The death toll in Bangladesh?s worst industrial disaster rose to 931 on Thursday as rescuers overnight pulled out 97 more decomposed bodies from sandwiched floors of the ill-fated eight-storey bui...
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has recently donned the mantle of kingmaker behind the current, fragile Italian government, is in trouble again after a court in the northern c...
United States should continue to maintain a visa ban on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as there was ?significant evidence? linking him to the violence in the state in 2002, a Congress-establ...
Activities spotted in North Korea could be preparations for a nuclear test explosion, a South Korean news report said Monday. Increased movement of personnel and vehicles around the site of...
U.S. President Barack Obama entered the fray on Wednesday on cyber attacks from China, saying some intrusions affecting U.S. firms and infrastructure were ?state sponsored?.
The comments...
The head of Venezuela?s presidential guard says President Hugo Chávez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering. The general told The Associated Press late Wednesday th...
It?s a D! As Britain waits with bated breath for a new entrant into the Royal family, Kate Middleton made a rare slip of tongue that suggested the unborn baby is a girl.
After being given...
Mohamed Nasheed, who had spent much of his political career in prisons and self-imposed exiles, has once again landed in prison. Is he a prisoner of conscience again? Text inputs from Agencies
A Romanian drama that revolves on a woman?s effort to cover up her son?s responsibility for an accident in which a boy is fatally injured won the Berlin film festival?s top Golden Bear award on Sa...
The row over the British-built VVIP helicopter deal could prove embarrassing for Prime Minister David Cameron when he lands in India on Monday hoping to have another go at selling the Eurofighter...
At least 63 people were killed and 180 others injured in a blast that once again targeted the Hazara Shia community of Quetta on Saturday evening. The death toll was expected to rise as many of th...
Eight months after the Constituent Assembly lapsed without writing a constitution, Nepal?s major political parties have agreed to form an election government led by the Chief Justice to hold new C...
Protesters vowed to avenge the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar, one of the key participants of the massive Shahbagh movement, as they continued their demonstration for the 12th consecutive d...
Iran?s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday his country wanted the elimination of all atomic weapons?a pacifist assertion seemingly intended to counter apprehensions in the West...
A Sri Lankan journalist was shot at by unidentified persons on Friday night near his residence. He is said to be out of danger.
The Sunday Leader newspaper?s investigative journali...
The meteor which closely missed the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Friday is likely to go down in history as the largest celestial body to have hit the Earth over the past hundred years.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and resolve issues peacefully after a Pakistani soldier who intruded into the Indian territory was killed by the...
American Airlines and US Airways say they have agreed to merge in an $11 billion deal that would create the world?s biggest airline. The combined carrier will be called American Airlines...