NEW DELHI: Despite the US declaring a cut in funding to Pakistan, the Obama administration has asked for an additional $1.5 billion in "coalition support funds....

JAKARTA: A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off Indonesia's Bengkulu province on Tuesday, local geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or tsunami warnings issued....

BEIJING: A 29-year old Tibetan monk set himself on fire on Monday in southwest China's Sichuan province, the official media said. Reports from the area indicated the monk had succumbed ...

LONDON:The British government warned on Monday that several hundred tons of oil may have leaked into the North Sea from a Royal Dutch Shell rig....

AMES IOWA: The US Republican presidential primary race displayed a tilt to the right on Sunday after conservative Texas governor Rick Perry entered the contest and Tea Party darling...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani military today rejected reports in the Western media that it gave China access to the top secret stealth helicopter that crashed during the covert American raid....

CHARIKAR (AFGHANISTAN): A team of six suicide bombers some wearing explosive vests stormed a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 22 people in the latest

BEIJING: China on Sunday saw the first major case of a Jasmine-type revolt driven by Internet postings when several thousand people demonstrated demanding relocation of a chemical plant in the port city of Dalian. The protests resulted in clashes between the protestors and riot police......

LONDON:Community groups held a peace rally today in England's second-largest city against the hit-and-run attack that claimed three lives during rioting in Birmingham......

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has crisscrossed the terror-scarred country, addressed rallies and led dharnas when the country's top politicians have confined......