China quashes claims of its star-wars dreams

October 28th, 2009 LONDON - A website asking people to give information on a mysterious man that thousands of people across the globe claim to have seen in dreams has become an instant hit. The site, thisman.org, says that a woman first drew the face of the mystery man during a session with her psychiatrist three years ago, after he repeatedly appeared in her dreams, reports the Sun.

October 22nd, 2009 Dalai Lama to tour Indian region despite China ireDHARMSALA, India — The Dalai Lama is going ahead with a scheduled visit to India's remote northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh next month, ignoring protests by China, which claims the region as its territory, a spokesman said Thursday. The Tibetan spiritual leader will visit the Tawang Buddhist monastery in the state bordering China on Nov.

October 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - US Senator John Kerry has said that the caveats associated with the Kerry-Lugar Bill were to ensure that Pakistan didn't spend the aid money on arming to "fight wars with India." During his brief visit to Pakistan, Kerry was asked to clarify the wording with regard to caveats associated with spending the KLB money on Pakistan's nuclear programme. The News quoted the co-founder of the bill, as saying that those caveats were to make sure that Pakistan did not spend this money on purposes for which it is not intended, like arming to "fight wars with India".

September 23rd, 2009 Gadhafi chastises UN for failing to prevent warsUNITED NATIONS — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is chastising the United Nations for failing to intervene or prevent some 65 wars that have erupted around the world since the organization was founded in 1945. Gadhafi spoke Wednesday at the opening session of the General Assembly, taking the podium after U.S.

September 19th, 2009 ISTANBUL - For peace to prevail along the Sino-Indian border, all boundary issues need to be resolved in right earnest, External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna said in an exclusive interview to ANI here on Friday.

August 22nd, 2009 BEIJING - US President Barack Obama will visit China in mid-November, the US ambassador here announced Saturday. "Much is happening in US-China relations this year.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - Scores of British people employed a range of musical talent and tricks as they tried hard to win the title in the World Worm Charming Championships on June 27. While some strummed their guitars, others tap danced on a plank to the theme from Star Wars to bring out worms.

June 29th, 2009 LAHORE - Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has said that both Pakistan and India should learn a lesson from European countries and normalise their relations. In an interview with Najam Sethi, Altaf said it was unfortunate that the ruling elite of India had always projected Pakistan as a threat to India while the Pakistani ruling elite had always 'taught' Pakistani masses that India was a threat to Pakistan.

June 27th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees has refuted media claims in Pakistan that a large number of internal refugees uprooted by the anti-Taliban offensive were returning to their native places, by saying that there was no large-scale movement out of the makeshift camps. The Nation quoted UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler as saying that most IDPs in NWFP have not visited their native place, while some of the people returned on a "go and see basis" to harvest crops, secure cattle or check on homes.

June 16th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Transvestites in Malaysia have turned to contraceptive pills to become more of a woman. They believe that the drug will help convert their manly bodies into the more curvy female figure.

May 20th, 2009 LONDON - Rejecting Australian Defence White Paper's claims that the US supremacy is fading in the Asia-Pacific region, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the US did not see the rise of China as "a zero-sum game" which would inevitably leave America weakened. Speaking to the foreign press corps in Washington DC overnight, Clinton rejected that the economic rise of China and other nations in the region would inevitably mean that US power would decline after 2030 - and that Australia needs to prepare for that world.

May 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has been registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest militarized territorial dispute in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records used the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) world fact book to name the Kashmir issue, the longest dispute between two countries, The Daily Times reports.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lin Hao is no longer camera shy, for the youngest of China's "quake heroes" to emerge from last year's catastrophe is filming for a third television role. The 10-year-old, who had rescued two fellow students from classroom rubble after being left with a head injury that required a hair transplant, is presently shooting for a sitcom entitled Stories at the Nurse Station.

May 11th, 2009 LONDON - Darth Vader's comment - "Luke, I am your father" - in one of the Star Wars films is the most misquoted phrase by film fans, according to a poll. Vader's comment to Luke Skywalker in 'The Empire Strikes Back' has topped the list of the 'movie misquotes'.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit police officer has become the first Jedi cop to come forward and admit that she is a devotee of the Star Wars-inspired religion. After 23 years of patrolling the mean streets of Glasgow, Pam Fleming is a beat officer, who has finally said, "I'm a Jedi and I'm proud." Light sabre in hand, the cop has also admitted to using Jedi mind tricks during interviews with suspects in 'an effort to achieve the truth'.owever, talking to industry magazine Police Review, she has claimed of not using 'The Force' to influence what suspects say or do.