Ankita Mehta

Pakistani troops have ended a siege by militants and recaptured the naval air force headquarters after a 16-hour battle with militants on Monday.

Syrians pro-democracy protesters called for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday witnesses told Reuters.

Four terrorists killed and four held after a 12- hour gun battle at a naval base, PNS Mehran, in Karachi on Monday.

Afghanistan’s private television channel TOLO television on Monday reported that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan.

An Egyptian court has passed the first death sentence to a police officer for killing protester during the uprising that has overthrown President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian state TV reported on Monday.

After Chinese government tightened the monetary policy in April for four times, the manufacturing growth of the country slowed in May, while price pressures eased, according to a survey showed on Monday, Reuters reported.

At least 6 killed in Taliban suicide bomb attack in a police building in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials told Reuters.

Fifteen people, including a three-year-old boy, reported missing in Vietnam after a tour boat capsized on Friday evening during a child’s birthday party, an official told local media.

Fifteen people have been killed as a NATO tanker carrying oil for forces in Afghanistan has exploded in northwest Pakistan on Saturday.

Spaniards continue to protest against unemployment for the seventh day across the country defying a ban on demonstrations before the elections.

The country’s economic growth rate in the current fiscal year has decreased from 5.8 percent to 2.6 percent, Egypt’s Finance Minister Samir Radwan told local media on Thursday.

More than a million people have applied for tickets to London 2012 Olympic organizer to watch the men’s 100 meters final.

An earthquake of 5.9-magnitude struck western Turkey, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100, authorities told local media on Friday.

TRIPOLI- The Syrian refugees fleeing to northern Lebanon were stopped on Thursday, as the Syrian and Lebanese authorities set out to close the border, a local media reported.

A roadside bomb exploded near US consulate vehicle carrying Americans in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing one local person and injuring others, an embassy spokesman told Reuters on Friday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told BBC that she will back a European candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, following the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Afghans protest against NATO raids for the second day in a row at Taloqan.

A commercial plane carrying 22 on board crashed in southern Argentina's Patagonia region in Rio Negro province on Wednesday killing all of them.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wife and daughter have fled for Tunisia, a Tunisian security source told Reuters.

Egypt’s ruling military council released a report on Wednesday that it does not intend to interfere in judicial affairs, denying reports that it might pardon former President Hosni Mubarak.

More than 100 militants attacked a security post in north-western Pakistan, killing two policemen and injuring several others, officials said.

Jailed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not in a position to run the International Monetary Fund, said Timothy Geithner, US Treasury Secretary.

More than 750,000 people have fled Libya and another 150,000 have relocated in the country since the conflict started, Panos Moumtzis, United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Libya, said on Tuesday.

A Louisiana farming community built for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina has become a shelter for families driven by river flooding.

The Obama administration on Monday unveiled an international strategy for cyberspace that stresses to promote a secure, open Internet and other critical computer networks.

A bomb threat from Irish militants was investigated by Scotland Yard anti-terrorism officers, a day prior to Queen Elizabeth visit to Ireland.

An investigation has been launched after the Cathay Pacific jetliner carrying 136 people made an emergency landing in Singapore, on Monday.

Urging the Angolan government to withdraw cybercrime bill before parliament, Human Rights Watch said it would undercut both freedom of expression and information, and pose a severe threat to independent media in the country.

Iran and North Korea have shared ballistic missile technology which China has blocked, diplomats said.