LOS ANGELES: CaptainAmerica: The Winter Soldier will feature a cameo from Howard Stark. Dominic Cooper revealed that he has been shooting for the Marvel Studios sequel."I've worn the costume again," he told Total Film. "But whether they just had me put it on again as a joke, I don't know. It was ...

SAN FRANCISCO - British double Olympic sailing medalist Andrew Simpson died Thursday when a Swedish catamaran capsized during America's Cup training on San Francisco Bay, officials said.Simpson, a 36-year-old father of two boys, was trapped underneath the 72-foot catamaran of Swedish team Artemis ...

Jamat-e-Islami Chief Syed Munawar Hasan Monday said that Karachi was called 'Uroos-ul-bilad' (City of lights) and now the same city is under darkness and terror, JI will defeat the extortion Mafia in May 11 general election.While addressing near the tomb of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah here in ...

  SHELDON RICHMAN   “A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that ‘it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture’ and that the ...

  MOFFETT AIRFIELD   The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on the Sun’s power alone took off on the first leg of a trip across theUnited States. Solar Impulse, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, left the runway in northernCaliforniaat6:12 am(13:12 ...

James Zogby Earlier this week, a US Senate subcommittee held hearings on the use of drones. Most of those who testified were constitutional law professors or terrorism experts. In what was an emotional high-point of the proceedings, the committee also heard from a young US-educated Yemeni, Farea Al ...

  WASHINGTON A Yemeni writer and activist told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that aUSdrone strike on his small town ofWessab"tore my heart," much as the Boston Marathon bombings upset Americans. "Most of the world has never heard of Wessab. But just six days ago, my village was struck ...

WASHINGTON : Brazil and other Latin American countries need to realize their economic boom could be over because of cooler global demand for their minerals and farm goods, International Monetary Fund officials said on Friday.Brazil's economy grew rapidly leading up to the global financial crisis, ...

LAHORE : Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz M Saeed has said that America and Europe are misleading the world about the Muslims and try to defame the Ummah by spreading negative propaganda. Addressing a concluding session of two-day medial conference organised by Medical Mission at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on Sunday, ...

HOLLYWOOD actor Brad Pitt has denounced America’s controversial war on drugs, branding it a failure and a charade.The Fight Club star, who is an executive producer of new documentary The House I Live In, about US officials’ long-running battle to stamp out the drugs trade, has written a ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Library of Congress, repository of the world’s largest collection of books, has set for itself the enormous task of archiving something less weighty and far more ephemeral - Americans’ billions of tweets.The venerable US institution is assembling all of the 400 ...

Micah ZenkoIn February, Eric Schmitt wrote in the New York Times about the Obama administration’s emerging Yemen strategy, whereby US and Yemeni intelligence and military officials would “work together to kill or capture about two dozen of al Qaeda’s most dangerous operatives, who ...

L. Gordon CrovitzThe open Internet, available to people around the world without the permission of any government, was a great liberation. It was also too good to last. Authoritarian governments this month won the first battle to close off parts of the Internet.At the just-concluded conference of ...

NEWTOWN  - The people of Newtown, joined by President Barack Obama, poured into churches Sunday to pray for the 20 children and seven adults slaughtered in one of the worst ever US shooting massacres.The small Connecticut town led the nation in mourning 48 hours after Adam Lanza burst into ...

Anne Applebaum -  ‘Is this presidential election really the most important in our lifetime?’ That was the question asked, in so many words, by a concerned Briton at a discussion a few days ago.His words were directed at political analyst Larry Sabato, whose countenance had been ...

America is an imperialist power and it will continue pursuing its goals, whether the Democrats or the Republicans form the government. Against this backdrop, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, basking in the glow of boost in his recent Gallup rating, vowed to use the American power to ...

In a conventional war, enemy soldiers can be captured and held as prisoners of war until the end of combat. In the criminal justice system, an arrest for a violent crime will lead to a charge, followed by a guilty plea or jury trial. But some individuals imprisoned in the war on terror declared ...

NEW YORK - The White House is girding itself for an extended period of turmoil in Muslim countries that will test the security of American diplomatic missions and President Barack Obama’s ability to shape the forces of change in that part of the Arab world, The New York Times reported on ...

LONDON - Defending champions United States will play 2004 gold medallists Argentina and reigning European kings Spain will meet Russia in the Olympic men's basketball semi-finals after triumphs on Wednesday.The NBA "Dream Team" advanced by beating Australia 119-86 while Argentina, who upset the ...

STEPHEN P COHEN   and MOEED YUSUFIN the past few years, multiple power centres have begun to emerge slowly in Pakistan, as evidenced again this week with the historically pliant Supreme Court dismissing the Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Reza Gilani, from office. For much of the ...

Seumas MilneMore than a decade after George W Bush launched it, the “war on terror” was supposed to be winding down. US military occupation of Iraq has ended and Nato is looking for a way out of Afghanistan, even as the carnage continues. But another war - the undeclared drone ...

David A Love The US criminal justice system is a broken machine that wrongfully convicts innocent people, sentencing thousands of people to prison or to death for the crimes of others, as a new study reveals. The University of Michigan law school and Northwestern University have compiled a new ...

Despite Pakistan’s vociferous demand to end drone strikes, eight suspected militants were reportedly killed in a U.S. drone attack on Saturday in Dre Nishtar area of Shawal valley. As if to add salt to injury, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta in an interview said the same day that the US ...

WASHINGTON - While continuing to rain down deadly missiles from drones on suspected militant targets inside the Pakistani territory, the United States still says it wants to ‘engage’ Pakistan on the issue of counterterrorism in a cooperative spirit.“(W)hen it comes to ...

ISLAMABAD – The Sunday’s attacks carried out by Afghan Taliban against the US-led multinational occupying forces impelled Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to speak her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar, seeking vital cooperation between Washington and Islamabad in ...

Cynthia TuckerIt has been 46 years - nearly a half-century - since Charles Whitman, a troubled ex-Marine, climbed atop the iconic University of Texas Tower to use it as a staging zone for a shooting spree. He killed 16 people on and around the campus, including his wife and mother.The nation, while ...

KARACHI - Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslameen (MWM) on Wednesday termed that the US, Israel and terrorists of banned outfits were involved in conspiracy to destabilise the country by killing innocent people.  Addressing a demonstration outside Karachi Press Club to condemn the target killings of Shia ...

Jackson DiehlDemocrats as well as Republicans in Congress protested when the Obama administration announced that it was handing the Egyptian military the full $1.3 billion of its annual US aid despite its blatant violations of human rights. Organizations such as Freedom House argued that the United ...

WASHINGTON  - The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil, but left Iran’s top customers China and India exposed to the possibility of such steps.The decision means banks in these countries have ...

WASHINGTON/KABUL  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai may have won a major concession from the United States following a deadly shooting spree by a US soldier, with the Obama administration considering curbs on contentious night raids.With Karzai demanding a stop to night raids hated by Afghans, ...