An Indian American doctor couple from New Jersey were killed when their single-engine plane crashed into an Ohio cornfield and burst into flames shortly after takeoff on Sunday.

A 17-year-old Indian-American youth was handcuffed and arrested by the police when he went to the rescue of his mother who was harassed and spit on her face by a Chinese national in Flushing area of Queens here.

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Saturday urged a transition to democracy in Syria, saying in a commentary in the Arabic-language Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the regime crackdown would not quell the momentum for change.

Some Indians living in Karachi were willing to work with Lashkar-e-Tayyaba to carry out terror attacks in India, David Headley has said, apparently referring to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who is based in the port city of Pakistan.

Pakistan Army and its Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani should be given some time and space for introspection in the aftermath of the US raid in Abbottabad that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and the developments since then, a top Pentagon official has said.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn claimed diplomatic immunity when he was arrested by the police over the attempted rape of a hotel maid here, the American media reported.

With Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani facing strident criticism following the unilateral American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the US is keeping a close tab on the "ultimate fate" of Pakistan’s powerful Army Chief.

Pakistan’s Army chief is fighting to save his position in the face of “seething anger” in the Army establishment over the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to the New York Times.

“Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria has said she “doesn’t hold on to the bitterness” of her break-up with basketball player husband Tony Parker.

Amid Congressional calls for closer scrutiny of American aid to Pakistan in the wake of the arrest of five CIA informers, the United States has acknowledged “challenges” in relations with Islamabad.