At least ten people, most of them policemen, were killed and over 90 injured when a suicide bomber rammed into a police van in the busy heart of the Sri Lankan capital at midday on...

Cricket Australia (CA) is contemplating its own version of Indian Premier League (IPL) within two years after the inaugural Twenty20 tournament has become a mega-hit in the...

Incoming International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat said that the sanctity of Test cricket would remain, despite the frenzied grab for Twenty20 dollars, it was reported by the media here...

Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has confirmed his availability for the West Indies cricket tour, but he will miss the first Test starting next week, it was reported by the media here...

China has approached Australian companies to team up for a billion-dollar share raid on giant miner BHP Billiton, news reports said...

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority today dispatched a C-130 flight containing relief goods for the quake-affected people of China....

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his party boss Asif Ali Zardari today visited ISI headquarters where they were reportedly briefed about security issues the country was...

Lahore, May 16 : Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif had a sigh of relief last evening when the country's Election Commission accepted their nomination papers for the June 18 by-polls. Interestingly, the same Election Commission had rejected the duo's nomination papers ahead of the February 18 general elections, saying that they were involved in different...

Washington, May 15 : The United States has toughened its stance on a proposed agreement with the militants in the Federal Administered Tribal Areas, saying that "any deal Pakistan reaches with them should be worth more than the paper it is written...

Kuala Lumpur, May 16 : The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) is unhappy with the low percentage of Public Service Department overseas scholarships allocated to Indian students....

New Delhi, May 16 : People of all religious groups organised a prayer meet, seeking solace for the victims who died in Myanmar cyclone, in Chinese earthquake and in Jaipur serial...

Lahore, May 16 : Pakistan Presidency has finalised its proposals for the re-appointment of all sacked judges minus former Chief Justice Iftikhar...

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari have decided that PPP will not bring new ministers in place of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ministers, who resigned due to differences over the framework of the restoration of the sacked...

Saturday, May 17, 2008 ILOILO, Philippines: Two people were swept away by floodwaters and thousands are still in evacuation centres in the central Philippines after heavy rains pounded the area for...

Saturday, May 17, 2008 By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: The software piracy rate has slightly dropped in Pakistan from 86 per cent to 84 per cent, after remaining unchanged over the past two...

US lawmakers today urged President George W. Bush to consider "humanitarian intervention" in cyclone-hit Burma after its military rulers refused to allow foreign experts to direct relief efforts...

Japan reached an accord Friday evening with Indonesia to start accepting hundreds of nurses and nursing-care specialists from the Southeast Asian nation in...

Dozens of Indonesian fishermen who were wrongly detained by Australian authorities are scheduled to fly home to Indonesia today. The 55 Indonesians, including several children, were picked up by...

Pakistan has said it is optimistic about progress in the peace process with India when the two countries resume their dialogue next week.Indian allegations of firing across the Line of Control and...

YANGON: Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta on Friday as thousands of destitute victims took to roadsides to beg for help to supplement the meagre trickle of...

Saturday, May 17, 2008 By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has informed international investors that the global food and fuel prices have impacted the country heavily, resulting in a...

Shipments distributed by non-governmental organizations, U.S. official said Myanmar's ruling military junta is reluctant to allow outsiders in to distribute aid The United States continues to push...

ISLAMABAD: Cracks in Pakistan’s ruling coalition have widened over the appointment of a new Governor in the Punjab province. He is viewed as a political adversary by Nawaz Sharif’s...

Pakistani authorities Friday found the body of a paramilitary soldier beheaded by Taliban insurgents in a tribal area where a suspected US missile strike left 12 people dead, an official said.A note...

By WILLIAM C. MANNASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON -- Supplies from U.S. relief flights were given directly to nongovernmental organizations Friday to help with the aftermath of Myanmar's...

At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in a bloody Philippine bank robbery, police said. Another employee was in critical condition at a...

PITTSBURGH -- The official death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar has nearly doubled to 78,000. Tens of thousands remain missing, and the humanitarian situation for the survivors remains...

Washington -- In the days and hours leading up to Cyclone Nargis, international broadcasters such as Radio Free Asia (RFA) were sending repeated warnings of the approaching storm to the Burmese...

Raniganj (Nepal), May 16: Nepal’s man of the moment, Prachanda, may be pushing for a review of the 1950 Indo-Nepal treaty, but the people, especially those living along the country’s soft...

Aid volunteers were shocked by the roadside scenes, which suggest conditions in the delta are deteriorating rapidly with what little rice and food that could be salvaged from the ruins of ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Elixir Gaming Technologies, Inc. (AMEX:EGT) ('the Company") announced today that it will host an investor tour of gaming venues in the Philippines, Vietnam and...

Soldiers stand guard at the site of a suicide explosion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 16, 2008. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a bus carrying police killing nine...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - As Myanmar raises the cyclone's official death toll, the U.N. says the country's military leaders are keeping aid agencies in the dark about the extent of survivors' suffering....

UNITED NATIONS, May 16 (IPS) - The United Nations, which has accelerated its pace of humanitarian assistance to cyclone-devastated Burma (Myanmar), is making little or no progress in dealing with the...

Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert said the ship would be in international waters within sight of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta on Saturday, and he warned that the government's refusal to allow aid to...

India is one of the few countries allowed to send aid to Burma A team of 50 Indian medical personnel is being sent to Burma to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis, following a request by the...

NEW DELHI: In one of the biggest-ever drug hauls along Indo-Pak border, BSF seized 60 kg of heroin — amounting to Rs 300 crore in the international market — in R S Pura sector in J&K when...

COLOMBO: At least 10 people, including three women, were killed and 86 others injured when a motorbike-borne LTTE suicide bomber rammed into a police bus near the office of Sri Lankan President here...

WASHINGTON: Four more US relief flights landed in Myanmar, with two of the shipments handed over directly to international relief groups for the first time, the State Department...

NEW DELHI: Thai Airways has announced four additional daylight flights between Delhi and Bangkok from Friday. With these flights, the total frequency of weekly flights between the two cities will...

Washington -- The United States will provide direct humanitarian relief to China in the wake of a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck the region around Sichuan province May 12. In addition, the...

A suicide bomber crashed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, killing 10 people, and authorities said Tamil Tiger rebels were to blame.Doctors at the National Hospital...

Bangkok - Some cholera has been confirmed among survivors of Cyclone Nargis, but the number was in line with case levels in previous years in Myanmar, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan's army lodged a formal protest Friday to “allied forces” in neighboring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike this week that killed 14...

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government on Friday initiated a crackdown on people of Bangladeshi origin staying illegally in the State. As many as 40 such people with alleged criminal backgrounds were...

May 16, 2008 · Two catastrophes have struck this month — the cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China. As the death tolls in these two countries mount, so does the need for aid....

Doctors Without Borders Calls for Immediate and Unobstructed Escalation of Myanmar Relief Operations YANGON/GENEVA/NEW YORK - May 16 - Fourteen days after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, the needs...

KATHMANDU: Nepal's army, partly responsible for conserving National Parks, is facing tough questions over poaching of at least eight Asian rhinos in their habitat with the suspected involvement of...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT Five and Alive, the child survival program of Population Services International (PSI), announced today that its team of 600 staff on the ground in Myanmar...

(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)Pakistani protesters rally against an alleged U.S. missile attack in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajour which killed several people, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, May 16,...