The queen of talk, Oprah Winfrey, broadcast her show live from the Central Park in New York. The Chicago-based show travelled to the SummerStage in the New York park on Friday. Hundreds of lucky fans joined her for the live taping which included guests like singer Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. [...]

In his first public acknowledgment of fraud in Afghanistan’s recent presidential elections, President Hamid Karzai admitted on Thursday that some government officials “were partial toward me”. Karzai was addressing a press conference, the day after full preliminary results showed that he had 54 percent of the vote. He held back from declaring victory, talking only [...]

President Barack Obama staged a homecoming-style Olympic rally at the White House on Wednesday, saying the whole country is rooting for his hometown of Chicago in its efforts to host the 2016 Summer Games. “Chicago is ready. The American people are ready. We want these games,” he said to applause from the Olympians, Paralympians, local [...]

Minister for Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath has hit the road looking for foreign investment in India’s highways. He in the United States for a week, capping off a world tour to revive foreign interest in India’s roads and highways and says India is set to launch the world’s biggest Public Private Partnership program. [...]

The White House has chosen to play down former president Jimmy Carter’s statement that there was a racial bias against Obama among some people, which led to a congressman shouting ‘You Lie’ during the President’s address last week. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Obama, the first African-American US president, does not think that criticism of [...]

In his first speech since he was reappointed, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the recession is “very likely over” but detailed the tough road ahead for the economy. Bernanke also said that despite delays, he is confident that Congress will pass changes to financial rules to ward off future collapses. “Even though, from [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the new swine flu vaccine on Tuesday, a long-anticipated step as the US government works to get vaccinations underway next month. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told lawmakers on Tuesday that limited supplies should start trickling out the first week of October – about a [...]

Amidst former President Pervez Musharraf’s revelation that Pakistan used US military aid to strengthen its defences against India, a top American military official on Tuesday said a team was recently sent to Islamabad to review the reimbursement system under Coalition Support Funds. In a written reply to Senate Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Joint [...]

The Iraqi man, who threw his shoes at former US president George W Bush, has been released from jail in Baghdad. Muntazer al-Zaidi, the television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes in disgust at former US president George W Bush, was released on Tuesday, a day later than expected. Zaidi, 30, was initially sentenced to [...]

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the steps taken by his administration to bail the economy out of recession had stopped an economic free fall, but there is a long way to go to return to normalcy. “We still have a long way to go,” Obama said at a GM Lordstown Assembly Plant in [...]

A UN war crimes investigation into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza has found evidence that both sides committed “war crimes,” the global body said on Tuesday. The investigation led by former South African judge Richard Goldstone concluded that “Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity,” during its December 27-January 18 military [...]

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari does not believe India’s demand to take action against JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed, linked to Mumbai terror attacks, is a “major hurdle” and was hopeful that relations would be normalised soon between the two neighbours. “I don’t think the issue of Hafiz Saeed is a major hurdle in the [...]

Amid reports of Chinese border incursions and cross-border firing, China on Tuesday said that it was “strictly” abiding by the “consensus” reached with India to maintain peace along the disputed boundary. “The Chinese and Indian governments have reached consensus on border issues — that is the two sides will jointly strive to safeguard peace in [...]

Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was given a “safe exit” after his resignation last year because of a negotiated settlement guaranteed by “international and local” stakeholders, President Asif Ali Zardari has disclosed. All “international and local powers” having stakes in the region were “guarantors” of Musharraf’s negotiated resignation, Zardari said, adding he participated in [...]

Three British Muslims were on Monday sentenced to life for conspiring to kill thousands of people by blowing up transatlantic airliners with liquid bombs in a plot that was “controlled, monitored and funded from Pakistan”. Judge Richard Henriques sentenced Pakistani-origin Abdulla Ahmed Ali (28), Tanvir Hussain (28) and Assad Sarwar (29) after finding them guilty [...]

US President Barack Obama on Monday warned the Wall Street companies that they should mend their ways as his administration would no longer “tolerate” their reckless behaviour that would put a gradually recovering US economy at risk again. Emphasising that “normalcy cannot lead to complacency”, Obama in his address to the Wall Street here said [...]

A judge on Monday set bail at $30 million for a Northern California man accused of kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years. In setting the high amount, El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister cited the serious nature of the charges, injuries to the girl and the fact that Phillip [...]

It’s a candid confession from Pervez Musharraf. He says that Pakistan has been diverting American military aid to use it against India. These are funds that were supposed to be used to fight terrorism. But according to Musharraf, they were used to build up conventional strength against India. According to Musharraf, the money was used [...]