Europe Europe Top Story Blair looks set for comeback in UK Britons voted in bright sunshine Thursday in an election expected to give Prime Minister Tony Blair a landslide victory and make him the most successful leader in his Labor Party's 100-year history. France France condemns Taliban dress code France has joined the growing chorus against the Taliban for forcing Hindus in Afghanistan to wear a distinctive badge of identity, in what is being viewed as the growing divide between Paris and Kabul. Porn stars ejected from shocked Cannes hotel A Cannes hotel threw a team of porn stars out of its premises on Tuesday, causing chaos on the resort's famous La Croisette beachfront. The scantily-clad actresses had planned to use a reception room and terrace at the Noga Hilton to promote some of their latest productions, but hotel management said they had been kept in the dark about the true nature of the event.
Indian art seems to be getting back in vogue here.
The Indian community in Germany is grieving the death of Hiltrude Khan, a German scholar on Islamic studies and India, who died in a Frankfurt hospital April 14 and was buried at the central cemetery of Frankfurt. Russia Russia offers India theatre missile defense system Russia has offered to help India in creating a theater missile defense system that will combine missiles and radars from the two countries in keeping with recent efforts to jointly produce hi-tech military hardware. India, Russia to jointly build aircraft India and Russia are likely to jointly produce a sophisticated fifth generation combat aircraft, currently being developed by Sukhoi construction bureau, and a multi-role military transport aircraft, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov. India, Russia to set up pricing body for defense hardware India and Russia will set up a body to deal with irregularities in Moscow's pricing policy for military hardware and spare parts, a major concern for India's armed forces, official sources said. Russia has strongly condemned the ruling Taliban militia's decree imposing a dress code for Afghanistan's Hindu and Sikh minorities as a blatant violation of fundamental human rights.