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Warner Bros. Interactive has announced its clever Nintendo DS title Scribblenauts  is moving to Apple's App Store. Scribblenauts Remix  is available now at $4.99 for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The puzzle game requires players to create objects with a notepad in order to solve each level. For example, if a player needs to snag an item out of reach, they can write "ladder," watch the object drop into the level and then use it to complete the level. Players can also add adjectives to objects, such as "giant yellow dog" or "winged rainbow car." The game will features levels from the Nintendo DS releases Scribblenauts  and  Super Scribblenauts , as well as some original challenges. The iOS release will also add iCloud support, allowing users to transfer saves between devices. Warner Bros. says the  Scribblenauts  franchise has sold 2 million copies to date since its debut in 2009.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan –   U.S. missiles killed six suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border Saturday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strikes were part of a flurry of such attacks which could indicate a more aggressive American strategy against insurgents finding sanctuary there. The United States is pressing Pakistan for action against Afghan insurgents in the region, especially the Haqqani network that it says is the No. 1 threat in Afghanistan and receives assistance from the Pakistan army. Independently of what Pakistan does, Washington may up the tempo of missile strikes or widen their targeting, although either option could strain its already complicated relationship with Islamabad. Washington has regularly used drones since 2008 to pummel insurgents and their hideouts in Pakistani tribal regions. U.S. officials do not acknowledge the CIA-led program. Pakistan publicly protests the strikes, which are unpopular in this Islamic natio...

(AFP)  WASHINGTON — A US drone strike on Friday killed the son of an Egyptian cleric tied to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, US-based monitors said, citing a militant group. Ahmed Omar Abdul Rahman, son of the blind sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, was killed Friday on the "frontlines" in Afghanistan, the Egyptian Islamic Group said, according to the SITE Intelligence Group based just outside Washington. The elder Abdul Rahman -- convicted in 1993 for his role in the New York bombing, plotting to bomb other targets including the United Nations and a plan to assassinate Egypt's president -- is EIG's spiritual leader. Attacks around the world have been carried out in his name in recent years. He is currently serving a life sentence in the United States. The message posted by EIG on its website said the cleric had sent several of his sons to fight in Afghanistan against Soviet troops in the 1980s, and that Ahmed was only son who had remained to this day. There were no co...

MUZAFFARABAD:  In a speech marking the sixth anniversary of the 2005 earthquake, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, while announcing a list of projects, reaffirmed the government’s support for the “freedom, development and prosperity of Kashmir”. “The people of Pakistan and Kashmir are bound together historically, religiously and geographically,” Gilani said, addressing the inaugural ceremony of AJK’s first medical college in Muzaffarabad on Saturday. The prime minister announced to name the medical college after veteran Kashmiri political leader Mirwaiz Molvi Farooq, who is also the father of All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq. The premier expressed hope that travel and trade between the two parts of Kashmir will lead to a “destination of freedom”. He also announced the set up of an Information Technology University in Rawalakot and the creation of 2,000 jobs in the AJK police department. Speaking of the success of the reconstruction programme, he said tha...

By Hasbanullah Khan (AFP)  MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — A US drone strike killed four militants in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the third such attack in 48 hours against Taliban hotbeds in Waziristan near the Afghan border, officials said. The drone fired two missiles into a vehicle as it drove through Darpa Khel village about four kilometres (two miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in the district of North Waziristan, the Pakistani security officials told AFP. "The US drone fired two missiles," one of the officials told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media. "Four militants were killed in the attack, they were all in the vehicle," he added. The identities of the dead were not clear, but the village is a stronghold for militants fighting against US troops in Afghanistan. Covert CIA drones are the chief US weapon against Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants who use Pakistan's lawless tribal areas as launchpads for attacking...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday the United States is waging 'war' in Pakistan against militants, referring to a covert campaign the CIA steadfastly refuses to publicly confirm. It was Mr Panetta's latest comment acknowledging drone bombing raids in Pakistan, an open secret that the US government declines to discuss publicly. Speaking to an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, the former CIA director pointed to a 'complicated relationship' between Washington and Islamabad. 'And admittedly, there are a lot of reasons for that. We are fighting a war in their country,' Mr Panetta said. 'They have in fact given us cooperation in the operations of trying to confront Al-Qaeda in (tribal areas)... And they continue to work with us.' But he said the two countries had sharp disagreements over 'the relations they maintain with some of the militant groups in that country,' a reference to Washington'...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Police caught up with the four Taliban militants about 15 minutes after they robbed the bank, shooting them dead on a bridge as they attempted to drive their loot to the safety of the border regions with Afghanistan. The rare triumph against the insurgency in this dangerous part of Pakistan was short-lived—10 days later, the Taliban dispatched a husband-and-wife suicide unit to avenge the deaths, devastating the local police station and killing nine officers. The daylight raid on the bank and the bombing in June were carried out by the “Black Night” group, a unit of the Pakistani Taliban dedicated to raising funds through robberies, kidnappings and extortion, according to a member of the group and intelligence officers. The group’s emergence highlights a shift in militant funding inside Pakistan, with al-Qaeda, the Taliban and associated groups relying less on cash from abroad and more on crime to get money for equipment, weapons and the expenses associated with r...

Those of you who want to check out an Android app without an Android device can now run that app on your PC thanks to a program from the folks at BlueStacks. The software, dubbed the BlueStacks App Player, has just hit the alpha stage, meaning a test version of it is now available for anyone to download . The basic player lets you run several preloaded apps, install up to 26 others, and sync apps from an Android phone to your PC. I installed the App Player on a PC running Windows 7 . The installation failed the first time around, but a second attempt proved successful. The app places an Android gadget in the upper right corner of your screen. Clicking on the gadget opens a menu from which you can launch any of the preloaded Android apps, including Bloomberg News, Bubble Buster, Words Free, and Drag Racing, along with six others. Related stories: • BlueStacks marries Android to Windows • Windows and Android, sitting in a tree • BlueStacks puts Android apps on Windows The apps themselve...

Two dead as NATO oil tanker torched in SW Pakistan (AFP) QUETTA, Pakistan — Two people were killed when gunmen torched an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Tuesday, officials said. Gunmen on a motorbike fired at the vehicle then set it on fire in the Dasht suburb of the provincial capital Quetta, local administration official Saeed Kurd told AFP. The driver and his helper were killed as they could not escape the burning vehicle, he said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the Taliban has in the past said it carried out similar attacks to disrupt supplies to the more than 130,000 US-led international troops fighting in Afghanistan. Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants frequently launch attacks on NATO supply vehicles in the northwest and southwest regions of Pakistan, which border landlocked Afghanistan. Most supplies and equipment required by foreign forces in Afghanistan are shipped thr...

Drone Wars: Pakistan tacitly allows drones to strike While Pakistan condemns US drone attacks on its territory, i t hasn’t actually tried to stop them. Suzanna Koster ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — If Pakistan regularly condemns the U.S. drone attacks on its territory, it hasn’t shown much appetite for stopping them. Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, the advisor to the Pakistani prime minister on human rights, proposed last month to report every drone strike to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra Judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, a move that he hoped would force the hand of the United States and bring an end to the strikes. “I see the drone attacks not only as a violation of Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty, but it’s also plain extra-judicial killing,” he said. If the Pakistani government approves the recommendation, it would be, to date, Pakistan’s most tangible step in stopping the drones. But that’s a big if. Complete coverage: The Drone Wars Since the strikes began to target susp...

The Drone Wars are the new black. The once covert, highly-secretive and little talked about strategy of using unmanned aerial vehicles to target suspected terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere has gone mainstream. And now everyone is talking about it. Even Leon Panetta, the former C.I.A. director, whose old agency doesn't officially admit that its drone program exists, is talking about it. Twice in a matter of hours last week he joked about the C.I.A.'s pension for deploying the ominously-named Predator drones. “Obviously I have a hell of a lot more weapons available to me here than I had at the C.I.A.,” he said, referring to his new post as secretary of defense. “Although the Predators aren’t bad.” Complete coverage: The Drone Wars Later that same day, on the tarmac of a naval air base, he said, coyly, that the use of Predators are “something I was very familiar with in my old job.” Soon after, a Predator armed with hellfire missiles took flight from the runway, bound for Libya...

Our appetite for downloading apps is tremendous, and just seems to keep on growing, and yet our need to download other forms of digital entertainment isn’t nearly as staggering. Market intelligence blog Asymco found that the rate we’re downloading iOS apps at these days absolutely dwarfs iTunes music downloads, and crushes iBooks downloads. Only in recent months though have total app downloads exceeded mp3 downloads. We’re downloading approximately 34 million iOS apps each day, weighing in somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 billion app downloads per month. Mp3 downloads, however, are relatively modest in comparison: We’re downloading 8.3 million songs every day. Up until around 2010, the rate of iTunes song downloads increased steadily, but has leveled off over the past year. In comparison, iOS users’ year-over-year appetite for apps is practically exponential. Unlike music and literature, apps are relatively versatile. They’re a source of entertainment, they’re a way to discover new...