MUMBAI – India's cricket chiefs on Saturday named the disciplinary committee that will decide the fate of Lalit Modi, the suspended boss of the scandal-hit Indian Premier League.Junior federal minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will sit alongside politician-lawyer Arun Jaitley and businessman Chirayu Amin in the three-man committee, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced.Sci
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's top opposition leader said Saturday that the government should negotiate with the country's Taliban militants to ease the relentless security crisis in the nuclear-armed, U.S -allied nation.Nawaz Sharif made the comments two days after a pair of suicide bombers killed 42 people at a famed Sufi shrine in the province controlled by his party, the Pakistan Muslim League-
LONDON – Defending champion Serena Williams won her fourth women's singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday with a crushing 6-3, 6-2 victory over Russian 21st seed Vera Zvonareva in a lopsided final.Williams displayed all her trademark power and poise to overwhelm Zvonareva on Centre Court and clinch the 13th Grand Slam crown of her career.The 28-year-old's triumph means the Venus Rosewater
THE ITURI FOREST, Congo – They emerge from the stillness of the rainforest like a lost tribe of prehistoric warriors forgotten by time — a barefoot band of Mbuti Pygmies wielding iron-tipped spears.The men come first, cloaked head to toe in coiled hunting nets shaved from the liana vine.Then the women, lugging hand-woven baskets filled with the same bloodstained antelope their ancesto
KINSHASA, Congo – A fuel tanker flipped over and burst in flames in eastern Congo overnight, killing at least 220 villagers and wounding more than 200 — some of whom had rushed to siphon leaking liquid from the vehicle illegally, the U.N and local officials said Saturday.The truck was transporting fuel when it overturned at high speed late Friday near the village of Sange, around 20 m
KRAKOW, Poland – U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday a steel vice is crushing groups that promote democracy and civil liberties around the world, and defended U.S government funding for them.Speaking on the eve of a Polish presidential run-off, she held the country up as a model democracy that emerged from Soviet domination strong enough to survive an air crash that
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria – Gunmen attacked two cargo vessels off the coast of the oil-producing Niger Delta, killing one crew member and kidnapping at least 12 others, a Nigerian navy spokesman said on Saturday.The crew members seized near Bonny in southern Rivers state on Friday have not been identified, but the military believe they are from eastern Europe. Gunmen attacked the cargo vessel
BAGHDAD – Vice President Joe Biden landed Saturday on what appeared to be a dual mission in Baghdad: to visit U.S troops during the July Fourth weekend and coax Iraqi leaders into ending their government impasse.Top Obama administration officials have been reluctant to visit Iraq since its deadlocked March election failed to produce a clear winner.Biden's trip may signal the U.S is steppi