Issue: May 25, 2012   (Archive)
Saturday, May 25, 2013   

Suu Kyi traveling overseas
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel overseas next week for the first time in more than two decades to attend an economic forum in Bangkok, her party said yesterday.



Fire on US nuclear sub injures seven
At least seven people were injured when a fire broke out on a US nuclear submarine at a dockyard in the state of Maine, but its nuclear reactor was not in danger, the navy said.

Egypt gripped by vote frenzy
Egyptians voted yesterday on the second day of a gripping presidential election in which candidates are pitting stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended the rule of Hosni Mubarak.

Iran navy saves US ship from pirates
Iran's navy says it saved an American- flagged cargo ship that was being attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Oman.

Russians air US fears on jet crash
Russian intelligence thinks the Superjet airliner that crashed during an exhibition flight in Indonesia may have been sabotaged by the United States, one of the country's most widely read dailies said.

Story adds up for man on the moon
The famously private Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has been coaxed into giving a rare interview - with an Australian accountant.



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