According to a report from Baghdad, Iraqi authorities are questioning at least two guards suspected of involvement in the taunting and filming.
Over 90 Indian-American community leaders and political activists, who were catalytic in pushing through the passage of the legislation, took part in the ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
During an interactive interview to the BBC Asian Network's new Hindi/Urdu show, Khan also criticised US president George Bush for his Iraq policy.
Newsweek has carried a report that says Karzai's move may not have been wise.
Bush once again warned lawmakers that he will veto any bill that did not come to him in a clean fashion.
US President George Bush said the expansion of the nuclear power industry in the country was one way of staying competetive in the 21st\ncentury
The raunchy confession of a senatorial aide is leading to a lot of red faces.
Conceding that the present conditions in Iraq were not something expected, Bush said, "This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in."
A US jet has bombed a mosque in Fallujah, killing at least 40 inside.
Bush said the "enemy" had themselves also viewed Iraq as the "central front."
At the fag end of his presidency, George W Bush has acknowledged his disappointment at the CIA giving him wrong information about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, on the premise of which America invaded that country.
The governor of Vermont will push President Pervez Musharraf toward domestic and civil reform in Pakistan.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri saw him off at the airport at the Chaklala Defence Airbase in Rawalpindi.
The deal nearly did not happen but for a last-minute intervention by the American President.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sees America as the world's main enemy.
Stressing that from Beirut to Baghdad, people are making the choice for freedom and that the nations gathered in the United Nations must make a choice as well, Bush said the US will support reformers and moderates across the Middle East.
Bush and Danish Premier Rassmusen reiterated the importance of tolerance and freedom of expression.
President Bush has signed the economic stimulus package, to give a booster shot to US economy.
In a step closer to the operationalisation of the Indo-US nuclear deal, US President George W Bush has formally certified to the Congress that the 123 agreement is consistent with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The ballots cast in the early election process are being mailed back to Texas as the president is planning to spend election night at the White House, an official said.
Paul D Wolfowitz took charge as the World Bank's 10th President on Wednesday.
"I have come to India as a friend," he said addressing a select gathering here at Delhi's historic Purana Qila.
The open-air requiem mass is expected to begin at 1330 IST.
US State Department said Bush is keen on strengthening ties with India.
Dr Akshay Desai from Florida and Joseph Melookaran from Kansas have been chosen by Bush as Commissioners to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
"By exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President (George W) Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world," Senator Joseph Biden said in Washington in a campaign speech on 'Renewing American Leadership'.
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