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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Beijing, May 13 (Xinhua) Athens: The Athens-based World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) has hailed the efforts made by the Chinese people in trying to stage successful and harmonious Olympic Games. According to a union statement, the WFTU condemned the attempts to politicise the Olympics and opposed those actions to impede and jeopardise the...

Australian captain Ricky Ponting expects a tough fight from the West Indies in the three-Test series, starting at Sabina Park, Kingston, next...

The price for crude oil produced by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) continued its record-breaking climb, OPEC...

Ever wonder why sometimes people in groups do apparently foolish things, such as standing in the street and staring skyward when there's nothing to see, just because someone else is doing...

West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels may be given a suspended sentence instead of a ban after being found guilty of hobnobbing with a bookmaker January last year when the Caribbean side toured...

Moscow, May 13 (RIA Novosti) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced his new government, keeping the main ministers in their posts and bringing in several former Kremlin...

Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga made history for himself and Andy Murray shook off the ghosts of the past as both seeds posted first-round wins at the Hamburg Masters...

Four years ago almost to the day, Estonia became the smallest country to join NATO since 1949, increasing the number of soldiers the alliance commands by approximately 0.1 percent. On Wednesday, the tiny Baltic nation (population 1.3 million) is set to prove that size doesn't always matter as it leads NATO into the world of internet-based...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday 'strongly condemned' those responsible for the violence in Lebanon and voiced support for the embattled government in...

Washington, May 13 : 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...

Kathmandu, May 13 : Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has called the first Constituent Assembly (CA) meeting on May 28 at Birendra International Convention Centre (BICC),...

People have been fleeing their homes in a southern Afghanistan district for fear that NATO strikes will affect...

Heya Shoko, a newly-elected legislator for Zimbabwe's opposition MDC party has been arrested....

Myanmar's military rulers have been castigated by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon....

Police have raided Jerusalem's City Hall and seized documents as part of a corruption investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert....

BRITISH judges have abandoned a 300-year-old tradition of wearing horsehair wigs to a chorus of mockery from fashion critics and traditionalists, who say the new robes have turned them into Star Trek...

Android mobile operating system.In the process, they revealed the power of an open system like Android to shake up the mobile phone industry, where wireless companies are being pressured to loosen...

stars lit up London's Leicester Square yesterday for the world premiere of the cinematic sequel to their New York adventures, delighting fans with glamorous - and sometimes quirky - outfits that...

YICHANG (HUBEI): Operations at the Three Gorges Dam, China’s water conservancy project on the Yangtze River, was not affected despite Monday’s quake. In the dam area, about 1,000 km from...

WASHINGTON -- In a pointed admonition to Pentagon planners, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that the U.S. military was afflicted with "next-war-itis" and must concentrate more on...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union says Myanmar's military rulers have to open their country to international aid organizations so immediate help can get to thousands of cyclone victims. ...

JUYUAN, China (AP) -- The high school students were settling in to afternoon arts and humanities classes when the massive quake struck. The school collapsed so rapidly - one floor "pancaking" atop...

New York - With a looming water shortage in many parts of the world, Turkey announced Tuesday it will hold an international conference next year to discuss conservation and management of water, which...

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says the United States has agreed to compensate the victims of extradited paramilitary warlords with any international assets they might...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Turkish commando units have killed 11 Kurdish rebels in several forays into northern Iraq over the past two days, military sources said Tuesday. The operations in the...

China hasn't always responded well to crises. Tens of millions of people starved in the famine created by the disastrous Great Leap Forward of the 1950s. The 1976 quake in the city of Tangshan was...

JAIPUR, India (AP) -- Bombs ripped through crowded parts of this ancient city in western India on Tuesday, killing 60 people and wounding 150, police said. The seven explosions in Jaipur took place...

OTTAWA – The current spike in world rice prices could be devastating, even if it only lasts for a few months, and will leave African nations vulnerable to unrest, a top expert said...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Blacks will outnumber whites in Brazil this year for the first time since slavery was abolished, but the income gap between the two groups may take another 50 years to...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A shaky cease-fire appeared to take hold Tuesday in Baghdad's Sadr City, after a cleric who brokered the deal for Shiite fighters said they would honor it even after clashes left at...

ATHENS – Greece's largest union grouping called for a nationwide strike to take place on Thursday to protest against government privatisation plans, with transport, ports, hospitals and banks...