South Asia & International

Former India state minister gets 28 years imprisonment

Twin suicide attack on NATO Afghan base kills 13

Mitt Romney nominated Republican candidate

Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in southeast Louisiana

India court upholds Mumbai attacker Kasab death penalty

Pakistan PM wins time in legal wrangle over president

Taliban behead 17 at Afghan party’with music and dancing’

Syrian military helicopter downed in Damascus clashes

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, dies at 82

Samsung to pay $1bn damages to Apple

Key Pakistani Taliban figure killed in Afghanistan

Tropical Storm Isaac makes landfall in Haiti

Australia’s Qantas reports $256m loss and cancels plane orders

Mars rover Curiosity takes first test drive, sees tracks

Rights group slams Bangladesh’s ‘cruel’ Rohingya policy

South Africa mine Lonmin drops threat to fire workers

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dead at 57

Japanese female journalist killed in Syrian gunfire

Philippine minister feared dead in plane crash

Sudan plane crash kills up to 31, including minister

Syria’s Assad makes rare public appearance at mosque

Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks ‘witch-hunt’

Nasa’s Curiosity rover prepares to use laser on a Martian rock

US drone kills six militants in Pakistan: officials