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Mo Rocca, an openly gay TV reporter and comic, read from the Bible at Pope Francis' Mass at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday.

In the end, even his personal friendship with the President could not help the Professor save his job in New Delhi. Robert Blackwill, the US ambassador to India who announced his resignation today, was left with little choice but to take that return ticket to Harvard because of his constant and increasingly unpleasant run-ins with a US State Department that sought to openly wear its predilection for Pakistan on its sleeve. The last time a genteel exchange of views between India and the US — led, respectively, by foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal and US assistant secretary of state for South...

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf met top US officials here Tuesday and expressed his condolences for the deaths of two Americans in a grenade attack on a church in the Pakistani capital, officials and reports said. US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Christina Rocca, the head of the US military's Central Command Major, General Tommy Franks, and US ambassador Wendy Chamberlin met Musharraf on Tuesday morning, US embassy spokesman Mark Wentworth said. The president expressed his sympathies for the killing of US diplomat Milton Green's wife Barbara and their teenage daughter in the Sunday morning attack, according to the...