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Pakistan: Suicide bomber targeting police kills 10

Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeting police killed at least 10 people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, including the son and nephew of an

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Suu Kyi’s ‘rule of law mantra’ a distant hope in Myanmar

YANGON: It is Aung San Suu Kyi´s mantra for embedding democratic reform, but for many who endured Myanmar´s authoritarian and deeply corrupt former junta the “rule of law” remains a

Mother of bomb suspects found deeper spirituality

BOSTON: In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the

Owner of collapsed building captured in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: The fugitive owner of an illegally constructed building that collapsed and killed at least 377 people was captured by commandos as he tried to flee into India. At the

Bangladesh owner is at nexus of politics, business

Bangladesh: When the cracks in the building appeared early Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s, a feared political operative who a neighbor says dropped out of school

Obama jokes about radical 2nd term changes

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama joked Saturday about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from a “strapping young Muslim Socialist” to retiree golfer, all with a new hairstyle like first

Italy forms new government after 2-month stalemate

ROME: Center-left leader Enrico Letta forged a new Italian government Saturday in a coalition with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s conservatives, an unusual alliance of bitter rivals that broke a two-month

Gunmen surround Libya Foreign Ministry

TRIPOLI, Libya: A Libyan military official says about 200 armed men are surrounding the Foreign Ministry building in Tripoli, demanding the ministry to reform and hire former fighters who helped

Filipino sultan’s quest sparks crisis in Malaysia

MANILA, Philippines: Unlike many other Muslim royalties basking in grand palaces and opulent lifestyles, Sultan Jamalul Kiram III’s kingdom sits in a rundown two-story house in a poor Islamic community

Fire in Russian psychiatric hospital kills 38

MOSCOW: A fire raged through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, including two nurses, emergency officials said. A third nurse managed to save two patients and