MELBOURNE: Shaken by a wave of racial assaults, thousands of Indian students and supporters rallied here on Sunday, demanding justice for victims of recent attacks as Australia scrambled to contain the rising anger and frustration within the community. The `peace rally’,...
ISLAMABAD: A major chunk of the whopping US $ 800 million of annual illegal trade in gems, timber and marbles may be sustaining the activities of Taliban in Pakistan’s restive north-west, a media report said on Monday. “It is not possible...
A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren on Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under pressure from Washington to crack down on militants. Police said the attacker rammed his car into a...
The World Health Organisation chief warned Monday that swine flu could return with a vengeance despite Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon insisting his country has contained the epidemic. WHO chief Margaret Chan said in a newspaper interview that a second wave of...
NEW DELHI: As part of their larger plan to target prominent politicians and carry out blasts in India during Lok Sabha polls, Pakistan-based terror groups have roped in Khalistani outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) to carry out terror attacks —...
LONDON: It is barely three months that they broke-up but it seems that Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy have moved on in life. While Harry was spotted with glamourous TV presenter Caroline Flack, his former girlfriend Chelsy Davy is also...
The nuclear test grounds in the wastes of the Gobi desert have fallen silent but veterans of those lonely places are speaking out for the first time about the terrible price exacted by China’s zealous pursuit of the atomic bomb. They...
HAVANA: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, reacting to an Americas summit Monday, urged US President Barack Obama to end a nearly half-a-century-old US economic “blockade” of Cuba. “I would like to remind him of an elementary ethical principal that has to...
NEW YORK: Google reported a 9.2 per cent rise in quarterly net profit, but the Internet search giant said revenue declined for the first time ever in consecutive quarters. The Mountain View, California-based company reported a net profit for the...
SAN FRANCISCO: It’s been more than a year since Microsoft Corp’s unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo Inc ended in tatters and acrimony. Now the two companies are talking again, with the less contentious agenda of forging an Internet search advertising...