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G8 pledges to lift Africa out of poverty
$60-billion plan to fight AIDS, tuberculosis

Battle of affidavits in Pakistan apex court
Government, Chaudhary file contradicting affidavits

Mine blast averted in Colombo
COLOMBO: Police here on Friday claimed to have averted a "blood bath" by defusing a claymore mine weighing seven kg on a tip off from a civilian. The Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) said the bomb was found near a school. Military ...

Blair rejects "bribery'' probe
LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected calls for an investigation into allegations that BAE Systems, Britain's biggest arms supplier, used a secret fund to pay millions of pounds to a prominent member of the Saudi royal family for ...

Interceptors could be placed in Turkey: Putin
HEILIGENDAMM (GERMANY): Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday said missile defence interceptors could be located in Turkey, or even Iraq or on sea platforms, at a briefing that was interrupted by a protester throwing leaflets. After the ...

CIA rendition trial opens
MILAN: The first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme opened in Italy on Friday in the absence of all 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect. The trial, which has been an irritant in ...

Ready to tackle floods
YICHANG (CHINA): The Three Gorges Project is ready to regulate flooding this summer but 28,000 residents still need to be moved from near the reservoir before it is ready to deal with once-in-100-year floods, say Chinese experts. The project will ...

S. Korean aid for North
SINGAPORE: South Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung on Friday pledged greater economic aid to the country's northern neighbour in a renewed bid to encourage it to give up its nuclear weapons programme. The pledge acquires unusual ...

Ex-U.N. official convicted of bribery
NEW YORK: A former United Nations procurement official was convicted on Thursday of charges that he helped a friend secure $100 million in U.N. contracts in exchange for a huge discount on two luxury Manhattan apartments and cash. Sanjaya ...

Fujimori under house arrest
SANTIAGO (Chile): A Chilean judge ordered former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori back under house arrest on Friday, a day after a prosecutor recommended his extradition to face charges of human rights abuses and corruption in his home ...

India & World
Healing touch from across the border
Two doctors from Srinagar have joined a hospital in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

India comes out with fresh proposal
Manmohan meets Bush on sidelines of G8 summit

J8 Kavitha's agenda for G8 summiteers
``When it comes to climate change, we are not doing enough now''

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