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FAO forecasts 4% rise in global rice output

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has forecasted 4% increase in the global rice output this year with the expected production of 643 million tons of rice in Asian region.

Barroso attacks rating agencies for role in crisis

* Barroso - market mood not fundamentals influenced ratings * Comments follow warning of new EU controls on sector

Pak's wheat output expected to dip on poor irrigation

Pakistan's wheat production is expected to decline sharply by 1.5 million tons to 22.5 million tons in 2010-11 due to lower availability of irrigation water and dip in rainfall. Pakistan - one of the world's biggest wheat producer - is being undermined by the silting of its national irrigation network, which has cut water availability to a fraction of historic levels.

China, Russia, Canada again top USTR piracy list

The United States on Friday placed Russia on its list of countries with the worst records of preventing copyright theft for the 13th straight year, just days after the two nations agreed to intensify talks on Moscow's bid to join the World Trade Organization.

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Suicide blasts in Pakistan's Lahore kill 45

Suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 45 people in Lahore on Friday, officials said, in a challenge to government assertions that crackdowns have weakened Taliban insurgents.

India says open to new round of talks with Pakistan

India signaled on Friday it was open to a new round of talks with Pakistan, raising fresh hopes of a thaw in relations after last month's official dialogue between the nuclear-armed rivals produced no breakthrough.

Q+A: Make-or-break months for Afghanistan war

An upcoming U.S.-led military campaign to regain control of the Taliban heartland of Kandahar will be a decisive phase in the Afghan war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told frontline troops this week.

Obama donates $1.4 M Nobel Prize to charities

President Barack Obama announced Thursday he will donate $1.4 million from his Nobel peace prize to ten charities.

Pakistani Taliban militants may be down, but not out

Pakistan's unprecedented crackdown on its homegrown Taliban may have weakened the militants but the insurgency is still a threat to the unpopular U.S.-backed government.

Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout.

UK's Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbors must support such an agreement.

Two NATO soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan

Two NATO soldiers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military base in Afghanistan, the alliance and local government sources said.

South-East Asia dominates global rice trade

South East Asian (SEA) region comprising two of world's largest rice exporters, Thailand and Vietnam remained as world's top trade destination for the commodity. The food crisis of 2008 has inspired various countries in Asia to vie for status as the world's rice bowl and many hope to be able to dethrone Thailand.

Bomb attack on Pakistani police kills 12

A suicide car bomb attack on a police intelligence unit in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 12 people and wounded about 65 during Monday's morning rush hour, officials said.

Four in five believe Web access a fundamental right

Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right -- with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China -- and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.

Top Pakistani Taliban leader may be dead: minister

Pakistan said a senior Pakistani Taliban commander with al Qaeda links may have been killed when helicopter gunships attacked a building he was in, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday.

U.S. to send Pakistan laser-guided bomb kits

The United States will deliver 1,000 laser-guided bomb kits to Pakistan this month and is considering additional arms sales to help the Pakistani air force crack down on insurgents in the Afghan border region.

Suicide car bomber kills four in NW Pakistan

A suicide car bomber killed three policemen and a child on Saturday in an attack on a police station in a northwestern Pakistani town, police said.

Cynicism in both India and Pakistan after talks

Commentators in both India and Pakistan greeted on Friday the first official talks between their countries since the 2008 Mumbai attacks with a degree of cynicism even though no breakthrough had been expected.

Taliban attacks in central Kabul kill 16

Taliban fighters opened fire, hurled grenades and staged suicide bombings in central Kabul on Friday, killing at least 16 people in defiance of the Western-backed government and a NATO offensive.

Pakistan to hand over Taliban No 2, says Afghanistan

Pakistan has agreed to hand over to Afghanistan captured Afghan Taliban number two, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and other militants, the president's office said on Thursday.

Pakistan receives $349.3 million from U.S.

Pakistan received on Wednesday $349.3 million from the United States as part of a fund to help the U.S. ally sustain efforts to fight Islamist militancy, a central bank official said on Wednesday.

Giant slalom offers huge contrasts

The bizarre sight of a skier being overtaken by another is always a possibility in Tuesday's men's Olympic giant slalom, race director Guenther Hujara said on Monday.

Iran arrests Sunni rebel accused of links with West

Iran seized a Sunni Muslim rebel leader on Tuesday behind a bombing which killed dozens of people last year, and who Tehran says has links to al Qaeda and support from Pakistan, Britain and the United States.

U.S. Navy rescues Tanzanian ship, nabs 8 pirates

A U.S. Navy warship prevented an attack on a Tanzanian ship and apprehended eight suspected pirates in the process, the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania said on Tuesday.

Senior Yemen al Qaeda leader threatens U.S. attacks: site

A senior member of al Qaeda's Yemen wing who the Yemeni government said it killed has emerged on an internet forum, threatening to carry out attacks in the United States.