News Archive - 11 January 2015

>EUROPEAN SOCCER Team: Manchester City (England)Owner: Abu Dhabi HoldingsNation: United Arab EmiratesInvestment: Stake: 90 percent for $330 million (2008)Team: Arsenal (England)Owner: Red & White Holdings (50 percent owned by Farhad Moshiri)Nation: IranStake: 29.72 percent for $250 million (2007)Team: Nottingham Forest (England)Owner: Fawaz Al-HasawiNation: KuwaitStake: 100 percent (2012*)Team: Malaga (Spain)Owner:...

>Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will confer ahead of a fresh round of negotiations between Iran and six world powers on settling their 12-year stand-off over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Lower-level negotiators on both sides will meet at the same venue on Thursday to iron out technical...

>RIYADH Jan 11 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Salman in Riyadh on Sunday as part of a diplomatic tour of OPEC members to discuss falling oil prices, which have hit its economy hard.The Saudi side in the meeting included Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi...

China’s soccer team has found an unlikely hero in a 12-year-old ball boy from Brisbane who is being hailed as a savior following China’s 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia in the Asian Cup.

PROVIDENCE – As the new General Assembly session got under way last week with the traditional swearing in and first-day sessions in both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, a list of new area members joined their veteran counterparts to consider state business in the months ahead.

ED officials confirmed to news agency PTI that PIA has been issued summons and senior executives of the airline have been asked to depose before the agency on January 13.

Today is Monday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2015. There are 353 days left in the year. On Jan. 12, 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.

The U.K. government is one step ahead of hackers trying to turn off the country’s lights — for now. The prospect of cyber-attacks on the nation’s power network is major threat to the country’s security, according to James Arbuthnot, a … The article U.K. Power Grid Under Cyber-Attack...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his nation should immunize itself against Western sanctions to increase its leverage in the talks.

Win the new Toyota Corolla or one of five Toyota 86 watches by simply predicting the outcome of the AFC Asian Cup 2015 in Australia which runs until the 31st of January!

QUETTA: Aaqai Ali Osat Hashemi, the Governor of Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan, has said that there are no border disputes and tensions between Pakistan and Iran and some non-state actors were involved in attacks on Iranian checkposts and killing of soldiers across the border.

ian foreign minister and the U.S. secretary of state will meet in Geneva next week to discuss the Iranian nuclear issue, a senior Iranian nuclear negotiator said on Friday.

Meeting on the sidelines of the ongoing Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit in Gandhinagar, the duo discussed counter terror cooperation between the two nations.

For those who enjoy the old world elegance of Singapore's Raffles Hotel, you'll feel right at home in Portugal's Belmond Reid's Palace Hotel. Reid's was built on a high cliff overlooking the bay and harbour of Funchal, on the isle of Madeira, in 1891 - four years after the Raffles...

Paying obligatory lip service to the 10 cartoonists and staffers of the Paris satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo who were slaughtered for offending Islam, the Times intoned: “It is absurd to suggest that the way to avoid terrorist attacks is to let the terrorists dictate standards in a democracy.”

Iran coach Carlos Queiroz has voiced anger and frustration at how international sanctions are damaging his plans to build the team's future.

CANBERRA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Qatar's hopes of resurrecting their Asian Cup campaign have suffered a big blow with key defender Bilal Mohammed being ruled out for the rest of the tournament through injury. The towering centre-half, who has won over 100 caps for his country, suffered an injury in...

On some issues the GOP majority may have enough Democratic support to challenge the president.

Oil extended losses from the lowest level in more than 5 1/2 years as Venezuela and Iran called for members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to work together to assist in a recovery of the crude market.

Stocks of interest on the Australian Securities Exchange at noon on Monday

Connoisseurs of art, music, dance and drama were enthralled by a variety of cultural programmes organised at Hampi Utsav 2015 even on the second day on Saturday.If renowned playback singers,...

Fred Lambert TRIPOLI, Lebanon, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Nusra Front, a Sunni militant group affiliated with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings on Saturday in a cafe in Tripoli, Lebanon.

The Tea Board has asked the industry to boost exports which were suffering due to price arbitrage in the domestic market, an industry official said. Tea exports, which fell by about 12 million kg i...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro meets Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz to discuss co-operation on oil.

"Reverse SEZs" and market-pricing could radically alter the Indian fertiliser industry

As many as two million people – including 50 world leaders – marched through the streets of Paris in an enormous outpouring of grief and defiance Sunday, sparked by three… Click to Continue »

Despite international protests, Iran hanged 26-year old Reyhaneh Jabbari Saturday, arrested several years ago after she killed a man formerly working for the Iranian intelligence, who she claimed tried to sexually abuse her.

Published: Monday, January 12, 2015 at 08:07 AM. ROSEMARY BEACH -- Pundits and prognosticators have but one goal: making fortune cookies and astrology seem respectable. Here are my annual predictions.

Iran and Venezuela vowed at the weekend to work together to stabilise falling global oil prices that have plunged more than 55 per cent since June to less than $50 (£33.13) a barrel.

Complacency is all it takes to put freedom at risk, says the organizer of a Toronto rally held to condemn the recent terror attacks in Paris.

Tehran (AFP) Jan 11, 2015 Iran's atomic agency chief insisted Sunday on Tehran's demands for increased uranium enrichment, days before the resumption of thorny talks with world powers in Geneva. Ali Akbar Salehi, a former foreign minister and ex-nuclear negotiator for the Islamic republic, said that within eight years the...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro met Sunday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Salman, a day after talks with Iran's supreme leader focused on the slump in global oil prices.

When U.S. President Barack Obama acted to end the decades-long trade embargo on Cuba last month, he called the tactic “outdated,” but just weeks later U.S. officials placed similar sanctions on North Korea in response to a cyberattack on the Sony Corp., as reported by the Associated...

Little is expected from outsiders Palestine on their Asian Cup debut, but that does not mean they will be treating their stay in Australia like a holiday.

Full transcript for Season 4, Episode 18, aired Jan. 11, 2015, featuring discussions with senior ministers on the Paris attacks, and a discussion with a Muslim community leader about how she thinks the community should speak up and explain when people feel they've been insulted.

PARIS, Jan. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "Those who propagate despotism and ruthlessness under the veneer of Islam are the worst enemies of Islam. Those who massacre journalists under the pretext of defending the Prophet of Islam have no understanding of Islam whatsoever," Maryam Rajavi,...

Iran claimed a 2-0 Asian Cup victory over Bahrain to give their large contingent of boisterous fans plenty to cheer about at AAMI Park.

A first ever meeting of Asian giants and reigning champions Japan with debutants Palestine headlines day four of the Asian Cup.

In the aftermath of the heinous attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in France, many are tweeting and writing in solidarity: Je suis Charlie. But I'm not. Because I am not Charlie.

A de facto world war is under way and it involves thousands of Muslims acting on what they believe is their religious duty.

SYDNEY - Ehsan Hajsafi's glorious volley fired Iran to victory over Bahrain and Omar Abdulrahman starred for UAE as the region's brightest stars turned on the style at the Asian Cup Sunday. Hajsafi's swift control and scything strike from the corner of the box raised the roof at Melbourne Rectangular...

ARGENTINA players laughed off criticism of their supposed defensive weakness on Thursday and vowed there would be no repeat of their 2010 World Cup quarter-final thrashing by Germany.

MELBOURNE - Ehsan Hajsafi and Masoud Shojaei each scored volleyed goals to fire Iran to an emphatic 2-0 win in their Asian Cup opener against Bahrain in Melbourne on Sunday. Utility player Hajsafi struck a brilliant, blistering volley from outside the area a minute into stoppage time of the first...

The WSJ columnist editor tells "Globes": If the US won't intervene militarily on behalf of its allies, the world will become a much more dangerous place.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a decade after a series of shootings and bombings in the Jerusalem area, a trial is slated this week in New York to determine whether the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority should pay up to $1 billion to victims.

AHMEDABAD, India - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called for a rapid expansion of U.S.-India trade and commercial ties as he attended an international investment conference ahead of visit by President Barack Obama later this month. Kerry led the U.S. delegation to the...

Tehran, Jan 11 (IANS): Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Sunday said there should be an end to the double-standard policies adopted by certain countries with regard to the issue of terrorism.

Melbourne, Jan 11 (IANS): Iran defeated Bahrain 2-0 in an Asian Cup football tournament match here Sunday.