According to a report published in the New York Times, British, Indian, and American intelligence agencies failed to piece together major plot details of Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba before they carried out the gruesome, three-day onslaught in Mumbai in 2008 that left 166 dead, including six Americans.
An illegally-constructed, half-completed building in the Mumbai suburb of Thane collapsed on Thursday evening, killing at least 45 people, including several children. Over 50 people were injured, and more than 20 are still missing; rescue workers, wielding construction equipment and driving bulldozers, are still at…
After discovering himself during 10-hour sessions on the Rock of Ages dance floor, Tom Cruise has an announcement to make:
Yesterday, the world was gifted with a video of President and Mrs. Obama bustin' some moves with children in Mumbai, India. Now, not 24 hours later, we have this remix: same video, new soundtrack (50 Cent's "In Da Club").
The headline says it all here, honestly. Here's a video that Science Channel host Danny Forster took with his iPhone (and posted to his Twitter page) this morning of two goats, in Mumbai, tied to—and dancing around!—a box.
Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani is about to move into his new house, the world's largest: a 27-story skyscraper in Mumbai. It has three helipads, a parking garage and 600 staff members. It's worth £630 million, or about $9 bajillion.
[Two container ships collided near Mumbai on Monday, placing the Arabian sea in danger of an oil spill from the MSC Chitra, the ship seen tilting dangerously here. Pic via AP]
Ugh. The story of the Slumdog Millionaire kids just keeps getting sadder. Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, who played Dev Patel's character as a little boy, just had his shanty house bulldozed by the government.
Remember how we all got all mad at the Bush administration for fear-mongering after 9/11? They squandered international goodwill with a dumb war, and they tried to make us all afraid, all the time, so we'd keep voting for them, forever, to keep us safe? What bad, bad people, those Republicans. Anyways. On Good Morning…
We had a fun couple weeks there, congratulating ourselves for Barack Obama's historic, Liberals Save America presidential win, accepting other countries' "we're so proud of you" head nods and whatnot. It seemed like the country was back on track for a second, ready to head out into the world beloved for our bold and…
Can't stand CNN? Don't want to keep Googling for news? Pop open a browser window and leave a Twitter search for "mumbai" running. People are posting photo links and group-sulking, rather than the usual sort of "if only they had used Twitter more in Mumbai, none of this would have happened" chatter. You can always go…
Hey there, Angelina Jolie, when you're not adopting babies or fainting all over the place, how's it going with A Mighty Heart? In the biopic, Angelina plays Marianne Pearl, wife of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan in 2002; Dan Futterman plays Daniel. Above, Futterman and Jolie…
