MECCA: The imam of Mecca said on Friday that a US pastor`s threat to burn copies of the Koran was an incitement to "terrorism.""The call to burn copies of our holy book is a form of terrorism and an incitement to terrorism," Saleh bin Humaid said in a sermon marking the Muslim feast of

GAINESVILLE: A Florida pastor suspended plans to burn hundreds of Korans but the move failed to stem a global tide of Muslim outrage Friday, as he warned the torching ceremony could yet take place. Radical evangelist Terry Jones first announced on Thursday he had scrapped Saturday`s mass

Mumbai: As Mumbai gets ready to usher in Eid and Ganesh Chaturthi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has stated that two suspected terrorists are trying to enter the city, reports NDTV. The government has released photos of these men. Chavan says it was the Union Home Ministry who

KUNDUZ: One man was shot dead when protesters, angry over plans by a U.S. pastor to burn copies of the Koran, attacked a NATO base in Afghanistan`s north on Friday, a provincial government spokesman said.A crowd, estimated at 10,000 by a spokesman for the Badakhshan province governor, had

MOSCOW: Staff at a hydro-electric power station in Russia`s volatile North Caucasus found explosives in what appears to have been a bid to blow up the plant, Russian news agencies reported Thursday. Staff found the makeshift explosive device following a fire at the Irganaiskaya power

LONDON: Large daily doses of B vitamins could halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with warning signs of Alzheimer`s, potentially delaying the onset of the disease, a study suggested Thursday. Brain shrinkage, a natural part of ageing, happens faster in people with mild

TORONTO: North America`s largest film festival opens Thursday in Toronto with a focus on disturbing abuses of human rights and modern clashes of civilization. The Toronto International Film Festival also welcomes back screen legends Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood, returning for the

PESHAWAR: Nine people were killed and seven wounded Thursday when their vehicle hit a landmine in a remote tribal town in northwest Pakistan, local officials said. The incident occurred in Dol Ragha village in Kurram tribal district, close to the Afghan border, which has been hit by

SEOUL: South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-Taek warned Thursday of a global "nuclear domino effect" unless North Korea scraps its atomic weapons. He was speaking days before senior US officials travel to South Korea, Japan and China for talks on the issue. "North Korea`s

BANGKOK: Police in Thailand defused three unexploded bombs discovered in Bangkok and surrounding suburbs over a matter of hours, one of them in front of a school and one in a shopping mall, they said Thursday. The first device was found under a footbridge outside a school in central

BHOPAL, September 9, 2010 (AFP) - At least 17 people were killed and a further 35 feared dead after a passenger bus plunged into a fast-flowing river in central India, police said Thursday.The bus crashed into the river when trying to cross a flooded bridge in the state of Madhya Pradesh

BOGOTA: Twelve people were wounded Wednesday when a bomb exploded outside the Colombian intelligence agency`s offices in the southern city of Pasto, near the Ecuadoran border, the Red Cross said. A "low-intensity package bomb was left outside the Administrative Department of Security

SRINAGAR: Police in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday arrested a leading separatist who has been spearheading months of protests in the disputed Muslim-majority region.Syed Ali Geelani, who heads a hardline faction of the main separatist alliance, told reporters in Srinagar before he was taken

MIRANSHAH: Two US missile strikes in Pakistan`s tribal district on the Afghan border killed at least 14 rebels on Wednesday, local security officials said.The first attack took place in Dandey Darpakhel village, five kilometres (three miles) northwest of Miranshah, the main town in North

AKOLA: With hurling of footwear against politicians increasingly gaining ground as a mode of protest, students wearing chappals were denied entry for an interaction with Rahul Gandhi at a local college today.Securitymen and officials turned away chappal-wearing students wanting to take

WASHINGTON: US diplomatic chief Hillary Clinton late Tuesday joined the general condemnation in the United States of a Florida pastor`s "disrespectful" plans to burn hundreds of Korans on the anniversary of 9/11."I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful,

BEIJING: Myanmar`s junta leader Than Shwe was to meet Wednesday with President Hu Jintao of China, the regime`s main trading partner and diplomatic ally, two months ahead of polls decried in the West as a sham.Than Shwe, whose regime has drawn international condemnation for its human

MANILA: A powerful Muslim politician went on trial Wednesday, accused of murdering 57 people in the worst political massacre in the Philippines, AFP reporters in the courtroom said.The first witness, a man named Lakmudin Saliao, climbed onto the stand after lower court judge Jocelyn Reyes

SYDNEY: Australia`s newly elected Prime Minister Julia Gillard pledged to serve a full term after scraping back into power but her fragile coalition was immediately at odds over a major new tax Wednesday.Welsh-born Gillard, who cobbled together a one-seat majority helped by three

WASHINGTON: NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said ahead of talks with President Barack Obama Tuesday that he hoped US-led troops would begin handing over responsibility to Afghan security forces sometime next year.The secretary-general said he expected the transatlantic alliance would