Four Kashmir teenagers stopped on way to join LeT

JAMMU - The Jammu and Kashmir police stopped four teenaged boys from joining the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the state’s Kishtwar district Tuesday - the second such incident in a week in the state where local recruitment to the militants’ ranks has almost dried up.

US drone attacks kill 24 in Pakistan (Second Lead)

ISLAMABAD - At least 24 militants were killed Tuesday in two US drone attacks that targeted suspected hideouts of Islamist insurgents in Pakistan`s tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.

NAACP says Seattle police kicking caught on video should be investigated as hate crime

NAACP says Seattle police kicking was hate crime

Houston area police officer acquitted in 2008 shooting of aspiring major league ballplayer

Jury acquits cop in shooting of Texas ballplayer

Pakistani ambassador to Iran assaulted during argument with Afghan man in northern Tehran

Pakistani ambassador to Iran assaulted in Tehran

Mass. woman pleads to impersonating FBI supervisor, ‘hiring’ Va. neighbors as assistants

Mass. woman pleads to impersonating FBI supervisor

Conn. judge orders unemployed doctor accused of killing Yale physician to give DNA sample

Man accused of killing Yale doc to give DNA sample

NYPD commissioner: Suspected Times Square bomber fits profile of homegrown terror threat

NYPD commissioner: NYC bomb suspect ‘homegrown’

US widens sanctions on Al Qaida in Yemen

WASHINGTON - The US has widened sanctions on Al Qaida’s Yemen-based wing, restricting their travel, freezing assets and slapping arms embargo on them.

New face of terror: radicalised in US, trained in Pakistan

WASHINGTON - Almost nine years after the Sep 11 2001 terror attacks, a worrying number of American citizens and longtime US residents are becoming radicalised and training to be terrorists in Pakistan, US counter-terrorism officials say.

Israel halts medical care for assassinated Hamas militant’s relative

Israel halts care for dead militant’s relative

Wardrobe change please, your honor? Agents for actress ask judge to nix ankle monitor

Agents for actress ask judge to nix ankle monitor

Newsweek reporter: Iran tries to scare people who want to protest against disputed elections

Reporter: Iran seeking to frighten protesters

Parents of 9-year-old Liberian girl who was raped in Arizona are released from jail

Liberian rape victim’s parents freed from AZ jail

Two suspected Maoists arrested in Uttar Pradesh

LUCKNOW - Two suspected Maoists have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, an official said Tuesday.

Police chief: White Philadelphia sgt. lied about being shot by black man, actually shot self

Police: Philly sergeant lied about being shot

China, US to renew human rights talks amid Chinese attacks on legal profession, NGOs

Barack Obama (Waxwork)

Egypt extends emergency law as rights groups dismiss government promises to limit scope

Egypt extends emergency law despite protests

25-year-old charged with murder in slaying of Detroit police officer, wounding of 4 others

Man charged with murder in Detroit officer’s death

Kidnappers of British journalist demand release of militants

ISLAMABAD - Kidnappers of a British journalist held in Pakistan’s remote tribal region have demanded authorities release scores of Islamic militants in exchange for the hostage.

US drone attacks kill 21 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - At least 21 militants were killed Tuesday in two US drone attacks that targeted suspected hideouts of Islamist insurgents in Pakistan’s tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in London to view subway system CCTV network

NYC’s Bloomberg in London to view transit CCTV

Spanish official: embattled judge Garzon who indicted Pinochet, bin Laden seeking leave

Spain: embattled judge seeks leave of absence

Russian official says 10 pirates released by Russian military off Somalia probably died

Russia says freed pirates didn’t reach land

White House: VP Joe Biden’s son undergoing treatment at Delaware hospital; is awake and alert

The White House

Three militants, one trooper killed in Kashmir gunfight

SRINAGAR - Three separatist guerrillas and a trooper were killed Tuesday in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said.

Pillai meets Manipur chief minister over economic blockade

IMPHAL - Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Tuesday met Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and chalked out a broad strategy to get urgently supplies of essentials into the state in the wake of the economic blockade enforced by Naga groups, officials said.

Backup Notre Dame tight end Mike Ragone arrested on marijuana possession charge

Backup ND tight end arrested on marijuana charge

Pakistani man arrested at US embassy in Chile

SANTIAGO - A 28-year-old Pakistani man was arrested after he entered the US embassy in the Chilean capital with traces of an explosive substance on his body, media reports said Tuesday.

Chilean police arrest Pakistani who sought visa in US Embassy with explosives on his clothes

Police arrest Pakistani in US Embassy in Chile

Judge says Casey Anthony will still face the death penalty in trial over daughter’s death

Judge: Casey Anthony still faces death penalty

Iran sentences Newsweek journalist in absentia to more than 13 years in prison, 74 lashes

Iran sentences Newsweek journalist in absentia

Teenager kills student at Albanian high school, then commits suicide

2 dead in Albanian school shooting

TIRANA, Albania — An apparently jealous teenager stormed into an Albanian high school class room Tuesday, fatally shooting a young woman he had met on Facebook and then committing suicide, police and media said.

Two militants killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR - Two separatist guerrillas were killed early Tuesday in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said.

No fresh evidence to extend ban: SIMI tells court

NEW DELHI - The banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) Tuesday told a special tribunal of the Delhi High Court that the government had no fresh evidence against it to extend the ban while the police said the group continued to be active under other names.

Pakistan court dismisses petition on Taliban extradition

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani court Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking to stop the government from possible extradition of senior Afghan Taliban leaders to another country.

Amid protests, government seeks extension of emergency law in Egypt, with some limitations

Egypt government seeks extension of emergency law

Security driver accused in French bank heist says he stole to get back at his boss

Frenchman hailed as heroic outlaw goes on trial

Pope blames church’s own sins for sex scandal, not outsiders; calls for profound purification

Pope blames church’s own sins for sex scandal

Austrian authorities probe claims that youths were forced to participate in sex parties

Austria probes youth sex abuse allegations

Indonesia’s ex-top detective, who became corruption whistle-blower, arrested on bribery charge

Indonesian ex-top detective arrested in bribe case

Vietnam court rejects appeals of 2 dissidents, reduces jail term for a third

Vietnam court upholds dissidents’ jail sentences

Pope calls sex scandal church’s “greatest” threat but blames it on sins inside the church

Pope sees sex scandal as greatest threat to church

Protesters to stay put in Bangkok, demand Thai leaders report to national police

Protests to stay til Thai leaders report to police

EU Naval force: Somali pirates free cargo vessel 3 days after receiving ransom

EU: Somali pirates free cargo vessel after ransom

Montana city imposes moratorium on medical marijuana business licenses as police probe arsons

Montana city to halt new medical pot businesses

Omar opposes out of turn hanging of Afzal Guru

JAMMU - The law should “take its own course” in the hanging of Afzal Guru, the mastermind of the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Tuesday.

Kasab may hang this year if no appeal: home secretary

NEW DELHI - The chances of Ajmal Amir Kasab being hanged this year “are quite high” if he does not file a petition challenging his death sentence for the 2008 Mumbai attack, union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said Tuesday.

Closing arguments set in trial of Houston area officer who shot ballplayer

Closing arguments set in ballplayer’s shooting

Nicaraguan men accused of fraud could lose $2.3 million court award in banana workers’ suit

Nicaraguans could lose $2.3 million court award