US covertly aided rebels: Wikileaks
London, Jan. 29: The US secretly backed rebel leaders, who are responsible for the uprising in Egypt and the US embassy in Cairo even helped a dissident to attend a summit for activists in New York.
Evacuation at UN council blamed on sewage stink
United Nations, Dec. 21: Sewage from an unusually high tide caused a stink that forced the emergency evacuation of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, a UN spokesman said.
The Security Council chambe
Russia-bound flight makes emergency landing
A Moscow-bound flight carrying 204 people was forced to make an emergency landing at the JFK airport here after blowing one of its two engines during takeoff.
Meet the 'most dangerous man in the world'
Washington: Yemen-based American-born Al-Qaeda suspect Anwar Al Awlaki has been described as 'the most dangerous man in the world' by an intelligence research specialist attached with the New York Pol
Punjabi IT man cheats Grammy winner of millions
New York: A Punjabi computer repairman put the secret cult Opus Dei in Dan Brown's epic novel 'The Da Vinci Code' to great use to fleece a Latin Grammy-winning pianist and oil-family heir to the tune
‘India should not expect UNSC permanent membership soon’
New York: US President Barack Obama might have endorsed India for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), but as Japan has experienced, the booming South Asian democracy should
US suicide: Indian-origin pupil 'never transmitted' gay-sex clip
New York: The lawyer for an Indian origin student in New Jersey university who has been charged with invasion of privacy for secretly filming gay-sex footage of roommate Tyler Clementi, has claimed th
Model sues Apple for making her a sex sensation
New York: An aspiring model in the US has sued an app-maker and Apple for making her an international sex sensation on the Internet.
Rebecca Battino, 19, from Long Island, had taken the sexy self-po
Karzai chief-of-staff received cash from Iran
New York: Iran has provided millions of dollars to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief of staff Umar Daudzai in "a secret, steady stream of cash" in a bid to buy his loyalty and drive a wedge betwee
Four NY men convicted in synagogue bomb plot
New York: Four New York men were convicted of plotting to blow up synagogues and shoot down US military aircraft after a trial hinging on the testimony of a paid FBI informant, the federal prosecutor'