Al-Qaeda militants killed 23 members of Iraq's security forces across the country on...

Police in France say a woman has admitted to suffocating eight newborn...

Russia's special forces have managed to prevent a hijacker from taking complete control of a plane carrying 105...

The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military...

Police in riot gear stared down protesters in a tense stand-off in Pheonix, Arizona on...

Another US serviceman has been found dead in a remote area of...

Indonesian police have been involved in a confrontation with people who were attacking a mosque used by a minority Islamic...

The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist...

The British government has refused to consider returning the jewel in the British monarch's...

Hollywood heartthrob Zac Efron insists he hates watching himself on screen as he notices 'every single flaw' in his...

Scientists were making efforts to contact the non-responsive Spirit Mars rover, which has lost contact with Earth during the Martian winter prompting fears that it might be permanently...

A representative for pop group Girls Aloud has rubbished reports that they are reuniting without band member Nadine...

Glamour model Katie Price a.k.a. Jordan is planning to launch her own modelling...

The UN announced Friday it has removed five former senior members of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan from its sanctions...

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner wants to move over 'adult programming' and expand his business empire further by opening casinos here and in Macau,...

An actor and his agent sealed Friday their 30-year relationship and many years of struggle to have their rights acknowledged as they became the first same-sex couple to be married under Argentine...

American actor Mark Wahlberg has been honoured with a star at Hollywood Walk of...

Ageing beauty Jennifer Aniston says she wouldn't ever have a baby via artificial...

Six NATO-led soldiers were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while 15 Afghan civilians died in violence elsewhere in the country, officials said...

Fears of another recession in the United States loomed as the government reported slower growth in the second quarter and the International Monetary Fund suggested the country's financial system remains...

The United Arab Emirates has ordered urgent delivery of relief to displaced people in Pakistan's flood-hit...

At least 35 people have been killed and dozens injured in Russia amid forest fires and hurricane-like winds, officials said...

Floods triggered by heavy rains have left at least 408 people dead in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, the local government said...

A passenger aircraft of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) caught fire Friday after hitting a bird at an airport here, but no casualties were...

Pakistan is using a so-called peace conference here to drum up support for internationalising the Kashmir issue with calls to India to enter into 'result-oriented talks' with Islamabad on what it terms a core...

July was the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan since the war there started nearly nine years ago, CNN reported...

Russian defence spending will increase by a staggering 60 percent by 2013 to $66.3 million from $42 million in 2010, a media report said...

At least nine people including three women have died and several houses gutted after wildfires raged across central Russia, officials said...

The second cricket Test of the three-match series ended in a draw with both the teams India and Sri Lanka blasting the unsporting pitch after the end of the final day's play at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground here...

Three employees of the US embassy in Paris were treated for poisoning Friday after handling a suspicious...

The city of London woke up to a bit of chaos on the launch of the bipedaller - that mayor Boris Johnson calls the 'Rolls Royce of bicycles -- as the newest mode of public transport Friday morning, but as the day wore on people did manage to make short trips on it instead of taking the bus or the...

Britain has removed restrictions on travel imposed on its citizens touring Sri Lanka's northern...

A former Swedish police chief was convicted Friday on several counts of sexual crimes, including rape, and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in...

The owner of two Indian restaurants here has come under the scanner of Australian authorities after it was revealed that he allegedly accepted money to prepare fake documents for migrant workers seeking permanent...

High-end Italian fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana have designed a range of suits for English football club...

Pakistanis consider India a greater threat than Taliban and Al Qaeda with a quarter viewing Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for 2008 Mumbai attacks, favourably, according to a new...

Floods triggered by heavy rains have left more than 230 dead and scores of others missing in Pakistan's northern region in the last two...

Thousands of readymade garment workers Friday rampaged through different parts of the national capital to protest the new wage structure announced for them by the...

The following is the final scoreboard after the final day's play of the second cricket Test match between India and Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club here...

The conviction and life imprisonment awarded to Charles Sobhraj in a 35-year-old murder case was upheld by Nepal's Supreme Court...

The second cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka ended in a draw with the hosts declaring their second innings at 129 for three on the final day at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground here...

Soot from the burning of fossil fuels contributes far more to global warming than has been thought. But, unlike carbon dioxide (CO2), soot lingers only a few weeks in the air, so cutting emissions could have a significant and rapid impact on the...

Nepal's Supreme Court Friday upheld the conviction and life imprisonment awarded to Charles Sobhraj in a 35-year-old murder...

Australian authorities are investigating a case involving two Indian restaurants, the owner of which allegedly accepted large payments to prepare fake documents for migrant workers seeking permanent...

Scientists have developed a new pain-relief pill from a chemical in sea snails' saliva that they use to catch their...

A 75-year-old man in China is building a castle to win back his wife who separated from him 10 years...

Hollywood actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, who has been single since April, has now started dating actor-director Alex...

China has topped the list of the world's major polluters of the near-Earth space environment, followed by the US and Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said...

More than a third of young people suffer from high blood pressure, thanks to bad diet and binge drinking, according to a survey released...

Men may have become somewhat softer over time but society still prefers them to be rugged and 'manly'. Research shows that modesty is viewed as a sign of weakness, a low-status character trait for males, but in women it is not viewed negatively or linked to...