KATHMANDU - Failing to return to power despite keeping up pressure tactics for over a year, Nepals opposition Maoist party tasted its first triumph since the fall of its government in 2009 with their campaign for a special parliament session finally yielding fruit.

NEW YORK - Amid a brewing row over 'pat down' screening of diplomats, India's permanent representative to the UN, Hardeep Puri has confirmed that he was briefly held up at a US airport last month, but there was no pat down.