LONDON: Youths broke into stores and torched cars in central England on Tuesday as Britain's worst riots for decades entered a fourth night, police said.There were isolated incidents of 'disorder' in the city of Wolverhampton and town of West Bromwich, both near Birmingham, England's…

Saudi Arabia recalled its envoy to Syria in a major escalation of international pressure Monday after security forces killed more than 50 people and the regime defended its crackdown on 'outlaws'."Saudi Arabia announces the recall of its ambassador for consultations," the king said in…

CHICAGO: President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to revive the energy of his last presidential campaign after a damaging debt showdown as he returned to his hometown Chicago for a 50th birthday bash.Obama paid a lightning evening visit back to the Midwestern metropolis one…

At least 16 miners were killed Friday after an explosion ripped through a mine in eastern Ukraine, authorities said.Ten miners remain missing after the blast at the Sukhodilska-Vostochnaya mine operated by Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest steel producer, in the country’s Luhansk Region. Two miners were…

A massive wildfire on Alaska’s Brooks Mountain Range released 20 times more carbon into the air than what is annually lost from undisturbed tundra, say scientists pointing to the huge toll such incidents take on ecology.Senior scientist Gauis Shaver from Nature, Marine Biological Lab…

Terrorism can be defeated with the help of strong cultural values, a Pakistani minister has said.“Only those nations, which have strong cultural heritage and norms, can survive (terrorism),” Dawn quoted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information and Culture Iftikhar Hussain as saying.Hussain said that…

US senator Peter King has said over 40 Americans recruited by Somali terror group Al Shabab, have gone to fight in Somalia, and could return to attack US homeland, Xinhua reported.King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, made the statement at a hearing…

Although Anders Behring Breivik’s own Facebook account seemed to have curiously disappeared hours after he was accused of massacring 91 people in Norway, the virtual world was inundated with extreme outbursts against the 32-year-old ethnic Norwegian.“Hang him”, “rot in hell”, “death penalty”, “the most…

The death toll in twin attacks in Norway has gone up to 91. At least 84 people have been killed in a shooting spree by an ethnic Norwegian at a youth camp in an island that came soon after a massive blast in Oslo that…

The use of Israeli-made weapons indicates “foreign hands” behind the Karachi unrest, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said.“Over 200 persons have been arrested and Israeli-made weapons including AK-45, have been recovered from them. It proves that foreign hands are behind the unrest in Karachi,”…