Trump picks Fox News host as defence secretary

United States President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the nomination of popular Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth, 44, as his defence secretary. IMAGE: ox and Friends co-host......

Trump signs order to keep infamous Guantanamo prison open

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to keep open the controversial US prison at Guantanamo Bay, paving the way to transfer new terror detainees to the......

Guantanamo inmates on hunger strike

Two Afghans released on Wednesday from detention in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba claimed that about 180 other Afghans held at the US detention facility were on a hunger strike to protest alleged......

Guantanamo interrogation inspired by Chinese

American interrogators at the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison facility were using techniques inspired by the ones used by Chinese during the Korean war to get confessions from US prisoners, a media......

'The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a very American story'

Actor Riz Ahmed tells Aseem Chhabra that most people can relate to the film, as it is the story of an outsider trying to find a home in a new society. Riz Ahmed began his career with Michael......

New York's music falls flat

A couple of days back, as I was surfing through music channels, I came across a song being played simultaneously on three networks. I settled for one channel. On screen were three characters, who......

Harold And Kumar 2 scores at the box office

Kal Penn, a prominent actor in Hollywood with Indian roots, had a career-first over the weekend as his Harold And Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay became his highest grossing film in a lead role.......

Bottom-less & smoking pot in Harold & Kumar 2

As an Indian American actor in Hollywood, Kal Penn has played very diverse roles-- from coping with the angst of being a brown-skinned kid, who has to deal with the burden of his name and heritage......

World Cup chit-chat: Maradona backs Suarez, says FIFA may as well throw him into Guantanamo

Diego Maradona blasted FIFA's ban on Uruguay striker Luis Suarez as "criminal" and said world soccer's governing body might as well handcuff the striker and lock him up in Guantanamo prison. "Who......

Russia bars FIFA's Garcia over human rights abuse

Russia made clear on Thursday that FIFA's chief investigator Michael Garcia is barred from entering the country because he is one of the Americans blacklisted in a bitter dispute with the United......