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An Indian man in Dubai survived a massive surgery to remove a two-metre-long iron rod that penetrated his body in an accident, daily newspaper Emirates Today reported Thursday.

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks during the US Forces-Iraq change of command ceremony in Baghdad, Wednesday Sept.

The United States has charged Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, with the US government still offering a reward of up to $5 million for information about him.

The United States formally designated the Pakistani Taliban as a terrorist organization on Wednesday, slapping sanctions and travel bans on its leadership, reported dpa.

Rescuers are searching for 57 people missing after a landslide hit southern China and killed at least three people.

American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs.

Pakistan's military canceled a trip by officers to an annual meeting at U.S. Central Command after they were taken off a plane and subjected to "unwarranted security checks" at Dulles International Airport in Washington, a spokesman said Wednesday.

A young boy drinks water from a standpipe at a camp for people displaced by the floods near Sukkur, Pakistan, Wednesday Sept.

The explosions appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by Sunni extremists against the minority Shiites they consider infidels.

Blood samples taken from Afghan schoolgirls who collapsed in apparent mass poisonings showed traces of toxic chemicals found in herbicides, pesticides and nerve gas, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.

A deputy provincial governor said Wednesday that the three Afghans died on Saturday when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in Badakhshan, where a group of suspected insurgents last month murdered 10 aid workers, including six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton.

Afghanistan's central bank tried to shore up confidence in the country's biggest financial institution Wednesday after its top executives resigned amid allegations of mismanagement and corruption.

A Saudi official has denied a Sri Lankan maid's allegations that the couple she worked for in the Arab kingdom hammered nails and needles into her body.

Pakistan Army cancels US trip after security check row

The Pakistan Army said Wednesday that it had cancelled a trip of its officers to the United States after they were "subjected to unwarranted security checks" at a Washington airport, DPA reported.

Pakistan's intelligence agency has blocked a UK offer of military aid for flood victims amid a row that is threatening to overshadow Nick Clegg's visit to the country.

A Pakistani official says government airstrikes have killed eight suspected insurgents in the Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Five U.S. troops were killed by roadside bombs and insurgent fire in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the latest casualties in a particularly bloody spell that has left 19 service members dead since Saturday.

Nick Clegg has insisted the military campaign in Afghanistan is "turning the corner" as he made a surprise visit to the country.

As some 400 U.S. and Afghan soldiers gather to honor their first fallen comrade, mournful Muslim prayers mingle with the stutter of machine gun fire and the thud of exploding grenades just beyond their heavily fortified camp.

Roadside bombs killed eight members of the international force in Afghanistan - including seven U.S. troops - raising to more than a dozen the number who have died in the previous three days, NATO said Tuesday.