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NTT DoCoMo, Japanese mobile phone operator, will soon team up with McDonalds to offer electronic payments and special promotions for mobile users.”It gives both McDonald’s and DoCoMo the opportunity to track consumers and their eating habits. Cash is more likely to be used in small transactions. Electronic payments will allow user behaviour to be tracked and used for marketing purposes,” said Julie Ask, an analyst with research firm Jupiter to BBC NEWS

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According to Officials in India , a train Blast on a Pakistan-bound train- the Samjhauta Express - was part of a service taking passengers from Delhi to Lahore in Pakistan, near Panipat, about 80km (50 miles) north of Delhi Killed at least 64 people
A spokesman for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the explosions were probably an “act of terror”.
A number of other passengers were injured, and officials say the death toll may rise.

Read More at BBC or Yahoo
Updated News at BBC 20/Feb/2007

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Every time you receive an unwanted call from a telemarketer, you are legally owed $500.Yes this is completely TRUE.André-Tascha Lammé from Sacramento, California did it Read the rest of this entry »

145,000 people are homeless after Torrential rain in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta.Many of the homeless have taken shelter in schools and mosques, while others refuse to leave their partially flooded homes.According to report the floods are said to be the worst in the city in five years and have already kill at least seven people.

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Rescue official said that an explosion through a coal mine in a remote northeast Colombia,San Roque 255 miles northeast of Bogota,burying at least 31 miners in tunnels filled with deadly gases.

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Manu Sharma, son of former Congress party federal minister Venod Sharma has appealed in the Supreme Court against a lower court order that sentenced him to life in prison for murdering a model, Jessica Lal in 1999.Prosecutors said Manu Sharma fired at Jessica Lal after she refused to serve him a drink at a fashionable restaurant in the capital where she was working as a waitress,and demanded that Sharma be sentenced to death. Read the rest of this entry »

Jim Wilson II, from St Louis, Missouri, 84-year-old World War II veteran,served in the US 82nd Airborne Division in Africa and Europe during World War II Read the rest of this entry »

According to some report another outbreak of bird flu was
suspected in Japan on Tuesday 27 Jan 2006 after 23
chickens were found dead at a farm in the southern of Japan.
Japan has confirmed only one human H5N1 infection, and no human deaths till today.”We found the dead birds today and are investigating whether the virus is present,results could take days.”
Official said.

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“ A German lorry driver has thrown away tens of thousands of euros after winning a radio competition by promising to do precisely that.
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An explosion on Saturday killed Read the rest of this entry »

The founder of Emmaüs died on Monday aged 94.Emmaus is a work project which provides a home for homeless people and a place for them to work, renovating old furniture.

Les obsèques de l’abbé Pierre auront lieu en fin de semaine “dans la plus stricte intimité”, Read the rest of this entry »

Moira Cameron is the First female Beefeater appointed.Her uniforms will differ only from her male colleagues’ Read the rest of this entry »