President Asif Ali Zardari sought to fend off a public outcry over his response to the catastrophic floods.

Cricket officials in Karachi called the current selection an injustice to players from the country's largest city.

Afridi visited Nowshehra, one of the hardest-hit parts of the northwest, to take part in a flood-relief campaign.

The boost in the US deployment came as outgoing UN humanitarian chief John Holmes appealed for $460 million in aid.

A bus in northern Peru overturned, killing 22 people and leaving another 27 wounded in the north of the country.

A US military tribunal has sentenced Osama bin Laden's former cook and driver to 14 years in prison.

Former world number one moves into the third round of the Toronto Masters.

From providing false testimony at the war crimes trial of Liberian ex-president about suspected blood diamonds.

"Our struggle is not for restoration of autonomy." said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.

A former child combatant has gone on trial at Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday.