MQM fears vendetta by Sharif
Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has asked party workers to go underground amidst apprehensions of government action after it severed ties with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML).

John Glenn back in space after 36 yrs
Riding on unprecedented hoopla, John Glenn became the oldest man to travel in space when he was hurtled into orbit by the shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida shortly after 2.15 p.m on Thursday.

LTTE sinks Lankan escort ship; 15 sailors missing
Fifteen Sri Lankan seamen were reported missing after a navy Dvora-class gunboat was sunk by a LTTE Sea Tiger suicide boat off the Mullaithivu coast in the island's north-eastern waters.

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