Moscow : The Ukrainian women activists, who tore up the Indian flag in a topless act in Kiev last month to protest India’s reported tightening of visa rules for young women from Ukraine, may land in jail for up to four years.  Carrying placards that read “Ukraine is not brothel” and “I am not prostitute”, […]

Islamabad : A suicide bomb attack outside a mosque in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal belt today killed 25 people and injured over 40 others, police said.  A suicide bomber, who was on a motorcycle, detonated his explosive vest outside the mosque in the crowded Kurmi Bazar at Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal region, […]

London : An Indian student enrolled for an MBA in the UK was critically stabbed in the London borough of Newham last night, Scotland Yard today said. Eleven people have been arrested following the stabbing of the Indian student who was not named by the Scotland Yard. As per standard practice, Scotland Yard did not […]

Beijing:  A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country’s founding in 1949. The state-run Tianjin Post said Tuesday that the 29-year-old mother in Henan province gave birth to the boy Saturday by cesarean section. It said delivery took just […]

Damascus : At least 200 people were killed and hundreds wounded in Homs in the most brutal government crackdown till date in the 11-month old uprising in Syria, activists have said. Two main opposition groups, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees claimed that the death toll was over 200 […]

Washington : U.S. defense secretary Leon E. Panetta said U.S. forces would end their combat mission in Afghanistan by mid-2013, taking on an “advise and assist” role (NYT) to Afghan security forces. All U.S. troops are expected to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Panetta made the announcement en route to Brussels […]

London:  Indian-origin Avtar Singh Kolar and his wife Carole Kolar were battered to death in a lump hammer attack in their Birmingham home earlier this month for just two mobile phones and two watches, a media report today said. Suspect Rimvydas Liorancas, 37, who was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday, is believed […]

Cairo  : A 42-year-old French tourist was killed by robbers at a currency exchange shop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Xinhua reported.  The masked gunmen robbed the shop and exchanged fire with the security forces. Two others, a German tourist and an Egyptian citizen, were injured. The French man was shot […]

 Washington:  Solar radiation from a massive sun storm – the largest in nearly a decade – collided with the Earth’s atmosphere on Tuesday, prompting an airline to reroute flights and sky watchers to seek out spectacular light displays. US carrier Delta Air Lines said it had adjusted flight routes for transpolar journeys between Asia […]

Beijing  :  About 30 Tibetans injured after Chinese police fired into a crowd of protesters in a restive southwestern region were seeking shelter Tuesday in a monastery while military forces surrounded the building, a Tibetan monk said. Chinese authorities said Monday’s unrest was caused by a “mob” and that overseas advocacy groups were twisting the […]