New York  - The global fight against malaria was threatened by the emergence of drug-resistant strains on the Thai-Cambodia border, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

WHO said artemisinin-resistant parasites could infect workers clearing forests along that border and create a form of drug- resistant malaria. Such a development could set back recent successes in controlling the disease.

Artemisinin is an extract of a Chinese herb that is used in the treatment of several diseases, including malaria.

Lahore, Feb. 25: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has termed the tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border as the `main threat of global terrorism'.

FBI chief Robert Mueller, said the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan are breeding grounds of terrorism.

He told Voice of America (VOI), that he had fears about a home grown terror threat.

Washington, Feb. 24: The US would take into account the viewpoints of Pakistan and Afghanistan before deciding on a new strategy for the region.

The US State Department spokesperson, Robert Wood has said that Washington would certainly want Pakistan and Afghanistan to have their say, before the Obama administration's review of policy towards the region.

"We think it is important that Pakistan and Afghanistan, their governments, feed into that review," The Daily Times quoted Wood, as saying.

He said it was necessary to have a wide variety of views because the issue is very intricate, and cannot be worked out without involving all the sides.

London, Feb 23: Echoing the scenario in the new blockbuster movie Terminator Salvation, officials at US Navy have warned that the "killer" robots being built to fight terrorists may even take over the world.

The film shows John Connor, played by Christian Bale, leading humanity in a fight with an army of Terminators controlled by the robotic Skynet.

US Navy's secretive Office of Naval Research has said that real-life robot soldiers will soon be capable of making their own battlefield decisions.

Berlin - European Union (EU) leaders and finance ministers meet in Berlin Sunday to draw up an action plan aimed at combating the world economic crisis amid fears that financial pressures were intensifying across the EU and Eastern Europe.

Hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Sunday's meeting has been called to set out Europe's position on financial market reform and tackling the recession ahead of the April summit in London of the Group of 20 (G20) major economic powers.

Washington, Feb. 20: US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has admitted that the Obama administration is `troubled and confused' over implementation of Islamic law in the Swat Valley.

Holbrooke said such efforts of establishing peace in the region have fallen apart previously, thus raising questions over the recent deal between the Taliban and Pakistan Government.

"We're troubled and confused in a sense about what happened in Swat because it is not an encouraging trend. Previous ceasefires have broken down," The Nation quoted Holbrooke, as saying.