An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Java island of Indonesia on Tuesday. But there was no potential for tsunami and no casualty reported, Xinhua quoted officials as saying.

The Arab League, an association of 22 Arab countries, looks forward to "peaceful coexistence" in Jammu and Kashmir but has no specific position on the dispute between India and Pakistan, says its ambassador.

Pakistan's Prime Minister declared China his country's best friend in an apparent dig at Washington as he was to begin a visit to China on Tuesday with US ties tested over Osama bin Laden's killing.

A "visibly angry" ISI chief snubbed leader of Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan at an in-camera session of Pakistan's Parliament on the Bin Laden raid, claiming that he was being targeted by the PML-N leader because he refused to extend a personal favour to him.

Chinese scientists have found a new species of giant theropod dinosaur in the eastern province of Shandong. The new species, described as a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex (T Rex), has been named "Zhuchengtyrannus magnus".

Fined in a match-fixing inquiry 11 years ago, former Pakistan Test cricketer and umpire Akram Raza has been arrested along with six alleged bookies, who were taking bets on the ongoing Indian Premier League.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina “undermined her status and office” by calling up Mamata Banerjee, victor of the election in India's West Bengal state, a Dhaka daily said on Sunday.

Pakistan’s Parliament condemned on Saturday the US raid to find and kill Osama bin Laden, calling for a review of US ties and warning that Pakistan could cut supply lines to American forces in Afghanistan if there were more such attacks.

Following in the footsteps of extremist groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, Pakistani lawyers have offered funeral prayers for al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden after he was killed in a US raid last week.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has lauded the role played by Pakistan's National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza for numerous initiatives towards empowerment of women, and said she was a role model for women of many countries.