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Washington, Feb 9 Cold weather continued to paralyse normal life in US today and thousands of people in and around America's Capital struggled to dig themselves out of the snow blizzard that hit the mid-Atlantic region over the weekend. Federal government offices in Washington would remain closed for the second consecutive day today as people struggled yesterday to get to work. Despite pressing into service...

Lahore, Feb 9, : A 14-year-old boy arrested with five terror suspects who were allegedly plotting an attack on a five-star hotel to kill Americans has said that a Pakistani Taliban activist had lured him to this eastern city with the promise of a job. "I was studying in a seminary in Peshawar. About seven months ago, Taliban activist Qari Abdul...

London, Feb 9 : British business leaders have criticised London Mayor Boris Johnson for closing down the Delhi and Mumbai offices of the London Development Authority as a cost-cutting measure. The offices were set up by Johnson's predecessor, Ken Livingstone, to help forge close trade and business links between London and India, but they have been closed following a recent review. Business leaders warned that closing...

London, Feb 9, : An Indian-origin taxi driver in east Midlands town of Leicester has suffered injuries and lost his vehicle during an unprovoked attack by two passengers while he was dropping them off at night. Bharat Upadhay, 48, who has been driving the taxi for the last four months, said he...

San Jose, Feb 9 : Fifty-year-old Laura Chinchilla became the first woman president of Costa Rica after she won 64.7 percent votes in the country's general election this weekend. With over 64.7 percent of votes, the Supreme Electoral Court confirmed that...

Lahore, Feb 9 : Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan has informed a court here that the government has placed a ''ban on water and medical supplies'' to him under the garb of a court order. Khan's counsel Syed Ali Zafar told a bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday that though arguments in a case for easing restrictions on the scientist were going on, the government had...

Lahore, Feb.8 : Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has sent eight female suicide bombers to target strategically important establishments in the province. ...

Rawalpindi, Feb.9 : Awami Muslim League chief and former federal minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed had a miraculous escape during an attack in which three of his close aides were killed by unidentified gunmen at Aiwan Chowk in Khayaban-e-Sir Syed...

Colombo, Feb.9 : Sri Lanka's former Chief of Defence Staff, army chief and opposition presidential candidate, General Sarath Fonseka,...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S.-led offensive that's expected to start soon in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province will be a battle not only against the Taliban but also against an insurgent-backed narcotics trade that provides a livelihood for thousands of residents. Helmand produces more than half the world's opium, and Marjah, the town targeted in the operation, is its thriving drug capital. Marjah illustrates the link between the Islamist insurgency and the narcotics trade: According to residents, the Taliban promote and tax the opium business and...

TORONTO -- -- The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base, who once flew dignitaries around the country, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women. Ontario Provincial Police Det. Insp. Chris Nicholas said Monday that Col. Russell Williams, 46, was arrested Sunday in Ottawa. He was also charged in the sexual...

ATHENS, Greece -- Is there any way out of Europe's debt morass? Greece's efforts to restore confidence in its finances have only called attention to its woes, and now investors are fretting debt contagion could spread to other countries, starting with similarly troubled Portugal, but with markets wondering who's next. Some experts believe a bailout may be needed to prevent a continental conflagration -- but EU leaders resist the idea, while...

Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Javier Galeano, AP Laura Silsby of Meridian, Idaho, is escorted to her court appearance in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 8. By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Newly appointed lawyers for the U.S. missionaries accused of child trafficking emerged from a court hearing Monday and said their clients violated no laws when they tried to rescue 33 Haitian children. "The Americans acted with heart," lawyer Aviol Fleurant said outside a courthouse in the capital. "They had no intention to violate the Haitian law." Fleurant said the missionaries "have a document" authorizing them to take the children and he...

Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By William B. Plowman for USA TODAY Rescue workers pick through the rubble of a police station Jan. 14 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The 5,000 convicts who escaped the National Penitentiary after the Jan. 12 earthquake threaten to boost drug activity. By Chris Hawley, USA TODAY Chaos, a lack of jobs and thousands of escaped prisoners could cause drug trafficking to jump in , where cocaine already flows through and into the United States, law enforcement officials say. The says Haiti and the are way stations for drugs coming to the USA from . The department says the number of drug planes landing in Haiti has been on the rise in...

London, February 09: Britain vowed to stand firm in Afghanistan after the death toll reached the number killed in the 1982 Falklands...

 

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