Stating that India welcomes economic assistance to Pakistan, the country’s top diplomat in the United States has favoured establishment of benchmarks to the American security assistance to Islamabad so as to check the use of money against New Delhi.
“We certainly share the objective of the United States that we should help to stabilise Afghanistan and [...]

Two weeks before he died, Michael Jackson wrapped up work on an elaborate production dubbed the “Dome Project” that could be the final finished video piece overseen by the King of Pop, The Associated Press has learned.
Details on the project are scarce. Two people with knowledge of the project confirmed its existence Monday to the [...]

A month after the Air France crash, a Yemeni airliner with 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros islands, northwest of Madagascar.
The Yemeni government officials confirmed the crash, saying it happened early on Tuesday.
The airliner belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed with 150 people on board.
Officials have [...]

Pakistan, plagued by insurgency and the worst-ever economic crisis, has been named among the “top 10 failed states” by the US-based reputed Foreign Policy journal.
Pakistan, bracketed along with countries like Somalia, Afghanistan and Sudan, has improved its position only by a notch — it is placed 10th in the index for 2009 published in the [...]

Pop star Michael Jackson has died in Los Angeles, aged 50.
MICHAEL JACKSON 1958-2009

Full name: Michael Joseph Jackson
Born: August 29, 1958, Gary, Indiana, US
Also known as: The King of Pop, Wacko Jacko
Biggest hits: I Want You Back, Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough, Billie Jean, Bad, Black or White, Earth Song

Paramedics were called to the [...]

Hackers posted a caustic message telling US President Barack Obama to mind his own business and stop talking about the disputed Iranian election on a US university website’s homepage.
Attempts to access the Oregon University System’s website were automatically redirected to another page, where readers viewed a message said to be from Iran that asserted there [...]

They were wearing green — the color of the protest movement in Iran and expressed frustration, outrage and sadness over the post electoral violence on the streets of Tehran.
Though they are thousands of miles away from home, Iranians in New York gathered to support the Iranian people’s right to peaceful protest and freedom of speech.
“They [...]

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has dumped socialite heiress Paris Hilton after reportedly losing interest in her.
The duo spent a night together earlier this month and vowed to keep their romance alive but less than two weeks after their passionate liaison, the 23-year-old sportsman claims he doesn’t have time for the 28-year-old blonde beauty, according to [...]

Hollywood heartthrob Matthew McConaughey is expecting his second child with Brazilian girlfriend Camilla Alves.
The 39-year-old actor who already has a 11-month-old child with the model is set to become a father again and is joyous that his son Levi will have a younger sibling, according to reports.
McConaughey who came second in a recent ‘Most Desirable [...]

The Transformers actress Megan Fox has topped the 100 ’sexiest women in the world’ poll for the second successive year.
She becomes the second woman to retain her crown following Jennifer Lopez, who won consecutive sexiest woman title in 2001 and 2002, reports said.
Megan was joined in the top five by fellow actresses Jessica Alba on [...]

French military ships have detected a signal from the black boxes of Flight 447 in the Atlantic depths, newspaper Le Monde reported on Tuesday.
The report says a mini research submarine, the Nautile, dived on Monday to search for the boxes based on a “very weak signal” from the flight recorders picked up by the French [...]

Taliban’s involvement in criminal activities and disrespect for local customs forced villagers in Upper Dir of northwest Pakistan to rise against the Islamic extremists, a report has said.
When the militants arrived in their mountainous corner of northwestern Pakistan in February the locals cautiously welcomed them, thinking they were waging ‘jihad’ against foreign troops in neighbouring [...]

Militant commander Qari Zainuddin, a rival of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan.
An aide of Zainuddin was injured in the attack in Madina Colony neighbourhood of Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday morning.
Zainuddin’s death was confirmed by the police and members of his [...]

In the deadliest crash in the history of the Washington Metro, at least six people were killed and scores injured when one speeding train slammed into another during rush hour on Monday evening.
Though there was no immediate report of any Indian American casualty, the accident between Fort Totten and Takoma Park close to the District [...]

Pakistan 139 for 2 (Afridi 54*, Akmal 37) beat Sri Lanka 138 for 6 (Sangakkara 64*, Mathews 35*, Razzaq 3-20) by eight wickets
It wasn’t the edge-of-the-seat final that would have signed off the ICC World Twenty20 in style, but that won’t matter to Pakistan who gave their nation a something to savour amid troubled [...]

Pakistan captain Younus Khan on Sunday dedicated the team’s World Twenty20 triumph to the terror-stricken nation, calling it the defining moment of his captaincy.
“This triumph came at the right time and it’s our gift to the people back in Pakistan,” an emotional Younus said after his teammates beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets to lift [...]

A two-month campaign season for presidential elections to decide who leads Afghanistan for the next five years began on Tuesday, as the Taliban rebellion grows more violent and the US sends in tens of thousands of troops to combat it.
Campaigning got off to a slow start. The only signs of activity were the posters of [...]

US President Barack Obama has asked the country’s largest doctors’ group to help him reform America’s expensive health care system, making it affordable for millions of uninsured Americans, as he likened the escalating health care costs to a time bomb that may make the country go “broke”.
“I need your help doctors. To most Americans, you [...]