Musk to join Trump for rally at site of first assassination attempt
US warships and planes strike Houthi targets in Yemen
LONDON - BP has spent 2.65 billion dollars (2.14 billion euros) on responding to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the British company announced Monday as its costs rose further. "The cost of the response to date amounts to approximately 2.65 billion dollars, including the
BANGKOK : A Thai protest leader accused of terrorism was released from prison briefly Monday to apply to run in a by-election seen as a key test of the opposition`s prospects of success in nationwide polls. Kokaew Pikulthong, a senior "Red Shirt" involved in the mass rally in Bangkok
SEOUL: North Korea said Monday it would bolster its nuclear weaponry with an unspecified new method in response to what it called US hostility and recent developments. "The recent disturbing development on the Korean peninsula underscores the need for the DPRK (North Korea) to bolster
TORONTO : Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he asked Chinese President Hu Jintao in talks here Sunday to condemn North Korea`s alleged sinking of a South Korean warship. Citing a G8 summit declaration Saturday condemning the attack that left 46 people dead, Kan said he "encouraged
OSLO : A roadside bomb hit a Norwegian convoy in Afghanistan on Sunday and killed four soldiers, the military announced, in the deadliest single attack on the Scandinavian country`s troops in the conflict. "Four soldiers were killed this afternoon," military spokeswoman Heidi Langvik
MANAGUA : The first major storm of the Atlantic season barreled Sunday across the Yucatan Peninsula, after unleashing landslides and floods that killed at least 10 people in Nicaragua, Guatemela and El Salvador. Downgraded to a tropical depression, Alex was expected to restrengthen as it
WASHINGTON : Iran has enough low-enriched uranium to make two weapons, which it could have prepared and ready for delivery as early as 2012, CIA director Leon Panetta said Sunday. "We think they have enough low-enriched uranium for two weapons," Panetta told the ABC network`s "This Week"
OSH : Kyrgyzstan`s new constitution won overwhelming popular support in a referendum, with more than 90 percent of the vote, the country`s electoral commission said Monday as preliminary results rolled in. According to results published by the commission on its website after ballots from
TORONTO : US President Barack Obama Sunday demanded the United Nations and China ramp up pressure on North Korea for its "belligerent behavior" and warned against turning a blind eye to its deadly acts. Using the global stage of a G20 summit here, Obama said the international community
TORONTO : British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply disappointed" after England lost to Germany in its World Cup match, adding he had questions about an English goal which was disallowed. He was talking after playing hookie from economic summit talks in Toronto, Canada, to
KOLKATA: Mystery is intensifying over a Karachi-bound ship intercepted in the Hooghly waters of India with arms and ammunition. The police, Cost Guard and customs searched the ship and found 40 Pakistani war vehicles, four army jeeps, and three containers of arms and ammunition marked
WASHINGTON - CIA chief Leon Panetta said Sunday he thinks Iran has enough low-enriched uranium to make two weapons, and that it would take at least two years to prepare the bombs and a delivery system. "We think they have enough low-enriched uranium for two weapons," Panetta told the ABC
HARGEISA: Authorities were expected to begin counting votes Sunday in the breakaway state of Somaliland, a day after a peaceful presidential election, the electoral board said. "Some of the ballot boxes were brought early this morning to the headquarters of the National Election
PESHAWAR: Pakistan on Sunday launched a process of resettling tens of thousands of tribesmen displaced in a major offensive in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan last year, officials said. Pakistan`s military launched a sweeping offensive into South Waziristan last October aimed
SEOUL: North Korea said on Sunday it was open to inter-Korean military talks to address the sinking of a South Korean warship but urged the United States to cease its involvement in the case. The North, however, renewed a demand that the South first allow Pyongyang to carry out its own
SRINAGAR: Authorities in restive Indian Kashmir ordered a judicial probe on Sunday into the killing of two young men by security forces in a bid to stem protests over their deaths. Police said the two men died on Friday in Sopore, 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Kashmir`s summer
SRINAGAR: Authorities in restive Indian Kashmir ordered a judicial probe on Sunday into the killing of two young men by security forces in a bid to stem protests over their deaths. Police said the two men died on Friday in Sopore, 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Kashmir`s summer
CONAKRY, June 27, 2010 (AFP) - Guineans headed to the polls Sunday in the west African nation`s first democratic election since independence in 1958, hoping to end half a century of military and civilian dictatorships. Long queues of patient voters built up around the country to take
MITZPE HILA: Thousands of people joined Gilad Shalit`s family for a mass march from northern Israel to Jerusalem on Sunday to mark four years since the young soldier was captured on the Gaza border. Wearing white T-shirts and baseball caps emblazoned with the slogan "Gilad is still
ROME: A simple blood test can give an accurate pointer of when a woman will hit the menopause, according to research to be presented at a fertility conference here on Monday. If confirmed by other scientists, the test devised by Iranian doctors would be a boon for women seeking to plan