Category: Foreign News

New Delhi, June 23: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has been appointed as the next Ambassador to the United States, an assignment she will take up after superannuation next month-end. […]

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The UN General Assembly will on Tuesday elect South Korean Ban Ki-moon to a second term as UN leader after he was backed by all major powers. […]

Pix by Getty Images (CNN) — At least 10 militants attacked a naval air station in the coastal city of Karachi late Sunday, leading to several explosions and an hours-long gun battle with Pakistani forces that killed four naval officials, Pakistani officials and witnesses said. “The naval commandos and the naval marines are tightening their […]

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from jail on Friday to house arrest in a landmark apartment building near ground zero after the luxury apartment where he had arranged to stay fell through because the neighbours objected to the media frenzy. […]

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned from his post. Following is a statement from the IMF regarding Strauss Kahn’s resignation: […]

New York (CNN) — The head of the powerful International Monetary Fund will spend the next few days in an 11-by-13-foot cell at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex — a far cry from the $3,000-a-night luxury suite where he allegedly chased a housekeeping employee naked down a hallway and attempted to sexually assault her. […]

(FT) — Microsoft is in advanced discussions about purchasing Skype, the internet telephone company, a person close to the company said, in what would be one of the technology company’s largest deals as it seeks to revitalise its business. […]

US President Barack Obama said that he will not release gruesome photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse. “We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies,” Obama told Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes. “We don’t need to spike the football.” […]

The full text of US President Barack Obama’s statement on Osama bin Laden’s death: “Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands […]

The UN has withdrawn all its international staff from the Libyan capital Tripoli following a mob attack on its offices. UN buildings and some foreign missions were targeted by angry crowds following a Nato air strike that reportedly killed a son of Col Gaddafi. […]

(CNN) — The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces have the body […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma from London The British Postal Service, the Royal Mail issued a new set of stamps on 21 April, just over a week before the big day to celebrate Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding. The new commemorative stamps, launched by the Royal Mail, show a series of images […]

A spiritual leader Sathya Sai baba stopped responding to the treatment and has reportedly passed away. After a prolonged battle with several ailments, Sai Baba passed away at Puttaparthi at 7.45 am on Sunday, Indian media reported. […]

GUNTUR: A three-member gang allegedly involved in drawing money from bank accounts using fake credit cards was busted at Mangalagiri on Thursday. The accused were identified as Anthony Pillai Nimal Raj, Cladison Dino, both native of Sri Lanka and settled in Chennai, and Yerramsetti Venkata Nagakiran of Gudivada (now staying in Vijayawada). […]

Supporters of the Libyan government, protesting the UN-sanctioned military operation in the North African country, on Monday attacked UN chief Ban Ki-moon in central Cairo, the Agence France Presse news agency reported. […]

The UK, US and France have attacked Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in the first action to enforce a UN-mandated no-fly zone. Pentagon officials say the US and the UK have fired more than 110 missiles, while French planes struck pro-Gaddafi forces attacking rebel-held Benghazi. […]