Sanaa - 25 Feb 2012 (Reuters):Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadibecame Yemen's new president on Saturday, formally removing autocratAli Abdullah Salehfrom power, as a car bombing in the south of the country underscored the violence that will be the new leader's greatest challenge.The car loaded with explosives

Islamabad - 25 Feb 2012 (IANS): Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been directed to write to global policing agency Interpol for issuing an arrest warrant against former Pakistani presidentPervez Musharraf, Interior MinisterRehman Malikhas said.Malik said the FIA would approach the In

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone's son Sean has converted to Islam in Iran. Stone, whose new Muslim name is Ali, is making a documentary in the Islamic Republic. "The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with," he told AFP. "It means I have accepted Moha

Moscow - 18 Dec 2011: (Agencies):The Bhagavad Gita, one of the holiest Hindu scriptures, is facing a legal ban and the prospect of being branded as ''an extremist'' literature across Russia. A court in Siberia's Tomsk city is set to deliver its final verdict on Monday in a case filed by state prose

Baghdad - 18 Dec 2011 (Reuters):The last convoy of U.S. soldiers pulled out of Iraq Sunday, ending their withdrawal after nearly nine years of war and military intervention that cost almost 4,500 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. The war launched in March 2003 with missiles striking Ba

Brussels - 09 Dec 2011 (Reuters): Europe divided on Friday in a historic rift over building a fiscal union to preserve the euro, with a large majority of countries led by Germany and France agreeing to move ahead with a separate treaty, leaving Britain isolated.Twenty-three of the 27 leaders agreed

Islamabad - 07 Dec 2011: Reports of a military coup swirled acrossPakistanon Wednesday, a day after the country's embattled PresidentAsif Ali Zardariquietly flew out to Dubai, ostensibly for treatment. His close aides spoke in different voices about his medical condition, intensifying speculation ab

Jerusalem - 24 Nov 2011 (PTI): Israel's hawkish Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahuhas lashed out at Western leaders who have supported the Arab Spring, terming them "naive" in watching favourably the developments in the region, which he believes were taking the Arab world backward not forward.Creditin

Nusa Dua, Indonesia - 20 Nov 2011 (Reuters): TheUnited Statesand China faced off on Saturday over the thorny issue of how to resolve competing claims by Asian countries to sovereignty of the South China Sea, the latest point of friction between the two powers. PresidentBarack Obamatold Chinese Premi

United Nations - 19 Nov 2011 (IANS): India and 39 other nations abstained from a UN resolution condemning an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to theUnited States, saying full facts were not known and the matter was sub-judice. The resolution, which was introduced bySaudi Arabia, doe

Bali - 19 Nov 2011: India firmly rejected China's objections to its presence in the South China Sea, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh telling Chinese leaderWen Jiabaothat Indian interests were "purely commercial" and sovereignty claims must be settled according to international law.Questioned by W

Washington - 19 Nov 2011 (PTI): In a major goof, newUS defence secretary Leon Panettaclubbed India and China, describing them as emerging "threats", but his office quickly retracted the remarks, saying Washington strongly values close ties with New Delhi. Panetta put his foot in the mouth as he depa

Van, Turkey - 11 Nov 2011 (AP): The death toll from the second earthquake to hit eastern Turkey in about two weeks rose to 19 on Friday as several rescue teams clawed through heaps of concrete to search for two journalists believed trapped in the rubble of a collapsed hotel. Colleagues of the two

Jeddah - 05 Nv 2011 (PTI): Dressed in white, over 2.5 million Muslims, including more than 1 lakh Indians today began the rites of Hajj pilgrimage as they left for Mount Arafat from Mecca, even as religious authorities asked pilgrims to avoid overcrowding at the Grand Mosque in the holy city. Pilgr

Washington - 05 Nov 2011: YouTube and the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information are teaming up to provide a live-stream of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca."Millions of people from around the world will be able to experience and comment on the event by tuning in via vid

London: Salman Butt has been jailed for two and a half years and Mohammad Asif for one year, while Mohammad Amir will be detained for six months for their role in a conspiracy to cheat and to obtain and accept corrupt payments related to the Lord's Test against England in August 2010. Justice Co

Singapore - 31 Ocdt 2011 (AP):Oil pricesfell below $93 a barrel on Monday in Asia as investors mulled whether slowing global economic growth justified a surge in crude this month.Benchmark crude for December delivery was down 48 cents at $92.84 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading

Beijing - 28 Oct 2011: Indian businesses operating in China are shaken by China's decision to impose social security obligations for foreign employees, which will push up the wage bill by over 40 per cent. It has put expansion plans of some companies in a quandary while new investors may have to rec