Lilongwe, Malawi - US pop star Madonna's attempt to adopt a second child in Malawi is to be decided on Friday, when a court rules on her quest to adopt a four-year-old sister for her adoptive son, David Banda, the judge said Monday.
The 50-year-old singer was in Malawi High Court in the capital Lilongwe on Monday for a hearing on her application for an interim, 18-month adoption order for Chifundo (Mercy) James.
Islamabad - Pakistan's historic eastern city of Lahore has long been known as the country's cultural capital, with dozens of theatres, film studios, fashion houses, historical sites and exotic food.
But it is now being turned into a new battleground by Islamic militants who have already gained control over large areas in the north-western regions of the nuclear-armed Islamic state.
Baghdad - Three people were killed and 15 others were injured by a bicycle bomb in Baquba, the capital of the ethnically divided Iraqi province of Diyala, police said Monday.
All the casualties were construction workers looking for day jobs, police in Baquba told the German Press Agency dpa on Monday.
Divided between concentrations of Kurds in the north, Shiite Muslims along its border with Iran, and Sunni Muslims in the south-west, Diyala has been the site of deadly clashes between rival militias and insurgent groups for years.
Baghdad/Cairo - Three people were killed and 15 others were injured by a bicycle bomb in Baquba, the capital of the ethnically divided Iraqi province of Diyala, the Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera reported on Monday.
All the casualties were construction workers looking for day jobs, al-Jazeera reported, citing police officials.
San Francisco - Six people, including three children, were killed in a family shooting at an upscale housing development in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, police said Monday.
The suspected gunman was believed to be among the dead inside the modern home, said Santa Clara police Lieutenant Phil Cooke.
"We do believe this appears to be a family-on-family murder- suicide," Cooke said in a televised news conference.
Islamabad - Pakistani commandos killed four militants and arrested three others Monday, ending an eight-hour standoff at a police-training academy in the eastern province of Punjab that left several police dead and around 100 wounded, officials said.
An armed group carrying assault rifles, grenades and explosives attacked the sprawling police-training school in the Manawan area in the outskirts of the provincial capital of Lahore during the morning drill.
Lilongwe, Malawi - US pop star Madonna's attempt to adopt a second child in Malawi is to be decided on Friday, when a court rules on her quest to adopt a four-year-old sister for her adoptive son, David Banda, the judge said Monday.
Islamabad - Pakistan's historic eastern city of Lahore has long been known as the country's cultural capital, with dozens of theatres, film studios, fashion houses, historical sites and exotic food.
Baghdad - Three people were killed and 15 others were injured by a bicycle bomb in Baquba, the capital of the ethnically divided Iraqi province of Diyala, police said Monday.
Baghdad/Cairo - Three people were killed and 15 others were injured by a bicycle bomb in Baquba, the capital of the ethnically divided Iraqi province of Diyala, the Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera reported on Monday.
San Francisco - Six people, including three children, were killed in a family shooting at an upscale housing development in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, police said Monday.
Islamabad - Pakistani commandos killed four militants and arrested three others Monday, ending an eight-hour standoff at a police-training academy in the eastern province of Punjab that left several police dead and around 100 wounded, officials said.
