LTTE may smuggle out Prabhakaran The LTTE is trying to sneak its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran out of Sri Lanka for treatment abroad, following severe injuries he is said to have sustained in an air raid last month, a government-owned newspaper claimed on Friday.
Lankan minister issues threat Sri Lankas militant-turned cabinet minister Douglas Devananda on Thursday vowed that he would quit politics if the elusive rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran enters the countrys political mainstream, aiming to end the bloody ethnic conflict.
Cops restrict Chaudhry on Eid Pakistans deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was on Friday prevented by the police from going out of his residence here for Eid prayers.
Pakistan Politics
Cwealth wont monitor polls Irked by the Commonwealths decision to suspend the countrys membership, Pakistan is unlikely to allow Commonwealth election observers to monitor the crucial January polls for the National and provincial assemblies.
Hasselhoff is now a medical slang The creative language that doctors use to insult their patients and each other is in rude health, with the former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff lending his name to one of the latest slang medical terms.
Glorious snow white... Workers put a final touch on a snow sculpture in Harbin, northeast China, on Tuesday. The 20th Harbin International Ice-Snow Sculpture Expo opened on December 20 in the capital of Heilongjiang province. AP/Xinhua
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