Even as India reportedly lodged a “strong protest” with Washington over the arrest of an Indian diplomat’s daughter in New York, the United States stuck to its position that family members of consular officials do not enjoy diplomatic immunity.

Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested five CIA informants who fed information to the US spy agency before the raid in May which killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

US President Barack Obama congratulated the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on his “historic victory” in the recently concluded general elections in Turkey.

The top US military officer is vowing long-term commitment to Afghanistan, touting progress in the war against the Taliban and its Al Qaeda allies ahead of an American drawdown.

It will remain a mystery for ever as to why the 12-member jury of a Chicago court acquitted Tahawwur Husain Rana from his involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attack that killed more than 160 people, as charged by federal prosecutors in one of the three counts.

The pullout of two dark-horse candidates left France’s Christine Lagarde and Mexico’s Agustin Carstens the only apparent competitors to head the IMF as nominations closed at midnight on Friday.

Justifying a controversial plea bargain deal cut with the Mumbai attacks accused David Headley that spared him from death penalty and extradition to India, a top US Attorney on Friday said that not doing the pact would have been a “terrible mistake”.

The US space agency is ready to launch a satellite to observe levels of salt on the surface of the world’s oceans and how changes in salinity may be linked to future climate, Nasa said on Friday.

The 12-member jury of a federal court here on Wednesday held deliberations against Tahawwur Rana, charged with involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, planning of a similar strike in Denmark and providing material support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.

A Pakistan-born Chicago businessman was part of the “inner circle” of terrorists who plotted the 2008 Mumbai attacks, US prosecutors said in closing arguments on Tuesday.