BANGKOK (AFP) - Clashes between protesters and Thai police on Tuesday left at least one dead and hundreds injured, with the army deployed as months of political turmoil boiled over into violence, officials said. There were scenes of chaos outside Bangkok's parliament as police fired tear gas ...

WASHINGTON: - US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is moving further ahead against his Republican rival Jon McCain in all national polls Monday in the wake of economic downturn and financial crisis. The latest CNN survey found Obama, the first African-American to be nominated by a ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Both the United States and North Korea are showing flexibility in trying to settle a dispute which threatens a nuclear disarmament agreement, South Korea's foreign minister said Tuesday. The comments by Yu Myung-Hwan raised hopes that a mission to Pyongyang last week by chief US ...

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles. The three were lauded for their work in explaining anomalies in concepts of the nature ...

KARACHI- Manufacturers have raised the prices of Dai Ammonium Phosphate (DAP), an essential crop nutrient, in the range of Rs 2,400-2,500 per bag amid concerns on the commitment of government to provide Rs2,200 subsidy on per 50kg bag of DAP, The Nation learnt. Sources in Engro Chemicals and Pak ...