Nato defence ministers huddle on Wednesday for talks on the air war in Libya amid calls for allies to step up their contributions as strikes to dislodge a defiant Muammar Gaddafi escalate.

It was not the most comprehensive of wins but having taken a morale-boosting 1-0 lead in the series, India would look to press home the advantage against a nervy West Indies in the second one-dayer, here on Wednesday.

The middle-order mainstay of a second-string Indian cricket team, Rohit Sharma says he has a career to make and a reputation to defend in the ongoing ODI series against the West Indies here.

Japan will back UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who has announced his bid for a second five-year term, top government official said on Tuesday.

Pranab Gogoi, newly elected Congress MLA from Sibsagar constituency, was on Monday unanimously elected as the speaker of the 13th Assam Assembly.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Monday criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he had failed to discharge his duty.

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on all parties in the Arab-Israeli conflict to exercise “maximum restraint” and expressed “deep concern” about the shooting on the Golan heights.

Violence in Baghdad and central Iraq on Monday killed 12 people, including eight soldiers struck by a car bomb driven by a suicide attacker in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, officials said.

Yemeni dissidents on Monday called for a swift power transfer as the opposition vowed to block the return President Ali Abdullah Saleh whose party insists he will be back after surgery in Saudi Arabia.

The lawyer of a 16-year-old boy, who has pleaded guilty to killing Indian student Nitin Garg, told a court here that the murder was a result of immaturity of his client believed to be on of the youngest persons in Victorian state of Australia to commit the crime.