 More than 6,000 Taiwan couples got married Thursday, believing it was a lucky day as it had a string of nines - a lucky number - in it. The reason for the celebration was that according to Taiwan's calendar, which began with the founding of the Republic of China - Taiwan's formal title - in 1911, Thursday is the ninth day of the ninth month of the 99th year of its calendar. For Chinese people, nine, which also means everlasting, is a lucky number. When two or more nines run together, it is more auspicious. According to the interior ministry, by 5 p.m. Thursday, 6,063 couples had registered their
 Iran Thursday said Israel was behind the plan by a US pastor to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attack, the official news agency IRNA reported. "The software for this plan was made by the Zionists (Israel) following their defeats against Muslims and the Islamic world," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with foreign diplomats in Tehran. Terry Jones, who leads an evangelical congregation of just 50 people at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has proclaimed Saturday "International Burn a
 With incessant rains causing havoc with the final leg of preparations for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games, Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and sports minister M.S. Gill Thursday insisted there was no need to press the panic button, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to visit the Games Village Tuesday to take stock of the situation. The prime minister's visit to the Village -- with the Games barely 21 days away -- comes in the wake of apprehensions expressed over its readiness as the first contingent of
 US President Barack Obama Thursday condemned the plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, saying it could endanger the lives of US military personnel serving in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Terry Jones, the pastor at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, is planning to conduct an "International Burn a Quran Day" Saturday.
If the church went ahead with its plans, the burning could endanger US military personnel serving in Pakistan and Afghanistan,
 A suicide car bomb attack in a busy marketplace in Russia's Vladikavkaz city, capital of North Ossetia, left at least 15 people dead Thursday, according to the Itar-Tass news agency.
Around 80 people were injured when the car packed with 40 kg of TNT exploded, according to the interior ministry of the Republic of North Ossetia. Two people were in the car, which bore the licence plates of the neighbouring predominantly Muslim republic of Ingushetia.
The attack, which occurred on the final day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan,
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