DAWN.com Japan provides US$ 3mn grant for flood disaster DAWN.com Japan has extended this emergency assistance immediately upon the request of the Government of Pakistan from a humanitarian point of view and in light of the friendly relations between both of the countries.

The Guardian Pakistan plays down David Cameron terror comments BBC News Officials in both Pakistan and the UK are playing down the impact of the comments made by David Cameron on relations between the countries. Pakistani security agents cancelled a UK visit after Mr Cameron said the country was linked with groups that ..

NASA pictures of the countries participating in the 2010 World Cup.

China has lodged a formal complaint with North Korea after one of the North’s border guards shot and killed three people and wounded a fourth on the countries’ border in north-eastern China last week.

AP – The U.S. World Cup team arrived in Johannesburg on Monday following a 17-hour flight and was greeted by the same visible security presence that was on hand for the arrival for other countries.

Center For American Progress Signing of last document on IP gas pipeline today The News International ISLAMABAD: At last the time has come that Pakistan and Iran today (Friday) sign the last document of proposed IP gas pipeline, and to this effect, both the countries are to ink the sovereign guarantee for the construction of gas …

AP – Mideast and North African oil exporters will see a “strong recovery” in 2010, pulled ahead by increasing capital inflows and oil prices, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday even as it lowered its projection for the countries’ growth amid a sharp drop in oil prices and worries about Europe’s debt crisis.

AP – Germany’s governing parties called Tuesday for the introduction of an international tax on financial markets, but left details open. Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would press the idea with other countries in the Group of 20.

Reuters – Here’s a movie idea to make a studio executive’s head spin: document the raising of four babies in four countries, offer no dialogue and ask audiences to show up in theaters against big-budget “Iron Man 2.”

Ben Patterson – Fresh from making a killing in the States, the iPad is poised to take over the world — or at least nine other countries besides the U.S. — in a few short weeks.