LONDON: Pakistan could launch a nuclear strike on India within eight seconds, claimed an army general in Islamabad in 2001, a warning that is described in the latest volume of diaries by a key aide of the UK's former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Beijing: China will send its first woman into space when an airforce pilot joins a three-member team of astronauts on the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft which blasts off tomorrow.

China  : A photo showing a foetus whose mother was forced to have an abortion has shocked China web users.

Beijing: A 84-year-old Chinese man, who started to wear women's clothes and took hormones to enlarge his breasts four years ago, now wants to undergo sex change surgery at this ripe age.

Karachi/New Delhi: The shahenshah(emperor) of ghazal Mehdi Hassan is no more. He was 84.
After fighting a protracted battle against illness, the ace singer, hailing originally from Rajasthan, breathed his last at the Liaquat National Hospital in Karachi, his son Arif Mehdi said.

London: British undercover police officers can start sexual relationships with suspected criminals if it means they are more plausible, a minister said on Wednesday.

Stockholm: The prize money given to Nobel laureates is to be cut by a fifth, the foundation behind the prestigious awards said on Monday, after a decade of overspending that has stretched its finances.

Washington, June 13 : US President Barack Obama on Monday nominated India-born  Srikanth Srinivasan to the Federal Court of Appeals, the highest ever judicial appointment of an Indian-American in the U.S.
The nomination  will have to be confirmed by the US Senate, Times of India reported.

LONDON : It's every parent's nightmare: To get home from an event and realize that a child is missing.
But it can turn out to be a political minefield as well if you also happen to be the prime minister.

Islamabad, Jun 12 :  Indian and Pakistani officials have made no forward movement on resolving the military standoff on the Siachen glacier, with both sides sticking to their stated positions in two-day talks, diplomatic and official sources said today.