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Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka releases a dove after he was released from a jail in Colombo on Monday. Photo:AP
Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka releases a dove after he was released from a jail in Colombo on Monday. Photo:AP

Sarath Fonseka freed

The jailed former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka walked out of the High Security Welikada prison just before 5 p.m. on Monday into a crowd of waiting supporters and cadre from the United National P... »
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In this file photo, Yemeni army soldiers patrol the street after the attack by militants with suspected links to al-Qaeda against the U.S.Embassy in the capital Sana'a. Photo: AP

Suicide bomber kills 38 Yemeni soldiers in Sana'a

A suicide bomber killed 38 Yemeni soldiers at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sana'a on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the city in months, military officials and witnesses sa... »
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Putin names new cabinet

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has unveiled a new cabinet asserting his control over the government headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.Mr. Putin and Mr. Medvedev swapped their jobs... »
A young girl flies an Egyptian national flag as she listens to Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, at a rally Cairo, Egypt, Sunday.

Egyptian activists focus on human rights ahead of elections

Beneath the high voltage campaign of the Egyptian presidential elections-the first after the 1952 revolution when the country’s monarchy was overthrown-big questions are being raised about  t... »
File photo of historic Gorakhnath temple in Peshawar after it was re-opened.

Gorakhnath temple vandalised in Pakistan

A historic Hindu temple in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, which was re-opened on the orders of a court last year, has been vandalised by unidentified men in the third such attack on the shri... »
Robin Gibb performs during a concert in Hong Kong. File photo
LONDON, May 21, 2012

Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62

Robin Gibb, a founding member of the Bee Gees who helped propel the group to international stardom, has died. He was 62. Gibb’s representative Doug Wright announced in a statement that G... »
France's new President Francois Hollande with U.S. President Barack Obama during the NATO Summit in Chicago. Mr. Hollande’s pledge to end his country’s combat mission in Afghanistan two years early has created new tensions among the NATO allies.
CHICAGO, May 21, 2012

NATO shifts to help an elusive Afghanistan peace

NATO allies declared that the end of a long and unpopular Afghanistan war is in sight even as they struggled to hold their fighting force together as France’s new President announced plans to pull... »
CHICAGO, May 21, 2012

Afghan pullout to dominate NATO meet

More than 50 world leaders were gathering in Chicago for one of the biggest NATO summits in history on Sunday aiming to hammer out a unified exit strategy from Afghanistan after a decade of war. <... »
Kathmandu, May 20, 2012

Ethnic groups seek identity-based federalism

Life was paralysed across Nepal on Sunday as the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN), an umbrella organisation of ethnic communities, kick-started a three-day nation-wide shutdown... »
A bell tower clock in Sant'Agostino, northern Italy, displays the time of 4:04 am, Sunday, when magnitude-6.0 temblor shook northern Italy.
Rome, May 20, 2012

Italy quake damages historic buildings

Six people died on Sunday, including a woman aged over 100, after an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit northern Italy, the news agency ANSA reported.The quake hit the region... »
ISLAMABAD, May 20, 2012

Pakistan blocks Twitter for about 12 hours

Pakistan on Sunday blocked the micro-blogging social networking site Twitter for about 12 hours because it refused to stop promoting an online competition on Facebook to post images of Prophet Moh... »
TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 20, 2012

No change in China policy, says Taiwan’s President

Taiwan’s President has signalled that he will continue the China policy that helped him get re-elected as he begins his second four-year term. Speaking at a low-key inaugural ceremony on... »
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, California , on Saturday.
PALO ALTO, California, May 20, 2012

Zuckerberg updates status to ‘married’

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to “married.” Mr. Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, California... »
COLOMBO, May 20, 2012

Hillary seeks concrete steps on accountability, reconciliation

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris travelled to the United States to make yet another presentation on the “progress” since the war with the Tamil Tigers ended in May 2009; and the United State... »
Anti-government protesters march through Taipei, Taiwan, on Saturday.
TAIPE, May 20, 2012

Taiwanese rally against President

Tens of thousands of Taiwanese rallied in Taipei on Saturday to voice their anger at President Ma Ying-jeou over a spate of controversial policies, on the eve of his inauguration for a second term... »

Moscow protesters driven out again

20,000 march at Frankfurt Occupy protest rally

Student killed, 7 hurt in blast near Italy school

Pak journalist gunned down

Chinese activist leaves for U.S.

‘Support Afghan forces'

Regime forces fire on Syria protests

In Cannes, cinema has little to do with the box office

May 21, 2012

Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1billion

The deal, announced on Sunday in the U.S., will see Alibaba Group buying back the stake from Yahoo Inc. for $6.3 billion cash and up to $800 million of Alibaba preference shares.The announce... »
NEW YORK, May 21, 2012

Chinese activist reaches U.S.

Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng began a new life in the U.S. on Saturday, drawing a line under a month-long diplomatic saga that embarrassed Beijing and tested ties between the world superp... »
LONDON, May 20, 2012

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dead

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer and the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died at his home in Tripoli on Sunday after a protr... »
This May 8, 2012 photo shows a statue of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz with electoral advertisements for presidential candidates Amr Moussa, left, and Mohammed Morsy, right, in Cairo. Poster at centre reads,
CAIRO, May 20, 2012

Egypt heads for fractured vote

Egypt's presidential elections, widely seen as the culmination of the first round of the Egyptian revolution that started with a blazing uprising that removed former President Hosni Mubarak, has f... »
Washington, May 20, 2012

Chicago police foils terror attack ahead of NATO Summit

Three members of the ‘Black Bloc’ group have been arrested in President Barack Obama’s hometown Chicago on charges of allegedly plotting terror attacks during the key NATO Summit in the city.<... »
Oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, are parked at a compound in Karachi. The NATO supply routes to Afghanistan were closed by Pakistan after a cross border NATO raid in November last year killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Washington, May 20, 2012

Zardari in Chicago amid frictions over NATO supply routes

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is in Chicago for a crucial NATO summit where he is set to discuss the reopening of the Afghan supply routes, but a top U.S. official said the resolution would... »
BOLOGNA, May 20, 2012

Earthquake strikes in Italy near Bologna

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that a 5.9-magnitude earthquake has struck in northern Italy near Bologna. The quake was centred 35 kilometres (21.75 miles) north-northwest of Bol... »
Anoma Fonseka, wife of former Sri Lankan Army chief Sarath Fonseka leaves a hospital where her husband is admitted in Colombo on Sunday.
COLOMBO, May 20, 2012

A day after Peiris and Hillary meet, Sri Lanka decides to release Sarath Fonseka

A day after Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris met U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and officials in Washington DC, Sri Lanka announced that President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed the rele... »
BELGRADE, May 20, 2012

Serbia votes today

Serbia goes to the polls on Sunday to elect a new President with the incumbent pro-European Boris Tadic set for a victory over nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic. Surveys predict tha... »
CAPE CANAVERAL, May 20, 2012

SpaceX scrubs capsule launch

The California-based company SpaceX on Saturday scrubbed the launch of its Dragon capsule toward the International Space Station at the last second due to a rocket engine problem. The abo... »

Fonseka's release delayed

Suicide vehicle bomb hits Syrian military compound

73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest

No troop cuts in Tamil areas: Rajapaksa

Dan Brown tight-lipped about next novel

U.S. ready to strike Iran, says envoy

Video douses hope of Saroja Devi

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