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Jakarta’s controversial Buddha Bar must immediately close, the Central Jakarta District Court ruled on Wednesday. The court also ordered the owners, Nireta Vista Creative, as well as Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo and the Jakarta Tourism Agency to pay a fine totaling Rp 1 billion ($111,000) to the plaintiffs, the Anti-Buddha Bar Forum, for mental distress. [...]

Has your bike been stolen lately? This article was written by Dave Hill, for guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 31st August 2010 13.51 UTC Insurers Aviva conducted an experiment in which five bicycles were left poorly secured in London bike theft “hot spots”. Result? One was stolen within twenty minutes when it was left outside a London [...]

38,000 ecstasy pills and large haul of other drugs sold by nightclub workers seized in Ibiza

Land remains the greatest prize in North Kivu as residents grow uneasy over the return of the Congolese Tutsis from Rwanda

Unprecedented investigation by human rights commissioner says Hutu deaths ‘cannot be put down to margins of war’

The regional divide in Andhra Pradesh flared again on Saturday with the pro-Telangana students of Osmania University in Hyderabad assaulting teachers from the Andhra and Rayala Seema regions, forcing them to flee the campus. The teachers, including women, had come to the Osmania campus to evaluate Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) examinations answer sheets, but they [...]

Las Vegas Police busted bad girl Paris Hilton Friday night when an eagle eyed, or rather, a keen sniffing police officer whiffed the sweet odor of marijuana fumes exiting a black Cadillac Escalade in front of the Wynn Hotel. The svelte, blonde socialite and the driver of the vehicle were booked into the Clark County jail but [...]

Tax breaks and even a municipal babysitter offered to people with children willing to settle in Castelnou

The Disbursement Committee of Zakat Fund has decided to grant AED 1 million to 100 people who newly embraced Islam to encourage them learn more about the religion and start their new lives as Muslims. The newly Islam converts are one of eight categories specified by the Holy Quran and the Islamic Shari’ah to deserve [...]

One of our regular Cebu Informer readers shared the following story and pictures with us. He is living in Barangay Camputhaw here in Cebu and has seen something he does not understand. And we have to admit, we could not help him either. Maybe you can help us figure this one out. First a nice [...]

US follows EU and Saudi Arabia in upping aid after international community’s response is criticised for being too slow

People of Gazipur Sadar upazila blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in Bagher Bazar area for about an hour on Monday demanding uninterrupted power supply. Witnesses said the power-deprived people went to the highway in procession and put barricade at about 10:45am, creating a 40-kilometre gridlock on the both sides. The agitating people complained that they have [...]

Dubai Ladies Club, a member of Dubai Women Establishment, last week organized three Islamic lectures as part of a variety of activities organized by Dubai Ladies Club during the holy month of Ramadan. The lectures discussed ‘Al Taqwa’ which means Guidance on How to be a good practicing Muslim‘ and were conducted by Ahmed Al [...]

London’s campsites are teeming with commuters who have shunned bricks and mortar to make ends meet

NatWest survey shows London offers average part-time earnings of over £5,000 a year

Authorities say a teenager has been shot to death in a fight between rival gangs at a gay parade in southeastern Brazil. Police say the teenager was shot when the gangs got into a confrontation late Saturday as they headed to the parade attended by nearly 70,000 people in Juiz de Fora. Authorities told local [...]

Either demographics have changed considerably in Nevada or people are reconsidering their previous stance against gay marriage. In a recent poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. of Washington, D.C.,  the number of Nevadans opposing gay marriage has slipped from 60 percent, who opposed such marriages in 2002, to 46 percent.  This was the [...]

Police believe Svetlana Zolotovsky was stabbed by husband who then set their house on fire after killing her mother

Spain’s Costa Blanca provided a safe haven for many Nazis, allowing them to enjoy a retirement without regret or atonement

Ramadan is going to start on August 11th 2010, and here are the Ramadan Prayer timings for Dubai. Ramadan (also known as Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, Ramdan, Ramadaan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn [...]