Yemen prevents 10-year-old from accepting Women’s World award

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - An anti-government Sri Lankan newspaper, whose editor was shot dead in January by unknown gunmen, has been named for a prestigious freedom of expression award in London. The Sunday Leader was given the top Guardian Journalism Award as part of the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression awards Tuesday.

April 7th, 2009 GENEVA - Eight people drowned and 22 others were missing and presumed dead, after two boats heading from Somalia to Yemen encountered troubles at sea over the weekend, the UN said Tuesday. One boat carrying 40 Somalis capsized and only 20 passengers made it to shore in Yemen, the UN quoted survivors as saying.

March 31st, 2009 BERLIN - An Indian company, CICO Technologies, has been awarded the Golden Award for Quality and Business Prestige for the year 2008. The International Selection Committee of Association Otherways Management & Consulting, France, conferred the award on Anasuya Gupta, chairperson and managing director, at a ceremony here Monday.

March 29th, 2009 SANA'A - Yemen Saturday extradited to Saudi Arabia five Saudi suspects wanted in their country over links to terrorist activities, security sources said. The sources said the suspects included Abdullah Abdul-Rahman al-Harbi, a leading Al Qaeda suspect who was arrested in southern Yemen March 14.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Alifiya Khan, 24, has won the third Anupama Jayaraman Memorial journalism award for exposing loopholes in the country's healthcare system with a series of investigative articles. The award consists of a citation and a cash award of Rs.15,000.

February 10th, 2009 LONDON - Leonardo DiCaprio has won the International Green Award at the eighth annual Cinema For Peace Gala in Berlin. The eco-friendly actor was given the award Monday by former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who first met the star when he appeared in DiCaprio's environmental documentary 'The 11th Hour', reports contactmusic.com.

February 8th, 2009 LONDON - Indian composer A.R. Rahman has said he hoped to become only the third Indian to bag an Oscar after picking up the coveted BAFTA award for his score in the film 'Slumdog Millionaire.' 'It is a great feeling...

February 1st, 2009 CHENNAI -: India have been placed in pool D along with Australia, Belarus and the US for the 2009 Women's Junior World Cup hockey to be held in Boston, US, from Aug 3-16. The International Hockey Federation released the groupings of the tournament Monday.

January 31st, 2009 LONDON - Irish-British filmmaker Danny Boyle's underdog drama 'Slumdog Millionaire' has bagged the Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film. The DGA is tipped as a barometer for the Academy Award for Best Director and only six times since the DGA awards began in 1948 has the winner not gone on to receive the Best Director Oscar, reports contactmusic.com.

January 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan will be honoured by the World Economic Forum for outstanding excellence in art. The Crystal Award is to be conferred on the veteran actor at a ceremony at Davos, Switzerland later Saturday.

January 29th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor will be honoured by the Rotary Club for being the youngest achiever of the film industry. She will be given the Vocational Excellence Award by Bansi Dhurandhar Feb 1 here at the Grand Hyatt, Santacruz.

January 24th, 2009 SYDNEY - The aboriginal academic voted Australian of the Year for 2009 said after accepting the award Sunday that it was offensive to indigenous people that the nation's most important public holiday marked the start of white colonisation in 1788. 'To most indigenous Australians, it (Australia Day) really reflects the day on which our world came crashing down,' Mick Dodson, a professor, said after being conferred the honour by the prime minister.

January 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood star Aamir Khan is hoping that political parties will bring a positive change to the political milieu by fielding honest and intelligent candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. 'I think public sentiment is that we are looking for leaders to be positive and progressive and take us forward and we would like to believe that you would do that and you can do that,' Aamir said at the NDTV Indian of the Year 2008 award ceremony here Wednesday.

January 17th, 2009 SANAA - Hundreds of people were missing after three boats capsized in two separate incidents off the coast of Yemen Saturday, a UN official said here Sunday. In one incident, two boats, with around 300 African migrants on board, capsized on the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen.

January 12th, 2009 ZURICH - Manchester United's Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo, who last month won the European Footballer of the Year, was Monday named FIFA World Footballer of the Year. Ronaldo, 23, who made history by becoming the first Premier League-based player to win the award, beat off the other finalists Kaka, Lionel Messi, Fernando Torres and Xavi to win the award.