The West Indies won the toss and decided to bowl against India in a one-off T20 International at the Queen’s Park Oval here on Saturday.

India will feel pressured to retaliate if Pakistan-based militants launched an attack similar to the Mumbai assaults that killed more than 160 people and fueled anger across the country, minister of state for defence M.M. Pallam Raju said on Saturday.

Kidnapped Colombian journalist Mario Esteban Lopez escaped being burned alive by kidnappers because the gasoline they doused him with wetted their matches, he told EFE.

An undersea quake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale on Friday struck the sea off the east coast of Japan’s largest island of Honshu, Xinhua reported.

They might be without key senior players but even a second-string India would be hard to stop for the struggling West Indies when the two sides clash in a one-off Twenty20 match here on Saturday.

Syrian activists called protests on Friday over the dozens of children killed in anti-government protests after the opposition demanded President Bashar al-Assad’s “immediate resignation.”

Wartime Bosnian Serb Army Chief Ratko Mladic said on Friday he was a “gravely ill man” as he made his first appearance before a UN court in The Hague after 16 years on the run from genocide charges.

Tunisian authorities arrested the sister of the country’s toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as part of a continuing crackdown against the former first family, state media reported on Friday.

Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday survived a no-confidence vote after pledging to step down once the country is firmly on the road to recovery from the March 11 quake and nuclear disaster.

Five-year bans handed to three Pakistani cricketers for spot-fixing offences were too lenient, according to a survey of international players released on Thursday.