A man walks in front of burnt trucks torched by suspected militants in an attack early on Wednesday at San-gjani, near Islamabad. Suspected militants attacked the trucks carrying supplies to Nato and US forces in Afghanistan, killing nine people and gutting

From Dunga to the downright eccentric Diego Maradona, the leading coaches at the World Cup are plotting different ways to win the title.
Brazil coach Dunga has upset millions of his countrymen by leaving out big stars such as Ronaldinho, Alexandre Pato and Adriano out of a squad he believes needs stability to win a sixth World Cup.

Two Malaysian princes reached an out-of-court settlement on Wednesday to end a spat over who had the right to use a Bentley luxury car owned by their father, a lawyer said.

Sikh pilgrims on a special train to Pakistan at a station in Amritsar on Tuesday.

Richard Gasquet won his first match on grass in nearly two years on Monday to reach the second round of the Queen’s Club tournament.
The No. 11-seeded Frenchman defeated Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-3, 6-3 after missing the entire 2009 grass-court season because of a drug suspension. His last match on the surface was against Andy Murray in the 2008 Wimbledon fourth round.

Switzerland’s efforts to calm a banking furore hit a major setback on Tuesday as nationalist and left-wing lawmakers blocked a treaty with the United States that would have allowed UBS to hand over thousands more files on its American clients to US tax authorities.

Renewed worries about European sovereign debt, this time Britain’s, knocked equities back on Tuesday and ate into early euro gains against the dollar. Europe’s FTSEurofirst 300 was down 0.9 per cent, giving up an early rise.

Nicknames are a big part of popular culture in most countries, particularly in sports, but most still hold tight to formalised names when it comes to anything official. Not so the Brazilians. Affectionate familiarity in Brazil is for everyone from the kid next door all the way up to the country’s president. They don’t use the last names.

Two more American troops were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the military said, extending a spike of bloodshed into a second day and pushing the Nato losses in the country to 23 in just over a week

Helen Thomas, the opinionated White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 Presidents and often exasperate them, lost her storied perch on Monday in a flap over