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Assad says Turkey will pay for supporting Syrian rebels
The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has said Turkey will pay a heavy price for backing rebels fighting against him, and accused it ...Iraq violence claims 66 including pilgrims, journalists
Iraqi officials say the death toll from a suicide bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad has risen sharply, increasing the total ...Italy mourns Lampedusa boat victims
Italy on Friday mourned the 300 African asylum-seekers feared dead in the worst ever Mediterranean refugee disaster, as debate raged over Europe\'s ...Obama cancels Asia trip over U.S. government shutdown
U.S. President Obama has canceled a trip to Asia that was set to begin this weekend, because of the ongoing government shutdown in ...Suicide car bombing kills 15 people in Pakistan
At least 15 people were killed in an attack on a pro-government militia commander in Pakistan\'s lawless northwestern tribal area on Thursday ...Japan nuclear plant leaking again
A new radioactive water leak has been discovered at Japan\'s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean, ...130 dead in migrant boat disaster off Italian coast
At least 130 people died and scores were missing after a boat carrying African migrants, mostly from Eritrea sank off the Sicilian ...Indian politician Lalu Prasad sentenced to five years in prison
Former Indian Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has been sentenced to 5 years in jail Thursday in a fodder scam case.Shots fired at US Capitol, female suspect killed
A woman suspected of being involved in a car chase across central Washington was shot and killed by police outside the U.S. ...IMF head warns US debt crisis threatens world economy
The head of the International Monetary Fund is warning that if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling the consequences could be ...




