Pak army general killed in blast The attacker detonated his explosives near the staff car of Lt Gen Mushtaq Ahmed Baig, Director General of Medical Services.
80th Annual Academy Awards No film ran away with the night, however, as the 80th annual Academy Awards gave a bruised movie industry a chance to refocus its ever-inward gaze on laurels instead of labour strife.
Rebel chief calls on Kurds to fight Turkish troops Bahoz Erdal, a Turkish Kurdish rebel commander fighting Turkish troops in northern Iraq called on Sunday on Turkish Kurds to rise up in the countrys major cities and make them uninhabitable.
Human chain against Israel blockade Palestinian women and children protested on Monday Israels siege which has isolated, imprisoned and beggared 1.5 million Gazans.
Raul is now Cubas president In a historic milestone, Raul Castro succeeded his brother Fidel Castro as the president of Cuba on Monday in a power shift expected to keep Havana firmly on its communist path, officials said.
Police officers stand guard next to the site of a suicide blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Monday. A suicide bomber hit a car carrying an army general along a busy road near Pakistan's capital. killing him along with at least seven others. AP
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