A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police station in Pakistan’s troubled Swat valley on Sunday, killing 16 policemen and injuring over 25 others in one of the worst attacks since the army wrested control of the area from the Taliban.
The bomber entered the police station in Mingora, the main city of Swat district, [...]

Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso conceded defeat in elections on Sunday as media exit polls indicated the opposition had won by a landslide, sending the conservatives out of power after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic anxiety and desire for change.
“These results are very severe,” Aso said in a news conference at [...]

At least 12 policemen were killed and over 25 others injured when a suicide bomber struck a police station in Pakistan’s troubled northwestern Swat valley on Sunday.
The bomber climbed over a wall and entered a ground in the police station in Mingora, the main city in Swat district, where about 60 personnel were being trained, [...]

In a first, the RSS held a press conference at LK Advani’s residence where RSS leader Madan Das Devi read a statement saying LK Advani is the senior most leader of the BJP and that the party will emerge stronger from the crisis.
Sources have told NDTV that the succession plan is almost finalised and Advani [...]

Akshay Kumar’s son Aarav is excited about his father’s film Blue where the Bollywood star
plays a greedy, ruthless guy who spends most of his time underwater looking for treasure.
“Akshay knows Aarav will be kicked by the idea of his dad playing a champion swimmer and that too named Aarav after his son. In Aarav’s eyes, [...]

Michael Jackson’s closest friend, former child star Mark Lester, today claimed he gave the King of Pop his sperm in a special London clinic so that he could have children. “I gave Michael my sperm so that he could have kids and I believe Paris is my daughter,” said Mark.
According to Mark, Jackson was worried [...]

From Shahid Kapoor to Vishal-Shekhar, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has roped in the biggest names in the business for a music video to pay tribute to the late pop legend Michael Jackson.
Vishal Dadlani of Vishal-Shekhar duo said that it was Shah Rukh’s idea to get a tribute rolling for the music legend who passed [...]

Pakistan has now said that India could have avoided the 26/11 terror attacks. Interior Minister Rehman Malik says, before acting on the Interpol notice against Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed, they need to examine the evidence against him.
“Mumbai attacks may have never happened if India shared information with us,” said Malik.
In Pakistan’s first reaction to the [...]

Twenty-two people, most of them security personnel, were killed and over 25 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a check post near the Afghan border in Pakistan’s restive Khyber tribal region on Thursday.
The attacker struck when a large number of personnel from the Khasadar force, a tribal militia, had gathered for ‘iftar’, the meal [...]

A girl snatched on her way to school was hidden for nearly two decades behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her suspected abductor’s children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from her childhood home.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 when she was abducted from a South [...]

Despite the latest dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks given by India, Pakistan has demanded more proof. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that if India does not provide information on the Mumbai attacks and the Samjhauta Express tragedy, Pakistan will not be responsible for any future terrorist attacks in India.
On Tuesday, the Interpol [...]

At least 40 people have been killed in a massive car bomb blast in the Afghan city of Kandahar. More than 60 people were also hurt as buildings collapsed in the explosion in the city centre.
An afghan government official says five vehicles filled with explosives were detonated simultaneously, causing the massive blast.
The attack came shortly [...]

LONDON — England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will be on crutches for at least six weeks after undergoing surgery on his damaged right knee.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said Tuesday that the 31-year-old Flintoff had microfracture surgery in London on Monday night.
The operation addressed an injury that ruled him out of one of England’s five [...]

Microsoft has unveiled new technology that will allow standard, non-”smart” phones to run applications such as Facebook or Twitter.
Designed for emerging markets, the OneApp software can be downloaded just like a new ringtone.
Rather than an application store like those offered by many manufacturers and networks, OneApp will offer a standard set of apps decided by [...]

Pop star Michael Jackson had lethal levels of the powerful anaesthetic propofol in his body when he died, coroner’s office documents show.
The findings were contained in a previously sealed search warrant which has been made public in Texas.
The singer died in June from a cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles. Police have interviewed [...]

Bangalore, Aug 25 (IANS) India Tuesday reported two swine flu deaths with a 44-year-old woman in the national capital and a 28-year-old man in Bangalore succumbing to the H1N1 influenza, taking the total toll to 66.
In New Delhi, Usha Jain, a resident of Faridabad, died at 10.15 a.m. Tuesday, said N.K. Chaturvedi, the medical superintendent [...]

New Delhi, Aug 25 (PTI) In the midst of a row over tainted money stashed in banks in Switzerland, the government today said it will begin talks with that country in December for amending the relevant treaty and it was not interested in a “roving inquiry”.
“We are pursuing with the Swiss authorities and after our [...]

US President Barack Obama plans to re-appoint Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a position from which he guided the economy away from its worst recession since the 1930s, and the White House hopes toward an economic recovery critical to its legacy.
Widely credited with taking aggressive action to avert [...]