World

  • Pakistan wants distinction between Taliban and al-Qaeda
    Islamabad, June 10 (Agencies): Pakistan and the US have resolved to ensure that al-Qaeda is "dismantled, disrupted and defeated", though Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani wants a distinction to be mad
    World / 10th June 2011
  • Japan disaster victims face mental health risks
    TOKYO, June 10 (AP): Survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami need long-term mental health care to protect them from debilitating conditions that could lead to suicide, Japan's government said Friday.In
    World / 10th June 2011
  • Women lost in Nepal ate grass, bamboo to survive
    KATMANDU, June 10 (AP): A Japanese woman who was lost in Nepal's mountains for nearly two weeks said Friday that she survived by eating grass, drinking river water, taking shelter in small caves and praying.Mak
    World / 10th June 2011
  • Gadhafi forces using sex drugs for rape?
    In this photo taken on a government organized tour, Libyan soldiers walk past Moammar Gadhafi’s portrait seen next to a damaged building in Tripoli, Libya on Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo) UNITED N
    World / 10th June 2011
  • Bean sprouts source of deadly E. coli outbreak
    A scientist runs tests on bean sprouts in the southern German town of Fellbach. Germany has blamed sprouts for a bacteria outbreak that has left at least 30 dead and some 3,000 ill, and cost farmers across Euro
    World / 10th June 2011
  • More vaccines could save 6.4 million lives
    LONDON, June 9 (Reuters): Millions of children's lives and billions of dollars could be saved if vaccines were more widely available in 72 of the world's poorest countries, according to research published on Th
    World / 9th June 2011
  • Thatcher aides call Palin nuts
    LONDON, June 9 (PTI): Britains first female prime minister Margaret Thatcher has reportedly snubbed Americas glamourous politician Sarah Palin by refusing her request for a one-to-one meeting in London. The 47-
    World / 9th June 2011
  • Powers plot ‘post-Gadhafi’ future as rebels eye cash
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, speaks with  Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, left, and United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash, right,
    World / 9th June 2011
  • Insurgents shoot dead nine wedding guests
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan, June 9  (Reuters): Insurgents shot dead nine wedding guests and wounded five more in Afghanistan's turbulent east, local officials said on Thursday, the latest attack on revelers wh
    World / 9th June 2011
  • China says no expiry date on Communist Party rule
    BEIJING, June 9 (Reuters): China's Communist Party sees no reason why it cannot stay in power indefinitely, having made the nation into the envy of the world with its economic success, one of the Party's top of
    World / 9th June 2011
  • Fighting turns southern Yemen town into “hell”
    ADEN/JEDDAH, June 9 (Reuters): Bodies lay in the streets of a southern Yemeni town Wednesday as government forces battled Islamist militants, a local official said, underscoring the gravity of Yemen's multiple
    World / 9th June 2011
  • Female war prisoners should be sex slaves for men: Politician
    London, June 9 (Agencies): A woman politician from Kuwait has sparked anger and disbelief by calling for legalization of sex slaves, saying it would protect men from adultery, and suggesting that female prisone
    World / 9th June 2011
  • ‘UK varsities breeding ground for terrorism’
    London, June 7 (Agencies): British Home Secretary Theresa May has criticised universities for their alleged “complacency” in tackling radicalisation and Islamic extremism on campus. In an interview
    World / 7th June 2011
  • Battles rage in al Qaeda-held Yemen town, 25 dead
    SANAA/ADEN, June 7 (Reuters): Fighting flared on Tuesday in a southern Yemen city seized by Islamist militants, killing at least 25 people, a local official said, after Washington urged President Ali Abdullah S
    World / 7th June 2011
  • New Zealand mourns death of Shrek the famously shaggy sheep
    Wellington, June 7 (AP): New Zealanders were mourning the loss of the country’s most famous sheep on Tuesday, a shaggy national icon named Shrek who was renowned for avoiding being shorn for years.Shrek c
    World / 7th June 2011
  • Russian envoy meets Libya rebels, Tripoli bombed
    Benghazi, June 7 (AFP): President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy Mikhail Marglov was Tuesday meeting with Libyan rebel leaders in the first trip by a top Russian official to their stronghold, as NATO warplanes pounded
    World / 7th June 2011
  • UN could split Afghan Taliban, al-Qaida black list
    KABUL, June 7 (AP): The United Nations said Tuesday it is considering creating separate terrorism blacklists for al-Qaida and the Taliban, a political gesture that could spur possible Afghan peace talks.Peter W
    World / 7th June 2011
  • Attack kills 120 Syrian forces; crackdown feared
    Beirut, June 7 (AP): Armed men have killed 120 Syrian security forces and torched government buildings in a northern region where troops have unleashed deadly assaults on protesters for days, Syria said. The go
    World / 7th June 2011
  • McCain warns Myanmar risks Arab-style uprising
    YANGON, June 3 (AFP): US Senator John McCain warned that Myanmar could face a Middle East-style revolution if the new army-backed government fails to implement democratic reform and improve human rights. "
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • Surviving the killing fields in Bosnia
    In this photo taken Thursday, June 2, 2011, Bosnian Muslim Mevludin Oric says a prayer in front of the grave of his brother Sejdalija Oric at the Potocari memorial center near Srebrenica. Oric, a Bosnian Muslim
    World / 3rd June 2011
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