White House - 12 August 2011: Continuing a tradition at the White House, last night President Obama hostedhis thirdIftar dinner to celebrate Ramadan. The Iftar is the meal that breaks the day of fasting, when Muslim families and communities eat together after sunset. The President was joined in t

London - 11 August 2011: Theriots in Englandclaimed South Asian victims on Wednesday when three young men of Pakistani origin were killed in a "deliberate" hit-and-run incident in the country's second biggest city of Birmingham. While retailers of Indian origin were attacked in Birmingham, in the we

Paris - 10 August 2011 (AFP): President Nicolas Sarkozy cut short his holiday on Wednesday to announce new moves to slash France's massive debt amid fears it might be next after theUnited Statesto suffer a credit-rating downgrade.The right-wing leader returned from the Riviera holiday home of his pr

Washington - 10 August 2011: Americans by a large majority believe theUnited Statesis on the wrong track and nearly half think the worst is yet to come in the economy, aReuters/Ipsos pollsaid on Wednesday.President Barack Obama's approval rating dropped to 45 percent from 49 percent a month ago, acc

Moroni - 09 August 2011: At least 50 people including children drowned in rough seas when a passenger boat sunk off the Comoros archipelago in the early hours of Tuesday after its engines failed, the country's public prosecutor said.The vessel was ferrying more than 100 people from the capital Moron

London - 09 August 2011 (AP): A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. In London, groups of young people ra

Kabul - 08 August 2011: Thirty members of the American special forces have been killed in Afghanistan in the deadliest day of the 10-year war for US military personnel when the Taliban shot down a Chinook helicopter. The majority of those killed were from Navy Seal Team 6, the unit that killed O

London - 08 August 2011 (PTI): The British capital continued to smoulder under a series of 'copycat' riots that engulfed the city for a second day, with looting and arson reported in new areas, just miles from the site of next year's Olympic Games, prompting authorities to arrest as many as 160 peop

Beirut - 05 August 2011: Security forces opened fire as tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets across Syria on Friday calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad's regime, defying a deadly military siege on the city of Hama where government tanks blasted residential areas bef

Damascus - 31 July 2011 (AFP): At least 95 people were killed on Sunday when the military launched an attack on the flashpoint protest city of Hama in central Syria, a human rights activist said. Ammar Qorabi, who heads the National Organisation for Human Rights, reported the toll and also said

GEORGETOWN (Guyana) - 31 July 2011 (AP): Flight 523 fromNew Yorkhad just touched down and passengers were applauding the pilot's landing in the South American country Saturday when something suddenly went wrong.TheBoeing737-800 slid off the end of a rainy runway, crashed through a chain-link fence a

New York - 31 July 2011 (AP): TheUS Geological Surveyis reporting that another strong earthquake has jolted northeasternJapan, the same region struck by March's massive quake and tsunami. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, and no tsunami warning is in effect.The USGS says the ear

Washington - 27 July 2011: The United States edged closer to adevastating defaulton Tuesday, as President Barack Obama's Democrats and their Republican rivals were deadlocked over competing plans to raise the debt ceiling, one week before a deadline to act.With no compromise in sight and the threat

New Delhi - July 26 2011: Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik hailed India's Hindu 'nationalist movement' as a key ally in a global struggle to bring down democratic regimes across the world. '2080: A European declaration of independence' lays out a road map for a future organisation, the J

Oslo - 26 July 2011, (Reuters): As central Oslo reeled from Norway's worst massacre in modern history, a blond man in the grieving crowd asked Iraqi-born Iman al-Kofi, wearing a headscarf, for a hug. Kofi, who had a friend in intensive care with three bullet wounds and had learned that at least

OSLO - 23 July 2011 (AFP): Police have questioned a blond 32-year-old suspect over twin attacks on a youth camp and the government headquarters that killed at least 91 people in Norway's deadliest tragedy since World War II.As harrowing testimony emerged from the holiday island where scores of young

Oslo, Norway - 23 July 2011 (AP): A bomb ripped open buildings in the heart of Norway's government Friday, and a man dressed as a police officer opened fire at an island youth camp connected to the ruling party. At least seven people were killed in the blast and a witness said more than 20 died in t

Cape Canaveral - 21 Jul 2011: The space shuttle Atlantis glided home through a clear moonlit sky on Thursday to complete a 13-day cargo run to the International Space Station and a 30-year odyssey for NASA's shuttle program. Commander Chris Ferguson gently steered the 100-tonne spaceship high ove