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WASHINGTON: French finance minister Christine Lagarde on Tuesday clinched the top job at the IMF, keeping the international lender in the hands of a European at a time of growing concern over a possible Greek debt default. Lagarde will become the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund when her five-year term as managing [...]

On January 12, 2011, along with President Barack Obama, Napolitano was one of many speakers selected to express sympathies to the community of Tucson, the State of Arizona, and the Nation in a memorial that was televised to remember the victims lost and injured in a inexplicable act of hate, allegedly caused by Jared Lee [...]

New York, Sept 28 (ANI): Women in the United States have made have made little progress in the field of management, even in the boom years before the financial crisis, according to a G.A.O. report to be released on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office. According to The New York Times, women accounted for about [...]

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): A new research revealed that electric cars hold a greater promise for reducing emissions and lowering U.S. oil imports than a national renewable portfolio standard. Rice University”s Baker Institute for Public Policy found “the single most effective way to reduce U.S. oil demand and foreign imports would be an aggressive campaign [...]

Islamabad, Sep 28 (ANI): The Obama administration has enthusiastically embraced the CIA’s drone program, an ambitious and historically unusual war campaign by American spies, which has launched nearly four times as many attacks in 2009 and 2010 as it did during the final year of the Bush administration, according to The Long War Journal. As [...]

London, Sept 28 (ANI): The Europe and United States Ryder Cup teams have been asked to cease all their tweeting activity till the tournament ends. According to the BBC, Europe””s captain Colin Montgomerie and US captain Corey Pavin has confirmed the decision, saying that tweeting could lead to serious “trouble”. “Tweeting and social network sites [...]

Mumbai, Sep 28 (ANI): As the 26/11 Mumbai attacks still haunting the nation, former U.S. Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill has advised India to employ military reprisal against Pakistan to counter cross-border terrorism. “Threatened military reprisal, this grand strategy would make it unambiguously clear to the Pakistan military that if another iconic Indian target is [...]

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): The United States has expressed it ‘disappointment’ at Israel’s decision of not to extend a ban on building West Bank settlements. According to the BBC, US Middle East envoy George Mitchell was sent to the region in an attempt to salvage direct peace talks that were restarted earlier this month. The [...]

Washington, Sept.27 (ANI): US President Brack Obama grew so frustrated with his own administration”s deliberations over the war in Afghanistan that he wound up dictating a six-page, single-spaced “terms sheet” that sought to define the military mission and prevent his commanders from further escalating the war in that country. According to journalist Bob Woodward, whose [...]

Seoul, Sep 27 (DPA) US and South Korean warships Monday kicked off a round of anti-submarine drills aimed at showing strength against Stalinist North Korea. Ten ships and 1,700 troops from both nations were taking part in the five-day manoeuvres off South Korea’s west coast, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The United [...]

Kabul, Sep 27 (DPA) Nearly 100 police officers have been killed and more than 200 injured each month in the past six months in Taliban-led attacks in Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. ‘A total of 595 police forces were martyred and 1,345 others injured in the past six months in the country,’ Zamarai Bashary, [...]

Washington, Sep 21 (ANI): A new study has found that men and women react to anti-HIV drugs in a similar way. The study demonstrated it is possible to recruit large numbers of women into a clinical trial evaluating treatments for HIV infection and found no significant gender-based differences in response to the anti-HIV drugs darunavir [...]

Doha, Sept 21 (ANI): Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) chief and chairman of the Kashmir Committee- Maulana Fazlur Rehman- has been barred from entering the United States. An official in the US State Department confirmed to media on condition of anonymity that Rehman was stopped at Doha international airport, when he was ready to fly to America [...]

Washington, Sept 21 (ANI): Some newly disclosed US government documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and recently posted on the website of the George Washington University National Security, have shed more light not only on early Taliban offers, but also on the role of Pakistan before and after the attacks. According to [...]

London, Sept 21 (ANI): The discovery of paintings by a forgotten 17th century painter has led to an art historian claiming that denim jeans originated in Italy nearly 400 years ago and not in France. Jeans are believed to have originated either in Nimes in France, “de Nimes” gives us the word denim, or in [...]

Washington, Sep 21 (IANS) US President Barack Obama said Monday that China’s rapid economic development is in the interest of US economy. ‘It’s good for us that China has done well,’ Obama said at a town-hall-style meeting telecast live on CNBC before heading to Pennsylvania to raise money for a Democratic Senate candidate, Xinhua reported. [...]

New York, Sep 20(ANI): The World Bank and the United States have urged Pakistan to take steps to reassure donor countries that it is capable of using their flood aid responsibly and transparently. The call comes after the United Nations asked member states for two billion dollars to help Pakistan recover from the massive floods. [...]

Canberra/London/New Delhi, Sept.20 (ANI): Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States have all issued travel advisories for their citizens who are planning to visit India, and specifically New Delhi during the duration of the XIXth Commonwealth Games”. The travel advisories have been issued after Sunday’s attack on two Taiwanese citizens outside a [...]

Washington, Sep 18 (ANI): It seems pop sensation Lady Gaga is in all support of the homosexuals as she has taken to YouTube to get “Don”t Ask, Don”t Tell” repealed. The latest effort by the pop princess is a seven-minute YouTube video in which she singles out Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., James [...]

Islamabad, Sept 18 (ANI): Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had all intentions of handing over nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan to the United States, former Prime Minister Mir Zafar Ullah Khan Jamali has disclosed. Jamali said that he had summoned a cabinet meeting over the issue of the nuclear scientist and clearly told Musharraf [...]