MYANMAR: The death toll from the cyclone that battered Myanmar last weekend rose above 22,000 on Tuesday as the international community prepared to rush in aid, state radio reported.
 

DHARMSHALA: The two envoys, Kasur Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, will give a briefing to the Dalai Lama and Tibetan leadership, when they reach Dharamshala on Wednesday, 7 May.

WASHINGTON: Close on the heels of President George W Bush's remarks linking Indians' food habits to rising global prices of commodities, the United States has now partly attributed the surge in oil prices to the increased demand in India and China.

ISLAMABAD: A policeman was killed and five others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a security check post in the northwestern Pakistani city of Bannu on Tuesday.