Banks to direct `Pitch Perfect` sequel

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 10:53

Elizabeth Banks will be donning the director`s hat for the first time for the sequel of "Pitch Perfect".

Philippine military attacks hardline Muslim renegades

Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 14:16

The Philippine military attacked a Muslim renegade faction today, two days after the country`s main Muslim rebel group successfully ended negotiations to end a decades-long insurgency that has killed tens of thousands.

Islamist rebel who threatened Olympics claimed dead

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 22:33

A Chechen rebel leader who vowed to disrupt the Sochi Winter Olympics is dead, Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov said on Friday although Russian security services did not confirm the claim.

1,069 killed in Syrian rebel infighting: Activists

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 22:38

Two weeks of fighting between an al Qaeda-linked group and other rebel forces in Syria has killed more than 1,000 people, an activist group said today, as clashes raged between the rival factions in a northwestern town.

700 killed in Syria rebel-jihadist battle: Monitor

Last Updated: Monday, January 13, 2014, 00:20

Fierce fighting between jihadists and rival rebel groups in Syria has killed at least 700 in more than a week while hundreds more are missing, a monitoring group said.

Al Qaeda group fights back against Syria rebel assault

Last Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 03:56

Al Qaeda-linked jihadists struck back against rival rebels in eastern and northern Syria on Friday after a week of internecine fighting among opponents of President Bashar al-Assad in which 500 people have been killed, a monitoring group said.

Rebel TMC MP to quit seat on Jan 15

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 00:28

Rebel Trinamool Congress leader Somen Mitra on Sunday said he will quit as party MP on January 15, severing all links with TMC.

New Syria rebel alliance declares war on al Qaeda

Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 17:32

A newly formed Syrian rebel alliance has declared war on the powerful al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and joined other opposition groups in battling the extremists.

CIA helps Colombia kill rebel leaders: Report

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 16:09

A covert CIA programme has helped Colombia`s government kill at least two dozen leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the rebel insurgency also known as FARC, according to a media report.

Mali goes to polls under threat of Islamist violence

Last Updated: Sunday, November 24, 2013, 19:08

Malians voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections intended to cap the troubled west African nation`s return to democracy but overshadowed by the threat of Islamist reprisals.

Syrian air raid kills rebel commander in Aleppo: Activists

Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 16:57

A Syrian rebel commander in a main Islamist brigade was killed and two others were injured in an air strike by President Bashar al-Assad`s forces on Aleppo, activists said on Friday.

152 Bangladeshi soldiers sentenced to death for 2009 mutiny

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 14:46

A Bangladeshi court today handed down death penalty to 167 former paramilitary soldiers after convicting them guilty of killing 74 people, including 57 army officers, during a mutiny in 2009.