Federal charges are expected to be filed against the soldier in connection with possession of bomb-making material following his arrest in Killeen on Wednesday.
Overpowers Svitolina to reach second straight US Open final
A stuttering Roger Federer and a rampaging Rafael Nadal need to clear only one more hurdle before setting up a tantalising final showdown at the Qatar Open.
At least two persons including a nine-year-old boy were killed and several others injured when police opened fire to control a mob of protestors who went on a rampage on the arterial Guwahati-Shillong Road near Assam's capital complex at Dispur on Wednesday.
The Samajwadi Party's anti-Mayawati stir turned violent on Thursday as activists went on a rampage across Uttar Pradesh burning hundreds of effigies of the chief minister.
'The workers's dance of wilful destruction has the potential to kill all investments planned in India by any foreign entity,' argues Dr Sudhir Bisht.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Friday described as "very unfortunate" the vandalism during the 'million march' to Hyderabad called by Telangana supporters.
Afghanistan's controversial campaign, marred by poor on and off-field decisions, has gone from bad to worse. They now face the onerous task of squaring off against a galaxy of world class players, whose performance graph is on the upswing.
J K Dutt, who led the NSG's 26/11 operation, considers it to be one of the toughest that he has undertaken. Today however, he wishes there was a government negotiator who could have forced at least a couple of terrorists to surrender themselves.
Three years after Ajmal Amir Kasab and his accomplices convulsed the country's financial capital, the survivors of 26/11 terror attacks are still waiting for the day when the convicted Pakistani gunman will be hanged.
Naxals went on a rampage at several places in Chhattisgarh on the first day of the two-day bandh called by them.The left-wing ultras killed two persons, including an abducted special police officer, set on fire some vehicles and damaged railway tracks. Senior police officials told PTI that in Naxal-infested Dantewada district, a person named Kawasi Dev was shot dead by the Maoists and an abducted SPO Ramaiyya was killed in Bijapur.
Team hotels had gone into lockdown after last night's terror attack here, the International Cricket Council (ICC) revealed today, saying it will review security at the ongoing Champions Trophy 'in line with the threat levels'.
While man and a woman were reported killed when trees came crashing down on them in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, a 13-year-old girl died in a similar incident in adjoining Howrah. No casualties have been reported from Odisha yet.
Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was gravely wounded in the Tucson shooting rampage, will command the flight of space shuttle Endeavour in April. His participation in the 'next-to-the last' space shuttle mission in April had been in doubt since his wife, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in the head outside a Tucson supermarket on January 8 in a gun attack that left six other people dead.
Yusuf Pathan hammered an unbeaten 86 as Baroda defeated Mumbai by 15 runs in the opening match of West Zone T20 tournament, at the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) stadium, in Rajkot, on Thursday.
With no decision on the Telangana issue yet, activists fighting for separate state have decided to take a more aggressive stand.
Mitchell Johnson's Ashes rampage has got the highest praise from former Australian cricketer Jeff Thomson who was reminded of the hurricane force that he and Dennis Lillee were in the 1974-75 series against England, according to reports.
In the first incident of poll-related violence on the eve of tomorrow's second phase of polling in Assam, two persons have been killed in Kokrajhar district.
Manchester United's rampaging start to the season continued as they beat Chelsea 3-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday to move two points clear at the top of the Premier League.
At least 49 people have been killed in terror attacks at two New Zealand mosques on Friday. The shootings at Linwood Masjid Mosque and Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch took place during Friday prayers. Describing the horrific attacks, eyewitnesses said that they saw blood and bodies everywhere.
Earlier, army chief Gen Bipin Rawat said that full cooperation will be extended in investigation of the incident.
Trailing 0-2, it will take nothing short of a miracle for a depleted and humiliated India to turn things around and stay afloat when they take on a rampaging England in the fourth one-dayer of a five-match series at the Lord's in London on Sunday.
West Indies all-rounder Roston Chase says they are better-prepared to tackle Shaw, whose initial onslaught had set the tone for their embarrassing defeat in the first Test.
Hundreds of security personnel were on Friday deployed in violence-hit areas near Osmania University campus in Hyderabad, amid a bandh call by pro-Telangana students and supporters who went on a rampage on Thursday night.
India ended their campaign at the Sudirman Cup badminton tournament on a disappointing note with a 1-3 defeat at the hands of rampaging China in the quarter-finals at Qingdao, China on Thursday.
In one of the worst instances of public protest in the United Kingdom in recent years, an irate mob went on a rampage in north London, setting vehicles on fire and indulging in looting to protest against the killing of a 29-year-old local man in police firing.
Here are some of the most spectacular images from across the world in the last 48 hours.
The US election campaign has provided plenty of ammunition for the CCP to make its case that its political system is superior.
England's saviour with the bat after a top-order collapse, pacer Stuart Broad says he managed his rescue act by counter-attacking the rampaging Indian bowlers on the opening day of the ongoing second Test in Nottingham.
Attack will be the best form of defence for Team India against a rampaging Australian pace battery when the two sides square off on the dreaded green-top wicket of WACA in the do-or-die third Test starting on Friday.
The Commonwealth Games' gold medal-winning pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa went down fighting in the Indian Open Super Series badminton at the Siri Fort Complex, in New Delhi, on Thursday. The eighth seeded Indian duo lost 20-22, 18-21 to Eei Hui Chin and Pei Tty Wong of Malaysia.
"The president has been quite frustrated, and in some cases even angry, about congressional inaction," he said.
Automatic weapons fire and explosions were heard at the US-owned Radisson hotel in the capital Bamako.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the attack was linked to terror.
Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the All Party Hurriyat Conference denied the charges levelled against him by Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah. Speaking to rediff.com from his residence in downtown Srinagar, the Mirwaiz said "the charges levelled by the chief minister were baseless and unfounded".
Striker Sunil Chhetri and Clifford Miranda scored two goals each as a rampaging India drubbed Bhutan 5-0 in their second league match to keep their semi-finals hopes in the SAFF Championships alive, in Delhi, on Monday. Chhetri scored in the 69th and 84th minutes while Miranda struck in the 44th and 58th, after Syed Rahim Nabi (29th) had given India the lead.
An Australian court on Friday sentenced two teenagers for terrorising and robbing six Indian men over four days last year, in a racist rampage they codenamed 'Punji hunting'.
World No.13 Sindhu, who had lost to Yihan -- a 2011 World Champion and silver medallist at 2012 London Olympics - four times in the past, dished out a 21-18, 21-19 win over the sixth seed in 45-minute encounter.
Before he killed at least four people in Britain's deadliest attack since the 2005 London bombings, Khalid Masood was considered by intelligence officers to be a criminal who posed little serious threat.
Thousands of prisoners escaped from jails across Egypt as anti-regime riots entered the sixth day on Sunday, with looters rampaging through malls and luxury shops and a number of army-men doffing uniforms to join the unprecedented protests. Embattled President Hosni Mubarak, 82, clung to power despite mounting pressure to quit as the situation in the world's most populous Arab nation deteriorated.
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