ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former president PervezMusharraf is out of the electoral race. An election tribunal on Tuesday rejected his nomination papers from the only constituency where his eligibility to contest next month's polls was accepted earlier. The former president has already been disqualified from three other constituencies from where he had filed nomination papers.

NEW YORK: A nonpartisan commission's review of America's anti-terrorism response after the 9/11 attacks reported on Tuesday that it is "indisputable" the United States engaged in the practice of torture and the Bush White House bears responsibility.

WASHINGTON: Tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied across the US on Wednesday in a coordinated set of protests aimed at pressing Congress to approve immigration measures that would grant 11 million immigrants living here illegally a path toward citizenship.

LONDON: Western and Middle Eastern nations trying to help the Syrian opposition in its war against President Bashar al-Assad will meet in Turkey on April 20, a US official said on Wednesday as G8 foreign ministers gathered in London for a summit.

LONDON: The use of the death penalty is broadly diminishing around the world although a handful of countries that had not used capital punishment for several years resumed executions in 2012, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON: At least 14 people were hurt on Tuesday in what appeared to be a mass stabbing at a community college in the US state of Texas and a suspect is in custody, police said.

DUBAI: A powerful earthquake struck close to Iran's only nuclear power station on Tuesday, killing 37 people and injuring 850 as it destroyed homes and devastated two small villages, Iranian media reported.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's general election will be held on May 5, an electoral official said Wednesday, setting a long-awaited date for highly anticipated polls tipped to be the closest in the country's history.

PARIS: Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl and Bill Clinton were among the former friends and foes who joined in tributes to Margaret Thatcher, praising the fearlessness and fierce determination of an "iconic" leader.

TEHRAN: Iran, under international sanctions for its nuclear enrichment programme, on Tuesday launched a new uranium production facility and began operations in two uranium extraction mines, state media said.