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The Pakistan government has asked United States to cut down the number of military trainers that the US has stationed in Pakistan, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, reported Reuters.

A former editor of one Brazil's biggest newspapers has been ordered jailing by the top court of the country for murdering his ex-girlfriend 11 years ago.

In a budge to deepen its economic ties with Africa, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a six days long visit to Africa from Monday. India, trying to emerge from the shadow of rival China by is offering $5 billion to help the continent rich with minerals and commodities, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Fresh tornadoes killed at least four people in Oklahoma and two in Kansas, officials said on Tuesday, reported Reuters.

David Headley testified that his handler with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, Major Iqbal, told him to check out all the targets carefully, a Reuters report said on Tuesday.

NATO has carried out its heaviest air strikes against Libya's capital Tripoli on Tuesday in more than two months of bombing, amid upbeat comments from France and the United States on overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi's rule, reported Reuters.

A big explosion rocked the city of Peshawar city of Pakistan and gravely damaged a police station on Wednesday early morning, wounding several people and causing widespread damage stated the police.

The much awaited Google Science fair list of finalists is announced on Google's official blog.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff 's young government faces complexity with its first scandal on Monday, as her chief of staff Antonio Palocci was asked explanations for revelations of his net worth by 20 folds, reported Reuters.

A poll conducted after former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York on attempted rape charges which he denies, shows Nicolas Sarkozy losing by a sizeable margin to either of the likely left-wing challengers -- Francois Hollande or Martine Aubry, reported Reuters.

French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said that France and Britain would deploy attack helicopters in Libya to achieve more accurate strikes on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces, a Reuters report said on Monday.

At a trial, David Coleman Headley, the Chicago based Pakistani American who is accused of providing a front surveillance work in India in the 2008 Mumbai attacks has testified the involvement of at least one Pakistani Inter-Services intelligence directorate and a navy frogman, reported Reuters on Monday.

The Pakistan military finally regained control of the Naval air force after a 16-hour gunbattle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who attached the PNS Mehran base in Karachi late on Sunday.

So far the European airspace has not been affected by the eruption of the Iceland's most active volcano, reports say.

European Union foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton pledged support for rebels in east Libya, Reuters reported on Sunday.

Tunisian Foreign Minister Mouldi Kefi said that he believed Libyan Oil Minister Shokri Ghanem is no longer working for Gaddafi regime, Reuters reported on Monday.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Monday for a blatant attack on a Karachi naval base that killed at least 5 people and destroyed a naval aircraft, saying that the attack was a retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's standing for the top IMF official gained impetus in Europe on Sunday with Mexico forwarding its own candidate for the post, giving competition for the top job.

At least 4 people were killed in an attack that took place in Karachi around 10:30 p.m. at one of Pakistan's naval aviation base on Sunday, reported Reuters.

Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger's career graph seems to have come to a halt with his recent paternity scandal. Schwarzenegger's representatives said on Thursday that he was putting his projects on hold.

A secretive team from North Korea visited north eastern city of Changchun in China on late on Friday, reported Reuters.

Toshio Nishizawa took over as the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) on Friday.

Anton Hammerl, the 41-year-old South African photographer who had gone missing in Libya, is believed to be dead, say his family members.They said he was apparently killed in the Libyan desert by Moammar Gadhafi's forces

In a significant step taken by Japanese lawmakers, Japan has decided to join the child-custody agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The policeman was kidnapped on his way to work, he was taken in a car and paraded around Pearl roundabout and then they took him to Salmanyah Hospital where he was held hostage said a government spokesman, when asked about the incidence.

At least 27 people were killed and around a hundred wounded when a bomb hidden in a car exploded in a parking lot outside the main police offices in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Thursday.

After the resignation of besieged chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, China on Thursday has insisted for emerging nations to be selected in the top leadership of the International Monetary Fund, Economic Times reported on Thursday.

The United States has slapped sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad for the violation of human rights, reported Reuters on Wednesday.

The ongoing protest against President Bashar al-Assad in Syria has taken a bad turn with residents and activists discovering mass graves in and around Deraa city.