Jalal-ud-din Mohammed Akbar (1542-1605) was the third Mogul emperor of India. The administrative system that he built was copied by the British, and it is discernible in contemporary India. On Nov. 23, 1542, Akbar was born at Umarkot, Sind, while his...

AKBAR (1542–1605), emperor of India in the Timurid, or Mughal, dynasty. He was born on October 15, 1542, in Umarkot, Sind, where his father, Humayun, had fled after being driven from Delhi, his capital, by his Afghan rivals. Akbar was proclaimed...

(1542–1605), Mughal emperor. The greatest emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India, Akbar, the eldest son of Humayun, ruled from 1556 to 1605, initially with the help of the regent Bairam Khan. An ambitious man, a superb strategist, and a...

Three Yale University students, including one who translated for U.S. troops in Afghanistan and testified at a former CIA contractor's trial, have been charged in the burning of an American flag on a porch.The three were arrested Tuesday after officers spotted the burning flag and...

A bomb exploded outside the House of Representatives late Tuesday, killing a former Muslim rebel-turned-congressman who had backed a U.S.-Philippine offensive against Islamic militants. A lawmaker's driver and a legislative staffer also died.The remotely detonated bomb collapsed the ceiling at the building's entrance, damaged cars...

Police killed three people, including a suspected Muslim militant, and detained three others in a raid Thursday linked to a deadly bombing outside the country's Congress.Tuesday's blast killed a Muslim lawmaker, Rep. Wahab Akbar, and three other people. Police said they suspect it was an...