US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east...

Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital,...

The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar...

A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television...

Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting...

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Zimbabwe's Unity Government has suffered what might be a fatal blow at the hands of President Robert...

Thailand has warned it will imprison migrant workers who attend anti-government rallies scheduled for this weekend in...

With vote counting underway in Iraq, officials have said their work is being complicated by the large number of overseas votes coming...

A 17-year-old New Zealand youth was sent to prison Wednesday for 15-and-a-half years for murdering a taxi driver who was a refugee from...

The Dubai Mall, world's largest shopping and entertainment destination, hosted a record five million visitors in the 15th edition of Dubai Shopping Festival Jan 28 to Feb 28, WAM news agency...

Nicklas Bendtner scored a superb hat-trick as Arsenal produced a virtuoso performance to crush Porto 5-0 to storm into the quarter-finals of the Champions League...

The US government has charged a Pennsylvania woman with conspiring to commit terrorism by using the internet to find recruits to carry out attacks in Europe and South Asia, the Justice Department announced...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) were selected Tuesday winners of the 2010 UN Population...

Representatives of over 60 top South Korean companies have arrived here in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to explore business opportunities, WAM news agency...

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan may not be getting the plum film roles anymore, but she might bring in millions in a lawsuit over a widely viewed television...

The 34th Arab Health Ministers' Conference will begin in Cairo Wednesday to discuss ways to improve primary healthcare in the region, WAM news agency...

The first gay couples to take advantage of a law that allows same-sex couples to marry in Washington gave their 'I dos'...

Cypriot authorities Tuesday arrested two people, including an Indian national, for allegedly stealing the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave three months ago and said the suspects had earlier demanded a...

Sri Lanka's former army chief General Sarath Fonseka, arrested over the charges of conspiring to topple the government, has called off his hunger strike after being allowed to speak to his daughters via his wife's mobile...

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband will visit China next week to discuss bilateral ties and issues of mutual concern, Chinese foreign ministry said...

Actress Brooke Shields says being famous is like a 'drug' because it gives such great...

Hollywood star Johnny Depp's girlfriend Vanessa Paradis has been signed on as the new face of Chanel Coco Cocoon...

British pop star Robbie Williams has come under fire from anti-drugs campaigners for championing marijuana as a 'lovely'...

US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 percent in 2008 amid a recession and record high petrol prices, according to a preliminary estimate Tuesday from the US Environmental Protection Agency...

The United Nations mourned Tuesday 101 of its personnel who were killed by the devastating earthquake in Haiti in...

Iran has barred former president and reformist leader Seyed Mohammad Khatami from leaving the country, sources...

Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood's celebrity friends are leaving no stone unturned to help their pal overcome his alcohol...

The Dhaka High Court in Bangladesh Tuesday quashed the charges of corruption against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed in the procurement of Russian fighter plane...

Five suspected Al Qaeda members were arrested Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a police source...

Hollywood star Sean Penn's representative has denied reports that the actor was thrown out of the Governor's Ball after picking up a fight with producer Greg...

Russia will provide by the end of 2010 the first batch of low-enriched uranium for an international nuclear fuel reserve bank under control of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, a senior official...

Actress Brooke Shields is planning to narrate her side of the story about her marriage to retired tennis ace Andre Agassi in her own...

Cage-fighter Alex Reid, who doesn't mind men fantasizing about him, refused to pose nude for a gay magazine because he wanted to maintain his...

Former Tamil rebels and ex-paramilitary troops were given fishing gear, carpentry tools and agricultural equipment as part of a rehabilitation programme, officials said...

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham says her heart goes out to heartbroken singer Cheryl Cole, whose husband Ashley Cole has cheated on...

The United States will start accepting applications for 65,000 H-1B visas for skilled professionals coveted by Indian techies for fiscal 2011 from April...

Australia will strengthen legislation to better protect international students, including Indians, and ensure world class quality education for them, Education Minister Julia Gillard said...

An Indian-American who was reported to have disappeared from her Maine Township home near here in January was found dead in the Des Plaines River and authorities suspected suicide in her drowning...

Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz, who has teamed up with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake in 'Bad Teacher', says he is the best suited for the role and will entertain...

Pakistan's hockey captain Zeeshan Ashraf Tuesday offered to retire from international hockey following his team's poor performance in the World...

More than 40 aftershocks have struck eastern Turkey, hampering rescue operations in the region, where several people have been trapped since Monday's earthquake that killed at least 51...

Indian-born industrialist and Labour Party supporter Lord Swraj Paul Tuesday said he is giving up his non-domicile tax status just as British police announced it was dropping a probe into his parliamentary expenses...

Determined to prevent anti-China demonstrations in Tibet Wednesday, the 51st anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese annexation, Beijing has snapped most links between the former Buddhist kingdom and its neighbour...

A detailed check of the world's most powerful atom smasher -- the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- has shown that it is 'performing well,' the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has said on its...

India's legendary fast bowler Kapil Dev has been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in...

People who have the ability to taste fat are likely to remain slim as they tend to eat less fatty food, a new study...

Simple motor actions like moving marbles upward or downward between two cardboard boxes might seem meaningless to many. But a new study shows that such actions can partly determine people's emotional memories or help recall their good or bad...

Acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation spread just as easily as bad ones. And it takes only a handful to really make a...

An executive at internet giant Google said Tuesday that Washington's latest move to encourage service providers to expand their work into Iran, Cuba and Sudan was a 'great...