Hyderabad, May 19 (IANS) A little known terror outfit called Tehreek-e-Galba-e-Islam has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack on policemen here and said it was to avenge police firing on Muslims protesting the 2007 blast at the historic Mecca Masjid.

One home guard was killed and a police constable was injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a police picket in Falaknuma in the old city Monday.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Mockingbirds may look alike to humans, but they can remember people who have threatened them and even start dive-bombing them if they’ve previously posed a threat to their nests, a study has found.

Colombo, May 19 (ANI): Rejecting Sri Lankan Government’s claim that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s chief V. Prabhakaran has been killed by the army, LTTE’s International Relations head S. Pathmanathan on Tuesday said Tamil Tigers chief is still alive and healthy.

London, May 19 (ANI): Schoolboy Alfie Patten, who was believed to have become Britain’s youngest dad, is actually not the father of the baby his girlfriend Chantelle Stedman, 15, delivered in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
DNA test results revealed in London’s High Court have proved that the real father of the baby girl, Maisie, is another teenager Tyler Barker, 14, who also claimed to having had an affair with Chantelle.
Five more boys had also claimed that they had slept with the schoolgirl.

Washington, May 19 (IANS) As Colombo declared victory against the Tamil Tiger rebels, the US asked Sri Lanka to turn the page on its past and engage Tamils to create a political arrangement that protects the rights of all its citizens

Toronto, May 19 (IANS) The end of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) simply marks the beginning of a new phase in their struggle for independence, the Canadian Tamil Congress announced here Monday.

Washington, May 19 (DPA) The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that top justice officials in the administration of former president George W. Bush could not be held liable for alleged discrimination in the arrests of 700 Muslim men after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that former attorney general John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller, who has held on to his job in the Obama administration, cannot be sued for mistreatment because they singled out Muslim men using race and religion as their guidelines, the Los Angeles Times reported online.

Washington, May 19 (DPA) US President Barack Obama said during his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday that Tel Aviv must end its settlement activities in the West Bank in order to progress in the peace process with Palestinians.

“Settlements have to be stopped in order for us to move forward,” Obama said, placing him at odds with the conservative prime minister, whose government appears poised to expand a key settlement in the West Bank.