Houston: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams set yet another record as she completed a triathlon in space by running, biking and "swimming" along with athletes during the Nautica Malibu Triathlon held in Southern California over the weekend.

"A big shout out to our astronaut strength and conditioning folks, who were really interested in this and who got this whole workout together," Williams said, thanking the NASA Exercise Lab staff and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, CNN's medical correspondent who trained with Williams before her launch and completed the race in Malibu.

Kabul: A suicide bomber rammed a small sedan heavily laden with explosives into a mini-bus believed to be carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early on Tuesday, killing at least nine people.

Kabul police chief Gen Mohammad Ayub Salangi said the large explosion took place on an avenue northwest of the city centre near Kabul International Airport. The blast, which went off in front a gas station, was so powerful it hurled the mini-bus at least 50 meters.

Islamabad: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf appeared in Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday to face a contempt charge.

A day before the prime minister's second appearance in the top court, the government once again hinted that it has no plans to reopen graft cases against the President.

London, Sep 16: Being bossed around in a stressful job raises chances of a heart attack by 25 percent, warn researchers.
They said workers who feel over-pressured yet powerless are more at danger than counterparts who suffer less stress. Their findings are based on 200,000 workers, including civil servants to factory workers.

Washington, Aug 17: The Obama Administration has announced setting up of an institute for manufacturing innovations which will help prevent jobs going to India and China.

“This institute will help make sure that manufacturing jobs of tomorrow take root not in places like China or India, but right here in the United States of America,” US President Barack Obama said in a statement.

“That is how we will put more people back to work and build an economy that lasts,” he added. 

Islamabad, Sep 16 : The father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has claimed that it was former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto  who ordered him to transfer nuclear technology to two countries that she named.
In an interview to a Pakistani newspaper,  Dr A Q Khan said that the transfer of nuclear technology was not so easy  as if one could put it into a pocket and hand it over to another country.

The man widely believed to have made the film behind the protests in Libya, Egypt and Yemen, has turned out to be a bank fraudster with a history, and at least 13 pseudonyms. Law enforcement officials have identified him as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a resident of the US state of
California and convicted in 2010 for bank fraud.

MEXICO CITY: A total of 16 dead bodies were found Friday in northern Mexico as a war between drug cartels over lucrative delivery routes to the United States continued to take its toll.

London (CNN) -- A British girl who survived the execution-style killing of her father, mother and grandmother in a normally idyllic region of the Alps last week returned to Britain on Friday, authorities said.

Zainab al-Hilli, 7, left France in the morning and arrived in the UK, Surrey police said.

Washington, Sep 14: The US Thursday slapped fresh sanctions on three leaders of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for their alleged role in aiding the Syrian government in its crackdown on opposition forces, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The US Treasury formally charged Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and two other members of the organisation -- Mustafa Badr Al-Din and Talal Hamiyah -- of supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces by providing training and logistical support.