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NY flyer with guns held at Cairo airport: Airport officials in Cairo say police have detained an American-Egyptian man who arrived on a flight from New York with several weapons in his luggage.
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9 slaughtered in China school attack: A person armed with a kitchen cleaver slaughtered seven children, their teacher and her 80-year-old mother at a kindergarten school before killing himself in a northwestern village of the country.
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1st SL Tamil gets jail in Canada for funding LTTE: In the first case of its kind in Canada under its terrorism laws, a Sri Lankan Tamil has pleaded guilty to raising funds for the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam which was routed last year by the Sri Lankan forces.
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New UK govt to have annual cap on immigrants: Skilled professionals and students from India will find it more difficult to come to Britain as the new David Cameron government puts in place the Conservative party's immigration policy that seeks a drastic annual reduction of migrants.
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Pak man held at US embassy with explosives: A Pakistani national, who was arrested at the American Embassy in the Chilean capital of Santiago with traces of explosives, has no link with the Times Square incident, US officials said here.
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Playboy's June edition to feature 3-D centerfold: The centerfold picture in the June edition of Playboy will be in 3-D, Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey said Tuesday.
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US mulls law to prevent mobile bill 'shock': Cellphone companies could be required to alert customers before charges add up to shocking totals on their phone bills, according to a proposal being weighed by US regulators.
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Prophet cartoonist defiant after attack: A Swedish artist whose drawing of the Prophet Muhammad offended Muslims said today he hopes to get another chance to deliver a lecture on free-speech that was interrupted by violent protests.
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Miliband candidate to lead UK's Labour Party: Former foreign secretary David Miliband announced on Wednesday his candidacy to lead Britain's defeated Labour party, after the resignation of Gordon Brown.
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Plane crash not a terror attack, says Libya: Libya's Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zidan ruled out terrorism as the cause of a plane crash at Tripoli airport that officials said killed more than 100 people.
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New British coalition holds first cabinet meeting: Britain's new premier David Cameron chaired his first cabinet meeting Thursday, bringing together former rivals from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties in a historic coalition.
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9 slaughtered in Chinese school, killer commits suicide: A person armed with a kitchen cleaver slaughtered seven children, their teacher and her 80-year-old mother at a kindergarten school before killing himself in a northwestern village of the country.
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Car bomb kills 7 in Shiite area of Iraqi capital: Iraqi officials say seven people were killed and 25 wounded when a parked car exploded near a cafe in the Sadr City slum in eastern Baghdad.
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Two students have oral sex in packed US classroom: Two students engaged in oral sex in a US classroom while the other students were watching a film. A probe has been initiated after a parent saw a video of the incident.
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Indian worker dies after being crushed by machine: An Indian origin worker was killed in a British factory after he was dragged into a machine that he was operating alone.
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N-cooperation with Pakistan in tune with IAEA safeguards: China: China has underlined that that its cooperation with Pakistan in civil nuclear energy is strictly peaceful in nature and in line with safeguards by the international atomic watchdog.
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Top Sri Lankan official questions Fonseka's claim of being war hero: A top legal official in Sri Lankan has questioned the claims of former army chief Sarath Fonseka of being a war hero, saying he had accused the government of violating international laws during the last phase of the war with LTTE.
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Man finds lost dad after 37 years on social site: A father and son were reunited in Britain after 37 years, thanks to social networking site Facebook where they recognised each other's facial features, a media report said.
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British coalition holds first cabinet meet: Britain's new premier David Cameron chaired his first cabinet meeting Thursday, bringing together former rivals from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties in a historic coalition.
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Tsar's murder case reopens in Russia after 90yrs: After 90 years of the killing of Russia's last tsar during the Bolshevik revolution, a Moscow city court has ordered the opening of a criminal case into the murder.
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UK: Indian dies after being crushed by machine: An Indian origin worker was killed in a British factory after he was dragged into a machine that he was operating alone.
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Sam Cam: UK's cool First Lady sports a tattoo: Conservative leader David Cameron's wife Samantha combines aristocratic roots with a cool dress sense — and is almost certainly the first British prime minister's wife with a tattoo.
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North Korea says successful in 'breakthrough' nuclear fusion: North Korea said today it has succeeded in nuclear fusion in a "breakthrough" towards the development of new energy sources.
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Tsar's murder case reopens in Russia after 90 years: After 90 years of the killing of Russia's last tsar during the Bolshevik revolution, a Moscow city court has ordered the opening of a criminal case into the murder.
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