Islamabad: Angered by the coverage of its attempt to assassinate teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has drawn up plans to target Pakistani and international media organisations across the country.

Tehran, Oct 10: Iran has dismissed Britain's defence secretary's recent remarks about Tehran's nuclear programme and justification of western sanctions on it, Xinhua reported.
Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi Tuesday dismissed British defence secretary Philip Hammond's remarks that the Western sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme "were necessary to pressure Iran to end its nuclear activities," claiming that Tehran's "mad scheme to build a bomb has to be brought to an end".

Kabul, Oct 9: "Listen to my story! Listen to my pain and suffering!" Afghanistan's first female rapper Sosan Firooz pleads into her microphone.

With her first rap song, the outspoken 23-year-old singer is making history in her homeland where society frowns on women who take the stage. She is already shunned by some of her relatives.

But for Ms Firooz, the best way to express herself is through rap, a musical genre that is just starting to generate a following in Afghanistan

London, Oct 9: Cambridge researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing super-massive black holes ever seen in the early Universe.
The black holes were previously undetected because they sit cocooned within thick layers of dust.

The new study that used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky has shown that they are emitting vast amounts of radiation through violent interactions with their host galaxies.

The study findings are published in the journal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The most extreme object in the study is a super-massive black hole called ULASJ1234

Gaya, Oct 9: Children as young as six, rather than mastering their alphabets, are chanting vedic hymns at the famous Vishnupad temple here - thanks to the acute shortage of traditional Hindu priests in this ancient Bihar city that is also known for its close links to Buddhism and Jainism.

London, Oct 9: A 45-year-old man in Britain told another man he was going to eat him before almost biting off his nose, the Daily Mail reported.
Heath Bowden then took a “chunk” out of his victim Graham Brook’s right ear before sinking his teeth into his left ear, Gloucester crown court was told.

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's General National Congress rejected Prime Minister-elect Mustafa Abushagur's crisis government proposal Sunday.

The "no confidence" vote results in the automatic dismissal of Abushagur as prime minister-elect less than a month after he was appointed, while keeping the current government in place until a new one is formed.

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Investigators in Nigeria say they have taken 13 people into custody after a mob attacked four students and burned them alive -- killings that were videotaped and posted online.

Baghdad (CNN) -- Iraqi authorities executed six inmates Monday, the nation's Justice Ministry said.

Four of them were convicted of terrorism, and two others were convicted of kidnapping and killings, the ministry said in a statement.

London: With an IQ of 162, a 12-year-old schoolgirl in UK has been rated brainier than even Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.