Pakistan’s president has sworn in a political enemy as prime minister. Meanwhile, two top U.S. State Department officials arrived in the country and held talks with the embattled president and the new government leaders. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports from Islamabad.

Sukhdev “Sam” Singh and Surinder “Sam” Pal Singh Multani were arrested after a multiple-year grand-jury investigation that resulted in 300 subpoenas and more than 200,000 documents that take up 70 feet of shelving, according to officials cited by the newspaper.

Fahmida Mirza, a businesswoman, will be Pakistan’s first female speaker of the national assembly if she is approved in a vote on Wednesday.

CHICAGO - Sen. Barack Obama picked up nine more pledged delegates in Iowa, state Democratic officials said late Saturday night, as thousands took part in county conventions.

Four construction workers were killed Saturday afternoon when a towering crane toppled onto a Manhattan apartment building, in what Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) called one of the city’s worst construction accidents ever.

Livingston, Calif. (AP) -A judge says leaders of a Sikh temple in Livingston will have to release its financial records to members.

A jury Monday awarded $40.1 million to a man whose heart was cooked during a 2004 operation in Everett when a medical device malfunctioned.

Chicago: Some officials of the Indian consulate in Chicago have been illegally issuing passports to Indian nationals who have sought political asylum in the US in exchange for hefty bribes, according to a complaint made to the Indian external affairs ministry by an Indian American community leader.

New Delhi, (PTI) As political developments over the Indo-US nuclear deal gain momentum, Congress President Sonia Gandhi is expected to unveil the strategy on the issue for the party at a meeting here tomorrow.

New Delhi, Government is planning to bring in a special marriage act for the Sikhs, a long standing demand of the community.