Ghazi buried as protests mount Grieving relatives and villagers buried rebel Pakistani cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed Lal Masjid were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
Qaeda using Pak soil to strike again A new threat assessment from US counter-terrorism analysts says that al-Qaeda has used its safe haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to restore its operating capabilities to a level unseen since the months before September 11, 2001.
Lebanon on the boil Al-Qaeda-inspired militants killed four Lebanese soldiers on Thursday in fierce battles at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, security sources said.
Astronomers detect water in distant planet UK astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of an enormous, fiery planet that circles a distant star far beyond our own solar system. The discovery raises hopes that the substance considered most vital for life may be ubiquitous throughout the galaxy and wider universe.
Sri Lanka hails capture of East Conceding for the first time that the military has gained control of vast territory of their former strongholds in the Eastern province, the Tamil Tiger rebels have said that they would now adopt the unconventional guerilla tactics in the East region.
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