Vehicles carrying coffins head to the Pakistan army training camp in Mardan near Peshawar, Pakistan on February 10. A 12-year-old boy suicide bomber in a school uniform attacked soldiers during morning exercise
One of the founders of OpenLeaks, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, holds his book 'Inside WikiLeaks' after his arrival for a news conference in Berlin, Germany, February 10. (AP Photo) Berlin, February 10 (DPA): A f
South Korean delegate Army Col. Moon Sang-gyun, second from left, is questioned by reporters as he leaves for military meeting with North Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, February 8. The group of South Kor
JUBA, February 9 (AFP): South Sudan’s minister of cooperatives and rural development Jimmy Lemi Milla and his bodyguard were shot dead in Juba on Wednesday, the southern army’s spokesman said, in wh
ISLAMABAD , February 9 (AP): Aides to Pakistan's president expressed confidence Wednesday that Islamabad and Washington could amicably resolve a growing diplomatic crisis over the fate of a former U.S. Special
A southern Sudanese man watches a publicly televised broadcast of the formal announcement of referendum results in the southern capital of Juba , Monday, February 7. Referendum officials indicated that nearly 9
LONDON, February 8 (BBC): There are competing visions on offer of what has been happening in Egypt, as this extraordinary political stalemate drags on.The people of the country, already shocked by the way polit
LONDON, February 8 (AFP): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was facing a second day in a British court Tuesday fighting an attempt to extradite him to Sweden over allegations of rape and molestation.The 39-year-
A statue of Jesus Christ is left smashed on the floor at the church that was attacked by Muslim hardliners in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners stormed
Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters hang a horse’s saddle as a war trophy which was seized during violence earlier in the week when pro-Mubarak combatants, some on horses and camels, hurled concrete, metal b
Perth, February 6 (AFP): Wildfires threatened homes and new flooding forced evacuations in embattled Australia, as officials warned that last week's monster cyclone would compound economic woes.Hot and gusty co
TEHRAN, February 6 (AP): An Iranian court began closed-door proceedings Sunday in the espionage trial of three Americans — two still in custody and one freed on bail — whose detention has been the s
KATHMANDU, February 6 (Agencies): Though a seven-month-old political vacuum ended on Sunday with Nepal's new Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal taking oath of office and secrecy, the swearing-in was marred by disp
BANGKOK, February 6 (Reuters): Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire on a disputed stretch of their border on Sunday, witnesses said, the third flare-up in three days in an ancient feud over territory surr
ISLAMABAD, February 6 (PTI): A US legal firm representing the Bhutto-Zardari family has threatened to file a lawsuit seeking over $100 million in damages if Pakistan's Jang media group does not apologise for a
Cairo, February 5 (NYT): President Hosni Mubarak appeared increasingly isolated on Saturday, with protests entering their 12th day and the Obama administration and some members of the Egyptian military and civi
SANTA BARBARA, California, February 5 (Reuters): Republican Sarah Palin said on Friday an explosion of government spending and debt under President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats had put the United State
VATICAN CITY, February 5 (AP): Pope Benedict XVI insisted Saturday on his exclusive right to ordain bishops as he consecrated a Chinese prelate in an implicit challenge to attempts by China's official church to
Islamabad, February 5 (ANI): The Taliban’s “master recruiter” has boasted of his expertise at swaying people to terror, saying he can turn a young man into a suicide bomber in just half-an-hou
TULLY HEADS, Australia, February 5 (AP): The cyclone that tore through Australia's northeast this week brought fresh misery to people in the south on Saturday, causing flash flooding in the second-largest city