Court seeks reply from govt on AQ
May 11: A Pakistani court has sought reply from the government regarding the restriction on the movement of the disgraced nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan.
Police, allies kill 18 rebels in Afghan
Kabul, May 11: The Afghan police, troops and intelligence agents backed by Nato forces killed 18 militants in a joint operation in Afghanistan’s restive southern province of Helmand, the interior mini
US tornadoes kill 5, dozens go missing
Norman (Oklahoma), May 11: Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains of the United States killed five people and injured dozens, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and dow
‘US wants to serve me on platter to media’
Paris: Filmmaker Roman Polanski, breaking a months-long silence, said on Sunday that the US is demanding his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old sex case largely to serve him “on a platter t
Iran, US take N-cases to UN
May 3: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brings his nuclear case to New York on Monday, turning a UN treaty conference into a stage for Tehran’s long-running showdown with the Western powers over
Legionaries agree to papal takeover
May 3: The Vatican’s decision to assume leadership of the scandal-plagued Legi-onaries of Christ won acceptance on Sunday from the order itself and praise from those who abandoned the conservative mov
Close aide of Arafat dies in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, May 3: Moshe Hirsch, an American-born anti-Zionist rabbi and close associate of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, has died in Jerusalem, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish gro-up said.
Maoist strike shuts Nepal for 2nd day
May 3: A strike to force the resignation of Nepal’s Prime Minister shut down the capital for second day Monday as political parties struggled to reach a compromise to end the standoff between the gove
Afghan suicide attack kills 1 near CIA base
Kabul, May 3: A suicide attack outside a CIA base killed one civilian and wounded two security guards Monday in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.
Miliband likely to lead Labour
May 3: Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s chances of retaining power are being increasingly written off and now the wrangle for the leadership of the Labour party is making the news.