The death toll resulting from the powerful earthquake that hit China on Monday afternoon today is continuing to rise....

US President George Bush has suggested the world should be angry enough to condemn the Myanmar...

At least 150 militants have been killed by Afghan and foreign troops in southern...

Gunmen have launched numerous attacks on US troops in the Baghdad bastion of militia loyal to Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al...

The Indian Army plans a massive operation to weed out infiltrators from areas along the India-Pakistan border after foiling a major terror strike in Samba in Jammu and...

About 14,000 Israeli police officers will line the streets of Jerusalem, to safeguard US President George Bush, when he makes a three-day visit beginning on...

Scientists have found a 1.2 million year old fossilized jawbone in northern Spain, which belongs to the oldest-known human ancestor in Europe, thus shattering previous theories about human migration to...

A Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War II by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto has died in the Polish capital after a long illness, aged...

A former Republican Representative has said he will run for US president as a...

Deadly sectarian violence has plunged Lebanon further into crisis....

Harare/Police in Zimbabwe detained a group of Western diplomats for a brief period Tuesday after the ambassadors travelled to rural areas to visit the victims of post-election...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has strongly condemned the serial blasts in Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan, Tuesday evening that claimed more than 60 lives and extended its support to India in its fight against...

Voters in West Virginia headed to the polls Tuesday in the latest in a series of state-by-state contests pitting Senators Hillary Clinton against Barack Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential...

A top member of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) and human rights lawyer Maheswari Velauthan was shot dead in her native northern Jaffna peninsula Tuesday evening, party and military source...

Bogota, May 13 (DPA) Colombia Tuesday extradited to the US 14 commanders of extreme-right paramilitary groups who were suspected of drug...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday predicted no changes in relations with Russia during the presidency of Dmitry...

A Sikh advocacy group in the US has demanded that an incident of burning a Sikh teenager's turban in New Jersey last week be treated as a hate crime. It has complained of lack of police alacrity in...

India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to institutionalize the India-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) dialogue process with regular...

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has called upon investors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to invest in India's infrastructure...

The projects being designed by various Dubai-based companies as part of their investment plans in India are tailor-made for Indian requirements, according to External Affairs Minister Pranab...

International aid continued to arrive in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar Tuesday, but criticism mounted as the efforts were hampered by logistics problems and the military junta's bureaucratic...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed the decision of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)'s Disciplinary Committee banning Marlon Samuels for two years on charges of match...

Iranian artillery Tuesday shelled villages in northern Iraq where Iranian Kurdish rebels are believed to be operating, according to a local Iraqi Kurdish...

Iran Tuesday rubbished reports that it has decided to reduce its crude oil production drastically, official IRNA news agency...

Hamas rejected Tuesday an Israeli demand that any truce deal with Gaza miltias include the release of an Israeli soldier snatched in a June 2006 cross-border raid and held captive in the Gaza Strip ever...

Tehran, May 13 (IANS) Iran has accused the US and Britain of being behind the bomb blast in a mosque in Shiraz and vowed that it would take legal action against the two countries with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), official Iranian news agency IRNA reported...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his frustration with Myanmar's 'unacceptably slow' response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis and called on the military government to do its utmost to prevent the disaster from becoming even more...

Citing time and resource constraints, European aircraft-maker Airbus has revised the delivery schedule of its A-380 super jumbo aircraft, reducing the number to 12 during the current year and 21 in...

The Australian government has set aside an extra A$2.2 million (US$ 2 million) to fund the judicial inquiry into the way official agencies handled the terrorism case against Indian doctor Mohammed...

Jerusalem, May 13 (Xinhua) About 14,000 Israeli police officers will man the streets of Jerusalem, safeguarding US President George W. Bush's three-day visit to Jerusalem beginning Wednesday, local daily Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday, citing the Israeli...

Nine Algerian soldiers were killed by suspected Islamic terrorists in two separate attacks, Algerian media reported...

Hundreds of angry students took to the streets in a number of Indonesian cities for a second day Tuesday to protest against a government plan to raise fuel prices and cut off...

Bank of Baroda, a leading Indian public sector bank, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Dubai-based real estate company Dubai Properties for financing buyers of the latter's products in the United Arab Emirates...

A day after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif announced his party's withdrawal from the cabinet, nine federal ministers of the party Tuesday submitted their resignations over disagreement on the issue of sacked...

German police have arrested a jobless man who reportedly tried to sell personal information about Vijay Mallya's Force India Formula One driver Adrian Sutil, according to reports...

India figures prominently in Bahrain telecom operator Batelco's overseas expansion...

Beijing, May 13 (Xinhua) Rescuers are racing against time to reach and search for survivors a day after the strongest quake to hit China in more than three decades jolted the south-western province of...

Hong Kong Tuesday pledged 300 million Hong Kong dollars ($38.4 million) in aid and volunteer rescue teams for the victims of the earthquake in China's Sichuan...

An Indian national is on trial in Singapore's High Court on charges of sexually abusing his stepdaughter for two years starting when she was only 11, media reports said...

Nairobi/N'Chad closed its border with Sudan overnight and cut off all economic ties with its neighbouring country amid accusations of aggression from Khartoum, news reports said...

Japan's government is assembling relief supplies as it awaits a request from China to dispatch rescue teams to earthquake-stricken Sichuan province, media reports said...

The Nigerian government has called for a large deployment of African Union observers to monitor run-off elections in...

An Indian power project development company has announced plans to raise up to $500 million after a dual-listing on Aim and the Channel Islands Stock Exchange, making it the biggest float on Aim so far this...

India, Brazil and South Africa have expressed concern at the escalating violence in resource-rich Darfur in Sudan and asked all parties to work for peace, security and stability in the...

Most boys are quite distressed when they see frequent harassment of girls, a new study has...

As the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) continues to lobby for the release of its detained leaders, Malaysia's opposition has also taken up the...

Troubled British rocker Pete Doherty says he came to his senses and decided to get rid of his drug habit after he tried to kill one of his kittens with a...

Time to rewrite the old saying about boys not making passes at girls who wear glasses. They well may - and vice...

Beijing, May 13 (Xinhua) About 130,000 people working in medical facilities in Beijing will start a month-long training course this week on coping with possible terrorist attacks during the Aug 8-24 Olympics, a newspaper here...

Beijing, May 13 (Xinhua) Beijing is using the carrot of huge rewards to citizens who report Olympic logo infringement cases in the run-up to the Games. Persons who step forward with information will be rewarded with five percent of what lawbreakers are fined, according to a regulation jointly issued by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce and the Legal Affairs Department of the Beijing Organising...