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South Korea and the United States, bowing to pressure from China, have said that they will change the location of a joint naval exercise seen as a warning to North Korea.

Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday that the two countries planned to stage massive naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea, close to Chinese territory, in a show of military force after North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship in March.

Transcripts of lawmakers' meetings during the Vietnam War offer useful lessons for the discussing the Afghanistan war, says U. S. Sen. John Kerry.

The Boston Globe reported on Thursday that Kerry said, "Some of the parallels are almost eerie," "and I think all of us can learn an enormous amount from the way our predecessors dealt with questions very similar to those we face today."

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A human rights group has said that thousands of North Koreans are estimated to have starved to death during crippling food shortages in North Korea.

An Amnesty International report released on Thursday in New York said that shortages of food, made worse by government policies, have left some North Koreans eating barely digestible or even poisonous "wild foods" such as grass and tree bark.

Mumbai, July 16 : Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, who has found immense fame in India, says it is difficult to organise shows for Indian artists in his country because of terrorism.

"It's not that Indian artists are not welcome there. It's just that at present the country is going through a very rough patch," Khan told IANS in an interview, explaining why there were more shows of Pakistani personalities in India than of Indian artists in Pakistan.

According to official reports, a Florida man was sentenced to 18 1/2 years in prison on Thursday for killing his father by slashing his throat.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel has reported that Erin Atac, 30, of Lighthouse Point avoided the maximum penalty of 30 years for manslaughter despite having once told police "I'd do it again and again, if I could, no hesitation."

It was also reported that Atac was convicted in February by a jury that passed up on finding him guilty of first-degree murder.