PAKISTAN

State-run oil firms will cut petrol prices by Rs. 0.78 (1.5 cents) a litre, or approximately 1.2 percent, from Thursday, Indian Oil Corp. (IOC) said. This will be the second cut this month, reflecting global prices and potentially easing near double-digit inflation.

The father was beaten, and then all members of the family (including all three daughters) had acid poured on them.

“Of course it’s the final word. Pakistan is not attending,” a spokesman for the Pakistani foreign ministry said.

Former U.S. Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer is suing a former employer, defense contractor BAE Systems OASYS Inc., because the company slandered his character after he tried to get a job, according to reports.

For most of the Republican nomination race thus far, Jon Huntsman has been considered little more than a side note. But while his national poll numbers remain very low, he is gaining support in New Hampshire. What are his positions?

Khan is buying the Jaguars from team majority owner Wayne Weaver. Khan will have 100 percent control of the team, according to Weaver, calling the businessman a great American success story and someone who is committed to restoring a winning tradition in Jacksonville.

The struggling Jaguars have a lease that keeps them in Florida.

George Harrison was, to many observers, the most ‘intriguing’ and ‘interesting’ Beatle since he seemed to have no comfortable ‘place’ in the group.

Ministers from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan met in Kabul to strengthen cooperation against the opium trade. More than 90 percent of the world's opium comes from Afghanistan, with most of it transiting through Iran and Pakistan.

Pakistan ratcheted up pressure on NATO on Monday over a cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at the weekend, threatening to drastically reduce cooperation on peace efforts in Afghanistan.

Pakistan and the United States may be a little too dependent on each other to allow the death of two dozen Pakistani soldiers, in airstrikes by NATO forces on Saturday, to cause a definitive rupture.

Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air raid that has pushed a crisis in already-strained relations with the United States toward rupture.

The already tenuous relationship between Pakistan and the United States has been plunged into another crisis, following NATO strikes on two military outposts in northwest Pakistan, on Saturday. U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed a full investigation into the attack that has allegedly killed 28 Pakistani troops.

NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis.

Zainab Bibi, 32, and her nephew, Zaheer Ahmed, 22, are accused of killing and cooking her husband, Ahmed Abbas. They were arrested Tuesday.

Pakistan forces alleged Nato helicopters attacked a Pakistani military checkpoint near Afghanistan border killing at least 25 soldiers and injuring 14 others.

Philippine police and the U.S. FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabia-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T Inc.'s system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.

NATO helicopters attacked a military checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 25 troops and prompting Pakistan to shut the vital supply route for NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.

Chilean miner Antofagasta posted a 28 percent rise in nine-month profit, lifted by improved production and an increase in gold sales that helped offset bad weather and an accountancy hit after copper prices fell steeply in the third quarter.

Rehman is considered one of the most liberal voices in Pakistani politics.

Pakistan appointed a former information minister and human rights campaigner as its ambassador to the U.S. States Wednesday, moving quickly to fill a post left vacant after tension between the civilian government and military.