Maoists trap and kill 14 police in central India

RAIPUR, India - Maoist rebels killed 14 policemen in an ambush in a central Indian jungle, officials said Monday, the latest in a string of rebel violence that has marred part of India's general election.
Police said the rebels triggered blasts and shot at a security convoy that was searching for rebels on an intelligence tip but which turned out to be a trap.
The heavily armed rebels first triggered multiple blasts and then opened indiscriminate fire from hilltops, Girdhari Nayak, a senior police officer of Chhattisgarh state, told Reuters.
Maoist rebel violence marred the initial phase of a staggered vote. They killed five election officials in a land mine blast and 11 police across the central and eastern red belt.
The rebels, who have called for a boycott of the election, also blasted a railway station, blocked roads and briefly seized a train last month in a show of strength before allowing the passengers to go unharmed.
The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and the landless.
Thousands have been killed in the Maoist insurgency in India which began in the late 1960s, and which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described as one of the gravest threats to India's internal security.

source:www.euronews24.org

the World’s Tallest Building,CTBUH: Rose Rotana Tower in Dubai.

333 meters high with 72 stories and 480 suites, Rose Rotana Tower in Dubai leads the list of the 10 tallest buildings completed in 2007, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)

The tower, which is developed by Bonyan International Investment Group & it is also regarded as the world’s tallest single-use hotel building.

According to a recent CTBUH report:

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) (333 meters)

The New York Times Building in the United States (319 meters)

The China International Center Tower (269 meters)

TheNaberezhnaya Tower in Moscow (268 meter)

The Hotel Panorama in Hong Kong (261 meter)

The Dual Tower 1 and 2 in Manama Bahrain (260 meter)

Emirates Marina Serviced Apartments and Spa (254 meter)

The Park Tower in China (250 meter)

The Mid Town Tower in Japan (248 meter)

Suicide Bomber Kills Eight in Colombo

A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main railway station in Colombo, the capital of sri lanka on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 100 others.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but according to military openion it may be carrid out by Tamil Tiger rebels.

A hand grenade exploded at the Dehiwala Zoo near Colombo, wounding seven people including two children injured on sunday morning.

A bomb on a bus Saturday killed 18 people in central Sri Lanka.


'' A flash of light was followed by a shock wave and that's all I could recollect'', a witness said.

Sri Lanka marks its 60th independence day Monday.

N.B. Sri Lankan police investigators search the site of an explosion at the railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, 03 Feb. 2008

information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.

Sex infections continue to rise to a fetal.

The sexual health of young UK adults worsened in 2006 despite a concerted public health effort to turn it around, figures show.

Diagnoses of new sex infections rose by 2% to 376,508 from 2005 to 2006, largely among young people and gay men, the Health Protection Agency found.

The biggest rise was seen in genital herpes, up 9% to 21,698. Among girls aged 16-19 the rise was 16% and it very har ful to mankind.

And there were encouraging early signs of reversing trends - gonorrhoea and syphilis dropped by 1%

• Gonorrhea (sometimes known as Neisseria gonorrhea, GC, the dose, clap or drip) is caused by a bacteria. It is passed from one person to another by close sexual contact. It may take 1-14 days or longer for symptoms to show up. Some people never have symptoms.
• Gonorrhea can be spread to others by infected people during sexual intercourse, whether or not you have any symptoms.

Lisa Power of the Terrence Higgins Trust said:----
"Quality sex and relationships education - not just biology lessons - has been shown to decrease risky behaviour in teens. We also need to stop the decline in health promotion work for gay men at a local level."


About the rise in genital herpes, We need to get the message across that this is a lifelong and unpleasant condition which will require ongoing treatment, and not something to be taken lightly.

Missing Chicago Woman's Body Found.

CHICAGO — The family of a missing Chicago woman said a body found early Thursday is that of their loved one.


Nailah Franklin, 28, a pharmaceutical sales representative for Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, was last heard from a week ago.

Dwayne Johnson, Franklin's uncle, said authorities confirmed it was his niece's body.

Suburban Chicago officials found a body in a forest preserve near where Franklin's car was found abandoned last Friday, police said.

On Thursday morning, authorities in Calumet City reported that they found a body in the Wentworth Woods Forest Preserve, near where her car was found abandoned.

Her family has been offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts. The pharmaceutical sales representative was reported missing Sept. 19 after she didn't show up for an important work meeting.

Chicago police interviewed a man last week but have not named him a suspect. Franklin filed a police report about threatening phone calls she said she received from the man. The man told FOX Chicago that he was not involved in her disappearance and offered to take a polygraph test.