lanka ruling coalition wins local polls
Colombo: Sri lanka's ruling coalition has retained two provincial councils with significant loss of seats in a crucial mid-term test for President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Opposition parties made considerable gains, as per official results on Sunday.
Attacks kill 16 people in Iraq
Baghdad: A series of attacks in Iraq, including a shooting
at a security checkpoint and a suicide car bomb, killed 16 people
and destroyed a bridge on Sunday, said officials. Police officials said the deadliest attack took place near the city of Mosul.
Tensions as Myanmar embarks on census
Sittwe (Myanmar): Tens of thousands of census-takers fanned out across Myanmar on Sunday to gather data for a rare snapshot of the former junta-ruled nation that is already stoking sectarian tensions. A main point of contention is that Muslims will not be able to register as ‘Rohingya'.
Egypt prez election set for May 26-27
Cairo: Egypt's electoral panel on Sunday said the presidential election will take place on May 26 and 27, 10 months after the army overthrew Islamist leader Mohamed Morsi.
pAK: Sirajul Haq elected Jamaat-e-Islami chief
lahore: Sirajul Haq, a hardliner politician from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, was on Sunday elected as the new chief of Pakistan's right-wing party Jamaat-e-Islami. Haq defeated sitting chief Syed Munawar Hasan who had recently courted a controversy after he termed the dead Taliban militants as martyrs. He is a strong proponent of the talks with Taliban.
Two killed in plane crash in britain
london: Two persons, including the pilot, were killed
when a light trainer aircraft crashed into a field and burst into flames in a rural area in the UK, police said on Sunday. The YAK 52 aircraft crashed in a field near Cooksmill Green in Essex.