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Electricity grids fail across half of India
Electric crematoria were snuffed out with bodies inside, New Delhi's Metro shut down and hundreds of coal miners were trapped underground after three ...
US wants tougher Pakistani action against Haqqanis
The Obama administration expressed renewed frustration with Pakistan on Tuesday, urging its reluctant counterterrorism ally to break remaining links ...
Scout Willis gets community service in NYC case
Scout Willis, the daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, can do community service to resolve her public-drinking and fake-ID case, a judge said ...
Notable power outages around the world
Some notable power outages around the world: July 31, 2012: Three power grids across half of India fail in what authorities call overdrawing of the ...
Wife of UK terrorism suspect also faces charge
The pregnant wife of a British Muslim convert accused of travelling to Pakistan for terrorism training has also been charged with a terrorism-related ...
Pakistan, US sign troop supply deal
Pakistan and the United States signed a deal regulating the shipment of American troop supplies to and from Afghanistan on Tuesday, prompting ...
Taliban happy Pakistan reopened NATO supply line
As the United States trumpeted its success in persuading Pakistan to end its seven-month blockade of supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, another ...
India rates on hold, growth to slow further
India's central bank kept its key interest rate on hold Tuesday because of high inflation and warned that a weak monsoon and intensifying global risks ...
US: Egypt's Islamists must respect minorities
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the jury was out on whether Egypt's Islamist political parties will equally represent ...
So far, London Olympics wins gold medal for gaffes
An appearance by the hapless comic character Mr. Bean was one of the highlights of the London Olympics opening ceremony. Yet a series of Keystone Cops ...
Indian power failure puts 370M in dark for hours
A power grid failure blacked out northern India for hours Monday, halting trains, forcing hospitals and airports onto backup power and providing a ...
Police: Fire at Pakistani TV station kills 4
A Pakistani police official says a fire that broke out at a television station in the eastern city of Lahore has killed four people who came to ...
Train fire kills 32 in southern India; dozens hurt
A fire swept through a train car packed with sleeping passengers in southern India on Monday, killing at least 32 people and sending panicked ...
2 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan
The NATO military coalition on Sunday said two service members were killed in an insurgent attack in the west of the country. The military alliance ...
India's Olympic team abuzz about mystery woman
A mysterious woman in red has caused an international incident at the London Olympics. Indian officials are mystified — and miffed — after an unknown ...
Officials: US drone strike kills 4 in NW Pakistan
Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed four people near the Afghan border. The officials say the missiles hit ...
Notable inventions discovered by Indian professor
Indian professor Anil Gupta has spent decades scouring the Indian countryside searching for unsung inventors in rural villages. He works in ...
Professor on quest for India's hidden inventors
It's 43 degrees Celsius (110 F), and Prof. Anil Gupta has been hiking the scorched plains of central India for hours. But he smiles widely as he ...
Pakistan unrelenting in demanding drone strike end
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States says her country will not relent from demanding that the CIA end its drone strikes. In a debate with White ...
Pakistan official slams drones ahead of CIA talks
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States is calling for an end to CIA drone strikes ahead of an intelligence summit in Washington between the two ...
Pakistan invites Indian prime minister to visit
Pakistan's president has invited India's prime minister to visit, the latest sign of thawing relations between the historical arch enemies.
Bombing kills 11 in Pakistan, NATO route hampered
A truck packed with explosives blew up in a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 people, as security concerns led officials ...
Bhopal victims hold own Olympics to protest Dow
Dozens of giggling children in wheelchairs or limping on twisted limbs raced for gold Thursday in their own "Special Olympics" organized in an effort ...
More troops sent to India's strife-torn northeast
Indian authorities rushed more troops to a remote northeastern state on Thursday to quell ethnic violence that has killed dozens over the past week ...
Pakistan: Millions bear mental scars from attacks
Liaqat Ali is a victim of one of Pakistan's worst bombings, but his injuries are not visible to the naked eye. The 47-year-old government clerk and ...