Pakistan court awards death sentence to man who killed Pakistan's Punjab Governor

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• Pakistan court awards death sentence to man who killed Pakistan's Punjab Governor
• Obama won't back Mullen's claim on Pakistan
• Teacher plays truant for two years, faking sickness
• US: Parents held as toddler consumes cocaine
• CIA's first American target, al-Awlaki, killed
• Are UK lecturers spying on Indian students?
• Man dies minutes after scaling Mt Kilimanjaro
• Arrested woman said man paid her to kill him

Pakistan court awards death sentence to man who killed Pakistan's Punjab Governor Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:22 AM PDT A Pakistan anti-terror court awarded the death sentence to policeman who assassinated Punjab Governor Salman Taseer.

Obama won't back Mullen's claim on Pakistan Posted: 01 Oct 2011 03:57 AM PDT US President Barack Obama is declining to endorse strong criticism of Pakistan levelled by the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, while saying Pakistan must do more to deal with insurgents.

Teacher plays truant for two years, faking sickness Posted: 01 Oct 2011 03:05 AM PDT A teacher of Indian origin in Britain played truant by forging sick notes so as to excuse himself from teaching in classrooms.

US: Parents held as toddler consumes cocaine Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:19 PM PDT Parents of a child in a US city have been arrested after the toddler was found to be high on drugs. Officers in Atascadero city of California believe the 18-month-old boy swallowed cocaine because it had been "left out where he could get it", Daily Mail reported.

CIA's first American target, al-Awlaki, killed Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:34 PM PDT Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in Al Qaeda's most active branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks in the United States, was killed Friday in the mountains of Yemen, American and Yemeni officials said.

Are UK lecturers spying on Indian students? Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:24 PM PDT New Home Office rules asking academic staff at British universities to keep a tab on students from India and other non-EU countries have sparked off concern that lecturers have been turned into "spies and spooks".

Man dies minutes after scaling Mt Kilimanjaro Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:12 AM PDT A 69-year-old Briton collapsed and died just minutes after fulfilling a life-long ambition to climb Africa's highest mountain peak, Mount Kilimanjaro. Businessman Alistair Cook had just sent a text message to his wife Vicky, telling her his achievement when he suffered a fatal heart attack, the Daily Express reported.

Arrested woman said man paid her to kill him Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:43 AM PDT A New York woman is accused of running over a bound man who she said promised her $180,000 if she ended his life, but police said they have no evidence he wanted to die. Francis Nelson, 74, was found dead, his hands and feet still tied, near his abandoned car on a rural road in upstate Herkimer County on Tuesday morning. On Thursday, Jennifer Riesel, a 28-year-old woman who met Nelson through a social club in their hometown of Little Falls, was charged with his murder.

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