BRITAIN will withdraw the children of all its diplomats based in Islamabad after last month`s bombing at the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital, the Foreign Office said today
MORE than 100,000 workers in Bollywood began an indefinite strike today, protesting against low wages, late payments and the use of non-union members in the Indian film industry
PAKISTANI President Asif Ali Zardari called the recent bombing in Islamabad`s Marriott hotel an assassination attempt he and other top leaders narrowly escaped, in an interview on US television
A CHINESE company at the centre of the scare over tainted milk powder had asked for government help to cover up the extent of the problem, state media said in the newest development in the widening scandal
CHINESE female gymnasts who competed at this year`s Beijing Olympics were not underage, the sport`s governing body says, after investigating claims the Games hosts fielded ineligible athletes
FIRE broke out in a video shop in the western Japanese city of Osaka early today, killing 15 men and injuring 10 other people, the local fire department said
INCREASED activity has been spotted near the site of North Korea`s 2006 nuclear test but it is unclear whether the hardline communist country is preparing for a second test, a report said
