KABUL (Agencies) - A top Taliban commander has said his fighters are poised and ready to attack Kabul and could strike virtually anywhere in the city. It would be tempting to put this down to Taliban propaganda except one of Kabul's top cops is saying the same thing. "We are working on a security ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff was led handcuffed to jail Thursday after pleading guilty to tricking thousands of people out of billions of dollars in one of history's biggest financial scams. Madoff, 70, told a packed New York court he was "deeply sorry and ashamed" for the ...

UNITED NATIONS - Expressing concern over the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday stressed that the military surge - as planned by the Obama administration - should go hand-in-hand with a political surge in a bid to stabilise the war-torn ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The unmarried teen daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whose pregnancy became a US presidential campaign issue in 2008, has reportedly split with her young fianc. Bristol Palin, 18, gave birth to a baby boy in December but has since broken up with the child's father Levi ...

KARACHI - Remittances sent home by overseas Pakistanis continued to show a rising trend as an amount of $4,918.63 million was received in the first eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal year 2008-09, showing an increase of $792.47 million or 19.21 percent over the same period of the ...