CAIRO (TIP): The same chants used against Hosni Mubarak were turned against his successor on Tuesday as more than 200,000 people packed Egypt’s Tahrir Square in the biggest challenge yet to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. […]
LAHORE (TIP): In an action reminiscent of that of a school teacher punishing an errant student, a Pakistani judge made a government official stand up for hours in his courtroom for telling a lie. Justice […]
LAHORE (TIP): Pakistan’s next general election will be held in May, information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Tuesday, offering for the first time a specific timeframe for the polls. “The general election will be […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The FBI said on Wednesday it had added to its list of most wanted terrorists the American “rapping jihadi,” an operative for Somalia’s al-Qaida linked Shebab insurgents who uses rap as a propaganda […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): The sex scandal that has brought down CIA chief David Petraeus may be causing heartache in the Washington security establishment but the affair has prompted laughter among the Taliban. Petraeus resigned last week […]
KARACHI (TIP): The case pertaining to Sindh High Court’s (SHC) suo moto action against interior ministry’s notification against the day-long ban on use of motorcycles in Karachi was being heard in the SHC on Friday, […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Defense secretary Leon Panetta has ordered the US military’s top brass to look for any gaps in ethics training as he lamented lapses in judgment by officers that could “erode public confidence in […]
BUENOS AIRES (TIP): Argentina has passed a bill to increase the prison time for femicide to life sentence, media reports said on November 15. During the voting session late Wednesday, all the 222 lawmakers that […]
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar ordered 452 prisoners to be freed on Thursday in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a historic visit by US President Barack Obama, but activists criticized the move for failing to focus […]
NEW DELHI: Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday described violence in west Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a “huge international tragedy” and said illegal migration from Bangladesh had to be stopped. Suu Kyi, on […]
NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (TIP): BP Plc will pay $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to felony misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster,which caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill ever. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder […]
BEIJING (TIP): Long-anointed successor Xi Jinping assumes the leadership of China at a time when the ruling Communist Party is confronting slower economic growth, a public clamor to end corruption and demands for change that […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India will take up with Ireland the issue of death of an Indian woman dentist there after doctors allegedly refused to terminate her 17-week-long pregnancy on the ground that it was a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP on November 14 asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the government to spell out why the alleged land scam involving Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra was not being […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction on November 15 for her first book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” which […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans in Congress said Thursday, November 8 that they want to consider broad changes to immigration laws next year, after an election in which Hispanic voters turned […]
ISLAMABAD (tip): Authorities have agreed to allowmobile phone services between Pakistan and India though certain issues remain to be settled, a Pakistani parliamentary panel has been informed by officials. The standing committee on commerce of […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Two mobile jammers have been installed on Golden Temple’s first floor to curb cell phone usage in the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine. SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar told TOI on Friday that […]
BEIJING (tip): She sports Tibetan costume or military uniform and regales Chinese audiences with folk and patriotic songs. Until recently,Peng Liyuan, a star singer, was a lot more popular than her politician husband, Xi Jinping, […]
LONDON (TIP): Pakistan’s teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, shot in the head by the Taliban, is “up and walking,” her father said on Friday after visiting her for the first time at a specialised UK […]
MILAN (TIP): An Italian court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to four years in jail for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediaset television company. Berlusconi […]
LONDON (TIP): The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton has been voted as the most naturally beautiful woman in Britain, beating Hollywood actresses Keira Knightley and Emma Watson. Kate, 30, came first in a ranking of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The death toll from a U.S. outbreak of fungal meningitis due to injections of tainted steroid medication has reached 24 with Indiana now reporting a third death, the Centers for Disease Control and […]
Kabul (TIP): At least 41 people were killed and 34 wounded when a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform targeted a mosque in northern Afghanistan’s Mainama city just after Eid-ul-Azha prayers, an official said. “A […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Microsoft Corp launched its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet on October 25 in a bid to revive interest in its flagship product and regain ground lost to Apple Inc […]
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