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Gunmen have attacked a bus carrying Shi'ite Muslims in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 13 people in the second such attack in two weeks. Police say four attackers on motorcycles ambushed the bus early Tuesday on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. Gunmen lined the passengers up and opened fire on them. Authorities say at least 12 Shi'ite Muslims, mostly from the Hazara ethnic community, were killed. One Sunni Muslim was also killed and at least six people were wounded. No one claimed responsibility for the latest attack on Shi'ite Muslims. On September 20, gunmen carrying rocket launchers and Kalashnikovs attacked a bus bound for Iran, killing 26 Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims near Quetta. The Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi said it carried out that ambush. The area has seen a recent increase in attacks on the Shi'ite minority population by Sunni militants loyal to al-Qaida and the Taliban. Following Tuesday's attack, a group of ...

If Apple really has its Siri voice app down, we’re looking at a revolution in user interfaces. If it doesn’t, we’re looking at one more frustrating detour in the search for a computer that responds intelligently to voice commands. Tuesday, Apple announced its latest iPhone update, and the voice app was a highlight of the show. The app apparently has the software smarts to hear “Do I need a raincoat today?” and respond with “Looks like rain today.” Also read: Apple Unveils New iPhone -- and It's Not iPhone 5 But, of course, it’s one thing to demonstrate an app before an adoring crowd, and quite another for it to work with your voice in a moving car. Apple’s voice recognition on the iPhone until now has been abysmal. Try getting it to consistently pick out your favorite songs or artist. It’s like using the “shuffle” function. Use Google’s voice search to find the phone number for your favorite restaurant or a movie, and you might just get lucky. But then again, you probably won’t, so...

NEW DELHI — President Hamid Karzai deepened his country's ties with India on Tuesday, signing a strategic partnership that is bound to raise suspicion in Pakistan at a time of shifting alliances in South Asia. Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which have long been fragile, have soured over accusations that Islamabad has been covertly funding militant groups carrying out attacks in the neighbouring country. Karzai, speaking at a news conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, stressed again that "terrorism" was being used "as an instrument of policy against our citizens" in a veiled reference to Pakistan. The strategic partnership deal sealed with India -- the first such pact between Afghanistan and another country -- deepens already friendly ties and aims to boost trade, security and cultural links between the countries. Singh said the deal "creates an institutional framework for our future cooperation," while adding t...

Adobe Photoshop Express was one of the first apps I downloaded when I bought my iPad, but there it’s languished virtually unused after the first week of playing around with it. A cute little freebie, it was no Photoshop (or even Photoshop lite for that matter), giving you a just handful of preset effects and tools, and only minimal control over them. Well, tablet-wielding photo enthusiasts now have something to cheer about: Adobe has just announced Photoshop Touch , a new touchscreen app developed for tablets that works more like the real thing, allowing you to combine photos into layered images and use finger gestures to control familiar Photoshop tools and effects. Adobe Photoshop Touch will be available for Android devices in November, but iPad users will have to wait until early 2012 for an iOS version. It will sell for just $10, so don’t expect a full-fledged version of Photoshop or anything (hey, it’s a tablet app). Still, it looks like Adobe has put together a great tool that t...

Pakistan, facing a crisis in relations with the United States, has embarked on a charm offensive with China this week, keen to portray its “all-weather friend” as an alternative ally to Washington. ‘All weather’ partners China and Pakistan call each other “all-weather friends” and their close ties have been underpinned by long-standing wariness of their common neighbor, India, and a desire to hedge against US influence across the region. After the United States killed Osama bin Laden — the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks — in Pakistan on May 2, China called the event a “progressive development” but also defended the Pakistani government, which has been criticized in the United States for failing to find bin Laden, if not harboring him. Conventional arms, nuclear power, port access China has been Pakistan’s biggest supplier of conventional arms, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s database, and many analysts believe China...

Today The Washington Post introduced its new smartphone App for Android™ users, now available for free in Android Market™. The app combines the best in politics, international, finance, arts & culture and local news with the core functionality of the device to create an intuitive, mobile news experience for users. The app also offers visual storytelling, featuring award-winning Post photography in photo galleries and photo essays. For local users, the app features valuable traffic information, including real-time Metro arrival times and alerts, traffic cams that give live snapshots of road conditions and continuous updates from Dr. Gridlock. The app also has comprehensive weather information, including updates from the Capital Weather Gang, 7-day and hourly forecasts for cities across the globe, and weather maps with radar images and weather alerts for the D.C. metropolitan area. “The Washington Post App for Android is another example of our commitment to creating mobile products t...

By Augustine Anthony ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has angrily rejected allegations from Afghan officials that its intelligence agency masterminded the assassination of Kabul's chief peace negotiator with the Taliban. An investigative delegation established by President Hamid Karzai said evidence and a confession provided by a man involved in Burhanuddin Rabbani's killing on September 20 had revealed that the bomber was Pakistani and the assassination had been plotted in Pakistan. "Instead of making such irresponsible statements, those in positions of authority in Kabul should seriously deliberate as to why all those Afghans who are favorably disposed toward peace and toward Pakistan are systematically being removed from the scene and killed," Pakistan's foreign ministry said in a statement. "There is a need to take stock of the direction taken by Afghan Intelligence and security agencies." Rabbani's killing derailed efforts to forge dialogue with...