Plane crash near Islamabad; 159 on board feared dead
159 people are on a plane that has crashed near Islambabad in the Margalla Hills. Civil aviation officials say it’s unlikely that there are any survivors. One body has been recovered so far. 

Three plane crashes in 24 hours
This is the third air crash in the last 24 hours. On Tuesday, a Lufthansa MD-11 cargo plane crashed while landing at Riyadh , smoke was emitting out from the rear of the aircraft. Both the pilots were rushed to a hospital. 

Site of the Pakistan plane crash
152 people are on a plane that has crashed near Islambabad in the Margalla Hills. It is an Airblue Airline plane. All the people on board are feared dead. 

US-South Korea: Joint maneuvers at sea
On the 57th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War, the US and South Korean ships intensified high-profile military exercises on Tuesday that underscore rising tensions in a region yet to truly find peace. 
 
US woman charged with smuggling 3 night vision rifle scopes to Russia
Federal authorities have charged a Dallas-area woman with trying to smuggle three night-vision rifle sights to Russia. A federal court affidavit filed in New York accuses 24-year-old Anna Fermanova of suburban Plano of trying tried to move the scopes in March without the proper export licenses. 

Obama breaks silence on WikiLeaks, says nothing new in leaked documents
America tried to downplay the enormous document dump about the war in Afghanistan, which disclosure experts are calling the biggest leak since the Pentagon Papers about Vietnam. 

Japan's first execution in a year, executes 2 convicted killers
Japan says it has executed two convicted killers. Justice Minister Keiko Chiba said the executions took place on Wednesday. It was Japan's first round of executions in a year. 

Better kindergarten teachers may mean earning more as adults
How much do your kindergarten teacher and classmates affect the rest of your life? Economists have generally thought that the answer was not much. By junior high and high school, children who had excellent early schooling do little better on tests than similar children who did not - which raises the demoralizing question of how much of a difference schools and teachers can make. 

Malaysian Politics: Sex, Sodomy and Trials
A Malaysian prosecutor who is allegedly having an affair with the young man who accused opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy has been axed from the trial. Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail said late Tuesday that Farah Azlina Latif had been removed not because she was guilty but to protect the integrity of the prosecution team. 

New oil leak near BP disaster in Gulf
il and gas leaked from a damaged well on a waterway in Louisiana in the United States on Tuesday, north of a bay where officials have been fighting the spill from the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.