Japan’s deputy prime minister confirmed fresh financial aid for Myanmar on Friday during a visit to an industrial zone that underlined the long-isolated nation’s growing importance as an economic partner. With a... Read more »
The former graduate student accused of shooting a dozen people to death at a Colorado movie theater last summer sat impassively in court on Monday as police recounted the nightmarish mix of... Read more »
A Nepali army colonel was remanded in custody by a British court on Saturday after being charged with torturing two individuals at a military barracks during the Himalayan nation’s decade-long civil war.... Read more »
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Google (GOOG.O) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt began a controversial private mission to North Korea on Monday that will include an effort to secure the release... Read more »
A U.S. drone strike killed at least 10 people suspected to be Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s northern tribal areas on Sunday, intelligence sources said, days after another drone strike killed a top... Read more »
More areas of New South Wales have been given a catastrophic fire danger rating, as high temperatures and winds reach their peak. The northern and eastern Riverina and southern parts of the... Read more »
Prime Minister Julia Gillard met Tasmanian Fire Service officials battling the state’s devastating bushfires this morning as authorities prepared a convoy to get supplies into the cut-off Tasman Peninsula. Police have done... Read more »
Hamas, which governs Gaza, has allowed the West Bank political party, Fatah, to celebrate its 48th anniversary by staging a rally in Gaza City for the first time since its forces were... Read more »
Egypt’s government has sworn in 10 new ministers in a shuffle of the Cabinet aimed at mapping out ways of handling of the country’s struggling economy. The top posts that changed hands... Read more »
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has started a rare televised speech about the uprising against his rule. With rebels fighting their way closer to the seat of his power, state media said in a statement on... Read more »
The British hospital treating Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, said Friday that she has been temporarily discharged ahead of surgery. Queen Elizabeth Hospital... Read more »
Bushfires in southern Tasmanian may have claimed a number of lives, police say. There are no confirmed deaths as a result of the bushfires on the Tasman Peninsula, but police and defence... Read more »
By: Asif Haroon Raja; Sudden arrival of Chairman Minhajul Quran, Dr Tahirul Qadri in Pakistan and holding a mammoth public meeting at Minar-e-Pakistan on 23 December has puzzled the thinking minds and... Read more »
Team Green sealed their victory by winning their second match by 85 runs in the One-Day International (ODI) series against India in Kolkata, their first win against India in an ODI series... Read more »
Gunmen kidnapped seven soldiers from a bus in Pakistan on Wednesday, military officials said, just days after Taliban forces executed 21 pro-government paramilitaries they had seized. The gunmen took the seven soldiers... Read more »
Amid continuous down trend of the export volume Bangladesh has moved forward to increase shipment to the sanctions-torn Iran, officials said Sunday. Bangladesh mainly exports raw jute and jute goods to the Muslim nation... Read more »
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over a list of Indian prisoners currently held in Pakistani prisons to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad on Tuesday in accordance with the Agreement on... Read more »
By Abdus Sattar Ghazalli; A woman tells police she shoved a man to his death off a New York subway platform into the path of a train because she hates Muslims and... Read more »
Tens of thousands of protesters have marched on Hong Kong streets, demanding greater democracy and the resignation of the city’s embattled leader. Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride, reporting from Hong Kong, said Leung... Read more »
By Saeed Qureshi; The formal induction of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari into Pakistan’s murky political turf took place on the somber occasion of 5th death anniversary (27 December 2012) of his mother, former... Read more »
By Ram Puniyani: Hidden in the back pages of some major dailies, there was news that the third Samjhauta bomber was held in MP (16, Dec 2012). National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested... Read more »
By Saeed Qureshi: Muslims as religious entity have never been united, nor can there possibly be one brand of Islam ever. The irreconcilable conflict between Sunnis and Shias is a pernicious spillover... Read more »
سید عتیق الحسن، سڈنی آسٹریلیاء محترمہ بے نظیر بھٹو کی پانچویں برسی کے موقع پرسیاسی اکابرین ، صحافت کے الم برداروں اور پاکستان کی عوام کو صدر مملک آصف علی زرداری سے... Read more »
By Syed Atiq ul Hassan Upon arrival in Pakistan and while talking to the media Dr. Allama Tahir ul Qadri said that he would answer to all those questions and clarify those... Read more »