US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the south of Afghanistan after touching down on...

Miami police swooped on the main airport on Friday when screeners detected a suspicious article in a checked...

25 or more people have died in a gunfight between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of...

Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has said it is time to finalize a deal on the Middle East peace...

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack which killed 10 parliamentary campaign workers and injured two others including a...

A US general has revealed the Taliban in Afghanistan are very short of money with their drug labs and supply routes under pressure from US...

The relief effort in the area hit by floods in Pakistan may be helped by a new request for Muslims to tithe for the aid...

A new book written by famous British physicist, Stephen Hawking, claims that God did not create the universe and the "big bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of...

A fuel tanker is aground on a sandbar in Canada’s far...

Champion swimmer Leisel Jones of Australia is more excited than apprehensive about competing in the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games because she feels that last minute work is not a new thing in big sporting...

At least 43 people were killed in powerful explosions in three different cities in Pakistan Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35...

At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a powerful blast ripped through a Shia procession in Pakistan's Quetta city Friday, two days after a similar attack killed 35 people in...

Twenty-five people were injured Friday in a suicide car bomb attack on a police building in Tajikistan, an interior ministry spokesman...

Pakistan's High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan Friday attacked International Cricket Council (ICC) for suspending three Pakistani players even while the police investigation was going on in the spot-fixing...

Formula baby milk can have 40 times more aluminium than breast milk -- which may have an adverse affect on...

At least 13 people were killed in a powerful explosion that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community in Pakistan's Quetta city Friday, media reports...

Four people were killed after a bloody altercation took place over a 1 yuan (US 15 cents) parking charge in China's Yangpu...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that this week's Mideast peace talks as well as Israel itself were 'doomed to collapse' as millions of Iranians were expected to turn out for state-organised anti-Israel...

Over 150,000 rampaging wild boars in a province in eastern China are giving sleepless nights to farmers who have been forced to maintain round-the-clock vigil to save their...

Married people in a Chinese city who have children outside their marriage will now face heavy fines up to 250,000 yuan...

Hundreds of thousands of women taking drugs to reverse bone thinning could be doubling their oesophagus (gut) cancer...

A 15-year-old Briton has become the youngest student to gain a place at Cambridge University for over two centuries. He has enrolled for a course that is considered one of the toughest in the world and former scholars include Isaac...

Tiny ants are scaring away jumbos about a billion times their size from stripping the tree cover, scientists have...

Two people were killed Friday in a powerful bomb blast in a shrine for a minority community in northwest Pakistan, while another explosion ripped through a police van leaving a policeman dead in Peshawar, media reports...

Test launches of Russia's Bulava ballistic missile will resume between Sep 9 and 12, a defence industry source said...

A 24-year-old Indian-origin woman, who tried to keep her failed marriage alive for her family's sake, burned herself to death in Britain, a court was...

M.S. Swaminathan, one of the pioneers of the Green Revolution in India, will receive an honorary doctorate from Canada's University of Alberta for his contribution to food security in the...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who heads the National Population Council that resumed work after 14 years, has called for 'a balanced approach' to curb Bangladesh's population growth that is projected to reach 170 million by...

Julian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, has admitted he had sexual relations with one of two Swedish women who have accused him of sex...

A seven-month-old baby died after doctors at a hospital in the US flushed his system with alcohol instead of saline solution during a heart...

A powerful explosion near a police van in Pakistan's Peshawar city left one policeman dead and three injured Friday, two days after horrific serial blasts in Lahore killed 35...

Croatian Robert Rubcic has been named as the chief coach of Bangladesh's national football team for the Asian Games to be held in...

Pakistan's nuclear arsenal has prevented a conventional war with India, ensuring 'our survival, our security, and our sovereignty', besides making the 'nation walk with head held high', boasts A.Q. Khan, the disgraced scientist considered the father of Islamabad's clandestine nuclear...

Oscar winning actress Reese Witherspoon's beau Jim Toth has sparked rumours that they might get engaged soon after he was spotted shopping for a...

Two-thirds of New York City residents want a controversial Muslim community centre and mosque to be relocated farther away from the site of 9/11 terrorist attack, according to a New York Times...

Actor Richard Gere has dislocated his shoulder while filming a fight scene for 'The Double', causing production to be put on hold for six...

The 'Mummy' star Brendan Fraser is set to make his Broadway debut with a new play based on Norwegian writer Ingvar Ambjornsen's...

People who believe in fate and destiny tend to dump superstition when faced with the death, says a recent...

Sylvester Stallone's former wife Brigitte Nielsen is all set to tell her eventful life story in a book and says some parts of her memoirs will be...

Mistresses and wives of 33 miners trapped inside a mine in Chile have clashed over compensation claims and some of the miners may face difficult questions when they make it to the...

A great grandmother in Britain became so angry when she got mugged that she pinned the man against a wall and demanded that he return her purse. 'I'm no spring chicken,' she declared...

A former police officer in Australia who murdered his wife by pushing her off a cliff was Friday jailed for 33...

Socialite Kim Kardashian has stunned her fans after posing with two nude men for a magazine photo shoot. She describes it as one of her most risque covers to...

A man in Melbourne who admitted coercing underage girls he met on the internet to have sex with him was found guilty Friday of committing at least 26 sex...

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has been shortlisted for the British Fashion Council's (BFC) Designer Brand of the...

Actor Ashton Kutcher is reportedly threatening to sue the editors of a US tabloid for defamation, following an article they published suggesting he had been cheating on his wife Demi...

Despite reports from the US Thursday that initial jobless claims fell to 472,000 last week and pending home resales were up 5.2 per cent in July, Canada's top Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank said the economic recovery in North America is slipping after positive hints four months...

A powerful explosion in this Pakistani city extensively damaged a police van, injuring two policemen Friday, two days after the blasts in Lahore that killed 35...

The US brokered Middle East peace talks here have not only led to promises of a second round of negotiations Sep 14-15, but also opened the possibility of a third round later this month, according to media...

Independent MP from Queensland Bob Katter Friday said he has sent a list of 20 conditions to Australian prime ministerial hopefuls Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, saying 'I'm still in a very powerful position...