By Rida Zaheer At least 30 people were killed and 150 wounded in the latest attack on February 22 which came days after another attack killed another 30, including 15 children. According to Syrian leadership activists are being supported against Bash-al-Assad by U.S. and Israel. In this connection, Nuland also pointed to the brutality of the attacks to reiterate calls by President Barack Obama for President ...

 Posted  By Rida Zaheer The Pentagon on Friday suspended the flights of all 51 F-35 fighter planes after a routine inspection revealed a crack on a turbine blade in the jet engine of an F-35 test aircraft in California. It was the second grounding of the warplane in two months and marked another setback for the $396 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the Pentagon's biggest weapons program. The progr ...

The US has threatened with economic sanctions against Pakistan over Islamabad’s plan to buy Iranian gas to quell its increasing energy thirst.   A US newspaper report said Washington was going to pile sanctions in Pakistan if it went ahead with the deal, just as Iran and Islamabad are negotiating an agreement with an Iranian company to build its side of the gas pipe line. The paper said the White House has ...

Posted By Rida Zaheer Growing shiitake oyster mushrooms for Michael Alt’s family’s restaurant proved to be a tricky operation in snowfall manic Syracuse, NY. Maintaining ideal conditions required a complicated set-up of seemingly endless triggers, humidifiers, fans, dehumidifiers and miscellaneous controls.   At his day job, Alt was making radar technology for the US Department of Defense as a software engi ...

By Riley McAtee This weekend, tennis powerhouses will collide as the Cal women’s tennis team hosts UCLA and USC at Hellman Tennis Complex.   In a clash of top-10 teams, the No. 7 Bears (3-2) will take on No. 2 UCLA at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. The next day, they will play No. 6 USC (7-1) at noon. Last year, Cal went a combined 1-3 against the Bruins and Trojans in the regular season.   “These two games will set ...

 by Rosey  Following the death of her boyfriend about a month ago, country singer Mindy McCready was found dead in her Arkansas home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. As the investigation into her death continues, and friends and fans alike continue to pay tribute to the late star, we took a look back on McCready's turbulent, troubled and sometimes tremendous life. Private investigator who work ...

By Simon Denyer IMPHAL, India — Tens of thousands of Indian troops are deployed to these remote borderlands, their mission to fight a decades-long armed separatist rebellion. But for years, residents here have alleged that security forces have also waged a separate war of rape and murder of civilians, one they continue with impunity because federal law virtually prohibits the prosecution of soldiers in conf ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi    Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - According to Daoud Sultanzoy, a former member of the Afghan parliament and political analyst, “The U.S. political climate is such that the administration has to show some sort of good news to justify [the troop exit], and that is dictating what is being shown in terms of progress, even if there isn’t any.” President Obama has repeatedly announced tha ...