In a day of high drama, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf fled from the Islamabad High Court Thursday after it had ordered his arrest in a 2007 case and remained closeted in his farmhouse with police blocking access to it.

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former president general Pervez Musharraf's plea for bail in connection with a 2007 judges detention case, hours after Musharraf had escaped from the premises of the Islamabad High Court following cancellation of his bail application by Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui.

A Pune court on Thursday awarded death sentence to Indian Mujahideen operative Himayat Baig, who was earlier this week convicted for his involvement in the German Bakery blast here.

The Karnataka government Thursday announced a reward of Rs.5 lakh to anyone providing credible information on the blast near the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) office in the city, in which 16 people were injured.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the West will pay a high price for what he described as their support for Al-Qaeda.

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf will appeal in the Supreme Court on Thursday against an order for his arrest for detaining judges when he imposed emergency rule in 2007, a party spokesman has said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted three other convicts who had a role to play in the 1993 Mumbai blasts four more weeks time to surrender to jail authorities.

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf Thursday made a dramatic escape from the Islamabad High Court Thursday after the court ordered his arrest in the case related to the detention of senior judges in 2007.

A massive explosion at a fertiliser plant in the small Texas town of West has left at least two people dead, levelled several homes and prompted a widescale evacuation in the community of 2,600 people.

Bristling with anger, President Barack Obama branded Wednesday's defeat of gun reform in the US Senate as "shameful," accused lawmakers of caving to the gun lobby, and promised to fight on.