A Yemeni Airbus which was carrying 153 persons crashed into stormy seas as it came into land in the Comoros islands.
French government is assisting the relief efforts as a number of passenger were French nationals. A doctor, Halidi Ahmed Abdou, at a medical centre opened for survivors has said that a doctor from the military hospital aboard one of the rescue boats called the Mitsamiouli hospital to tell them a child had been rescued alive.
Wreckage from the Yemenia airline flight were spotted in the Indian Ocean near the …

June 30th 2009 – the day on which occupying combat troops have left the Iraqi cities and handed over the control to Iraqi security forces. However, it is more or less only symbolic as US advsiors will keep on working in Iraq as well as US forces will patrol the cities along with the Iraqi forces.
It is a coincidence that this very day Iraq has auctioned off some of the country’s largest oil fields to companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and British Petroleum. Is it not a reminder of the real motives …

President Nicolas Sarkozy has condemned the head-to-toe cover as a symbol of subjugation rather than the Muslim faith.
While addressing the lawmakers in a major plicy speech, he said:
We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting, cut off from all social life, deprived of identity. That is not the idea that the French republic has of women’s dignity. The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience. It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic.
Sarkozy told a …

Pakistan won the ICC T20 World Cricket Cup by defeating Sri Lanka.

Thousands of supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran’s defeated presidential candidate, demonstrated for a sixth straight day to keep up the pressure on the Iranian regime over the disputed election 2009.
The Guardians Council, the electoral watchdog, said it has received a total of 646 complaints of irregularities in the conduct of the poll from Mr Mousavi and the other two defeated candidates and was investigating these complaints. It said it had invited the trio to set out their grievances on Saturday, with a decision on Sunday about any possible recount …

Pakistan cricket team captain Younus Khan has confidently predicted victory for his resurgent team after they defeated favourites South Africa by seven runs in a nail-biting semi-final. All-rounder Shahid Afridi played a crucial role in the Pakistan’s victory by scoring 56 runs and taking 2-16 with his leg-spinners.
Jubliant Younus Khan said:
One more game and this World Cup is ours. In the big games we do well and now I think we will win this. We can take our chances and we can win the World Cup.
We are slow starters, we …

Celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has donated $1,000,000  to a United Nation’s refugee agency to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between pakistani army and Taliban militants. Angelina Jolie has visited Pakistan three times to witness United Nations relief operations since becoming a ‘goodwill ambassador’ for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2001.
Most Pakistanis forced from their homes are living in government buildings or with host families, but more than 260,000 of them are in camps run by UNHCR.

The rapid growth of technical expertise in Pakistan is surprising for many. Most of the world sees Pakistan only through news media which shows mostly violance in the Country. However, consider this snippet from the BusinessWeek by Rachael King published on June 4 2009.
Pakistan has become the 20th most attractive outsourcing destination,  according to consulting management firm A.T. Kearney. Even as concerns increase about Pakistan’s stability and the growing displaced population due to ongoing military operations with the Taliban, the country made a significant jump on A.T. Kearney’s 2009 Global …

A little girl from Swat with some naan bread who has been forced to leave her home and move to a safer place in Pakistan due to Armed operation against Taliban.