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WASHINGTON - Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, John Boehner, has said that he would take President Barack Obama up on his offer to play golf while talking over the nation's debt problems.

KABUL - Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is allegedly reported to have offered 1.5 million US dollars (Rs.7.50 crores) to an Afghan journalist to assassinate India's Ambassador to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad and 0.8 million dollars (Rs.3.60 crores) to kill Baloch leader Brahmdagh Bugti.

NEVADA - Georgetown University in Washington DC, oldest and prestigious Catholic and Jesuit institute of higher learning in USA established in 1789, is offering various classes in Hinduism.ourses include Hindu Religious Tradition, Hinduism Today, Modern Hinduism, and Hindu Dharma; involving study of Vedas, Upanishads, Gandhi, Ramana Maharshi, sadhus, gurus, yogis, rituals, festivals, worship, devotional poetry and music, family, healing practices, pilgrimage, storytelling, Kabir, Mirabai, Laws of Manu, etc.istinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, described Georgetown's approach as "a step in the right direction".

MELBOURNE - A man in Australia has been given a suspended sentence and released on a bond for raping and getting his sister pregnant more than 20 years ago.

NEW YORK - Producer Barry Josephson, who once option Julian Assange's biography seemed to share with Assange a love for women.