NEW YORK: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation will investigate allegations that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp tried to hack into the phone records of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, the agency said on Thursday. “We’re looking into allegations raised by the letter by Peter King yesterday,” said an FBI [...]

LONDON: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, have agreed to attend a British parliamentary hearing next week after refusing to do so earlier in the day on Thursday. The two had refused to comply with the House of Commons’ select committee on culture, media & sports’ summon in connection with the phone [...]

Mount Lokon spews hot lava and volcanic ash during an eruption in Tomohon in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province. (Reuters Photo) TOMOHON, Indonesia: A volcano in central Indonesia spit lava and smoke high into the air on Friday, sending thousands of panicked residents fleeing down its fiery slopes. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Mount [...]

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s spy chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who heads the country’s ISI, an organization accused by the United States of terrorist links and of murdering its own citizens, is arriving in Washington for talks aimed ostensibly at defusing tensions with the Obama administration. The sudden, unexpected visit comes on the heels of mildly punitive US [...]

WASHINGTON: Stalemate in Libya is giving way to building rebel pressure against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, according to new US intelligence reports, US officials said. While the battle is far from won, the officials point to three key indicators: dwindling fuel supplies, a cash crisis and reports of low morale among regime troops. The [...]

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced on Wednesday that it was withdrawing its $12 billion bid to buy complete control of the satellite giant British Sky Broadcasting, a move intended to calm the torrent of derision directed at the company since journalists at its British newspapers were implicated in a widespread phone-hacking scheme. Whether or not [...]

US President Barack Obama led a strong American condemnation of yet another terrorist attack on Mumbai, saying “India is a close friend and partner of the United States”. WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama led a strong American condemnation of yet another terrorist attack on India’s financial capital Mumbai, saying “India is a close friend and [...]

BEIJING: China’s ambitious new long range ballistic missile with a range of 2,700 km dubbed as carrier-killer is undergoing tests, a top military official has said. Chen Bingde, chief of the PLA general staff acknowledged China is developing Dongfeng-21D with an ability to strike moving targets — including aircraft carriers — at sea. “The missile [...]

KABUL: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Afghan president’s assassinated younger brother, was either a drugs baron, a CIA agent or a fierce defender of the Afghan people, depending on who you listen to. What is beyond dispute is that he was a controversial figure and a warlord who commanded tremendous power over Kandahar, one of the [...]

ROME: The 18-year-old nightclub dancer at the centre of a sex trial against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said she is pregnant and plans to marry soon, in interview excerpts released on Tuesday. “I will be a mother this December,” Karima El-Mahroug, better known by her stage name of “Ruby the Heart Stealer”, reportedly told the [...]