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The top US military officer begins a four-day trip to China on Sunday in another sign of warming military ties between the two countries...

Leading media figures and office bearers of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) have urged the government to expedite payment of arrears to the...

Pro-democracy activists in Syria vowed more protests against President Bashar al-Assad for Friday, as reports of more bloodshed and the deployment of a convoy...

Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse is heading back to rehab, her spokeswoman said on Sunday. Winehouse, 27, ironically best known for her 2006 hit...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will leave for China today (Tuesday) to hold talks with Chinese leadership on important bilateral and regional issues. ...

As tensions with the US mounts over the Abbottabad raid by the US Navy SEALs to kill Osama bin Laden without informing Pakistan, Lt...

MUMBAI - Bollywood gangster movie 'Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai' leads the field in nominations for the Hindi-language film industry's glitziest awards ceremony, organisers said. The film has been nominated in 12 categories for the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards, including best film and best male lead for Ajay Devgan. Screen tough guy Salman Khan's corrupt cop romp 'Dabangg' (Fearless) was close behind with 11 nominations.
Other movies in the running for a clutch

MOSCOW - World number three Vera Zvonareva spearheads Russia's squad to play Italy in the Fed Cup semi-final here on April 16-17, Russian captain Shamil Tarpishchev announced Wednesday.
Zvonareva, 26, a double Fed Cup winner, is playing for her country for the first time since appearing in the title-winning team of 2008.
Tarpishchev also named Svetlana Kuznetsova, who is currently 14th in the world, in his squad.
The 25-year-old Kuznetsova, who won three Fed Cups as

ISLAMABAD - With "cricket fever" completely gripping Pakistan and India, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will reach Mohali today (Wednesday) with a strong delegation of leading politicians and senior members of his cabinet to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Cricket World Cup semi-final match between the two rival nations.
Gilani will be accompanied by ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan, MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar, PML-N's Abdul

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,

LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt will fly to London on Tuesday for a first court appearance where he and fellow banned players Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer face corruption charges. Butt, Asif and Aamer were all charged following allegations of corruption during the fourth Test against England at Lord's last August.
An International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-corruption tribunal has already banned Butt for 10 years, Asif for seven and Aamer for five. British

ISLAMABAD - The federal cabinet on Wednesday held a five-hour exclusive session to deliberate upon the country's worsening law and order situation that led to the assassination of two high-profile personalities in the federal capital within a span of two months.
Condemning the assassination of Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, the cabinet members gave their input on how to cope with the terrorists' strategy of targeting high profile individuals. The ministers also vowed to

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa has asked vice chancellors from the public sectors universities to mobilize the youth in order to check brain drain in the country.
"It is our responsibility to mobilize the youth and inculcate in them the spirit of serving the country", he said while chairing a meeting of the VCs from seventeen public sector universities at the Governor's House here Saturday. The administrative secretaries from the various provincial departments

DUBAI - British super spy James Bond will head to the glitzy Gulf emirate of Dubai, itself no stranger to real-life espionage and assassination, in a new book titled "Carte Blanche," its author said Tuesday. "This place is so culturally vibrant, so picturesque, so full of fascinating, multicultural individuals," Jeffery Deaver said during a talk in Dubai.
"This is an exotic city that is worthy of James Bond." While in Dubai about a year ago, "I became enamored of the city. I

ADELAIDE - International cycling icon Lance Armstrong says he will not be expecting a ticker-tape farewell ahead of his competitive swansong at the Tour Down Under this week.
Australia's premier cycling event has been steadily gathering in stature and Armstrong's presence gives the Adelaide-based race, which begins with a hectic street criterium on Sunday, an extra boost.
After years of courting almost as much controversy as he did success on seven golden years on the Tour

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict, worried over increasing inter-religious violence, will host a summit of world religious leaders in Assisi in October to discuss how they can better promote peace, he announced on Saturday.
Benedict told pilgrims and tourists in St Peter's Square the aim of the meeting would be to "solemnly renew the commitment of believers of every religion to live their own religious faith in the service of the cause for peace".
He made the announcement hours

ISLAMABAD: The audit director general on Tuesday told the Public Accounts Committee that the auditor general of Pakistan would register FIRs against those public sector organisations which refused to produce audit records.
He was briefing the special committee of the PAC, which was chaired by Zahid Hamid. Federal Audit Director General Syed Gulzar Hussnain told the committee that the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) had illegally sold goods donated for Afghan