Ankita Mehta

Pakistan has decided to launch an offensive military attack in North Waziristan, the main sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban on the border with Afghanistan, a local newspaper reported on Monday.

Vietnam, accusing China, told Reuters on Sunday that its navy would do everything necessary to protect its territorial integrity after three Chinese patrol boats confronted and damaged an oil investigation ship operated by PetroVietnam, the state-owned oil and Gas Company.

The head of Georgia's rebel Abkhazia region Sergei Bagapsh, died on Sunday in a Moscow hospital after lung surgery, Abkhaz officials told Reuters.

Government troops backed by tanks attacked two central towns in Syria that are protesting against President Bashar Assad’s government, a local media reported. Several people were wounded in the attack due to intense gunfire by security forces.

The Yemen-based al Qaeda wing and Islamic militants have taken over the Yemeni coastal town of Zinjibar in south central Yemen, residents of Zinjibar told Reuters on Sunday.

Saudi troops sent into Bahrain to help cancel the protest killed at least 30 people in the uprising received training from Britain, a local newspaper reported on Sunday, citing government documents.

Tribal rivalries in Yemen are complicating efforts to reach a power transfer deal, senior U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday. United States believes that al Qaeda is trying to develop instability in Yemen.

A powerful bomb exploded near a restaurant in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border killing eight tribesmen and wounding 10 others, local media reported.

A service member of NATO was killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, a local media reported.

Gil Scott-Heron, known as “the godfather of rap” , who is also a poet, musician and author, died at a New York City hospital on Friday, local media reported.

A 16-year-old British schoolboy on Thursday became the youngest person to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents after ascending Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain on Thursday, Reuters reported.

Around 80,000 people fled after the North Sudanese army seized the disputed Abyei region in Southern Sudan, a southern official told Reuters on Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived on an unannounced visit in Islamabad on Friday, aimed at repairing ties and resolving tensions that were raised after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Pushing Mexico’s bid for IMF chief, Luis Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank told Reuters on Thursday that next IMF chief deserves to be from Latin America.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will announce next week about his plans for 2012 Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire and the only negative point in him is his lack of private sector experience, a Romney aide told Reuters on Thursday.

Iceland volcano should calm down within few days because its producing steam and not ash, police told Reuters on Thursday. There will be no further disturbance to flights in northern Europe.

Raising military pressure on Gaddafi’s force, NATO strikes Tripoli for a second day, killing 19 civilians overnight, Libyan state television reported. At least six large explosions rocked Tripoli.

Blast caused by disgruntled farmer at three sites near government building in an eastern Chinese city, damaged 10 cars and injured five people on Thursday, state media reported.

Egypt will open its Rafah border with Gaza starting from Saturday “on a daily basis” to ease the entry restrictions for Palestinians, the state MENA news agency reported on Wednesday.

Eight people were killed in three states due to violent storms that swept through a swath of the central U.S.

Three nuclear reactors at a Japanese nuclear plant suffered meltdowns within days, the plant’s operator told Reuters on Tuesday.

The wreckage of a U.S. radar-evading helicopter that was abandoned by U.S. Navy SEAL team after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has returned to the United States, a Pentagon official told Reuters on Tuesday.

The ash clouds from the Grimsvotn volcano in Ireland have forced airlines to cancel the flights across northern Britain on Tuesday. Hundreds of people will be grounded in Scandinavia and Denmark as the ash spreads.

North Korea's secretive leader Kim Jong-il toured east China on Monday, while the U.S. government team flew to North Korea to assess food shortages.

A blast at Iran's Abadan's oil refinery during President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit killed one person and injured more than 20 on Tuesday.

British actor and comedian Russell Brand had been deported from Tokyo's Narita Airport, at the weekend.

NASA has invited the general public to honor American achievements in human spaceflight on Wednesday, May 25, at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington.

NATO airstrikes had killed three people and wounded 150 after a heavy explosion heard in Tripoli on Tuesday, Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said.

U.S. President Barack Obama begins his visit to Britain where he and Prime Minister David Cameron will hold talks focusing on Libya and the Middle East.