Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan):  Nearly 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday after it was attacked by Taliban militants armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades, a senior police official said.

ABOARD MS BALMORAL: With prayers, a hymn and a moment of silence broken by a ship's deep whistle, passengers and crew on a memorial trip marked 100 years to the moment since the Titanic sent more than 1,500 people to a watery grave.

Lahore, Apr 16: Pakistan and India should take a lesson from the recent avalanche that buried 138 people in the Siachen sector and review troop deployments on the Himalayan glacier, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said yesterday.

Pyongyang: North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the hermit state and a blow for its new young leader who faces international outrage over the attempt.

Copenhagen, Apr 14: Four terrorists  with links to Pakistan had planned a Mumbai style attack to target Danish Crown Prince Frederik as part of their planned revenge attack on a newspaper that printed cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, a court  here was told on Friday.

Islamabad, Apr 14: The Pakistani authorities have decided to deport Osama Bin Laden’s family  to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, according to media reports.

Melbourne: Australian airliner Qantas on Friday flew the country's first commercial biofuel flight between Sydney and Adelaide using a mix of conventional fuel and refined cooking oil.

BEIRUT: A fragile ceasefire brokered by the UN took hold in Syria on Thursday with regime forces apparently halting widespread attacks on the opposition. But there were reports of scattered violence and the government defied demands to pull troops back to barracks.

New York: A reporter's job figures among the ten worst professions, alongside the likes of butchers, waiters and dishwashers, as per a new study by the US-based consultancy CareerCast, which has named a software engineer's occupation as the best for the year 2012.

Beijing: China has removed 2.10 lakh online posts and shut down 42 websites as part of a massive crackdown on the country's 300 million-strong microbloggers following coup rumours as a major political scandal rocked the nation.