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Iran deploys warships to the Mediterranean

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:34:07 GMT

Iranian warships entered the Mediterranean after crossing the Suez Canal on Saturday to show Tehran's "might" to regional states, the navy commander said, at a time of simmering tensions with Israel. ...

Berlusconi challenges judges in bribery case

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:48:28 GMT

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi demanded on Saturday the judges in his bribery trial be stood down, after prosecutors called for a five-year jail term. Berlusconi's lawyers told the co...

British press eye launch of Murdoch's 'Sun on Sunday'

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:36:18 GMT

Britain's newspapers were abuzz on Saturday with Rupert Murdoch's announcement that he is to launch a Sunday version of his top-selling British tabloid The Sun.

Violent video games help boost vision: Study

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:19:45 GMT

Playing a video game that involves shooting enemies on a battlefield has helped some adults who were born with a rare eye disorder improve their vision later in life, scientists said on Friday.

ISI employed architect for bin Laden compound: Report

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:06:56 GMT

An architect regularly employed by the ISI worked on the compound in which Osama bin Laden sheltered for years in Abbottabad and the slain al Qaeda chief communicated regularly with LeT from his hideo...

Syria forces fire on Damascus protest dead funeral: activist

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:30:07 GMT

Syrian security forces opened fire on Saturday on a huge crowd gathered for the funerals of demonstrators killed in rare protests in the capital, an activist spokesman in Damascus province told AFP.

Indian fishermen killings: Murder case registered against crew of Italian ship

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:51:47 GMT

The Kochi police are yet to make an arrest of the Italian crew over the killing of two Indian fisherman by the Italian ship. While a notice has been issued, the police are yet to take any major action...

Man planning to carry out suicide attack at US Capitol arrested in FBI sting

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:04:05 GMT

Police say a terrorism suspect has been arrested in an FBI sting operation near the US Capitol while planning to detonate what he thought were explosives.

Japan's emperor to undergo heart surgery

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:59:23 GMT

Japan's Emperor Akihito will undergo a heart bypass operation today as hundreds of people wished the 78-year-old monarch well in his latest healt

Britain and France sign nuclear power deals at summit

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:57:09 GMT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron put recent disputes behind them to unveil a nuclear power deal and renew their own sometimes shaky political alliance on Sat...

Germany's President quits over corruption charges

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:13:23 GMT

Germany's president resigned on Friday in a scandal over favors he allegedly received before becoming head of state, and Chancellor Angela Merkel moved quickly to try and head off a domestic political...

Nazis 'planted spy in MI5 during World War II'

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:26:24 GMT

German dictator Adolf Hitler managed to plant a Nazi agent in British spy agency MI5 during the initial years of the Second World War, but failed to utilise him, de-classified documents have revealed.

Watch: Now out-sourced to India, the music video

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:23:25 GMT

The video is one example of the breadth of outsourcing, which has come to include the kind of highly specialized skills - like microchip design, which IBM contracted to an Indian company in 2005 - tha...

A year after uprising, militias hold sway in Libya

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:46:22 GMT

One militia controls the airport. Others carve up neighbourhoods of the Libyan capital into fiefdoms. They clash in the streets, terrifying residents. They hold detainees in makeshift prisons where to...

Pakistan suicide attack kills seven: official

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:19:01 GMT

A suicide attack ripped through a Pakistani market on Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 45 others near a mosque in the country's tribal Bad Lands, officials said.

In Afghanistan, girls pay for elders' misdeeds

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:34:58 GMT

Shakila, eight at the time, was drifting off to sleep when a group of men carrying AK-47s barged in through the door. She recalls that they complained, as they dragged her off into the darkness, about...

Syria: UN General Assembly wants Assad out

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:09:50 GMT

The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for a resolution backing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and strongly condemning human rights viol...

Nigerian underwear bomber faces life sentence

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:28:36 GMT

At least five passengers were expected to speak today at the sentencing of a Nigerian man who admitted trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner at Christmas 2009.

After Iran's nuclear show, it is ready for talks

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:04:26 GMT

Iran has told world powers it is ready to resume talks as soon as possible over its disputed nuclear program, according to a letter obtained on Wednesday by The Associated Press, an offer that could r...

Iran nuclear standoff: Aggressive acts signal pressure on leadership, say observers

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:04:09 GMT

A string of aggressive gestures by Iran this week — assassination attempts on Israelis living abroad that were attributed to Tehran, renewed posturing over its nuclear program and fresh threats of e...

Man next to crying child opens plane's emergency exit

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:46:12 GMT

A mom with a screaming child wanted a quick getaway from a plane on the tarmac in Vietnam and asked for help. The man next to her obliged by opening the emergency exit and triggering the escape slide....

Arrests in Bangkok blast may help with leads in Delhi's sticky-car-bomb case: Sources

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:21:15 GMT

Bangkok's police chief said the Iranians who were arrested after accidentally setting off explosives at their rented home in Bangkok were plotting to attack Israeli diplomats. Sources have told NDTV t...

Fake Putin arrest video becomes online hit

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:47:35 GMT

A fake news report depicting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the dock has become an online hit, getting nearly 3 million views in just three days.

Maid kills Singaporean widow after being called stupid

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:32:28 GMT

A teenage Indonesian maid is facing a long jail term after pleading guilty to hitting and strangling an 87-year-old Singaporean widow who called her stupid, a report said on Thursday.

Forex trading is 'haram', says Malaysia's Fatwa Council

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:13:13 GMT

Malaysia's National Fatwa Council has ruled that foreign exchange trading is forbidden or 'haram' for Muslims as it was against the Islamic Sharia law.