Digest of international news

Saturday

Misrata (Libya): Military commanders in the Libyan city of Misrata said today that no post-mortem would be carried out on the body of Muammar Gaddafi despite concerns over how the toppled dictator died.

Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks adjourns the case for a week as a higher court is yet to decide on key accused Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi's petition against the judge.

Sunday

Islamabad/New Delhi: Pakistani military forces an Indian Army helicopter to land in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and took four personnel on board into "military custody" after the chopper allegedly violated the country's airspace in the Kargil sector.

Berlin: A bus-sized defunct German satellite plunges to Earth after languishing in a dead orbit for more than a decade, but space officials are not sure if any of its debris has hit the planet.

Monday

Kathmandu: A crucial Indo-Nepal trade pact inked during Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai's landmark New Delhi visit last week has sparked a row here, with hardline Maoist leaders demanding that the treaty be scrapped.

Melbourne: An Indian student, who was detained in 2004 by Australian immigration authorities for violating visa rules, is likely to get a whopping compensation of 600,000 Australian dollars after the country's human rights body termed his detention as 'arbitrary'.

Patnos (Turkey): Rescue teams sift through hills of rubble from flattened multistory buildings trying to reach dozens of people believed trapped after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey.

Tuesday

Toronto: Guinness World Records has refused to give recognition as the world's oldest marathon runner to Fauja Singh, a 100-year-old Briton of Indian-origin who attracted worldwide attention when he completed an eight hour run, because he can't produce his birth certificate.

Misrata: Muammar Gaddafi's body has been buried in secret after being displayed in public, in an ignominious end for Libya's longtime ruler, as the new regime asks NATO to extend its mission.

Wednesday

New York: Rajat Gupta pleads not guilty to charges of securities fraud and that he passed insider information to his billionaire friend Raj Rajaratnam while he was director at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble.

Bangkok: Tens of thousands of Bangkok residents jam bus stations and highways today to flee Thailand's flood- threatened capital as the city's governor ordered official evacuations in two swamped northern districts for the first time since the crisis began.

Thursday

Washington: Calling an improved Indo-Pak relationship in the region "a real game changer," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton express satisfaction over the progress being made by the two countries on improving their bilateral trade and commercial ties.

Washington: The Indo-US nuclear deal had virtually collapsed as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told President George W Bush it was not not going to work and the entire administration had given up on it.

Friday

Perth: The 21st Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is declared open by Queen Elizabeth II here amid demands to take a tough stand against violation of human rights.