Benghazi - 12 Sep 2012: The US ambassador to Libyaand three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a US-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.US PresidentBarack Obamahas

Washington - 26 Aug 2012: US astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took agiant leap for mankindwhen he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday.Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, the fam

Calling Pakistan a 'sham democracy', disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan has said that the country's "elites toe the American line and behave like foreign agents." In a no holds barred attack on the Pakistani government, Khan voiced his support for the judiciary which is engaged in a bitter tussle

As a fresh confrontation appeared imminent between Pakistan's PPP government and the judiciary, former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has warned that this time the ruling party will not take any "unconstitutional" move by the Supreme Court against his successor "lying down". Mr. Gilani, the vice-chairma

Dammam - 13 Aug 2012:The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is one of the key issues to be discussed at the Islamic solidarity summit convened by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in Makkah on Aug. 14-15. With just two days to go for the conclave of the world's most import

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake levelled villages and damaged homes in north-western Iran on Saturday, killing at least 180 people and injuring more than 1,350 others, state TV reported. The quake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province at 4.53 p.m. local time (GMT 12.23), t

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Emine Erdo?an, the Turkish prime minister's wife, on Friday visited Rohingya Muslims staying in the Banduba refugee camp in the Myanmar coastal state of Rakhine. Apart from the United Nations, this is the first instance of foreign aid being distributed to

Pakistan Peoples' Party-led dispensation's effort to provide immunity to senior government functionaries for their executive actions by amending the contempt law came to naught on Friday with the Supreme Court declaring the legislation "unconstitutional." A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice

Chinese authorities in the northwestern province of Xinjiang have banned Muslim officials and students from fasting during the month of Ramadan, prompting an exiled rights group to warn of new violence. Guidance posted on numerous government websites called on Communist Party leaders to restrict Mus

Occupied Jerusalem - Imposing more restrictions to stifle Palestinians in the holy month of Ramadan, Israel limited access to Al-Aqsa mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan, denying the right of thousands of Palestinians to visit the holy mosque in the blessed day. "Among those aged 45 to 50 years, o

Beirut - 21 July 2012: An estimated 5,000 cars crossed legally into Lebanon through the official Masnaa border post during the past 48 hours carrying more than 20,000 Syrians. The checkpoint, which is only 36km from Damascus, usually handles fewer than 1,000 cars each day although traffic picked up

The holy month of Ramadan is the month of mercy and forgiveness. It is the month when the gates of heaven are opened and God listens to every prayer of the true believers who seek his blessings and forgiveness. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) defined the true believer as the one who likes for h

Bangkok - 21 July 2012: Myanmar security forces have committed serious rights abuses against Muslims in violence-hit western Rakhine state during six weeks of emergency rule, Amnesty International said Friday. Hundreds of people, mostly men and boys, have been detained in sweeps of areas heavily pop

VIENNA - The Austrian government has celebrated with its Muslim community the 100th anniversary of issuing a law that recognized Islam as an official law in the European country. "Austria is a model in Europe in dealing with Islam, but the Austrian Muslims are also a European model," Omar Al-Rawi, a

Islamabad - 23 June 2012 (Reuters): Pakistan's parliament elected former water and power minister Raja Pervez Ashraf as the new prime minister on Friday after the incumbent was disqualified by the Supreme Court. Yusuf Raza Gilani was ruled ineligible for refusing to reopen corruption cases against

Hyderabad, June 20: The election of Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Mursi as Egypt's new president has sparked deep worries in Israel. "We are waking up to the dawn of a different Middle East: more religious, more Islamic, and to my regret, more Israel hating," Labor member of Knesset Binyam

The (US) government should clarify the procedures in place to ensure that any targeted killing complies with international humanitarian law and human rights." UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial Christof Heyns A UN investigator has condemned the use of deadly drones by the United States, questio

ISLAMABAD:19 june,2012(PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was today disqualified as an MP by the Supreme Court two months after he was convicted for contempt, a staggering verdict that was surprisingly accepted by the ruling-PPP which swiftly moved to select a new premier. Capping near