Australia cancels cricket team’s tour of Pakistan

SYDNEY: Australia’s newspapers have claimed that the Australian cricket team’s tour of Pakistan has been cancelled. However, if the ICC investigates the security arrangements in Pakistan through independent sources then there may be any chance of the tour.

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'Idol' Shocker! Another Truth Bared!

Aparticipant in a CBS competition series once worked as a stripper at a club in New York City, performing for its mostly male clientele!

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Crews to Move 9/11 Survivors Staircase

NEW YORK -- Tom Canavan saw the stairs through the smoke after tunneling out of debris that buried him when the World Trade Center's south tower collapsed. The sun fell on a section of gold awning that led him down the stairs to safety on a nearby street.

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Even in Victory, Clinton Team Is Battling Itself

For the bruised and bitter staff around Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tuesday's death-defying victories in the Democratic presidential primaries in Ohio and Texas proved sweet indeed. They savored their wins yesterday, plotted their next steps and indulged in a moment of optimism. 'She won't be st...

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Money rates firm; rupee flat

In the currency market, the rupee was flat at 62.86/89, compared with Tuesday’s close of 62.86/90.

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ANP crowned, MMA dethroned in Frontier

The Feb 18 general elections have rendered severe blows to some parties like PML(Q) and MMA or more precisely JUI(F) and the election results were something of a gust of a pleasant wind for some other parties like PPPP, PML(N) and ANP.

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The closure of roads in Bara and Jamrud tehsils

armed followers of Ameer Mangal Bagh Afridi's Khyber Agency-based Lashkar-i-Islam

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Taliban and US in race to woo future govt

Does the latest announcement by the spokesman for the Taliban movement to end the unilaterally announced ceasefire in tribal areas, after accusing the government of targeting their people, indicate that the Taliban consider themselves out of the undeclared race with the US to woo the future government in Pakistan?

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Egypt was trying to persuade Hamas to accept a truce

Deputies of Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met with officials from the Islamic militant Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad in the city of el-Arish in the Sinai peninsula, security officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to discuss activities of the intelligence services.

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Blast hits recruiting center on Times Square

NEW YORK - A small bomb caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above "the crossroads of the world."

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Troop depression on rise in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.

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Hot Clip of a Hot Item: Penn + Petra

We hit you with scoop of this new couple earlier, but play the video above to get an even more intimate look at love in bloom. As in, the night's Best New Item Sean Penn and Petra Nemcova leaving Elton John's Oscar party to a flurry of flashbulbs, in the wee hours.

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Christian Makes for Fierce Runway Finale

"It's crazy, but, hello, did you have a doubt?"So opined the self-proclaimed obvious winner of the fourth season of Project Runway, 21-year-old Christian Siriano, whose final collection of neutral-toned, extravagantly detailed and slightly androgynous couture proved to be just the effort the outspoken designer.

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FBI admits it violated Americans' private records in 2006

WASHINGTON - The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies.

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