London, Jan. 29: The US secretly backed rebel leaders, who are responsible for the uprising in Egypt and the US embassy in Cairo even helped a dissident to attend a summit for activists in New York.

Seoul: Global leaders today pledged to refrain from competitive devaluation of their currencies and to take steps to mitigate risks arising from excessive capital flows to emerging markets like India.

Hanoi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here on the last leg of his three-nation Asia tour to attend the India-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit.

He flew into the Vietnamese capital after c