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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has virtually turned down Pakistan's offer to train the Afghan National Army while promising to keep Islamabad in the loop about his government's plans to engage the Taliban as part of reconciliation and reintegration efforts.
The Pakistan Navy tested missiles and torpedoes in the Arabian Sea authorities said on Friday.
Noted Indian economist Rakesh Mohan has been appointed as a faculty at the prestigious Yale University joining the ranks of Tony Blair, the former British prime minister; Ernesto Zedillo, the former Mexico president and Rajendra Pachauri.
China on Friday hit back at US President Barack Obama over his comments on the value of the yuan, saying the issue was not a political one and was not the solution to global trade imbalances.
House Democratic leaders on Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.
US President Barack Obama has donated the $1.4 million that came with winning the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, the White House said on Thursday.

Meals are served at an event named "World's Longest Lunch" at this year's Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in Melbourne on Friday. —AFP
Police officers rescued an Indian businessman a day after he was kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen in the Philippines, a provincial police chief said on Friday.
New Zealand Police Minister Judith Collins on Friday slammed a "stunt" in which a newspaper sent people masquerading as terrorists with fake bombs to Super 14 rugby games as "unbelievably stupid".
A pretty 13-year-old British girl committed suicide after being dubbed "ugly" by her classmates, a media report said on Thursday.

Gone are the days when a single show captured the imagination of Indian viewers for years together. With competition fierce, viewers’ loyalties are fickle too.

When 13-year-old Ulka Gupta was finalised to play the title role of Manikarnika, aka Manu, in Jhansi Ki Rani, she had no inkling that the responsibility of carrying the historical would rest heavily on her slender shoulders.

The normally diplomatic Karan Johar let go of his politically correct stance on Headlines Today. He confessed that the industry may be a fraternity, but is not really united because it has become an industry now.
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