China's Sichuan Province has suffered a severe aftershock which has triggered created fresh damage to buildings and severe...

The run-off election for president has been announced by Zimbabwe's Electoral...

At least eight people, most of them policemen, were killed and over 90 injured when a suicide bomber rammed into a police van in the busy heart of the Sri Lankan capital at midday on...

In his latest audio message, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has vowed that Palestine will never be relinquished "as long as one true Muslim remains on earth."...

A US military court in the Japanese island of Okinawa has sentenced a 38-year-old US marine to four years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a 14-year-old Japanese girl....

The top aid official in the European Union, Louis Michel, has urged the military junta in Myanmar to open up an airbase and provide visas for foreign aid...

Iran and a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency have finished their three-day talks here without resolving allegations that Iran is pursuing secret weapons studies....

Arab League mediators say a peace deal has been reached between the Lebanese government and the Hezbollah-led...

Indian duo Jeev Milkha Singh and S.S.P. Chowrasia had brilliant starts to their European campaign as they both had bogey-free rounds on the first day of the Irish Open golf...

Geneva, May 16 (Xinhua) Future generations will face hunger, thirst, disease and disaster if people carry on trashing the environment, the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) has...

United Nations, May 16 (Xinhua) The world economic growth will drop steeply to 1.8 percent this year, from 3.8 percent in 2007, the UN said in a mid-year economic...

British construction and maintenance giant John Laing is to open its first India office in order to beef up its presence in...

Incoming International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat said that the sanctity of Test cricket would remain, despite the frenzied grab for Twenty20 dollars, it was reported by the media here...

The price for crude oil produced by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) climbed 18 cents Thursday, OPEC said...

Actress Karen Allen is hoping her role in the fourth 'Indiana Jones' movie will fetch her a new life partner, but she has reconciled to the fact that she might live alone for the rest of her...

Rafael Nadal spoiled the birthday of Andy Murray to reach the quarterfinals of the Hamburg Masters along with the other top stars Roger Federer and Novak...

Tbilisi, May 16 (RIA Novosti) Georgia's foreign minister has said that the country would regard any increase in Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia as encroachment on national...

Rocker Elton John confirmed that he will perform at the former South African president Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebrations here and it has raised speculations that hip hop star Eminem will join him on...

Socialite Paris Hilton was shocked recently when very few photographers waited for her at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Most of them went to see the launch of Victoria Beckham's denim range at...

The US band Backstreet Boys performed in London recently with just four members. Kevin Richardson was missing, but the show brought back that old 90s boy band...

Inter Milan's Brazilian striker Adriano, currently on loan at Sao Paulo, is set to return to the Brazilian national squad following a severe slump in his form and a subsequent...

Portugal midfielder Deco has announced his intention to leave troubled Spanish giants...

Troubled pop star Britney Spears has fuelled speculation she is pregnant again, after sneaking into a clinic for a health check...

Human activity is responsible for a lot of the nitrogen finding its way into the sea from the atmosphere and influencing the nitrogen cycle, according to the latest findings by an international team of...

The World Bank has approved a $600 million credit to support to India's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), a nationwide centrally sponsored programme designed to provide education to all children aged 6 to...

In the world of Indiana Jones, things may have been tough, but at least they were simple. The good guys were good, and the bad guys were so bad that you didn't even need to use criminal profiling to uncover...

Strikes by union groups upset by Greek government privatisation plans and pension reforms disrupted air transport, bank and state services...

The US House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday calling for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of 2009, while rejecting a spending measure of $163 billion for the wars in Iraq and...

Moscow, May 15 (RIA Novosti) Russia has shut down its third reactor at the Leningrad nuclear power station, located in north-western region of the country, state-controlled nuclear power corporation Rosenergoatom said...

Iran and a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) finished their three-day talks here without reaching any new results, Iran's envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog told ISNA news agency...

Manjula Sood, an Indian-born councillor, Thursday made history by becoming the first Indian woman to be made a Lord Mayor in Britain - appropriately, in a city dubbed Little...

Jeev Milkha Singh set the course ablaze with his first round flawless six-under 66 to take early lead in the Irish Open here...

The authorised biography of Sir V.S. Naipaul that said his infidelity and mental cruelty may have contributed to his wife's death is tipped to win the richest prize in non-fiction...

Yekatarinburg (Russia), May 16 : Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC), the world's emerging and rapidly growing economies, have urged for reforming the United Nations to make it more efficient to deal with the emerging global...

Bangalore, May 16 (ANI/Business Wire India): Outsource Partners International, Inc. (OPI), a leading provider of finance, accounting, and tax business process outsourcing (BPO) as well as related services, announced the opening of its new, 280,000 square feet Shared Service Center in...

Washington, May 16 : A new research by an international team of scientists has found that as much as a third of the nitrogen entering the world's oceans from the atmosphere is...

Paro/Thimphu, May 16 : The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, was given a rousing welcome on his arrival at Paro International Airport on Friday morning by both Bhutanese dignitaries and...

London, May 16 : Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will be welcoming their twins into the world on August 19 this year, and the couple are seriously considering having their babies in France, the native place of the actress' beloved late...

New Delhi, May 15 : Exercise Aman Sena, an elaborate multinational table top exercise on Integrated United Nations Peace Support Operations conceptualized by Integrated Defence Staff, will be conducted at the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad for officers of the Armed Forces from 17 countries including India from May 21 to 29. ...

The Californian Supreme Court in the United States has overturned a ban on gay marriage....

President Bush's request for Iraq war funding has collapsed with anti-war Democrats and Republicans unhappy about his request for US$163 billion to support U.S. troops...

Republican John McCain has declared he believes the Iraq war can be won by...

Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying three Iranian embassy staff in Baghdad overnight, wounding them and their Iraqi...

A woman has been charged for her role in an internet hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being shunned by a non-existent chatline...

Israel has warned it is prepared to retaliate with an assault on Gaza, after a rocket attack wounded at least 14 people while US President George Bush was in...

A suicide bomber has attacked a convoy of police vehicles in south-western Afghanistan, killing 16 people, including a police commander, and wounding...

South Korea has said it is ready to hold talks with North Korea on sending food aid to its impoverished neighbour as the United Nations and aid agency warned North Korea is facing...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- President Bush, on a one-day visit to Saudi Arabia, is taking a second stab on Friday at getting the oil-rich nation to increase production and drive down the soaring...

DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- More than a dozen rabbis, including two from Israel, were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf's first scholarly centers dedicated...

President Bush , on a one-day visit to Saudi Arabia, is taking a second stab on Friday at getting the oil-rich nation to increase production and drive down soaring gasoline prices hurting U.S....