Over 50 pro-Kannada activists tried to block the Bangalore Airport in protest against the Cauvery tribunal verdict.

Al-Qaeda chief has not been charged in the case relating to the September 11 attacks due to legal reasons.

Snipers firing from rooftops and a cemetery killed at least 17 people in a series of attacks on a Shiite religious procession in Baghdad.

IAEA said Iran went ahead with enrichment during a 30-day grace period and did not answere questions whether its N programme is civilian.

Thirty-two train passengers were charred to death and 25 others injured when a fire broke out in a coach of the New Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore in the wee hours due to a short circuit.