Damascus blasts kill 27
Two huge bomb blasts killed at least 27 people in the heart of the Syrian capital on Saturday, state media said, as international envoy Kofi Annan warned of regional fallout from the year-long bloodshed in Syria. Full storyIndian media slams ‘zero risk’ budget
Indian media on Saturday slammed the embattled Congress government’s budget that eschewed bold reforms and opted for modest steps to rein in the deficit, describing it as ‘low on vision’. Full storyUS suspect in Afghan massacre identified
A US soldier who allegedly shot dead 16 civilians in Afghanistan was being held in a US military jail in Kansas Saturday as his name and new details about the veteran’s past emerged. Full storyAssange to run for Australian Senate
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is planning to run for election to the Australian Senate, the organisation announced Saturday on Twitter. Full storyClooney arrested at anti-Sudan protest in Washington
Hollywood movie star George Clooney was arrested at Sudan’s embassy in Washington on Friday at a protest of an escalating emergency as Sudan blocks humanitarian aid from reaching... Full storyTrinamool Congress asks Trivedi to resign
The railway minister, Dinesh Trivedi, who has earned his party’s wrath for hiking passenger fares in the Railway Budget, was Saturday asked to quit his post by the party but... Full storyPakistan remands bin Laden family members
A Pakistan court Saturday remanded family members of Osama bin Laden including his Yemeni wife in judicial custody for nine days, their lawyer said. Bin Laden’s youngest... Full storyPanic leaves 45 injured in Philippine quake
an earthquake that struck the southern Philippines left at least 45 people injured, most of them shoppers who panicked and rushed in a stampede for the exits, the civil defence office said Saturday. Full storyAustralia braces for cyclone, floods
A severe tropical cyclone smashed into Western Australia’s north coast on Saturday, forcing residents to bunker down as they waited for the destructive gale-force winds to pass. Full storyMyanmar agrees to end forced labour by 2015
Myanmar has signed an agreement with the International Labour Organisation to end forced labour by 2015, state media reported on Saturday. The deputy labour minister, Myint Thein, signed... Full storyEast Timor votes in test for young nation
East Timor voted Saturday in the country’s second presidential election as a free nation, seen as a key test for a young democracy taking charge of its own security as UN forces prepare to leave. Full storyIn one day, Obama is 5 million dollar man
