Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi said he did not fear death and defiantly vowed to fight "to the beyond".
The Pakistani and Indian foreign secretaries were scheduled to begin two-day talks in Islamabad later on Thursday.
Four bombs ripped through Shiite neighborhoods, killing at least 40 people in the worst violence the capital has seen in months.
The former Berlin waterfront estate of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels is going under the hammer.
The Palestinian leadership on Thursday rejected statements from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he suggested the recognition of a Palestinian state in exchange for dropping Palestinian refugees' right of return.
Britain is contact with Taliban insurgents to help pave the way to peace in Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed US President Barack Obama's announcement that US troop levels in Afghanistan will be reduced by 33,000 by September next year.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's office on Thursday announced a progressive withdrawal of France's troops from Afghanistan, hours after the United States laid out a drawdown.
Taliban militants fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan on Thursday downplayed the announcement of U.S. President Barack Obama as a trick to deceive public opinion and called for the complete pullout of foreign forces, a Taliban statement said.
The Israeli government, the military, rescue services, 80 municipalities, and millions of civilians on Wednesday drilled responses to a simultaneous mass missile strikes across the country
The Israeli government, the military, rescue services, 80 municipalities, and millions of civilians on Wednesday drilled responses to a simultaneous mass missile strikes across the country
Dozens of al-Qaida militants battled their way out of prison Wednesday in the latest sign that Yemen's political upheaval has emboldened them to challenge authorities in the country's nearly lawless south, security officials said.