Balanced News Blog

Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family’s “honor” — a crime that shocked Pakistan.

An artificial 35-foot Christmas tree caught fire in the lobby of the Grand Californian Hotel at Disneyland Resort early today. No one suffered serious injuries.

A drug similar to one that causes birth defects has won FDA approval to treat anemia in people who suffer from certain kinds of rare bone marrow disorders known as myelodysplastic syndromes, or MDS.

Next month India plans to fence off this area of West Bengal as part of a little-known £600 million project to erect a steel barrier right along its 2,500-mile border with its much smaller Muslim neighbour. As a result Mr Biswas and his village of 2,000 people will be sealed off from their own country.

Mossad director Meir Dagan joined the list of Israeli officials sounding the alarm on the imminence of Iran’s nuclear threat.

Five German tourists have been reported missing in eastern Yemen, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman says.

Two Palestinian militants have been wounded in an Israeli air strike on their base in Lebanon, hours after rockets hit two Israeli border towns.

Pakistan’s religious schools have refused to meet a 31 December deadline set by the president for the expulsion of foreign students.

A new era in satellite navigation has begun with the launch of Giove-A. The 600kg spacecraft was lofted into orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, at 1119 (0519GMT).

The website of the Jeonbuk Mutual Savings Bank based in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, was reportedly attacked by Chinese hackers, marking the first domestic hacking incident of a bank involving Chinese cyber criminals. Customers who log onto the website are likely to fall victim to the hackers by having their cyber money or internet game items stolen or experiencing a slow down in internet speeds, among other possible damage.