The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has said Mexico is beginning to look like Colombia 20 years...

Appeals court judges in the US have decided that the Government can keep secret details of the controversial "extraordinary rendition" program the Bush administration used after 9/11, when foreign detainees were sent to other countries for...

A massive blast has killed at least five people in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz where a car exploded in a crowded...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that no religion in the world can condone the burning of the...

Mullah Omar, the shadowy figure who leads the Taliban, has issued a statement saying his group is winning the war in...

The Iraqi government has put on display hundreds of artifacts recovered from many different...

The government of Mexico, tired of drug war violence, is considering the legalization of marijuana and possibly other...

A coyote which bit humans in New York City has been tested positive for...

Pilots on a a Tupolev-154 plane in Russia have managed to glide it into marshy ground after developing engine...

Children and teenagers are being found with serious eye damage after using laser...

Former Pakistan prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif Thursday condemned the plans of a US pastor to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, saying it would 'jeopardise global efforts to maintain peace and inter-faith...

A British journalist of Pakistani origin abducted by Taliban militants in Pakistan's restive tribal region has been released, the British High Commission in Islamabad confirmed...

Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock has been hit by another setback, with a US tabloid revealing that her father was violent towards his first...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt said Thursday that the three tainted cricketers -- Test captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif -- will come back to the country while fast bowler Wahab Riaz will be questioned by the Metropolitan police in London Sep 14 in connection with the spot-fixing scandal that has rocked world...

Despite the second highest growth in the world among major economies in 2009, India ranks 77 in Forbes Best Countries for Business list even as the US dropped from No. 2 to No....

A suicide blast at the airport of Somali capital Mogadishu Thursday killed at least 10 people, witnesses...

A radical Muslim group in Britain intends to burn the American flag at various locations in the country protesting the plan of a US pastor to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, a media report said...

When Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi decided to join hands as a tennis doubles team, little did they know their on-court partnership will be hailed as one transcending the bitter cross-border relations between India and...

Nordic carrier Finnair Thursday said it is closely looking at Indian cities beyond New Delhi, apart from exploring a 'host of options' with Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines once it formally joins the OneWorld alliance of global...

A Florida pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 would be 'a recruitment bonanza for Al Qaeda', President Barack Obama said...

US President Barack Obama Thursday condemned the plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, saying it could endanger the lives of US military personnel serving in Pakistan and...

A suicide car bomb attack in a busy marketplace in Russia's Vladikavkaz city, capital of North Ossetia, left at least 15 people dead Thursday, according to the Itar-Tass news...

Internet giant Google has not applied to Chinese authorities to provide online map and location services, an official...

A medical team from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has vaccinated over 79,000 Pakistani people living in relief camps in the flood-hit areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province bordering...

Police from the finance squad have carried out a search of the headquarters of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party as part of an investigation into possible traffic of influence by Labour Minister Eric Woerth, party head Xavier Bertrand told the website lefigaro.fr...

More than four million foreign nationals now live in Britain, making it the third most sought-after destination in Europe for...

The Vatican has spoken out against an American evangelical pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran to commemorate the Sep 11 terrorist attacks, which killed about 3,000 people, calling it 'an outrageous and grave...

The catch-phrase 'Beam me up, Scotty' of the iconic 'Star Trek' serial could be close to reality with scientists successfully teleporting objects from one place to another with the help of energy...

Bangladesh's Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been honoured with the SolarWorld Einstein Award for 2010 for initiating generation and distribution of solar energy in his...

Polish authorities have bowed to a demand by the Sikhs to set aside a special room at airports for security check-up as the matter was 'very sensitive' for Sikhs who were asked to remove their...

India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi cruised to their maiden Grand Slam final, defeating Argentina's Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zaballos 7-6(5), 6-4 in the US Open tennis men's doubles...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has now asked Pakistan captain Salman Butt and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal to hand over their phone records during the World Twenty20 in the...

At least eight people were killed and several injured Thursday when a car bomb exploded in a market in Russia's North Caucasus region, police...

A British journalist, held captive by militants in northwestern Pakistan for several months, has been freed, the foreign office in London said...

Using Facebook is like staring at yourself in an online mirror. Those who spend hours updating their profile on the site are more likely to be narcissists or suffer from low self-esteem, said...

A school in Canada is using a weird 3D optical illusion of a young girl crossing the road to rein in rowdy...

Model Katie Price says she is treated like an 'animal' and has been labelled as 'mad, bad and a freak' in the...

A car bomb exploded inside the residence of a provincial minister in Pakistan's Balochistan province Thursday, killing at least two...

A retired teacher has astonished doctors by getting himself rid of cancer even before...

A British girl, who left school to give birth to a baby girl at the age of 13, is on the run with her ten-month-old...

Apple launched the nifty new iPod nano dubbed 'iWatch', arguably the smallest music player in the market which can be worn on the...

A magnificient 196-carat rough white diamond has been unearthed at a mine in Lesotho, the firm owning the mine said here. The find is, however, dwarfed by the Cullinan...

The victory of the Taliban over US-led forces in Afghanistan is imminent, the group's elusive chief Mullah Omar has said in a rare...

Many of Bangladesh's well-off families are utilising the Eid-ul-Fitr festival this year to take a holiday abroad, moving away from the grime and jostling crowds at...

Fabio Capello confirmed Thursday he will quit as England manager after Euro...

Fearing a violent backlash at home, Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif, one of the three players accused of spot-fixing, is considering to seek political asylum in Britain, a daily...

Performing good deeds for others can make you feel more upbeat and self-confident and can actually improve your...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother made a half-million pound profit in eight months on a high-end villa in Dubai bought with a loan from the troubled Kabul...

India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi have stormed into the US Open tennis men's doubles final with a 7-6(5), 6-4 victory over Argentina's Eduardo Schwank and Horacio...

Facebook is used mostly by narcissists and those with low self-esteem, says a Canadian...