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Corruption allegations still haunt Pakistan's new power Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistani politician considered a front runner to become the country's next president, remains under criminal investigation in Switzerland over allegations that he received kickbacks from two Swiss-based companies...

The site will stream three hours of recorded content per day to countries without an official Olympic media partner YouTube will offer coverage of select Olympic events under a deal it has struck with the International Olympic Committee. As part of the deal, the video-sharing site, which is...

Secret deal kept British Army out of battle for Basra - Times Online A secret deal between Britain and the notorious al-Mahdi militia prevented British Forces from coming to the aid of their US and Iraqi allies for nearly a week during the battle for Basra this year, The Times has learnt...

Heated to 32 degrees Fahrenheit, a sample of soil being analyzed by NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander let out a puff of vapor, providing final confirmation that the lander is sitting over a large chunk of ice. “We’ve now finally touched it and tasted it,” William V. Boynton, a professor at the Lunar...

After a closer examination of a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, forerunner of the modern Olympic...

BEIJING :china:— The International Olympic Committee failed to press China to allow fully unfettered access to the Internet for the thousands of journalists arriving here to cover the Olympics, despite promising repeatedly that the foreign news media could “report freely” during the Games...

BEIJING — In response to President Bush’s meeting with prominent Chinese dissidents at the White House, Beijing on Thursday sharply condemned Washington for interfering in China’s domestic affairs and accused American legislators of politicizing the Olympics. Shortly after Mr. Bush held talks...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7532713.stm A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 US military and Nasa...

Pakistani intelligence says that the US killed an al-Qaeda weapons expert in a missile strike in South Waziristan today. Abu Khabab al-Masri had a $5 million bounty on his head as AQ’s leading chemical weapons expert, and had also run training camps for terrorists in Pakistan. He briefly...

Wall Street Journal Week in Review on Fox News said that Obama is playing the race card. The next show Beltway Boys also on Fox news said Clinton is playing the race card. Hey Fox – you can’t have it both ways. Let’s examine what racist statements have allegedly been said. President Clinton...

Is America finished??? Respected public intellectuals, think tank theorists, and members of the media elite seem to think so. The scare headline in a recent New York Times Magazine cover story by Parag Khanna titled “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony” asks, “Who Shrunk the Superpower?” Almost daily...

Scenario: Imagine If Us Planes Attack Nwfp In Search Of Al-qaeda, How PAF will response???? Interims of equipment US airforce is far more superior than PAF and in such type of situation realistically PAF will not be in a position to pose any serious threat to USAF in this situation what...

Nolan's sequel surpasses the original with an intense, disturbing masterpiece. It isn't an overstatement to call The Dark Knight the most sophisticated and ambitious work of its kind. Superior to all three Spider-Man installments and even its amazing predecessor in terms of conceptualization...

Iran sends missile test warning The US Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, called for tighter sanctions on Iran today after it fired nine test missiles that were capable of hitting American and Israeli bases. "Iran is a great threat. We have to make sure we are working with our...

UNITED NATIONS: A Swiss-led panel of five governments is proposing that the United Nations consider establishing a new agency or program to coordinate global efforts against terrorism. Ambassadors from Costa Rica, Japan, Slovakia, Switzerland and Turkey also recommend that the U.N. help...

WASHINGTON: Democrat Barack Obama, speaking during a whirlwind overseas tour, said Friday that Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some countries see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons. The presidential candidate...

ISLAMABAD: Strong suggestions by the United States that it could resort to unilateral intervention against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan are generating increasing anxiety in the Pakistani press and among government officials, who warn that such an action could backfire. Over the last...

Frustrated in coping with the Islamic insurgency on global and regional level, facing unexpected implications due to their own self-created blunders, some US-led western allies of war on terror have added a new dimension to their vile propaganda campaign against Pakistan by saying that white...