Briefly World: Majority Pakistanis see India as greater threat than Taliban

Afghans face mass deportation from Pak

Kabul: Hundreds of thousands of Afghans face the threat of deportation back to their war-torn country from Pakistan once a deadline expires on Saturday,but Kabul is crying foul over the move. Pakistan is home to 1.7 million refugees and hundreds of thousands more unregistered migrants from its neighbour.

Assange dismisses British extradition notice

London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday defied the extradition notice served on him by Scotland Yard on the ground that he was advised to do so and said he almost certainly will not attend a police station after breaching bail conditions.

UNESCO puts Nativity Church on endangered list

PARIS: UNESCOs World Heritage committee on Friday approved a Palestinian bid to place the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on its list of sites of World Heritage in Danger a move seen by some nations as dangerously mixing politics and culture.

Baby dies as Japan mother chats on net

TOKYO: A woman whose baby boy lay dead for nearly a day while she chatted on Internet forums has been arrested in Japan,media and police said on Friday. Yumiko Takahashi knew that 19-month-old Neo was running a high fever but left him lying on the bed untended,police said.