Baikonur: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams says she is ready for her second expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Williams, who has been assigned as the next commander of the ISS, says she is impatient to meet members from Expedition-32, who have been on board ISS since mid-May.

Amman/Beirut: The United States has branded Syria's leaders murderers after an attack on a village by President Bashar al-Assad's troops left dozens dead, but there was no break in the deadlock among world powers over how to bring about an end to the bloodshed.

London: London politicians called on Olympic officials to rethink their sponsorship contract with Dow Chemical on Wednesday, saying the company's links to the 1984 Bhopal disaster damaged the reputation of this month's Games.

Abuja: As many as 200 villagers trying to scoop up fuel from an overturned tanker were killed in southern Nigeria today, when the petrol carrying vehicle exploded in a horrific inferno.

London : A High Court judge in London rejected on Tuesday a bid by tenants of a 17-story residential tower block that would prevent surface-to-air missiles being put on the roof of their building during the Olympic Games.

Dubai1: A 34-year-old Indian has won a USD one million lucky draw in Dubai Duty Free’s 130th Millennium Millionaire festival.

New Delhi: The significance of the World Population Day, observed on July 11 every year, lies in the fact that the world holds 7,025,071,966 people as on July 9, 2012, a leap of over 2.5 times over the last fifty years, while earth's resources remain finite.

BEIJING: China has begun importing Pakistani mangoes with the first major shipment leaving Karachi recently, reports quoting an exporter in Pakistan said.

New York, July 9 : Lakhs of computers across the world, including thousands in India, are likely to  lose connection to the internet from  today. 

Sydney, July  9 : The retired chief of Pakistan's ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) Gen Ziauddin Butt has alleged that former Pakistani Intelligence Bureau chief Brigadier Ijaz Shah harboured Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan for years with the approval of the the president Gen Pervez Musharraf, Sydney Morning Herald reported.