Pakistani politicians Monday condemned authorities for allowing the controversial Basant kite festival, that caused death to at least a dozen people, to be celebrated over the weekend, despite a court ban. According to conflicting casualty... More

Describing the situation in Sri Lanka as "serious", the US envoy to the island nation has warned against attempts to underestimate the Tamil Tigers and asserted that they cannot be defeated militarily. Ambassador Robert Blake also said in a... More

Eleven years ago, when they began a guerrilla war to overthrow Nepal's monarchy, the Maoists possessed only a few primitive guns and home-made bombs that were more fatal for the fighters using them than their quarry. The decade-old 'People's... More

Indian movies may not have received government sanction to enter Pakistani theatres but Pakistani passengers of the Samjhauta Express said Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, television serials and coconuts from India were great binders for the... More

Canada's highest court struck down an anti-terrorism law that allows authorities to indefinitely detain and deport foreign-born terrorist suspects without revealing evidence, and gave the Canadian government one year to modify the rules. The... More

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a college campus in eastern Baghdad Sunday, killing 40 people and wounding 35 others, an interior ministry source told Xinhua. "The death toll climbed to 40 people killed and 35 others wounded and most of... More

As Indian doctors prepare to file an appeal against the Feb 9 high court ruling that upheld new immigration rules, the Department of Health has agreed to keep the new rules in abeyance for the next round of recruitment of training posts in the... More

The United Nations has appealed to international community to urgently come in aid of flood-ravaged Bolivia and asked for $9.2 million in aid for rescue and rehabilitation of the displaced. The UN Office for Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs... More

Iran will continue its civilian nuclear programme despite international community's demand that it halt uranium enrichment, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday. "Iran has obtained technology to produce nuclear fuel and Iran's... More

The secret of a long life is chastity, according to Hong Kong's oldest man who said Sunday that he had gone for more than 70 years without sex. Chuan Chi, aged 107 and a smoker for decades, told the Sunday Morning Post newspaper he had not had... More