Canberra - Australia will not reverse its ban on the sale of uranium to India and other countries that have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Trade Minister Simon Crean was reported as saying on Monday.
Islamabad - Ruling Pakistan People's Party chief Asif Ali Zardari was on Saturday elected Pakistan's new President, securing a landslide victory in the elections.
London - Britain's elite force SAS is waging a ‘secret war’ in Iraq that has led to more than 3,500 insurgents being ‘taken off the streets of Baghdad’, a news report has said.
Washington - The outer edge of Hurricane Gustav reached the US Gulf of Mexico coast early Monday, with rain and tropical storm force winds beginning to lash New Orleans, a US National Hurricane Centre official said.