DUBLIN: Three people were arrested after protesters threw eggs and shoes at former British Prime Minister Tony Blair when he arrived to sign copies of his memoir at a bookshop in Dublin on Saturday, national broadcaster RTE said.No injuries were reported and the missiles did not hit

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has formed a committee to seek peace talks with the Taliban, his office has said.It comes after a plan to engage militants in a reconciliation process was endorsed by tribal leaders in June.For the past nine years, the Taliban have been fighting to overthrow

SOUTH YARMOUTH: Tropical Storm Earl barreled toward Canada past the northeastern US state of Massachusetts early Saturday after it weakened further and lost its hurricane status.But it still lashed the US East Coast with heavy rains and strong winds.Residents in North Carolina were

Kathmandu: As Nepal`s parliament votes Sunday, for the sixth time in two months, to elect a new prime minister, the indications are that the poll will yet again end in a fiasco with the opposition Maoist party failing to win, especially with horse-trading allegations casting a long shadow

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will meet Southeast Asian leaders this month in New York, the White House said Friday, as the United States tries to bolster its role in a region faced with a rising China.The White House said that Obama would hold talks with leaders of the 10-member

CARACAS: More than 4,500 inmates in three prisons in Venezuela have gone on hunger strike to protest overcrowding and mistreatment, protestors told the local media on Friday.The mass hunger strike, which began Thursday, includes 3,400 detainees at Tocoron prison, in northern Aragua state,

SEOUL: South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan has resigned following accusations of nepotism involving his daughter`s employment, government sources and the ministry said on Saturday."The foreign minister`s resignation has been accepted by the president," said a presidential source

Dubai: "The biggest fireball ever seen" and a "massive 20-storey tower of smoke and flames" was how witnesses described the crash of a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane in Dubai, in which two crew members were killed.The United Parcel Service (UPS) Flight 6 took off from Dubai International

OAXACA: At least six people, including two Mexican federal lawmakers and a governor, were killed when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico Friday, the attorney general`s office said.The plane left Mexico City and went down as it was approaching the airport at the Pacific beach

Santiago: Victor Zamorano, one of 33 miners trapped 700 metres underground in northern Chile, sent a poem Friday to officials working to rescue him.In the poem he describes his experience of being trapped in the copper mine since Aug 5. Zamorano narrates his frustration of waiting for

CHRISTCHURCH: A powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused widespread devastation in New Zealand`s second largest city of Christchurch Saturday, with officials saying it was "extremely lucky" no one was killed.Initial estimates put the damage at up to two billion dollars (1.44 billion US)

OAXACA: At least six people, including two Mexican federal lawmakers and a governor, were killed when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico Friday, the attorney general`s office said.The plane left Mexico City and went down as it was approaching the airport at the Pacific beach

WELLINGTON: Nine people, including foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot Saturday, police and media said.The plane went down near the airstrip at Fox Glacier, a central attraction in the UNESCO-designated World

OAXACA: At least six people, including two Mexican federal lawmakers and a governor, were killed when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico Friday, the attorney general`s office said.The plane left Mexico City and went down as it was approaching the airport at the Pacific beach

BEIJING: At least 26 people were killed in separate vehicle accidents in northeastern China on Friday, state media reported.In Jilin province, a truck and a long-distance bus collided at the entrance to an expressway near the provincial capital Changchun at about 3:00 pm (0700 GMT),

Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that this week`s Mideast peace talks as well as Israel itself were "doomed to collapse" as millions of Iranians were expected to turn out for state-organised anti-Israel rallies.Iran marks the last Friday of the fasting month of

QUETTA, Pakistan: A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 54 people in the second major attack this week and piling pressure on a U.S.-backed government overwhelmed by a flood crisis.Pakistan`s Taliban claimed responsibility for the

KITTY HAWK, North Carolina: Hurricane Earl pounded North Carolina on Friday as it sped up the US East Coast, threatening dangerous waves and riptides across the eastern seaboard.Coastal residents huddled at home after tens of thousands fled the strongest Atlantic storm of 2010.It was

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha introduced their newborn baby to Downing Street on Friday, posing for pictures outside the famous Number 10 door.Florence Rose Endellion caught the Camerons by surprise when she arrived early during their holiday to

KANDAHAR CITY: Afghanistan: Militants operating out of safe havens in Pakistan remain a major threat to Afghanistan but cooperation between NATO-led forces and the Pakistani military is increasing, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.Devastating floods over the past month