This photo is regarded by many gullible Sai Baba devotees as a 'miracle'. Nothing could be more obvious than that this is a composite image made by some devotee. Look at the bit of cloud that crept in to shade
Ace Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan says Sachin Tendulkar is legend of cricket, but getting the 171 runs he needs to better Brian Lara's record on the tour of Sri Lanka won't be easy.
Pragjyoti Samal, a 24-year-old computer engineer from Bhubaneshwar, Orissa is the first person to win Rs 5 crore on the Shah Rukh Khan-helmed television show Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?
Beirut- The focus continues to be the formation of the cabinet by Prime Minister - Designate Fouad Siniora and the distribution of the sovereign ministries. Siniora said after meeting with the president today that he may surprise us before Monday
The United Nations estimates that well over 700,000 people have fled their homes in the Somali capital Mogadishu since clashes between remanents of an Islamist government and Ethiopian forces backing Somali interim government troops began in Mogadishu in February 2007.
Last week, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana offered Iran an incentives package, on behalf of major powers, to stop enriching uranium in order to initiate negotiations with the West. Mere days later, and before Tehran had responded, British Premier
Egypt should normalize the banned Muslim Brotherhood's role in political life, the International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank said on Wednesday, a move that would also benefit secular parties. Rising social unrest because of high inflation combined with the prospect of
Nasrin and Kimia cast aside their Islamic headscarves and quickly unbutton their coats as soon as they pass a gate watched by male guards - the entrance to Tehran's first women-only park. The mother and daughter lay out their picnic
Afghan and NATO troops backed by attack helicopters killed 23 Taliban fighters on Wednesday in a huge "clean-up" operation to drive out militants entrenched in villages near Kandahar. Two Afghan troops also died in the offensive in southern Arghandab district,
Iran would receive benefits in nuclear energy, trade, finance, agriculture and high technology if it halted uranium enrichment as demanded by several major powers, according to a document released on Tuesday by the US State Department. The package presented to
Top UN official Lynn Pascoe said on Wednesday that he is optimistic a peace agreement to end the three-decade-old division of Cyprus can be achieved. "I really do think that we're on the path that's going to make it work
A joint force from North and South Sudan deployed on Wednesday to the disputed Abyei oil district, charged with restoring security after fighting in the area sparked fears of a new civil war. "Yes, we are now in Abyei," force
Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a security official said, to allow Palestinians to return to the Hamas-ruled territory after receiving medical treatment. The move came the day after a truce between Hamas and Israel was
International human rights group Amnesty International has awarded its annual Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat to a Yemeni newspaper editor. Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani, the 42-year-old former editor of Al-Shura, a political weekly, was jailed last week for six
A prisoner swap between Israel and Hizbullah is imminent, a Lebanese official said on Wednesday, with the Shiite group set to hand over two captured Israeli soldiers in exchange for several prisoners. "Barring any last-minute obstacles we expect very soon
Prejudiced reporting is not uncommon anywhere, but in Lebanon the level of news distortion has taken on a new dimension as a result of assassinations, physical threats, political pressure, biased reporting, lack of professionalism, rampant corruption and self-censorship.
Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani said after meeting parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri Wednesday that the delay in the formation of a new cabinet "is one of the obstacles being put on the road of President Michel Sleiman."
Far-right Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman has threatened to destroy the Syrian capital, Damascus, if Hizbullah attacks Israel in revenge for the assassination of top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, assassinated in Damascus on February 12, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
The trial of two Algerian Christian converts accused of proselytizing has been postponed for a week, the head of the country's Protestant community told AFP Wednesday. The prosecution is the third to be brought against Christian converts in the mostly
