The latest in a string of appointments by the Army chief consolidates his control over crucial espionage activities.

At least 147 people died in a stampede during a religious festival at a Hindu temple in north India, officials said.

Russian military officials said the monitors would not be allowed to work immediately in the buffer zone that surrounds South Ossetia, the breakaway Georgian enclave.

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said on that he had sought the intercession of the Saudi royal family to bring the resurgent Taliban to peace negotiations.

A spokesman for the pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter loaded with arms said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood.

At least 100 people died in a stampede during a religious festival at a Hindu temple in north India, officials said.

Pakistan appointed a new head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence, the nation’s top spy organization.

The chief of the Pakistani Army appointed a new head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence, the nation’s top spy organization.

Pilgrims stampeded a Hindu temple Tuesday in the historic town of Jaipur, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 100, according to media reports.

Spurning the secular state schools, some Muslim students have found religious accommodation at private ones.