World

  • ASEAN summit fails to resolve Thai-Cambodia conflict
    JAKARTA, May 8 (Reuters): Southeast Asian leaders failed to achieve any breakthrough Sunday to end deadly border skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia that overshadowed a regional summit in Jakarta supposed
    World / 8th May 2011
  • US to tap Gadhafi billions to aid Libya rebels
    Mahmoud Jibril, executive bureau chairman of the transitional national council in Libya meets with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome on  Thursday, May 5,
    World / 5th May 2011
  • ‘Osama killed according to war laws’
    Pakistanis walk by the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Thursday, May 5. The residents of Abbottabad were still confused and suspicious about the kil
    World / 5th May 2011
  • Many Native Indians irked Geronimo code name
    This 1887 file photo, provided by the National Archives shows the famed Indian warrior Geronimo, a Chiricahua Apache, posing with a rifle. The leader of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe is looking for a formal apolog
    World / 5th May 2011
  • Bin Laden was unarmed when US Navy SEALs stormed room
    People pass newspapers front pages with the report of Osama bin Laden’s death, at a newsstand in Berlin on Tuesday, May 3. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that ki
    World / 4th May 2011
  • 5 dead, 9 missing in coal mine explosion
    Family members of trapped miners embrace as they wait outside of a coal mine in San Juan de Sabinas in the Mexican state of Coahuila on Tuesday, May 3. (AP Photo) SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico, May 4 (AP): M
    World / 4th May 2011
  • Fatah, Hamas proclaim landmark reconciliation pact
    Palestinians wave the Palestinian and Egyptian flags as they take part in a rally celebrating the signing of a reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, M
    World / 4th May 2011
  • Deadline for Libyan rebels to surrender expires
    Misrata, May 4 (PTI): A deadline for Libyan rebels defending the besieged city of Misrata to lay down their arms expired Wednesday, but a top minister said he hoped it would be extended after scores surrendered
    World / 4th May 2011
  • Taliban vows to avenge Osama’s death; Asif Ali Zardari on hit-list
    ISLAMABAD, May 3 (PTI): The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday warned that they would target Pakistan and the US to avenge the killing of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden by US special forces in a raid near the garriso
    World / 3rd May 2011
  • Bin Laden took a path of fanaticism and terror
    Osama bin Laden was born into one of Saudi Arabia's most prosperous families, but he left home in search of revolution, found a path of fanaticism, inspired a murderous organization that terrorized the West, an
    World / 2nd May 2011
  • Libya’s Gadhafi presses offensive after son killed
    TRIPOLI, May 2 (Reuters): Moammar Gadhafi pressed an offensive against rebel forces, and his supporters burned Western embassies after the Libyan leader survived a NATO airstrike that officials said killed his
    World / 2nd May 2011
  • Death toll from US tornadoes rises to 350
    James Nicholas surveys the damage in Hackleburg, Ala., on Friday, April 29 following a tornado touchdown on Wednesday afternoon that destroyed much of the small community and caused 27 deaths. (AP Photo) T
    World / 30th April 2011
  • NATO dismisses Gaddafi’s offer of truce & talks
    Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi speaks during a live speech in this still image taken from video on Saturday, April 30. (Reuters Photo) BRUSSELS, April 30 (Reuters): NATO dismissed an offer from Muammar Gadd
    World / 30th April 2011
  • Some 500 arrested in Syria crackdown: rights group
    A Syrian protester beats a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad with a shoe, as he attends protest against the on going violence in Syria, in front of the Syrian embassy in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, April 26,
    World / 27th April 2011
  • Pak naval bus attacks kill four in Karachi
    (LEFT): Pakistani paramilitary soldiers gather around a damaged bus at the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, April 26. Twin bomb attacks against Pakistani navy buses that were talking employ
    World / 27th April 2011
  • Nearly 500 Taliban flee in daring Afghan jailbreak
    An Afghan solider, center, stands guard  outside of the main prison in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April 25. (AP Photo) KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 25 (AFP): Almost 500 Taliban p
    World / 25th April 2011
  • NATO bombs hit Gadhafi office as rebels advance
    In this photo made on a government organized trip, guards inspect damage at Moammar Gadhafi’s compound following an airstrike, in Tripoli, Libya, early on Monday, April 25. (AP Photo) TRIPOLI, April
    World / 25th April 2011
  • Factory fire kills 17, injures 24
    Investigators go through the remains of a  fire in Daxing district of Beijing, China on Monday, April 25. (AP Photo) BEIJING, April 25 (AFP): Seventeen poor migrants died when a fire swept through an
    World / 25th April 2011
  • Syrian tanks roll into Daraa, fire at protesters
    This video image taken from amateur video released by Sham News Network, a Syrian Freedom group, shows a man, left, preparing to throw an object at a tank as others look on in Daraa, Syria on Sunday April 24. (
    World / 25th April 2011
  • Syrian forces fire on demo, “armed criminals” kill six
    In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, taken on Monday April 18, Syrians pray in Clock Square in the center of the city of Homs, Syria. Syrian security forces fired tear
    World / 20th April 2011
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