Nine PML-N ministers have submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday. Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had said earlier that his party will continue talks with PML-N to reverse its decision to quit the federal cabinet after failing to achieve the reinstatement the deposed judges.
Asif Ali Zardari said, “We will continue to be engaged in talks with Sharif & will not let him run away”. Except for the Finance portfolio, the other eight cabinet ….

Marlon Samuels a West Indies cricketer has been banned from international cricket for two years. He was found liable of one of the two bribery charges. The West Indies Cricket Board has found sufficient evidence to charge Marlon Samuels for passing on team information to Indian bookie Mukesh Kochar during the first ODI between the West Indies & India in Nagpur on January 21 last year.
The hearing was conducted by the WICB Code of Ethics & Disciplinary Committee. It ….

An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central China on Monday in which at least five killed & many injured. Five were killed when two primary schools & a water tower collapsed.
Four children died when their schools in Chongqing municipality collapsed. More than 100 students were injured, including two who were seriously hurt. Rescue teams were dispatched to the collapsed schools, but no details were available because communication systems were down. The epicentre of this earthquake was Aba prefecture of Sichuan ….

Islamist opposition Hassan al-Turabi & four other top members of his party have been arrested on Monday after an attack on Khartoum by Darfur rebels. Awad Babiker, Mr Turabi’s private secretary from Sudan said, “Security forces came early this morning & arrested Turabi”. Khalil Ibrahim & other leaders of the Darfur rebel group, the Justice & Equality Movement (JEM), which attacked a suburb of Khartoum on Saturday, were supporters of Mr Turabi in the past but Mr Turabi denies any ….

Dennis Farina a Hollywood actor has been arrested after gun found in his luggage at Los Angeles on Sunday local time. Dennis Farina was charged with a felony Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage.
A senior official of Police said that when the weapon was found at a security checkpoint, the 64 years old Dennis Farina said that he had forgotten the .22-caliber handgun was in his luggage.
Farina was booked for ….

Six Indian have been killed on Saturday after the minvan they were travelling was hit by an oncoming car in West Springfield, Pennsylvania, near the border with Ohio. A spokesman from Pennsylvania said that Six Indian (4 were employees of Troy, MI based Syntel Inc.), four men & two women have been killed when the minivan carrying seven Michigan tourists to Niagara Falls crossed the median & hit a car head-on at about 4 pm local time.
The driver of ….

Joyce “Dottie” Rambo a gospel songwriter killed after the bus she was in ran off a road in southwest Missouri & struck an embankment on Sunday (IST). Rambo was 74 years old. Rambo, of Nashville, Tenn., killed in the crash about two miles east of Mount Vernon on Interstate 44.
Seven other people in the bus were injured & were hospitalized in Springfield with moderate to severe injuries. It was unclear if the accident which occured about 12:00 pm on ….

Yousuf Raza Gilani the Prime Minister of Pakistan has advised President Pervez Musharraf to pardon Indian death row inmate Sarabjit Singh after reviewing his case.
Yousuf Raza Gilani said in his statement, “I have advised the president that he should stop Sarabjit’s execution & it should be reviewed by the ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Law & Justice & Human Rights”.
Sarabjit Singh was sentenced to death in 1991 for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in Lahore & Multan that ….

Tornado hit Oklahoma-Missouri border on Saturday in which several people killed & many injured. Severe storms raked the nation’s heart taking at least 11 lives, mangling buildings & trapping people in rubble in the storm-weary region.
At least six people have been killed as the tornado flattened the northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher before the funnel struck about 15 miles away near Seneca, Mo. & killed at least three. A spokesman from Oklahoma said, “There are numerous injuries”.
At least five ….

Nepalese Police has arrested scores of Tibetan protesters who had chained themselves in small group & tried to march towards Chinese visa & consular office in Kathmandu.
At least 130 Tiebtan protesters have been arrested after they tried to break the police line & move towards the Chinese visa office”.
A senior official of Kathmandu Police said, “We had difficulties detaining them as small group of about 20 protestors had chained themselves together”.

US President George Bush’s daughter Jenna Bush has tied the knot with her fiance Henry Hager in a private company on Saturday. Jenna 26 years old wed fiance Henry Hager 30 years old on Saturday less than one year after he proposed at dawn atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park on Maine’s coast.
George Bush said, “Today is my daughter Jenna’s wedding day. This is ….

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck east coast of Taiwan on Sunday morning. There were no immediate reports of any casualties.
Thee earthquake struck at 1:11 a.m. (IST). The epicentre of this earthquake was 99 kilometres southeast of Suao. It struck at a depth of 10 kilometres.
Taiwan, which lies near the junction of two tectonic plates, is regularly shaken by earthquakes.

Central Maoist leader Hari Bhakta Kandel “Pratik” has said that his party will not accept Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala as the first President of Republican Nepal. Pratik said, “CPN-Maoist is not going accept Girija Prasad Koirala as the president”.
The Maoist leader’s remark comes at a time when some Nepali Congress (NC) leaders are believed to have sent feelers to the Maoist leadership that Koirala be given the first presidency.
In Saturday`s six-party meeting, Maoist Chairman Prachanda reportedly requested Koirala to ….

The family of murdered Indian student V S Jyothirmayi has denied that she had an affair with Nalluri Nagaraju Kumar, the murder suspect. Jyothirmayi’s sister Deepti Priya said that she was not aware of her sister living with Nagaraju at the Handsworth apartment, Birmingham.
Deepti Priya said in her statement, “The news that she was sharing her apartment with a boy came as a shock to us. My sister may have allowed Nagaraju to share her apartment out of trust. But ….

Condoleezza Rice the US secretary of state & her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee discussed the current suitation in Myanmar & the civil nuclear deal. Sean McCormack the spokesman at Foggy Bottom said, “On Burma, she had spoke with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang. I mentioned Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & she also spoke with Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee. Of course, part of their discussion also was about the Indian civil nuclear deal, but they focused quite a bit on the issue ….

Jenna Bush, daughter of the US President George Washington Bush, will marry a former White House staffer Henry Hager today at the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Texas.
The wedding will be held in privacy, in accordance with the policy Geoge Bush has adopted towards Jenna, 26 years old & her twin Barbara, from the beginning of his presidency in 2000.
The White House has issued no press releases, but the President & first lady have gradually dribbled out details about ….

United States has asked India to take the comments which was made by George Washington Bush intake of Indians are contributing to higher food prices, in a positive matter.
Bush senior administrator McCormack said in his statement, “I’ve seen the press reports about this particular reaction & certainly nobody in the US is trying to single out government or is expressing the sentiment that it is not a good thing that there’s greater calorie intake among more people around the world ….

At least 11 killed & 29 injured in a bomb explosion in Sri Lanka’s Ampara District, military said today. Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful bomb killing 11 people & wounding 29 in Sri Lanka’s east late on Friday, a day ahead of a crucial local poll in the area.
The blast took place inside the crowded New City Café in Ampara town, 350 kilometers from Colombo. Minutes before the blast, a convoy carrying a key government minister had ….

Former WWE superstar Hulk Hogan’s son Nick Hogan was sentenced to Jail on Saturday (IST) by a Florida Judge for his role in the August car crash that left his best friend, John Graziano, critically injured.
Judge Philip Federico has ruled that Nick Hogan 17 years old will serve 8 months in Pinellas Country Jail. He’ll also have 5 years of probation, 500 hours of community service & his license is suspended for 3 years.
After his release from prison, Nick ….

Tornado hit Greensboro on Friday (IST) in which one killed & three injured. A tornado touched down on the outskirts of Greensboro on Friday as severe storms swept across the Southeast, damaging homes & businesses in at least three other states.
One person was killed in a small truck that overturned in a parking lot west of Greensboro. A spokesman from Greensboro said that one killed & three others were injured, one when the storm knocked down a wall at a ….