Sachin Tendulkar slammed an unbeaten half century and Lasith Malinga claimed three wickets as the Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super Kings by 19 runs in the opening match of the Indian Premier League. The lucrative Twenty20 tournament is being held in South Africa because of security issues in the wake of terror attacks in Mumbai and Lahore and with Indian elections in progress. The second staging of the IPL has attracted many of the world's leading cricketers, lured by the ...

The bodies of the nine suspected Pakistani terrorists -- all believed to have been involved in the attacks on Mumbai -- are still lying in a hospital morgue almost five months after the attacks occurred. The public prosecutor trying the lone surviving suspected gunman in the Mumbai attacks told CNN the dead suspects have not been buried because no one has come to claim them and local Muslim officials are refusing to bury the men in Mumbai's Muslim graveyards. Public ...

After months of delays the trial of the lone surviving suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks finally got underway Friday. Mohammad Ajmal Kasab is charged with 12 criminal counts including murder, attempted murder, and waging war against India. Police say he was caught on surveillance camera holding a gun as he stalked and killed people inside Mumbai's main train station. Kasab is also accused of shooting down people at Mumbai's Cama hospital. Kasab is one of 10 Pakistani nationals who ...

Suspected Maoists ambushed Indian border guards in the country's east Thursday, killing five of them, as the nation voted in the first round of general elections to choose a new federal government, officials said. An unknown number of attackers first triggered an explosion that forced a bus carrying troops from the Border Security Force to stop in the Latehar district of Jharkhand state, district divisional commissioner Sarvendu Tathagat told CNN. "The jawans (troops) stepped off the bus then and took ...

The shipping industry may still be debating whether to provide weapons to the crews of merchant ships plying the pirate-infested waters of the Indian Ocean, but the U.S. military has no such dilemma about how to protect its cargo. As it prepares to ship a lot of firepower halfway across the world, it is taking steps to make sure a specially-designated container ship doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. The Marine Corps is moving 24,000 tons of inventory to ...

The battle for control of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama began with a bold move by some crew members to jump the pirates, crewmembers say. A scuffle ensued and one of the sailors stabbed a pirate in the hand in the battle to retake the container ship, one of the sailors told CNN. Snippets of information are starting to emerge about how the Alabama's crew managed to retake the ship after it was hijacked by pirates Wednesday about 350 miles off ...

A journalist hurled a shoe at the Indian home minister, apparently in anger over his Congress party fielding a leader who had been accused of leading anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi in the aftermath of the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984.

Suspected insurgents triggered five explosions in India's northeastern state of Assam Monday, killing eight people and injuring 80 others, state police chief G.M. Srivastava told CNN. Seven people died and 80 were injured in Assam's main city of Guwahati when a bomb went off in a busy marketplace, sub-inspector H. Ali at the state police control room, told CNN. One person was killed in a separate blast in another district of the state, he said. Of the five explosions ...

Indian attorney Anjali Waghmare says she has faced protests, threats and her home has been attacked because she has agreed to represent the lone surviving suspect of the Mumbai terror attacks. Waghmare was appointed by a Mumbai court to represent Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, who told the court he can not afford to pay for a lawyer. "I am doing everything on my own risk for the interest of the country," Waghmare told CNN's sister network, CNN-IBN. She now has serious ...

A suicide bomb exploded at a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Jalawla Monday evening, killing at least 14 people and wounding 31 others, according to local police. The ongoing fierce gun battles in the densely forested and foliaged mountain range of Shamswari, the deadliest in recent months, entered its fourth day Monday. "The thorough combing operation is in progress, and it is expected that a few more terrorists may be holed up in the area including an ...