However, President Hamid Karzai's office says he will take a decision tomorrow on the future of Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and Interior Minister Besmillah Mohammadi.
The authorities in New York have foiled an unemployment benefits scam which would have seen US$90,000 transmitted to bank accounts in several countries including Jamaica.
LONDON (AP):Police yesterday identified a cyclist killed by an official games bus near London's Olympic Park as 28-year-old Daniel Harris.He died late Wednesday after being struck by one of the double-decker vehicles that carry journalists between...
LONDON (AP) Perhaps we should have seen this coming. Back in 2007, a butcher at the Fantastic Sausage Factory in the quaint English county of Dorset was told to remove a window sign depicting sausage meat twisted into the shape of the five Olympic rings....
LONDON (AP):FOUL: British Olympic chiefs have clamped down on a bit of guerrilla marketing that saw the country's athletes sporting stylish, but non-sponsor-brand, headphones at the games. Many athletes use headphones to help keep focused before...
The cigar gave him away. The man puffing away in the sun outside the International Broadcasting Centre in Olympic Park? None other than longtime NBC Olympic boss Dick Ebersol.
LONDON (AP): A security guard is under investigation after he allegedly spat at a military worker during an Olympic event and hurled verbal abuse at him for his service in Afghanistan....
LONDON (AP): Zara Phillips had a few things to celebrate yesterday: Her first wedding anniversary, and a penalty-free ride through the treacherous cross-country portion of the Olympic equestrian eventing competition that counted towards Britain's...
LONDON (AP):London's overstretched transit system creaked and groaned but appeared to be coping with the strain on the first working day of the Olympics. Yesterday morning's rush hour was the biggest test yet of the host city's transport network...
LONDON (AP):Sudan's embassy in London says a young athlete has claimed political asylum in Britain and two others are missing, but none of them are part of the country's Olympic squad.Spokesman Khalid Mustafa said yesterday that the men had hoped to...
BHOPAL (AP): Dozens of giggling children in wheelchairs or limping on twisted limbs raced for gold yesterday in their own 'Special Olympics' organised in an effort to shame London Games sponsor Dow Chemical Co over the deadly 1984 Bhopal gas leak....
MEXICO CITY (AP):Mexico's governmental human rights commission says about 70 per cent of attacks on journalists go unpunished, largely because authorities fail to adequately investigate those crimes.The commission says 82 journa-lists have been killed...
SAO PAULO (AP):Brazilian police yesterday were investigating the killings of six people in Sao Paulo, a city whose homicide rate in the first six months of the year has risen more than 20 per cent....
HAVANA (AP):Cuban President Raul Castro said yesterday that his government is willing to mend fences with bitter Cold War foe the United States and sit down to discuss anything, as long as it is a conversation between equals.At the end of a Revolution...
KINSHASA (AP):Soldiers backed by United Nations (UN) helicopter gunships battled rebels around a strategic army garrison near a mountain gorilla reserve in eastern Congo, as thousands of people continued to flee a three-month-old rebellion allegedly...
LONDON (AP):Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is about to scale new heights.Royal officials say the queen will whizz to the top of London's Orbit tower during a visit to the Olympic Park on Saturday.The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, will take in the...
LONDON (AP):A union yesterday called off a pre-Olympics strike by immigration staff at London's Heathrow Airport, a relief to government officials who sued to try to stop it.The government's job-creation plans have gone some way towards assuaging the...
GLASGOW (AP):London Olympic organisers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea's before a women's soccer match yesterday, prompting the North Koreans to refuse to take the field for nearly an hour...
LONDON (AP):The 11-year-old boy didn't have a passport, didn't have a ticket, didn't have a boarding pass, and got all the way from England to Italy on his own.For him, the 1,000-mile (1,700-kilometre)...
MOSCOW (AP):Villagers in Russia's south Urals region have stumbled upon a gruesome discovery, four barrels left in a forest containing 248 human fetuses, prompting an official probe, officials said yesterday.Police in the Sverdlovsk region said the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP):The Haitian government is promising to hold legislative and local elections before the end of the year.Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said at a news conference in Washington...
