SHANKSVILLE, Pennsylvania, (AFP) - Republican White House hopeful John McCain commemorated September 11 attacks from the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in rural Pennsylvania, commending "the courage and sacrifice" of its passengers. They "grasped the gravity of the moment, understood ...

POTI (AFP) - Russian troops laboured Thursday over a tentative pullout from Georgia as Moscow vowed to strengthen its military after last month's war and turned its diplomatic fire on Ukraine. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dismissed Western accusations that Russia's military intervention ...

The outgoing commander of US troops in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, has said that he will never declare victory there. In a BBC interview, Gen Petraeus said that recent security gains were "not irreversible" and that the US still faced a "long struggle". When asked if US troops could withdraw ...

LONDON (AFP) - The first public screening of the new James Bond movie will be the highlight of this year's London Film Festival, which will bring a host of world premieres and top stars to the British capital. Daniel Craig's second outing as the British spy in "Quantum of Solace" will be ...

KARACHI - Seven leading commercial banks have totally suspended/stopped auto financing to the consumers in a bid to minimise risk of default amid the record high interest rates, slow demand in four-wheeler sales and increase in number of defaulters on the auto loans, market sources told The Nation ...