A strong earthquake shook parts of Iran Friday injuring many and burying...

Julian Assange denies his Web site is responsible for any extra blood spilled in Iraq or Afghanistan, calling on the US government to provide proof of such...

BP will begin scaling back its oil containment efforts, CEO-elect Robert Dudley told reporters on his first trip to the Gulf since the board...

A US-based religious group calling for everyone to burn a copy of the Quran in remembrance of 9/11 victims has been slammed by groups across the...

A royal commission which heard testimony from more than 400 people has found Australia's system for responding to bushfires deficient and has called for major...

A young boy accidentally shot dead his friend after playing with unattended gun in...

Spain's economy continues to take a hammering with the latest unemployment figures showing the highest levels in thirteen...

The Greek government has announced that the military will step in to supply fuel to critical sectors of the economy to ease the pressure created by a crippling lorry driver...

Four people were killed and another was wounded in a gunfight among suspected drug dealers in Colombia, police...

Indian golfer Shiv Kapur was unable to build on his first round and crashed out of the European Tour's 3 Irish Open golf...

Over 5,000 of the 7,000 chemical barrels, that were swept into a major river in northeast China's Jilin province, have been recovered by Saturday...

A hat-trick of birdies late in the second stretch of the third round saw Anirban Lahiri pull himself to tied fifth with one more round to go in the Brunei Open here...

The death toll in floods rose to 837 Saturday as rescue workers tried to reach tens of thousands of people stranded in north-western Pakistan, officials...

A state of emergency has been declared in 14 regions across Russia after devastating wildfires claimed 12 lives and rendered thousands of people...

The black box of a Pakistani passenger aircraft which crashed Wednesday in Margalla Hills near Islamabad has been retrieved, officials said...

Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan is getting as many as 250 fan letters a day as she serves her time in...

A passenger aircraft taxiing at an airport here collided with a stationary plane...

Singer Carrie Underwood has been separated from her new husband Mike Fisher just weeks after their wedding as the ice hockey player returned to work in...

Singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse's publicist has brushed off reports that she is collaborating with Lady Gaga for her highly anticipated comeback...

Two Indian-origin illegal workers were arrested by the UK Border Agency during a raid in a clothing factory here. They are now awaiting...

A former principal of a Catholic boarding school in New Zealand has been found guilty of sexually abusing teenage...

Fans of Spanish giants Real Madrid are divided about the signing of German international Sami Khedira, to judge by an online poll published by sports daily Marca...

The death toll in floods rose to 672 Saturday as rescue workers tried to reach thousands of people stranded in north-western Pakistan, officials...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Christian Wulff and members of the cabinet Saturday took part in a memorial church service for the 21 victims of last week's fatal crush at the Love Parade dance music...

Pakistani authorities Saturday said they had retrieved the flight recorder of a plane that crashed three days ago near Islamabad, killing 152 people on...

Black Eyed Peas rapper Will.i.am is trying to get back with close friend singer Cheryl Cole and hopes the malaria-stricken star will soon be back to full...

Talks between Pakistan's top intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Britain's security officials have been cancelled after British Prime Minister David Cameron accused Pakistan of 'exporting...

A British prisoner has sued the prison service for a sum of 100,000 pounds after his throat was allegedly slashed by a fellow...

The Philippines' flag carrier Saturday cancelled about a dozen domestic and international flights after several pilots resigned for higher-paying jobs with foreign...

Women in Britain's offices have been banned from wearing mini-skirts to work, and people involved in 'customer-facing roles' have been told to look more professional 'in a way that shows respect to children and...

Gerard Butler has been signed on as the new spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris Men's Expert and the actor says he is 'excited' about the...

'The Hills' star Heidi Montag has filed for a divorce from her estranged husband Spencer Pratt nearly two months after she went to court to seek a legal...

A 51-year-old former New Zealand pilot will attempt an adventure ride on a jet ski from London to New Zealand, a distance of about 32,000 km, to spread awareness on...

Hollywood actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, who is reportedly dating actor-director Alex Beh, says being in a relationship makes her feel...

A church in Florida, US, is reportedly planning to host an 'International Burn a Quran Day' on the anniversary of the Sep 11, 2001, terror attack, a move that has been condemned by many Christians and...

Model Katie Price is apparently insecure about her future as she isn't getting any good job...

Two women in Britain allegedly kidnapped and tortured a friend, scalding her with boiling water and kicking her, after they found out she had sex with one of their...

Rashad Hussain, son of an Indian migrant couple from Bihar who is US Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, will travel to India Aug 1-9 to discuss Obama Administration's initiatives on education, global health, entrepreneurship and countering violent extremism with Muslim leaders and...

Playing down revelations of Pakistani spy agency ISI's links with Taliban militants, the United States has again suggested these are 'historical links' and Pakistan has now made a 'strategic shift' and attacking their safe havens inside its...

Fears of another recession in the United States loomed as the government reported slower growth in the second quarter and the International Monetary Fund said the country's financial system remains...

The picturesque small town of Rhinebeck, about 150 km from here, is all abuzz for former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's marriage Saturday billed as the 'wedding of the decade' and 'wedding of the century' by a frenzied...

A four-year-old boy in US' Indianapolis city picked up a gun lying on a kitchen table and fired a shot that killed the three-year-old daughter of his father's...

In yet another incident reminiscent of the Cold War, Canada Friday revealed that two Russian bombers were intercepted trying to enter its...

Apple invaded BlackBerry territory Friday with the launch of its iPhone 4 across Canada. Frenzied Canadians lined up in front of Apple stores and other authorized retailers from Toronto to Halifax to Vancouver almost 24 hours before the delivery of the smartphone started in...

Aditya Jagtap, the lone Indian remaining in contention, went down to top seeded Amr Khaled Khalifa from Egypt in straight games in the quarterfinals at the World Junior squash championships...

India and the United States have taken another crucial step in implementing their landmark civil nuclear deal with the signing of an agreement on the nuclear fuel reprocessing arrangements under the...

North Korean diplomats seized translations of a biography on regime leader Kim Jong Il by a local writer prior to a visit of the country's foreign minister, sources said...

Toxic dyes that can cause cancer have been detected in some garments in China, creating concern that buyers may also be exposed to health...

Fifteen people were killed in a blast at a coalmine in northern China Saturday, Xinhua...

India and the United States have signed an agreement on the nuclear fuel reprocessing arrangements under the India-US civil nuclear deal completing another key step in implementing the landmark...