The high-powered committee to control price hike of essentials is expected to hold meeting soon with the senior officials of the relevant ministries and departments to find out ways to curb soaring market prices.

The 'minus-two" plan of the military-backed caretaker government has clearly faltered.

According to AFP, A judge handed down life jail terms Monday to five men convicted of plotting an al-Qaeda bombing campaign in Britain, including one with links to the ringleader of the 2005 attacks in London.

According AFP, a top US congressional Democrat has raised the possibility of George W Bush's impeachment in a bid to force the president to accept a compromise that would place conditions on continued US military involvement in Iraq.