President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party raced to re-evaluate their health care plans and electoral strategy following their stunning loss of a Senate seat in Massachusetts long held by Edward M. Kennedy.
The embarrassing defeat to Republican Scott Brown in a Democratic stronghold was a bitter end to the president’s first year in office Wednesday, [...]
Investigation into ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson’s death has been completed and his physician Dr Conrad Murray will reportedly be facing criminal charges.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) completed their investigation last month and will submit the case to the District Attorney (DA) within weeks, celebrity website TMZ.com reported.
According to law enforcement sources, the LAPD [...]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced the suicide car bombing Friday of a volleyball game in Pakistan that left at least 88 people dead.
“The United States strongly condemns today’s terrorist attack on civilians in Pakistan, and we offer our condolences to the families of the victims and all the people of Pakistan,” Clinton said [...]
US President Barack Obama has condemned the Iranian government’s attempts to quell recent protests, in which eight people have been killed.
He said the “iron fist of brutality” had been used to silence protesters, calling the actions of officials an “unjust suppression”.
Barack Obama also urged the government to release detained opposition figures.
Sunday’s protests were the most [...]
The assault on the religious march, the third in Pakistan’s biggest city in as many days, was launched during a difficult time for the government of unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari.
Al Qaeda-linked Taliban militants have killed hundreds of people in bombing in retaliation for a major government offensive in one of their strongholds in mid-October.
Nuclear-armed [...]
Countries across the Indian Ocean are today solemnly marking the fifth anniversary of the tsunami that killed almost 250,000 people.
In Indonesia’s Aceh province, where more than 166,000 died, thousands held prayers in public mosques and private homes. On Thai beaches, Buddhist monks in saffron robes chanted prayers as mourners held pictures of loved ones lost [...]
Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Saturday began his first official visit to northern neighbour China amid a controversial claim guaranteed to trigger the anger of the opposition Maoist party.
The 21-member delegation, including Nepal’s wife Gayatri Nepal, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala, Finance Minister Surendra Pandey and Energy Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat [...]
China on Saturday launched what it described as the world’s fastest train service covering a distance of 1,068 kms at the average speed of 350 kms an hour. The distance between Wuhan in central China and Guangzhou in the country’s south was covered by the high-speed train in two hours forty five minutes.
The new service [...]
