A top level delegation from 29 colleges and universities, primarily from the US, will be in Sri Lanka fm 30 September to 2 October as part of the Council of International School (CIS) South Asia tour. A spokesman for Scholarships for USA said the representatives will talk to students and parents about the university admission ...

Emmanuel Ray, winner of Fashions Finest’s Fashion Icon of the Year award (2011), has been asked to officially open Gibraltar Fashion Week commencing 19 April 2012. Emmanuel will meet with fashion designers, press and a selection of important members of the Gibraltarian government. Reene Weston, designer and organiser had the following to say about why she chose ...

Reuters: The trustee seeking money for victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, who lost an estimated $20 billion, may pursue claims against wives of the imprisoned swindler’s sons, a US federal court judge said on Wednesday. US Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland in Manhattan said the trustee Irving Picard may pursue about $43 million of claims ...

Business deals worth $850 million were signed at the second Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS), said a senior government official. Millions of dollars have also been pumped into the economy by the thousands of visitors who came to Bahrain for the three-day event, said Civil Aviation Affairs (CAA) Under-Secretary Captain Abdulrahman Al Gaoud. ‘We have already ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters): Indian federal police said on Monday they are formally investigating a former telecoms minister, his media mogul brother, and a Malaysian tycoon over their roles in a sprawling telecoms scandal that has damaged the government. Police have raided the homes of former minister Dayanidhi Maran — the second former telecoms minister to ...

Three million poor people in Africa and South Asia, the majority of them women, will gain access to low-cost mobile phone numbers as part of technology firm Movirtu’s partnership with the United Nations-backed initiative that enlists the private sector in efforts to fight poverty. Instead of sharing a phone number with family members or neighbours, ...