U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama told reporters Saturday he remains committed to ending the war in...

Syria has called on the United Nations to exert pressure on Israel to 'stop its continued practices and aggressions against Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan who suffer from the Israeli daily flagrant violations', the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported this...

A senior US security official has reportedly said that al-Qaeda is regrouping itself in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan...

British police have arrested a suspect in connection with the brutal murder of two French students in London....

Patrick Waller has become a free man in the US after being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for more than 15...

Leading defense officials from the United States and Israel, meeting in Israel this week, raised the controversial attack on the U.S. ship USS Liberty, by Israel, in June...

US experts, investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center, say building fires on several different floors probably caused the collapse....

North Korea has refused to take further steps to dismantle its nuclear...

In Pakistan, nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, has said his country may have supplied nuclear centrifuges to North Korea under the supervision of the...

Islamabad, July 5 (Xinhua) Taliban insurgents Saturday freed two journalists from their captivity in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, News Network International news agency...

Holder Venus Williams won her fifth Wimbledon title Saturday with a 7-5, 6-4 defeat of sister Serena in the third sibling title showdown at the...

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams has received India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan for her feat of completing the longest space flight for a...

Nihita Biswas, whose name has been on everyone's lips in Nepal, India and elsewhere, finally made her first public appearance in Kathmandu Saturday, dispelling all doubts about her engagement to former crime genius Charles Sobhraj and defending him against the murder sentence he is serving in a high-security prison in the...

Kandahar/At least 16 civilians, including women and children, were killed in an airstrike by NATO-led forces in Afghanistan's eastern Nuristan province, officials said...

Cricket Australia (CA) has strongly backed the inclusion of a Test Championship in the international schedule after the current Futures Tours Programme (FTP) ends in...

Egypt uncovered three tunnels near the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip Saturday and seized weapons and explosives in the strategic Sinai peninsula, according to security...

Lagos, July 5 (Xinhua) Eight players and two officials of the Amputee Football Association of Nigeria (AFAN) will participate in the Uzbekistan 2008 Cup of Independence beginning, July...

Seeking affirmative action for marginalised Dalits and minorities in India, an international meet in the US has made a strong demand for reservation in the private sector besides a quota in the sphere of...

Madrid, July 5 (Xinhua) Argentinian striker Lautaro Cost compared himself with some of the best young players his country has produced at his official presentation as a new player with Spanish Primera Liga side...

India are aiming to dethrone defending champions Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup final here Sunday but captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni agreed that this would be a tough...

The ethnic Indian family of a man who committed suicide in Malaysia is set to challenge the order of a Syriah court declaring him a Muslim and ordering his...

Two Indian-origin brothers who run a pharmacy in central London are to take on condom makers Durex, whose monopoly has made condoms in Britain among the most expensive in the world, a report said...

Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding has resigned from International Cricket Council's (ICC) Cricket Committee in protest against the change of the result of the controversial 2006 Oval...

The Australian cricket team has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its one-day international against the West Indies in St Kitts...

The number of Indian tourists to Britain has grown by 170 percent since 1993, and they are outspending American visitors, a report said...

Several thousand demonstrators took part in a largely peaceful and colourful protest in northern Japan Saturday against the upcoming Group of Eight (G-8)...

The ominous weather picture for Wimbledon finals weekend has led British bookmakers to bet on a couple of rainy...

London: Tennis dad Richard Williams took his leave of the All England club with a day to spare before daughters Venus and Serena met in their third Wimbledon sibling showdown...

Tokyo, July 5 (Xinhua) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale hit eastern Japan Saturday...

A man tore the head off a wax statue of Adolf Hitler in Berlin Saturday, minutes after the new branch of the Madame Tussauds wax-work museum chain opened for the first time to the...

Sir Charles Wheeler, one of Britain's best-known foreign correspondents - a man who shunned the glamour of anchoring television programmes for the good old business of reporting, has died at the age of...

Speaking just before the G8 summit, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for the eight leading industrialized nations to lead by example with cuts in carbon...

Jeev Milkha Singh slipped down the ladder at the European Open golf championship, but kept his hopes alive for a top-5 finish that can earn him a berth to the British Open in two weeks...

Scientists may have figured out a way to kill the virus that causes the most persistent cold sores - painful, unsightly blemishes around the...

A tribal council mediating between Pakistani authorities and Islamic rebels Saturday said a powerful militant commander has agreed to hold negotiations to end the military action in the Khyber tribal district in the...

Vladikavkaz (Russia), July 5 (RIA Novosti) Russia began Saturday large scale military exercises in several regions of the southern federal district, which includes highly volatile North Caucasus republics, a senior military official...

The number of expatriate Indians working and living in Bahrain has risen to a record 290,000, according to Indian Ambassador Balkrishna...

Researchers have compared a weight loss programme with gym membership to determine which conferred the best...

French football champions Lyon have announced the sale of goalkeeper Gregory Coupet to Spanish giants Atletico...

French anti-doping supremo Pierre Bordry issued a stern warning to riders on the eve of Tour de France cycling tournament to stay away from forbidden substances and...

'Batman Begins' star Christian Bale is against children working in Hollywood and says he won't allow his daughter to become a child...

Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, is certain that their "handsome" bassist Guy Berryman is the only reason for their...

Oasis lead singer Noel Gallagher has blamed Margaret Thatcher, who served as the British prime minister from 1979 to 1990, for the present day increase in crime in the...

Moscow, July 5 (Xinhua) A 6.9-magnitude earthquake Saturday jolted the Sea of Okhotsk region in southeast Russia, the Itar-Tass news agency...

A new book on Madonna by her brother Christopher Ciconne says the pop star's marriage to British director Guy Ritchie is on the rocks and the couple are drifting apart due to regular...

Hollywood star Cameron Diaz and her boyfriend Paul Sculfor have started living together although their relationship is only a month...

British actor Gary Oldman, who played Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series, says he wants to cut down on films so that he can spend more time with his...

Warsaw, July 5 (RIA Novosti) Poland has said the US offer in return of permission to deploy a missile defence base on Polish soil fails to address its security concerns, but it is ready for further...

Elements opposed to Asif Ali Zardari, co-chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that leads the country's ruling coalition, have begun to pool their energies to 'return the party to the Bhutto family' that has been at the centre of the country's politics since the late...

The heart of Toronto city turned into a mini-Bengal as more than 50,000 Bengalis from North America and India descended on the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to join in what has been billed as the biggest Bengali cultural show outside West...