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September 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security agencies have reprimanded the editor of a Lahore-based English daily, demanding her to furnish concrete evidence of her newspaper's claims of US security contractor Blackwater operating in Pakistan. The newspaper had carried stories on Blackwater's alleged presence in Pakistan quoting army or intelligence sources, the Daily Times reports.

September 1st, 2009 RAWALPINDI - Pakistan troops and people were conveyed only fabricated stories about the Kargil War by then Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf, according to a senior Pakistani commander having long experience of serving on the Line of Control. Former Quetta corps commander Lt.

August 25th, 2009 PETALING JAYA - The story of former Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who is to be whipped in public for drinking beer, has caught international attention. The news of Shukarno's impending sentence has thrust her into the blog chats across Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Germany, Britain and the US, The Star reports.

August 17th, 2009 ADELAIDE - An old woman in Adelaide is considering taking legal action against the State Government for the pain and suffering she went through when she was stripped by five male police officers and put in a cell in the early 1970s. The mother-of-five, named as 'Mary' in news stories, was a teenager at the time.

July 10th, 2009 LOS ANGLES - Pop singer Michael Jackson's death is officially the second biggest internet news story of the 21st century, according to figures published Thursday. Only Barack Obama's election to the White House eclipsed the King of Pop's dramatic passing away.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - A top Al-Qaeda commander and 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has admitted that he had lied during his interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. Mohammad said he made up stories to prevent the CIA from torturing him during his detention.

June 12th, 2009 KATHMANDU - One more Indian pilgrim on the yatra to the holy Mount Kailash in Tibet died Friday, travellers returning to Kathmandu from the gruelling overland journey said. The man, said to be in his 50s, was admitted to a medical clinic in Khasa town on the Nepal-Tibet border but discharged after the doctors said he was beyond help.

June 12th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Another Indian pilgrim on the yatra to the holy Mt Kailash in Tibet died Friday, travellers returning to Kathmandu from the gruelling overland journey said. A man, said to be in his 50s, was admitted to a medical clinic in Khasa town on the Nepal-Tibet border but discharged after the doctors said he was beyond help.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A dog mother turned daredevil as she plunged three stories down to feed her hungry pups after being locked inside a house. The stray mum had become the favourite of residents in Changli, a county of Hebei province, even before delivering her five newborns.

May 27th, 2009 LONDON - Renowned short story writer Alice Munro has won the third Man Booker International Prize, beating the likes of Mahasweta Devi and VS Naipaul. The award, worth 60,000 pounds, is given every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.

May 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The world's favourite detective fiction writer Agatha Christie keeps breaking world records even after her death. The latest record-breaker is the complete collection of Miss Marple stories with a spine that is over a foot thick.

May 19th, 2009 LAHORE - US journalist Seymour Hersh has contradicted news reports being published in South Asia that quote him as saying a "special death squad" created by former US vice president Dick Cheney had killed Benazir Bhutto. The award-winning journalist described as "complete madness" the reports that the squad headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the new commander of US Army in Afghanistan, had also killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and a Lebanese Army Chief.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lin Hao is no longer camera shy, for the youngest of China's "quake heroes" to emerge from last year's catastrophe is filming for a third television role. The 10-year-old, who had rescued two fellow students from classroom rubble after being left with a head injury that required a hair transplant, is presently shooting for a sitcom entitled Stories at the Nurse Station.

May 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The promotional campaign of Tourism Queensland's 'Best Job in the World' has won the top prize at the One Show awards in New York. The One Show awards are one of the global advertising industry's most prestigious awards programs.

May 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The promotional campaign of Tourism Queensland's 'Best Job in the World' has won the top prize at the One Show awards in New York. The One Show awards are one of the global advertising industry's most prestigious awards programs.