Army assault to retake Qaeda-held HQ kills 10
Sanaa: Atleast 10 people including three soldiers were killed in an offensive to retake headquarters seized by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in southeast Yemen, medical and military sources.
Pakistani authorities ban Skype, Whatsapp
Karachi: Authorities in Pakistan's southern Sindh province banned instant messaging and Voice Over Internet Protocol applications like Skype, Whatsapp, and Viber for three months to facilitate security operations.
17 killed in attack on pro-Govt warlord
Peshawar: A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the head-quarters of a pro-Government militant commander in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 17 people.
radioactive water overflows tank
Tokyo: The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 litres spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger.
‘Obama, Putin may discuss Syria in Bali’
Moscow: US President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin may discuss Syria on the sidelines of a regional summit in Bali next week, a top Kremlin official said.
India adopts UN’s agenda for disabled
New York: India has adopted a landmark UN General Assembly’s document aimed at inclusion of disabled persons in all aspects of development and giving them due consideration in post-2015 UN development agenda.