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Tony Blair's wife sues Rupert Murdoch over UK phone hacking
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The wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair is suing Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company over phone hacking, her lawyer said on Wednesday.
  
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West slams Syria over killing of journalists
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Western powers condemned Syria on Wednesday for the killing of two foreign journalists, with Washington slamming the regime's "shameless brutality" and Paris demanding an immediate end to attacks. Ame...
  
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Divers find 8 more bodies in Italy luxury cruise wreckage
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Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off a Tuscan island found eight bodies on Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, author...
  
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Seven killed in Afghan Quran protests; President appeals for calm
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm on Wednesday after clashes in several cities between Afghan security forces and protesters furious over the burning of Muslim holy books at a US militar...
  
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49 killed, 550 injured as train slams into station in Argentina
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A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decade...
  
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Pakistan commission records Mansoor Ijaz testimony from London
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A commission probing the memo scandal here on Wednesday began recording the testimony of Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the key figure in the controversy, through video-conference from L...
  
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Four killed, dozens injured in Afghan protests over Quran burning
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Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the burning of copies of the Quran at NATO's main base in the...
  
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Mother visits American condemned to die in Iran
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The mother of a former US Marine sentenced to death in Iran on a spying conviction has visited her son in an Iranian prison, a spokesman for the Michigan family said on Tuesday.
  
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Strauss-Kahn questioned for second day in vice ring probe
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Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by French police for a second day on Wednesday over allegations that he took part in sex parties organized by a corrupt vice ring.
  
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Has the battery run out on Aakash tablet?
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Aakash, the "$35" computer launched last year in India as the world's cheapest tablet, has run into problems and companies will be invited to bid again to make the device after complaints of poor perf...
  
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French government phasing out use of term 'mademoiselle'
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Forget what you learned in French class about "madame" and "mademoiselle." The French government now says women's marital status shouldn't matter, at least when it comes to this country's far-reaching...
  
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New York police built secret files on mosques in New Jersey
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Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The... 
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New York mayor defends monitoring of Muslim students on Web
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday defended the New York Police Department's monitoring of the Web sites of Muslim student groups at more than a dozen universities across the Northeast, framing the...
  
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Pak Supreme Court adjourns contempt hearing against Gilani till February 28
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Pakistan's Supreme Court today adjourned the contempt of court case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani till February 28 after admitting evidence and recording the statement of the prosecutor.
  
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India, China growth among reasons for increasing oil prices: US
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The economic boom in countries like India and China and unrest in other parts of the globe are some of the important factors responsible for increase in oil prices, the White House has claimed.
  
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Police monitoring of Muslim students in New York sparks outrage
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The mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Tuesday over an effort by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups for any signs that their members harboured terroris...
  
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Obama sings at White House blues show
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President Barack Obama broke into a song on Tuesday at a White House blues show, as Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger urged a reluctant US leader to step up and sing a few lines.
  
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Call centres in India used to scam Americans for millions
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Federal authorities have cracked down on a California-based company that used the services of call centres in India to make fake, very often threatening, debt collector calls to consumers in the US.
  
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In din over Iran, rattling sabers echo
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The United States has now endured what by some measures is the longest period of war in its history, with more than 6,300 American troops killed and 46,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ulti...
  
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Dead woman 'married' twice in China
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During this year's Spring Festival, a family surnamed Wu sold their daughter's dead body for 35,000 yuan ($5,557) to a man surnamed Liu who wanted to perform a "yin marriage"- a marriage between two d...
  
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Nodding disease confounds experts, kills children
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More than 3,000 children in northern Uganda are suffering from a debilitating mystery ailment known as nodding disease, which has touched almost every family in the village of Tumangu.
  
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New 'super-Earth' is a steamy 'waterworld'
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An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water -- literally, US scientists say.
  
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US apologises for Quran burnings in Afghanistan
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The U.S. apologised on Tuesday for the burning of Muslim holy books that had been pulled from the shelves of a detention center library adjoining a major base in eastern Afghanistan because they conta...
  
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Ijaz to depose from London today via video conference
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Pakistani authorities have finalised arrangements to record via a video link from London the testimony of American businessman Mansoor Ijaz regarding a mysterious memo that had sought US help to stave...
  
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Afghan protests erupt over Quran 'burning'
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Protests erupted outside the main US military base in Afghanistan and in Kabul today over allegations that foreign troops had set fire to copies of the Quran, police said.
  
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