No gay pride parade honour for suspect
San Francisco: The US Army private charged in a massive leak of US secrets to the Wikileaks website will not be an honorary grand marshal of San Francisco’s annual gay rights parade after all.
4 held over B’desh building collapse
Savar: Four people, including two factory owners, were arrested on Saturday in a building collapse disaster in Bangladesh that killed at least 346, as rescuers raced against time to save people trapped under the mangled pile of metal and concrete.
Top US Air Force official to step down
Washington: Secretary of the US Air Force Michael Donley is to step down and return to private life, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced in a statement.
Canadato review deportation policy
Toronto: Canada’s immigration Minister says he is reviewing the country’s deportation policies following revelations that a court decided nine years ago against deporting a man who was arrested last week on terror charges.
Indian surgeon trial in Australia: Report
Mebourne: Indian-origin surgeon Jayant Patel will stand trial in an Australian court in September this year for causing grievous harm to a patient, a media report has said. In the case, 62-year-old Patel is accused of unnecessarily removing Ian Rodney Vowels’ bowel during an operation at Bundaberg Base Hospital in 2004, the Queensland Times reported.
Commonwealth Summit in lanka as planned
Colombo: Despite international pressure to shift the venue of a major Commonwealth Summit out of Sri lanka, the grouping’s Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma has said that the meeting in November will go ahead as planned.
26/11: Defence lawyer fails to appear
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday had to put off the cross-examination of a key witness in the Mumbai attacks case as the lawyer of the main accused, leT commander Zakiur Rehman lakhvi, did not attend the hearing.
140 Islamic extremism suspects held
Moscow: Russian police and security agents detained 140 people at a mosque in Moscow on Saturday on suspicion of involvement with Islamic extremism. A statement from the Federal Security Agency reported by Russian news agencies said among those detained were 30 citizens of unspecified foreign countries.