Important dates in the case of US doctor being tried in Australia for manslaughter

Important dates in surgeon’s manslaughter case

Official: Bystanders not gunmen killed in clash in Mexico between soldiers and gunmen

Official: Bystanders killed in Mexico clash

Trial of 4 Rio Tinto employees on commercial secrets, bribery charges begins in China

China begins trial of 4 Rio Tinto employees

American doctor charged in Australian patient deaths pleads not guilty to all charges

US doctor charged in deaths pleads not guilty

Police say 164 people will be charged for their alleged roles in central Nigeria massacres

164 people face charges over massacres in Nigeria

Ex-CSK Auto president’s death means criminal indictment, SEC complaint will be dismissed

Ex-CSK Auto president dies while facing indictment

Suspected US drone strikes kill eight in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - At least eight people were killed and four injured in two suspected US drone strikes in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal district of North Waziristan Sunday, security officials said.

Anti-counterfeiting program at Michigan State University targets range of crimes worldwide

New MSU program targets worldwide counterfeiting

Conservationists at UN wildlife meeting say Internet fueling trade in endangered species

Demise of coral, salamander show impact of Web

ETA suspect faces preliminary charges in policeman’s death

ETA suspect formally accused in policeman’s death

UN meeting agrees on voluntary plan to boost tiger conservation

UN approves tiger action plan

DOHA, Qatar — A U.N. conservation meeting has agreed to a voluntary conservation plan for endangered tigers that calls for tougher legislation in countries home to the big cats to tackle widespread smuggling and boost money spent on law enforcement.

Pope urges faithful to beg forgiveness for their sins; German bishop admits church cover-ups

Pope does not mention rebuke to Irish bishops

Suspect arrested in Cypriot Archbishops’ tomb vandalism; follows body snatching of ex-leader

Suspect nabbed in Cyprus Archbishops’ tomb attack

Maoists trigger blasts, fire on security forces

KOLKATA - Maoists triggered landmine blasts and exchanged fire with the joint security forces in two separate incidents in West Bengal’s Bankura and West Midnapore districts Sunday, police said.

Head of German Bishops Conference admits that sexual abuse was covered up for years

German archbishop says abuse covered up for years

12 civilians killed in Afghanistan blasts

KABUL - A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan army convoy in southern Afghanistan Sunday, killing 10 civilians as two other people were killed in an explosion at the New Year’s celebration in eastern region, officials said.

Natalee Holloway Body Found Pictures: Investigation Launched

Policy to rehabilitate Kashmiri militants in final stages

JAMMU - A policy meant to facilitate the return and rehabilitation of about 3,000 Kashmiri militants now in Pakistan is in the final stage and could be made public in May, official sources said Sunday.

LoC trade used to fund militants?

JAMMU - Some traders doing business across the Line of Control (LoC) are diverting money to fund separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, the government has said.

Grave robbers steal remains of Cypriot Archbishops, follows body snatching of former president

Grave robbers steal Cyprus Archbishops’ remains

Krishna hints at Laskhar link to Kabul attack

NEW DELHI - Stressing that Indians doing reconstruction in Afghanistan are soft targets for terrorists, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has indicated that the Feb 26 attack in Kabul that killed seven Indians was the work of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which wants to derail India-Afghanistan relations.

Maoists kill village official

BHUBANESWAR - Maoist guerrillas have killed a village official in Orissa’s Koraput district, police said Sunday.

Taliban kills four ‘US spies’ in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Taliban militants have killed four tribesmen they abducted 10 days ago in Pakistan’s north Waziristan tribal region after accusing them of spying for the US, officials said Sunday.

India has told US about Pakistan’s link to Mumbai: Krishna

NEW DELHI - India has conveyed to friendly countries like the US that it has evidence of Pakistani state actors’ involvement in the Mumbai terror attack, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has said.

India not being squeezed out by US in Afghanistan: Krishna

NEW DELHI - Denying reports of India being marginalised in the emerging US strategy in Afghanistan at Pakistan’s behest, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has said the US has never pressed New Delhi “directly or indirectly” to cut its presence in the violence-hit country.

Four killed in suicide attack in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - At least four people were killed and a dozen injured Sunday when a suicide bomber riding on a bicycle hit a police van in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.

Virtual stonewall around Headley’s former ‘connections’

CHICAGO - Even as the Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to dismiss as “absurd” the freshly mounting claims in India that Mumbai terror plotter David Coleman Headley was a double agent gone rogue, there is now a virtual stonewall around what his covert connections might have been.

China to begin trial of 4 Rio Tinto employees on commercial secrets, bribery charges

China to begin trial of 4 Rio Tinto employees

Indians in Afghanistan are soft targets: Krishna

NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna says that Indian aid workers in Kabul have become soft targets for terrorists who want to derail India-Afghan relations.