A Swedish court Thursday approved a prosecutor’s request to detain the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, as part of a probe into alleged rape.The decision was announced after a closed-door hearing at the Stockholm district court.Assange is suspected of “rape, sexual…

German intelligence agents have received evidence from the US that Al Qaeda has sent two to four terrorists to Germany and Britain via India and the UAE, media reported Wednesday.The mastermind behind the possible attacks was named as Mohammed Ilyas Kashmiri, a leading Al…

The United States says it is working with allies around the world to ensure that a “profoundly dangerous” Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) does not emerge as a major terrorist group as Al Qaeda itself is diminished.“I don’t think I ever said LeT was more dangerous…

The international football community Wednesday mourned the death of Paul the Psychic Octopus while Diego Maradona was apparently pleased.Paul made a last round of global headlines after his German aquarium announced that he died in the night between Monday and Tuesday.Paul gained worldwide…

A Saudi prince was Wednesday given a life prison term for beating and strangling his aide to death in a luxury hotel in London in what the court described as the final act in a “deeply abusive” master-servant relationship.The judge at the Old Bailey…

The Israeli army plans to block several leading social networking websites, including Facebook and Twitter, for security concerns, an official said Tuesday.According to Xinhua, Gadi Abadi, head of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) intelligence corps information security department, said that computers in army bases…

At least 11 people were killed Tuesday evening when gunmen fired at pedestrians in Pakistan’s Karachi city, taking the death toll in four days of violence to 60.The violence broke out Saturday night, hours ahead of the Sunday by-poll for an assembly seat in…

Pakistani-American terror suspect David Headley has told Indian investigators that he had scouted Delhi for potential strike targets, including the prime minister’s residence and key defence complexes, four months after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had a major role…

The UN General Assembly Tuesday elected Colombia to hold one of the two non-permanent seats on the Security Council reserved for Latin America and the Caribbean during 2011-12.During the first round of the voting, Germany was also selected by ballot to occupy one of…

As India Tuesday gained a two-year term on the Security Council after a gap of 19 years, it vowed to step up its quest for a permanent seat on the powerful decision making body of the United Nations.While India’s election for a non-permanent seat…