The world's biggest pharmaceutical company hired investigators to unearth evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorney general in order to persuade him to drop legal action over a controversial drug trial involving children with meningitis, according to a leaked US embassy cable. Pfizer wa

ZURICH: An anonymous group of hackers said Wednesday they had launched online attacks to shut down the websites of credit card Mastercard and a Swiss bank that cut off business ties with WikiLeaks. The self-styled 'hacktivist' group dubbed Anon_Operation said in one tweet that "www.mastercard.co

BAGHDAD A NEWLY-LEAKED US diplomatic cable describes in detail the circumstances of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's execution, from guards telling him to "go to hell" to officials taking mobile phone pictures.Saddam's execution in December 2006 sparked international controversy after mobile phone vi

A London court has denied bail to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and ordered that he remain in custody for a week, after he was arrested on an extradition warrant. The 39-year-old Australian, who handed himself into authorities in the British capital on Tuesday, is wanted in Sweden on a

Argentina has recognised Palestine as a "free and independent state," just days after neighbouring Brazil announced that it would "legitimate aspiration of the Palestinian people for a secure, united, democratic and economically viable state co-existing peacefully with Israel". Hector Timerman, Ar

MONTEVIDEO, 5 December 2010, (AFP)- The reserve of available Internet addresses will be used up around the world in January, warned experts based here. Internet addresses are distributed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which provides them to five regional organizations a

Zurich, Dec 2 (DPA) :Russia won Thursday the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup while Qatar will stage the 2022 tournament.he decisions were announced here by Joseph Blatter, the president of football's world governing body FIFA, following a secret ballot by 22 members of its executive committee.

Egypt's ruling party won 209 seats of the 508 that were up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election while opposition parties took just five seats. State-owned al-Akhbar cited results announced by the High Election Commission, confirming that President Hosni Mubarak's National Democr

ROME, 30 Nov (AP) - The release of confidential classified State Department documents by the group WikiLeaks has aroused sharp reaction around the globe. Here is a sampling of what some world leaders were saying. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi insists he only throws elegant, dignified soirees at

US State Department documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks provided candid views of foreign leaders and sensitive information on terrorism and nuclear proliferation, the New York Times reported on Sunday.The documents show Saudi donors remain chief financiers of militant groups like

London, 28 November 2010,(IANS) :A high-powered laser, which unblocks arteries in minutes, is being used on patien ts for the first time i n London. The Turbo Elite 'drill' fitted to a new laser, called the Excimer, blasts tissue into particles so small they can only be seen under a microsco

Islamabad, November 28 (PTI):A Russian-made cargo plane crashed in a fireball near a residential complex here seconds after taking off from the airport of the southern Pakistani city today, killing all its eight-member crew and injuring seven people on the ground.The Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft, which c

SEOUL: North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire Tuesday after the North shelled an island near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines, setting dozens of buildings ablaze and sending civilians fleeing for shelter. The skirmish began when Pyongyang warned the Sout

Islamabad -Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by Taliban, a chargesheet filed by Pakistani investigators to an anti-terrorism court has said, while giving clean chit to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf of any involvement in the case.The chargesheet filed by a joint investiga

Yangon: Myanmar's military government freed its archrival, democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on Saturday after her latest term of detention expired. Several thousand jubilant supporters streamed to her residence. A smiling Suu Kyi, wearing a traditional jacket and a flower in her hair, appeared at

MUMBAI: US President Barack Obama arrived here on Saturday on the first leg of his three-day visit that will seek to focus on opening up of Indian markets for American businesses and deal with wide range of political issues, including strategy on counter-terrorism. The Air Force One carrying Obam

HAVANA: A Cuban airliner flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to the capital has crashed with 68 people aboard, including 28 foreigners, state media reported. There was no immediate word on whether any survived. The AeroCaribbean plane went down near the village of Guasimal in Santi Sp

Twenty-one people, including at least one foreign national, were killed when a small aircraft belonging to a private charter service crashed immediately after taking off from the airport in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi today. The Beechcraft 1900C aircraft of JS Air, which had been ch