The zookeepers tried every way to divert the chimp's attention from cigarettes: a walk after breakfast, a music session after lunch and gym after dinner.
A major Chinese telecom firm has won an over $5 million contract in post-war Iraq, despite facing "some resistance" from the US-led provincial authority, the state media reported on Tuesday.
Officials say the move would simplify an irregular process and some estimates say it could quickly reduce the number of executions by 30 percent.
The dump near Batujbar village in Indonesia's Bandung district collapsed due to the heavy rains, burying the entire village in thousands of tons of stinking garbage.
The Athens Games champion can do better than 12.91 seconds, says his coach.
Hail and rainstorm killed 160 people in 11 provincial regions, mainly along the mighty Yangtze River and its distributaries, and have left 28 missing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
'Four vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices detonated in the Iraqi capital in the span of 90 minutes this morning,' the US military said. 'Initial reports indicate 26 people died in the blasts, with at least 21 more wounded.'
The number, 88888, for the internet messenger QQ, is being auctioned on a domestic Web site with bidding reaching 112,000 Yuan ($13,532) on Wednesday and still rising.
China has carried out a national campaign to crack down on phone sex services starting from July 2004.
China's coalmines are the world's deadliest, with explosions, floods and fires killing thousands of workers each year. Inadequate safety equipment and lax safety rules are often blamed for the accidents.
"Our relationship is so big that it is no longer a bilateral relationship. It has global dimensions," the report quoted Jaishankar as saying.
"One World, One Dream" is the new slogan for the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
A majority of the alien labor management committee members had agreed to prohibit pregnant foreigners from working in Thailand.
A man armed with a knife broke into the school at killed 8 sleeping children and injured four others before escaping.
Sme of the babies developed what doctors called 'big head disease,' where infants' heads appear abnormally large.
"Knowledge of and access to products, such as condoms, can help minimise possible harm to teenagers."
But a report in a government owned newspaper is silent about China's 'all-weather' friend Pakistan's role in the development of the fighter plane.
The move is likely to spark opposition from China, which recently witnessed massive protests over Japan's handling of its wartime past.
The farmers, 12 men and 12 women, were buried after some 650,000 cubic meters of loess, a fine wind-blown dust, sank Monday night in Qiaonan village of Jixian county.
The second Cambodian king in over 60 years, Sihamoni, 51, is son of Sihanouk and Queen Monineath.
The epidemic had forced the government to sack the health minister as well as the mayor of Beijing.
The boat named 'Baohua' has 698 passengers and 47 crew members, Xinhua news agency said.
The task of the alliance is to prevent hacking attacks from foreign countries.
The miners were working beneath the shaft of Tengda, a township-run coal mine, when the flooding occurred around 0530 IST and have remained out of contact ever since, they added.
The calf weighs 23 kg, is 86 cm long and 62.5 cm tall.
These include 15 headless bodies found inside an abandoned army base in Latifiya.
China Telecom, the country's leading telecom carrier, has invested US $17 million to set telephone networks
Global steel giant Mittal Steel Co has bought its first stake in China's steel industry, purchasing a 37 per cent share of a state-owned steel mill, a news report said on Friday.
China will build its first long-term underwater observation platform in resource-rich South China Sea, where it has territorial disputes with many south-east Asian countries including Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
The telephonic talk between Modi and Xi came a day after Modi congratulated Xi on Chinese social media.
The one-armed robot, code named 'Super-D', is expected to serve at airports and in other public places.
The CRJ-200 plane was en route to the eastern metropolis Shanghai, it said.
A total of 1,850 houses were destroyed and 6,350 houses and 12 public buildings were damaged after two fuel trains collided.
Forty-eight miners were working underground when the blast occurred.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
The accident occurred on a mountain highway in the outlying Qianjiang district at 0250 hrs local time [1220 IST].
