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New York, May 9: The United Nations Friday appealed for $187 million to fund international efforts to assist Myanmar's 1.5 million people affected by Cyclone Nargis.
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San Francisco, May 9 : An advertising alliance between Yahoo and Google was viewed as increasingly likely Friday after Google CEO Eric Schmidt said a two-week test had been a "brilliant" success.
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Caracas, May 9 : The 12-member Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) has announced the formation of an energy council for better integration of the region to ensure energy security.
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Islamabad, May 9: Pakistani government and the pro-Taliban militants Friday agreed on a ceasefire in Pakistan's restive north-western district of Swat, hours after a policeman was killed in an attack on a security convoy in the area, officials said.
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London, May 9 : British Airways has said that it has stopped serving beef to economy class passengers but denied it did so for fear of offending Hindus.
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Islamabad, May 9: Pakistani authorities Friday released a nationalist and senior rebel leader, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, as part of reconciliatory efforts to end violence in the insurgency-hit south-western province of Balochistan.
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London, May 9 : "Col. Karuna", a renegade Tamil Tiger leader who rights groups say committed war crimes in Sri Lanka, has been released from a British jail ahead of possible deportation to his country.
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By Arun Kumar, Washington, May 9: With the India-US civil nuclear deal stalled, the US State Department has asked lawmakers to keep secret its answers to their queries about the agreement, fearing that public disclosure may torpedo the deal.
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By P. Karunakharan, Colombo, May 9 : At least 11 civilians were killed and 29 wounded when a powerful bomb tore through a cafe in Sri Lanka's east Friday evening, a day ahead of provincial council elections, military sources said.
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Beirut, May 9 : The Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah and its ally Amal Friday seized control of key western part of the Lebanese capital in the third day of armed clashes with pro-government opponents.
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Colombo, May 9 : At least eight civilians were killed Friday when a powerful bomb exploded in a tea shop in Sri Lanka's eastern town of Amparai on the eve of provincial council elections, military sources said.
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Rome/Bangkok, May 9 : The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Friday suspended relief flights to Myanmar after 38 tons of aid were impounded by authorities in the cyclone-struck Asian country.
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Dhaka, May 9 : The US Friday told Bangladesh's caretaker government that it would not accept "any deviation" from the December timetable for free and fair elections to restore democracy.
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Moscow, May 9: Russia Friday celebrated the 63rd Victory Day to mark the surrender of the Nazis at end of the World War II, with President Dmitry Medvedev inspecting the parade, that was held on a spectacular scale involving some 8,000 military personnel.
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By P. Karunakharan, Colombo, May 9 : At least 63 people, including 33 Tamil Tiger rebels, were killed and over 50 wounded when Sri Lankan government troops launched a fresh offensive into the rebel stronghold in northwestern Mannar district Friday.
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Johannesburg, May 9 : South African President Thabo Mbeki returned to Zimbabwe Friday for talks with President Robert Mugabe on the country's post-election impasse as foreign ambassadors visited the victims of attacks carried out by Mugabe-loyal youth militia.
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Dhaka, May 9: The United States Friday insisted that Bangladesh lift the state of emergency to hold a fair and transparent election.
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Frankfurt, May 9 : Oil prices are ending the week on a record high after surging towards $125 per barrel in trading Friday.
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By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, May 9 : Nepal's ruling parties Friday asked Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to call the crucial first meeting of the newly-elected constituent assembly in the last week of this month, further tightening the noose around the neck of King Gyanendra, who is poised to be the last monarch in a dynasty that spanned nearly two and a half centuries.
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Hefei (China), May 9: The toll in hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) in China rose to 34 Friday with two more deaths reported from the eastern province of Anhui as nearly 25,000 people, mostly children, were infected, health ministry officials said Friday.
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Basra (Iraq), May 9 : At least eight people have been killed and 21 injured in separate clashes between the government troops and insurgents near Iraq's southern city of Basra, the police and US military sources said Friday.
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Bangkok, May 9 : Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej Friday abruptly cancelled plans to fly to Yangon over the weekend to persuade the ruling Myanmar junta to accept aid workers and supplies for the cyclone-devastated country from the United States.
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London, May 9: Bharti Airtel and 15 other leaders of the global telecommunications industry have signed a deal to build the first direct, high-bandwidth optical-fibre undersea cable system from Britain to India.
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By Neena Bhandari, Sydney, May 9: Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's 20-year-old son, Joe, will be heading to Mumbai this June to pursue film and television studies at a Bollywood studio.
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Islamabad, May 9: Pakistan's law minister Friday said the ruling coalition was unlikely to meet the new May 12 deadline for the restoration of judges deposed by President Pervez Musharraf, bringing the fragile alliance on the verge of collapse.
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By P. Karunakharan, Colombo, May 9 : Amid sweeping security arrangements, Sri Lanka's war-hit eastern province comprising Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Amparai districts will elect a provincial council Saturday, barely a year after the military seized the former Tamil Tiger strongholds.
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Beirut, May 9 : At least eight people were killed and 40 wounded in three days of sectarian fighting in the Lebanese capital, security sources said Friday.
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London, May 9 : A 24-year-old man from Andhra Pradesh was to appear before British magistrates Friday on charges of killing a woman from his native state in the city of Birmingham, 190 km from here.
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By Muhammad Najeebm, Islamabad, May 9 : Asserting that Pakistan wanted peaceful and good neighbourly relations with India, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Friday said these were necessary to end poverty and unemployment in the region.
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By Neena Bhandari, Sydney, May 9 : Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef's case has taken yet another turn with the Immigration Department refusing to release documents and his lawyers appealing against it.
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Sanaa (Yemen), May 9 : A Yemeni minister began negotiations with France's state-owned nuclear power producer Electricity de France on plans to build a nuclear power generation plant in the Arab state, the official Saba news agency reported.
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Bangkok, May 9: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej will fly to Myanmar Sunday in a bid to persuade its leaders to accept relief supplies from the US after a tropical cyclone wreaked havoc in the country, media reports said Friday.
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New York, May 9: India and the US now have more convergence on the Doha round of trade talks than a year ago and are determined to see it through at the soonest while keeping in mind sensitivities of the two nations, says India's Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and US Trade Representative Susan Schwab.
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Seoul, May 9 : North Korea has handed over to a visiting US envoy documents primarily describing the operation of three facilities at its nuclear centre in Yongbyon, South Korean officials told the national news agency Yonhap Friday.
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Kuala Lumpur, May 9: "All I want to do now is find a boyfriend and get on with my life," says a Malaysian woman who created history by reverting to Buddhism from Islam.
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Kuala Lumpur, May 9: Thirty angry wheelchair-bound citizens "stormed" the Malaysian parliament to demand apologies from two members who had made remarks disparaging to the disabled while confronting Indian origin lawmaker Karpal Singh.
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Dhaka, May 9: Bangladesh is expected to tell the Tata group that it cannot spare gas supplies for many of the ventures proposed as part of a $3 billion investment plan, a move that could further delay the Indian conglomerate's entry to the country.
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New York, May 9 : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Myanmar's military government to focus on its national tragedy in the wake of Cyclone Nargis as it prepared instead to hold a referendum this weekend on a new constitution.
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Baghdad, May 9 : Abu Ayyub al-Masri, leader of the Iraqi branch of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, has been arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi defence ministry said according to broadcaster al-Jazeera.
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Colombo, May 9 : Government troops recaptured a strategic town from Tamil rebels after killing at least 15 insurgents and losing two soldiers in military operations in the area, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said Friday.
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