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| Olympic Games Weekend Starts with the Death of 8 People |
Gun battle and bombing have started this weekend’s Olympic Games in China. Authorities believe that the attack that ended with 8 deaths in western China was an attempt made by the Islamic separatist group to arrest the global attention from the Olympic Games held in Beijing.
The attack took place in Kuqa, a city in the Xinjiang region, in western... |
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 Two soldiers and three civilians were killed and 28 others were injured
in an explosion in Sri Lanka's capital Wednesday morning, police said.
A bus carrying injured army personnel to a medical clinic appeared
to be the target in the explosion at Slave Island, an area less than 1
kilometre from Air Force headquarters.
The bus...
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 The Election Commission of Pakistan announced Wednesday that crucial
elections meant to usher in a return of civilian rule would be delayed
for six weeks following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto.
"The polling will now be held on February 18, 2008," Qazi Mohammed
Farooq, the chief election...
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Malaysian cabinet minister Chua Soi Lek announced on Wednesday his
resignation following his admission to a sex tape scandal that rocked
the nation.
Chua, 61, who was health minister since March 27, 2004, was also
vice president of the ruling Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) party
as well as the parliamentary representative for...
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Pakistan's Bhutto political dynasty passed the torch on Sunday as the
19-year-old son of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was
named chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
Bilawal Zardari, a bespectacled Oxford University student, vowed
during a live nationwide press conference at his family's ancestral
home in...
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 Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala Sunday reshuffled the
nine-month-old government to include the Maoists members in the
cabinet.
The move came a day after the Maoists formally handed over seven
names to the prime minister stating their intention to rejoin the
government.
The prime minister appointed five Maoist...
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 Leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) were meeting Sunday to
chose a successor to assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto and decide
whether to boycott crucial upcoming parliamentary elections.
The nine-member central executive committee of the PPP were meeting
at the Bhutto family ancestral home in Naudero in the southern...
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 Government troops moved into a rebel-controlled area in north-western
Sri Lanka over the weekend as both the military and Tamil rebels
claiming to have inflicted heavy casualties.
The military claimed that as many as 33 rebels were killed and 38
others were injured in clashes in the Parappakandal area of Mannar, 320
kilometres...
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Two suspected suicide bombers were killed on Sunday when their bomb
exploded prematurely near the residence of a former Pakistan government
minister, police said.
The attackers were traveling by motorbike to target the residence
of Ijaz ul Haq in Haroonabad, in the southern province of Punjab, when
the bomb exploded, said local...
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 Communal tensions between Hindus and Christians flared in India's
eastern state of Orissa as two more bodies were found and houses
belonging to both communities were torched in the affected areas, media
reports said Sunday.
There were some incidents of violence in the central Kandhamal
district despite clamping of curfew and large...
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 Pakistan's besieged government continued to insist Saturday that
Taliban militants assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as
skepticism and anger mounted among her supporters, the media and
general public.
As Bhutto supporters continued to riot and protest across the
country and publicly claim that President Pervez...
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 West Wing creator to make Facebook movie
The creator of hit political TV series Aaron Sorkin is to write a movie about the world's most popular social networking site, Facebook, he announced Thursday in a...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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