Thousands of people living near a lake and a river in China's quake-hit southwestern province of Sichuan are being evacuated for fear of...

A senior Chinese military officer has assured the public that all the nuclear facilities in the earthquake-hit areas are safe and...

Chinese President Hu Jintao has thanked foreign countries and aid volunteers for helping China cope with last week's massive...

US President George Bush has arrived in Egypt to talk to assembled Arab leaders about Middle East...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has said he will step down from office if it is proved that his government backed the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, otherwise known as...

More than a thousand arrests have been made in an Iraqi city, after an offensive by the...

Foreign aid workers have been briefly admitted to an area of Myanmar, which was hit by Cyclone Nagris at the beginning of the...

Veteran Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy was taken to hospital Saturday amid symptoms of a possible stroke, the television news network CNN...

In a slum town in Johannesburg, South Africans have once again attacked foreign residents....

Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua) The toll in Monday's devastating earthquake in China rose to 32,477 Sunday, the emergency response office of the State Council...

It's for no reason that they call this landlocked nation 'the last Shangri-la'. Despite its coming out party in the form of momentous elections held in March, Bhutan still zealously guards its traditional culture, identity and the environment. Foreign influences and tourism are strictly regulated and it is in no hurry to change or make that grand leap...

Reliance Big Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the $100 billion Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Sunday announced a major foray into Hollywood and will provide development funds to eight leading international superstars in the...

Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua) Chinese companies have donated more than 3.5 billion Yuan ($501 million) in cash and goods for earthquake relief work, web-portal Sina.com reported...

Sitting in Coocoo's Den, a must-go restaurant in Lahore in the heart of the city's red light district, maverick painter and owner Iqbal Hussein simply can't understand the visa games politicians and officials of India and Pakistan...

Manila, May 18 (Xinhua) Thousands of people were evacuated in the Philippines after tropical storm Halong hit the country's northern province of Pangasinan, ABS-CBN News channel reported...

Taliban militants claimed responsibility Sunday for shooting at a NATO helicopter in southern Afghanistan that was carrying provincial authorities, including a governor. The chopper made an emergency landing, but no-one was...

First round leader Jeev Milkha Singh faltered for the second day in succession as he shot a three-over 75 in the third round and slipped down further to 36th at the Irish Open...

Arjun Atwal continued his upward march despite a last hole bogey on the 18th as he shot three-under 69 and moved to 10-under 206 and tied ninth at the end of the third round of the BMW Charity Pro-Am underway...

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has caught the imagination of Pakistanis. Go to any cafe on the trendy M.M. Alam Road in central Lahore, you will find young upwardly mobile Lahoris engaged in cricket natter -- around the fortunes of 'bad boy' Shoaib Akhtar, the glamour of Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan who are sponsoring some of the teams, and the 'connecting' power of cricket between the two...

Quito, May 18 (Xinhua) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has said he would step down from office if it is proved that he had ties with Colombia's largest leftist insurgency...

One police officer was killed and 13 people wounded in two bombings in Thailand's deep South, state-run media reported...

Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua) An online public memorial ceremony will be held Sunday for those who died in the devastating May 12 earthquake in...

Departing Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard finally bid goodbye Saturday with a handsome 5-3 romp away to a long-relegated bottom team...

Rafael Nadal retained his second place in the men's tennis rankings Saturday when he outlasted challenger Novak Djokovic 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 in the Hamburg Masters...

Though Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas who waged a 10-year war on the monarch of the world's only Hindu kingdom say King Gyanendra will have to yield his crown and exit the royal palace in 10 days' time, a small but resolute group of people predict monarchy will not die...

British singer Sir Cliff Richard regrets not taking up the opportunity to meet legendary singer Elvis Presley because he was too...

London, May 18, (DPA) Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp spoke of a 'great day' at the end of 'a difficult year' after his side beat Cardiff City to win the FA Cup and secure UEFA Cup qualification...

Chengdu (China), May 17 (Xinhua) Thousands of people living near a lake and a river in China's quake-hit southwestern province of Sichuan are being evacuated for fear of flooding, disaster relief officials said...

Pakistan Saturday claimed that it had recovered its ambassador to Afghanistan from the country's restive tribal region where he was held for over three months by pro-Taliban militants, and that no deal was made to secure his...

Armaan Ebrahim gave himself a birthday gift by winning the first round of the Formula Renault V6 Asia Championship at the Sepang circuit here...

Tehran, May 17 (RIA Novosti) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday sacked the country's Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi, according to a news...

India moved into the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament after a gap of 12 years with a thrilling 2-1 win over hosts Malaysia in their last round-robin league match here...

A reported plot against the life of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has postponed his return from Europe and South Africa where he had been in exile for a...

In Italy, angry residents of the city of Naples have set fire to the piles of uncollected rubbish lying in the streets....

A French warship carrying 1,000 tonnes of aid for cyclone victims in Myanmar is off the south coast of the devastated Irrawaddy delta, the French Defence Ministry said in Paris...

A visiting US official Saturday called on the Middle East countries to benefit from the United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s example of tolerance, WAM news agency...

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Israel got glowing praise from President Bush earlier this week. On Sunday, the Arab world got a stern lecture, on the need to spread freedoms and isolate state sponsors of...

Child survivors of Cyclone Nargis try to take shelter from the rain at a private aid centre in Laputta on the Irrawaddy delta. Photograph: AP An aid charity has warned that 30,000 Burmese children...

Link to this video Tracy McVeigh and Robin Hammond report on Zimbabwe's political 'cleansing'. ADVISORY: Contains scenes of dead bodies When Gibson Nyandoro raised his arm and slowly unclenched...

Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones in a scene from his new film "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", which premieres at Cannes today. Photograph: Reuters Indiana Jones has been...

Calamba: The key witness of a bank robbery that turned fatal died in hospital on Sunday, Philippine police said. Isagani Pastor, marketing manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) branch in...

Jakarta: A ferry with more than 700 people on board caught fire on Sunday on a river in Borneo, according to media reports. Officials said all passengers on board the ferry have been rescued.Police...

Berlin: Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for an international peacekeeping force to be deployed in Zimbabwe to prevent violence during a presidential run-off next month. "It would be in...

Beijing: Three giant pandas are missing after last week's massive earthquake hit China's most important reserve for the endangered animal, state media said on Sunday. It was the first report about...

(CNN) -- Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez, who led the island nation out of dire economic times, was re-elected to a third term on Saturday, according to election...

London: A Nigerian woman bought a baby in her home country so she could qualify for a council home in London, it was revealed on Saturday. Peace Sandberg, 40, a Kensington Housing Trust worker, is...

Dhaka: Former Bangladeshi prime minister Shaikh Hasina has been formally indicted by a court on Sunday for graft over a power plant deal. The Anti-Corruption Commission accused Hasina of accepting 30...

Rome: A former showgirl who has become an Italian cabinet minister has admitted that you don't have to be pretty to get ahead in politics, but it helps. Mara Carfagna, nicknamed Mara La Bella, or...

Beijing: An over-enthusiastic crowd forced authorities to put out the Olympic torch passing through China, state press reported on Sunday. Crowds broke through security cordons during the torch relay...

Islamabad: The Pakistan army has taken issue with coalition forces in Afghanistan over a missile attack launched by a US drone aircraft that killed 14 people, an army spokesman said on Saturday. Two...