World

Sydney, April 27: Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) was on Friday ordered to pay Aus$8 million (US$8.3 million) to an Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was paralysed after eating a Twister wrap. Monika Samaan was seven when she suffered salmonella encephalopathy -- a brain injury linked to food poisoning that also left her with a blood infection and septic shock -- in

Dubai, April 27: The United States has lost its crown as the "Spam King" to India in the first quarter of the year, security firm Sophos said in a report. "The volume of email spam that originated from India exceeded the volume coming from the US and transformed the Asian country into the world's top spam source," Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, said in its latest Dirty

Islamabad, April 27: The family of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, killed almost a year ago by American special forces in a military town in northwest Pakistan, left Pakistan for Saudi Arabia early on Friday morning, the family lawyer told Reuters. The move ends months of speculation about the fate of the three widows and 11 children, who were detained by Pakistani security forces after the May 2

Paris, April 26: The global economic crisis and the subsequent drop in defence budget allocations forced the European Union to heavily depend on American assets for defence operational needs. The EU's operational limitations and overdependence on US assets were exposed during last year operations in Libya and even on earlier occasions in Kosovo. “The operations over Libya was a wake-up call for

London, April 24: European countries are discriminating against Muslims for demonstrating their faith, especially in the fields of education and employment, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday. In a report focusing on Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland, Amnesty urged European governments to do more to challenge negative stereotypes and prejudices against Islam

Brussels, April 24: The 27 nation European Union is grappling hard with a serious problem more than ever because of radicalisation of the people, essentially youth, who leave for “safer terrorist havens'', including Pakistan, and eventually returning to strike terror. And ahead of the crucial review of the United Nations Global Strategy on Terrorism later this year, the EU is seeking greater

Lahore, April 21: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out any unilateral withdrawal of Pakistani soldiers from Siachen, saying troops could be called back from the Himalayan glacier only if India agrees to do the same. "The withdrawal of Pakistani troops is possible provided India also agrees. It will not be a unilateral decision," he said while addressing a convention of workers of his

Islamabad, April 21: A total of 127 people were killed when a Boeing 737-200 of Bhoja Air crashed a short distance from the international airport in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi, the second such accident in less than two years. Bhoja Air's flight B4-213 from Karachi to Islamabad lost contact with air traffic control shortly after 6.30 pm on Friday as it was coming in to land at the

Juba, (South Sudan), April 21: South Sudan will withdraw its troops from the disputed oil town its forces took over last week, the president announced on Friday, pulling back from offensive military action that pushed the south closer to all-out war with its northern neighbor, Sudan. The statement from President Salva Kiir said the south still believes that the town of Heglig is a part of South

Kathmandu, April 21: A total of 6,574 ex-Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the (UCPN-M)'s People's Liberation Army (PLA) combatants, have opted for voluntary retirement, a report said. The step came at the end of the timeline specified for the second round of regrouping of the ex-Maoist combatants Thursday, Xinhua reported. Founded in 1994, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), a