Sharif sets terms for reconciliation He (Musharraf) should allow a level playing field and invite everybody to come back home to sit across the table and resolve all matters among themselves, said the PML-N leader soon after the Supreme Court in Islamabad ruled that Sharif could return home from a forced exile.
ETA back on violence path Two Spanish police were slightly wounded by a bomb in the Basque region on Friday in what police said appeared to be the first bombing by ETA separatist guerrillas since they ended a ceasefire in June.
Chiefs warn Bush on troop size The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, is expected to warn President George W Bush that the military could be under severe strain if he keeps more than 1,00,000 troops in Iraq during 2008.
Dodis father poses some Di questions A decade after Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed died in a car crash in a Paris tunnel, Mohamed al-Fayed, Dodis father, argues the deaths were not an accident.
Love-triangle astronaut wants bracelet removed Former US astronaut Lisa Nowak on Friday asked a Florida court to remove the monitoring bracelet she has to wear while awaiting trial on charges she attempted to kidnap a love rival, whom she allegedly confronted after driving hundreds of kilometres wearing a diaper.
Civil guards director general Joan Mesquida (third from left) speaks with civil guards near the wreckage of a car that exploded on Friday outside barracks of Spain’s paramilitary Guardia Civil in the northern town of Durango in the Basque region. The explosion is believed to be the first attack by separatist group ETA since it ended a ceasefire in June. AFP
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