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NEW YORK - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie has attacked executives from some of the world's biggest companies for putting "token women" in senior management-level jobs.

LONDON - Pressure is reportedly mounting on Rajendra Pachauri to resign as head of the UN climate change panel over fears that his increasingly troubled tenure is hampering efforts to halt global warming. ccording to The Telegraph, the Indian chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been dogged by controversy since he was forced to admit a serious error in a landmark report arguing the case for man-made global warming earlier this year.

MELBOURNE - Members of the military are set to meet at the National Press Club in Washington to talk about their UFO encounters.

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NEW DELHI - If Greek conqueror Alexander the Great was to visit India nearly 2,500 years after his first incursion into the country, he would find it beset with "similar issues", says Aniruddha Bahal, whose novel, "The Emissary", was launched here.