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Lahore, Mar. 15 (ANI): US President Barack Obama’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has said that the Pakistan Army is no longer interested in playing a role in the country’s volatile political scene.
The Daily Times quoted him as saying that while Pakistan’s political scenario is still complicated, the overall situation has improved [...]

WASHINGTON: The internet has become the third most popular news platform for American adults, trailing only local and national television stations, according to a survey released on Monday.
Seventy-eight percent of the 2,259 adults surveyed for the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism said that on a [...]

* Expanded line-up of TV on demand programming
* Online and mobile content coming to Virgin Media customers
LONDON–(Business Wire)–
Virgin Media (LSE:VMED)(NASDAQ:VMED) today announced a new agreement with Turner
Broadcasting to make available the popular preschool kids` channel Cartoonito to
its 3.7 million digital TV customers for the first time, as well as a range of
Cartoonito shows on demand. [...]

Washington, Sep. 11 (ANI): In order to gather facts and collect evidence, the United Nations team probing the Benazir Bhutto murder case will visit London and Washington within the next couple of weeks.

According to the Daily Times, the UN commission would visit New Scotland Yard to study a report prepared by British investigators claiming that [...]

Washington, September 12 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s oldest synagogues in Northern Israel, dating back to some 2000 years from 50BC to 100 AD.

According to a report by the CNN, the site was unearthed at the site of a new 122-room hotel near the Sea of Galilee.

The uncovered synagogue dates to 50 [...]

London, Sep 12 (ANI): The handshake by world’s most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has been described as limp, and like shaking a wet fish by a producer of CNN who met the terror mastermind.

CNN producer Peter Bergen, who wrote The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda’s Leader, met the most [...]

New York, Sep 10 (ANI): The new campaign by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which starred Pamela Anderson, has run into trouble after it was considered too racy for CNN Airport Network.

The anti-fur, anti-leather commercial shows the former ‘Baywatch’ babe as a scantily clad airport security guard who strips passengers [...]

Washington, Sep 5 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that there is a need to regulate the financial market, but it should not be used to devise any kind of protectionism.

In an interview to CNN, Mukherjee said: “We have to strike a balance. There is a need of regulating the financial market. We [...]

New Delhi, Aug. 25 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday directed former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje not to hold a proposed meeting of the MLAs on Wednesday.

Rajnath Singh has directed Vasundhara not to hold the MLAs meet, an NDTV report quoted sources as saying.

It [...]

Washington, Aug. 25 (ANI): Harvard professor and CNN pundit David Gergen has been signed to write a book on how a US president’s administration gets rolling and assumes office.

Earlier, Simon and Schuster editor Alice Mayhew had said: [...]

Petaling Jaya, Aug. 25 (ANI): The story of former Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who is to be whipped in public for drinking beer, has caught international attention.

The news of Shukarno’s impending sentence has thrust her into the blog chats across Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Germany, Britain and the US, The Star reports.

CNN, BBC [...]

Islamabad, Aug 24 (ANI): Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that government forces had foiled a planned terrorist attack on parliament and buildings of the intelligence agency and other federal institutions last month.

“Pakistan’s parliament building was one target of a planned attack,” he said.

Giving details of the plan in an interview with CNN, he said [...]

Washington, Aug. 24 (ANI): Even as Afghanistan awaits the result of its second presidential election, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has said conditions in Afghanistan are “deteriorating,” and hinted at further troop increases.

“I think it is serious and it is deteriorating and I’ve said that over the past [...]

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, said in an interview on Thursday that she expects some sort of paternity test to take place to determine if her husband is the father of his former mistress Rielle Hunter’s 18-month-old child.

Last night, when asked by CNN’s Larry [...]

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Islamabad, Aug.18 (ANI): The US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke has said that Washington is sure about the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud’s death because the chieftain has not appeared over television or radio to prove his well-being.

“The reason it’s clear he’s dead is that if he weren’t dead, he’d be [...]

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The U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday( Time was around 0130 hours of 11th August) that huge earthquake to the magnitude 7.7,was about [...]

Washington, July 12 (ANI): An expert at The University of Texas at Austin warns that prescription drugs’ purchase via the Internet, though more convenient, may endanger the buyer’s health.

“There’s a big problem with rogue Web sites,” says Dr. Marv Shepherd, the Klinck Centennial Professor in the College of Pharmacy and director of the Center [...]

London, July 10 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s dermatologist has revealed that the singer had his nose rebuilt before his death because extensive plastic surgery had left him with breathing problems.

Arnold Klein has said that he rebuilt the singer’s nose and cheeks using fillers last year.

“I thought he had a nice-looking nose . . . but [...]