Swiss banks are shunning business from the U.S. amid concerns over legal issues and prospects for tighter...

London bookmakers were breathing a massive sigh of relief after avoiding a financial bath thanks to the Wimbledon semi-finals loss of Andy...

The German Olympic Committee (DSOB) Saturday reacted with caution to a doping ban on the nation's most successful Winter Olympian, speed skater Claudia...

Sexist jokes induce an attitude that equates violence against women with a macho image, according to a recent...

Finishing blues cost Indian golfers dearly, as Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia, was the only one of the four to make the midway cut at Open de Alstom Friday. Even Chowrasia bogeyed three of his last six holes, and dropped from a likely top-15 placing to tied 44th at the Le Golf National...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Friday finally got to publicly thank the man credited with crafting his Labour party's win and putting him into power - courtesy of an Indian...

Sanya Richards of the United States lowered her 2009 world best over 400 metres at the Bislett Games as she remained in the hunt for athletics' Golden League $1-million...

Actors and close friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck played poker at an event in Las Vegas to raise money for...

Celebrity couple David and Victoria Beckham splashed out $81,660 on a luxury eco-spa break for their 10th wedding...

King of Pop Michael Jackson is likely to be buried in a $25,000 solid bronze casket, just like soul legend James...

Scientists are focussing on bacteria-killer proteins known as colicins to potentially open the way to new...

An optical transistor, successfully crafted from a single molecule, brings researchers a step closer to an optical computer, which would be much faster and more powerful than existing...

Six people, including three children, have died in a fire in a block of flats in London, the fire brigade said late...

Striker Michael Owen completed his free-transfer move to English football champions Manchester United...

New Delhi, July 4 : A 400-strong contingent of the three wings of Indian defence forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) performed a full-dress rehearsal here today ahead of their visit to France to participate in a parade making National Day celebrations in France on July 14....

India's Leander Paes was in sight of his second Grand Slam title of the year after he along with Zimbabwe's Cara Black booked a final berth in the mixed doubles of the Wimbledon tennis championships here...

Singer-actress Beyonce Knowles is desperate to star in a remake of the 1992 movie 'Sister Act' after watching the sell-out West End musical version of the same in...

Harry Potter star Emma Watson plans to become a make-up artist if her movie career...

Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves can't wait to see what the critics make of his new movie because he loves finding out how his performances are...

Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt was forced to hitch a lift from a paparazzo when his motorbike broke down on a busy Hollywood...

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed he was unfazed by his on-screen kiss with co-star Bonnie Wright in the upcoming instalment of the wizard franchise because appearing naked on Broadway has left him 'blase' about filming intimate...

Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously designated Japan's Yukiyo Amano as the next IAEA chief Friday, ending a rift between developing and industrialised countries over his...

At least 23 people were killed and 31 injured when two passenger buses in which they were travelling collided head-on in Peru's southern Puno region, officials...

Moscow, July 3 (RIA Novosti) Moscow and Washington will sign deals expanding bilateral military ties and on transit of military supplies via Russia to the American troops in Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's visit to the Russian capital, an official said...

Moscow, July 3 (RIA Novosti) Michael Jackson's promoter has announced that 11,000 free tickets would be available to the public for the King of Pop's memorial service, to be held next Tuesday in Los...

The Yemeni airline Yemenia could be placed on a black list and banned from flying in Europe if it did not improve the condition of its aircraft, French Junior Minister for Transport Dominique Bussereau said...

Germany will send its advanced Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft to Afghanistan to help the NATO forces in the fight against Taliban, a media report said...

With FC Sheriff targeting a tenth successive title, the big question on many Moldovan fans' minds is which side will provide the perennial winners with their biggest challenge as the new Divizia...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced that their marketing authorization application for ONGLYZA™ (saxagliptin) received a positive opinion from the...

Moscow/Washington- The Kremlin has agreed to allow the transport of US supplies and weapons over Russian airspace on the way to Afghanistan, according to Russian and US media reports Saturday. An...

As President Barack Obama heads to Moscow in an attempt to bury the lingering legacy of the Cold War, Rupert Wingfied-Hayes tries to judge the mood of Russia's leaders behind the Kremlin's...

Oracle will be cutting up to 1,000 jobs in Europe, according to the French trade union CFDT.The decision was announced at the European Works Council and the Comité d'Entreprise France on 29...

Lagos — Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas destined...

/PRNewswire/ -- Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, and main sponsor of Team Saxo Bank, has launched a new and unique concept for The Tour de France, combining video, audio and...

(AP) — BERLIN - Officials say massive overnight storms have unleashed widespread flooding in southern Germany and caused the deaths of two people. Scores of nonfatal injuries have been...

Published Date: July 04, 2009 WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said former Russian President Vladimir Putin and his hand-picked successor should expect an in-person reminder the Cold War is over...

The real President Obama will visit Russia on Monday and Tuesday. On Friday, Russians in downtown Moscow had to settle for a cardboard...

by Wei Jing WASHINGTON, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen said building trust was the first step for the United States and Russia to forge a better relationship which...

Even under favorable assumptions, including lifelong protection against 70% of all cervical cancers and no side effects, vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is not cost-effective in...

A Russian traditional wooden doll, Matreshka, depicts Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Obama. Obama is to visit Russia on...

Paris - Yemenia is suspending all flights to the Comoros in the aftermath of Tuesday's crash of an Airbus A310 near the islands' capital Moroni in which 153 died, the airline said Saturday. "In...

'); MOSCOW | Russia said Friday it will allow the United States to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a long-sought move that bolsters U.S. military operations but potentially gives...

7/3/2009, 8:01 p.m. EDT (AP) — LOS OLIVOS, Calif. - Like an old Western boomtown, the makeshift village that sprang up around the gates of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was vanishing...

MOSCOW : President Dmitry Medvedev said he expected the visit to Moscow next week of his US counterpart Barack Obama to open up new prospects for US-Russia relations. "We expect that concrete results...

Five people were injured when a train hit a trailer filled with hay and derailed in central France, police said today. A police official in the Haute-Vienne region said a tractor pulling a...

(SARAJEVO) - A Bosnian court said on Saturday it had temporarily suspended a recently adopted law on protection of domestic production seen as violating a regional trade pact and the Balkan country's...

North Korea has fired a fifth missle off its eastern coast, South Korea says, in what is likely to be seen as a message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day...

7/4/2009, 4:00 a.m. EDT (AP) — Here is a glance at the backstory of Pineland, a fictional community created in North Carolina to help U.S. Special Forces train for assignments...

Brazil's Air Force released a statement on Friday in which it denies any errors in the Air France Flight 447 case, and said it warned the Senegalese air traffic control that the Air France's Flight...

ROME: A strong tremor struck L'Aquila, the Italian town that will host next week's G8 summit of world leaders, on Friday, shaking buildings, setting off car alarms and startling residents who lived...