• FRANCE RULES OUT OPENING EMBASSY IN N.KOREA

  TOKYO, March 18 (AFP)

  France will not open diplomatic relations with North Korea but plans to establish an office there to support non-governmental groups, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Thursday.
  "We are not going to open an embassy, certainly not," Kouchner said at a press conference in Tokyo. "Open an office, yes, in order to help the NGOs (non-governmental organisations) there."
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• EX-PRESIDENTS GEORGE W. BUSH, CLINTON TO VISIT HAITI

  WASHINGTON, March 18

  Former US presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are to visit Haiti next week in support of relief efforts in the quake-stricken Caribbean country.
  "Presidents Clinton and Bush will meet with Haitians, the government of Haiti, and others providing assistance to earthquake survivors, with the goal of further establishing long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts," a statement released Thursda
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• NO SURGICAL STRIKE ON TERROR CAMPS IN PAK, SAYS MOS RAJU

  New Delhi, Mar 18 (PTI)

  India Thursday ruled out the possibility of any surgical strike on terror camps inside Pakistan, but asserted that adequate measures would be taken to ensure its interests are protected.
  "No, no," Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju, said when asked about the possibility of surgical strikes on terror camps inside the neighbouring country.
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• Torrential rain causes death toll to rise to 38

  Kathmandu, 21 Feb. (Dainikee)

  The death toll has risen to about 40 people after torrential flood and nudslides on the island of Madeira, Portugal with more than 120 injured and unknown number of others missing as per the authorities, adding that the death toll is expected to rise.
  
  After heavy rain in the capital of Funchal on Saturday, the streets turned into raging rivers of mud, water and debris.
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• Plane crashes in Texas IRS Office

  "Violence is the only answer"

  Kathmandu, 19 Feb. (Dainikee)

  53 year old, Andrew Joseph Stack slammed Piper Cherokee plane into the seven-story building of the Inland Revenue Service at Austin, Texas at around 9.40 am local time. The accident is believed to be a suicide attempt after a long tax dispute.
  
  “Violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer,” was posted in the IRS’s website signed as Joe Stack, the man named as pilot.
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• US President Obama meets Dalai Lama

  Kathmandu, 19 Feb. (Dainikee)

  The US President met the exiled spiritual leader of China, Dalai Lama on Thursday at the White House. While the two leaders was said to talk about democracy, human rights and Tibet’s religious identity and culture, China on the other hand, has lodged a formal complaint regarding the meeting to the American ambassador, Jon Huntsman.
  
  Obama seemed supportive to Dalai Lama in a written statement
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• Baltic the sea dog swimming through fan mail

  Now, Facebook page in the works for mutt rescued from ice sheet

  WARSAW, Poland

  The incredible story of Baltic, the Polish pooch rescued from an ice sheet at sea, has struck a chord worldwide.
  
  The seagoing mutt is being bombarded with e-mail, will likely soon have a Facebook page and one family drove more than 300 miles from the Czech Republic in the false hope he was theirs.
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• Ohio man gave 7,777 hugs in a day

  Kathmandu, 18 Feb (Dainikee)

  A 51-year-old Ohio man has embraced the Valentine's Day spirit faster than anyone before, giving 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for a new world record.
  
  Jeff Ondash, who sought the squeezes under the costumed alter ego Teddy McHuggin, broke the record Saturday night outside the Paris Las Vegas hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
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• Taliban´s top military commander in custody

  Kathmandu, 16 Feb. (Dainikee)

  Mullah Abdul Ghani Barader, supposedly the Taliban's second in command was captured in Karachi, Pakistan after a secret joint operation of the Pakistani and US intelligence forces, according to a report in the New York Times.
  
  Mullah Barader's capture is believed to be one of the most significant catch since the American led war in Afghanistan started more than eight years ago.
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• Haiti recovering from the shock

  Kathmandu, 15 Feb. (Dainikee)

  Angelania Ritchelle, a 17 year-old parentless high school student aspired to be a fashion model, died in the recent Haiti earthquake. Having fended for herself since her parents abandoned her at 4, she was often stressed, and the earthquake seemed to push her over the edge.
  
  “She was freaking out, screaming, ‘I have no school. I have no house. I have nothing. Why go on?’
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