall in growth over the past few years because of a government that failed to take quick decisions, but vote for our leader with a proven track record, and life will be OK. More of that here.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has appealed on Wednesday to her party workers to maintain peace and not get provoked after she and her finance minister Amit Mitra were heckled by SFI activists in the Capital on Tuesday.

She made the appeal to her party workers to maintain peace after the TMC activists went on the rampage on Tuesday evening attacking offices of the CPI(M) and SFI.

"Don't be provoked by CPM," she appealed. She also made clear that there should be no slogans and no ransacking.

Trinamool Congress workers will observe a state-wide protest programme in West Bengal against the heckling of Mitra by SFI workers.

Banerjee will be examined by doctors in New Delhi on Wednesday morning to determine whether she is fit to travel back to Kolkata after fell ill and was administered oxygen.

Mitra was put under observation in AIIMS for some medical tests and will be released on Wednesday after some tests, sources added.

A crucial meeting between West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister P Chidambaram scheduled for today was cancelled at the last minute against the backdrop of her anger over protests by Left activists she faced at the Planning Commission. Sources said Banerjee sought cancellation of the meeting, saying she was unwell and her blood pressure had dipped.

Yesterday, Mamata had also cancelled her meeting with PM Dr Manmohan Singh. Mamata will now leave for Kolkata this evening. The WB CM had said earlier that she would demand the "rightful share" for the state from the Prime Minister at the meeting. "I am going to Delhi to seek justice. ... We want to know why Bengal is deprived. We will also protest against the economic blockade by the Centre," the chief minister had said. 

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said he intends to seek greater business ties with Germany as India continues to take steps to boost domestic investments, attract foreign capital and spur the economy back to its long-term growth potential of eight percent.

In his departure statement before leaving for Berlin, Dr. Singh said: "Germany is our largest economic partner in Europe and one of our key global partners for trade, investment and technology. I intend to seek greater trade and investment ties with Germany, as we continue to take steps to boost domestic investments, attract foreign investors and spur the economy back to its long term growth potential of eight percent." 

The plea of the farmer from Sholapur, Prabhakar Deshmukh was mocked by the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar, but the Bombay High Court agreed to release water into Ujani Dam.

Interviewed by a television channel, Prabhakar sent a message to Ajit Pawar saying, "Ajit Pawar now there is no need to urinate. God has spoken through the High Court. He has blessed us. Now Ujani dam will have water. Earlier, while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) yesterday, the court ordered the Maharashtra government to release water into the dam within 24 hours.

The dam supplies water to Sholapur, one of the worst drought-hit districts in Maharashtra. Last week at a rally, Ajit Pawar dismissed the farmer's two-month-long protest and sarcastically mocked asking, "If leaders should urinate to supply water to the dam.

Nearly 30 years after the mass killings of Sikhs in the Capital in the aftermath ofIndira Gandhi's assassination, the Supreme Court approved the award of life sentence to four persons accused of burning two persons alive, ruling that the Delhi High Court rightly reversed the trial court's decision to acquit them. Read

Another story of neglect and shame in Indian sports.

After doing India proud by winning two bronze medals at the 2011 Athens special Olympics, Sita Sahu, a mentally challenged teenager from Rewa, today helps her mother sell 'gol gappas' in a ghetto settlement. Read the full story here.

Indira Gandhi was willing to go where politicians today fear to tread. Back in 1975, she wanted to tax agriculture income and the rural rich. It remains a no-go area for policymakers even today.
That's more revelations from Wikileaks. Read

In the summer of '69, a four-year-old boy inGuwahati was asked by his mother one day to go into the kitchen and eat an orange she had left for him there. By the time he was done, his mother had bolted out of the house and abandoned him. She never returned.  Read the full story here

CNN reports: A powerful earthquake struck southern Iran on Tuesday, killing at least 32 people but apparently sparing the nearby Bushehr nuclear plant from any damage, Iranian state media reported.