An influential German economist, Hans-Werner Sinn, has argued Greece should leave the Eurozone or risk a civil...

As natural disaster batter the world's agricultural industry, fears are growing that we may be heading into the dark food crisis days of 2007 and...

Over 200 women and children have been raped by rebels in the Congo in recent weeks, according to UN...

A plane has crashed in the United Arab Emirates in the city of Dubai, it is unknown how many...

Russia's government is holding out on freezing the price of certain food goods as prices continue to...

A US cartoonist's attempt to make a statement about the violence in Mexico backfired with his use of the Mexican flag and its national symbol, the Mexican...

A UN report on the rapes that took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was released on...

The US service sector grew in August, but not by the amount...

Christchurch residents are taking stock of the damage to their city following the major earthquake that struck in the early hours of Saturday morning with local officials calling the lack of fatalities a...

The Peruvian Amazon has suffered a major dry spell with the Amazon River's water levels dropping...

A popular medication for the prevention of osteoporosis doubles the chances of developing cancer, according to a recent UK...

A massive traffic jam has developed in China's Inner Mongolia on the Beijing Tibet Highway just days after another major snarl was...

A 69-year-old South Korean woman took the driver's test a record 960th times before she finally got her licence, a media report...

The toll in mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan province has climbed to 21 and 27 people are still missing, rescue officials said...

The sweat and breath of over 4 million tourists who gape at the exquisite frescoes at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City are damaging the Renaissance period works of art, a top official has...

The US is heading for a catastrophic rout in Afghanistan like in Iraq and should hurry to leave these countries 'or for that matter, the entire Asian continent' before its defeat becomes complete, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said...

Pakistan High Commissioner to Britain, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, has attacked -- yet again -- the International Cricket Council (ICC) saying that the world body's decision to drop tainted pacer Mohammed Aamer from the list of annual awards nominees shows that 'there is a rat in the whole...

A day after a deadly blast targeting a Shia procession killed 73 people and injured over 150 others in Quetta, the Pakistani city Saturday wore a completely deserted look, media reports...

Three Pakistani cricketers -- captain Salman Butt and pacers Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Asif -- under the scanner for spot-fixing, have reportedly admitted before the Scotland Yard inquiry that the British currency recovered from their hotel rooms was given to them by bookie Mazhar...

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has put up on sale his 'modest' second home, which dragged him in an expense row just before the parliamentary...

As Nepal's parliament votes Sunday, for the sixth time in two months, to elect a new prime minister, the indications are that the poll will yet again end in a fiasco with the opposition Maoist party failing to win, especially with horse-trading allegations casting a long shadow on the...

Shanghai residents, including students and migrant workers, will now be provided free condoms through more than 9,000 vending machines to be set up across this business capital of...

In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal in the Pakistani team, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said it is unhappy with the presence of Mushtaq Ahmed -- who was implicated in the 2000 match-fixing scandal -- as England's spin bowling...

At least seven people were killed in a bomb blast in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz Saturday, the provincial governor...

Miroslav Klose hit a second-half winner as Germany began their Euro 2012 football qualifying campaign with a 1-0 defeat of Belgium in Brussels...

At least 87 kindergarten children fell ill after having food in a province in northwest China, officials said...

Pakistan Saturday admitted that the trial in the Mumbai attacks case was stuck and said the formation of a commission to record the testimony of two key Indian witnesses is 'necessary to take things...

British women have been named the world's ugliest tourists, 'rude' in behaviour and 'ending up drunk in the...

Top seed Rafael Nadal took full advantage of benevolent weather to storm into the third round of the US Open when forecast rain failed to materialise as an Atlantic storm bypassed the...

The cancellation of elections to North America's oldest Sikh temple, the Ross Street Gurdwara, by a court this week has opened divisions between moderates and hardliners in the local Sikh...

A report, endorsed by an American defence expert and retired general, has claimed that the US and Britain's decision to set a troops withdrawal date for Afghanistan 'emboldens' the Taliban to fight...

Private security firm Blackwater Worldwide created over 30 shell companies in an attempt to secure millions of dollars in US government contracts, The New York Times reported...

Nepal's opposition Maoist party has been dragged into a snowballing scandal with a leaked audio tape indicating the former guerrillas sought NRS.500 million from Chinese 'friends' to buy MPs' votes ahead of Sunday's election to choose a new prime...

The Shanghai administration has set up over 3,600 condom outlets in areas having high concentration of migrant workers for distributing free contraceptives in a bid to promote safe sex in China's business...

A nurse in the US walked into a dying cancer patient's room and in a twist of fate came face to face with her father who had gone missing from her life over 40 years back, it was reported here...

Actress Emma Watson has hit on 'Twilight' movies, insisting the 'Harry Potter' films are not 'selling sex' like the vampire...

Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson narrowly escaped from being crushed by an elephant on the set of his new movie 'Water for...

Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore admits that she used to crave being in 'crazy love', but now with age she has settled down and likes 'easy and calm'...

Survivors of a massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck New Zealand Saturday said they feel lucky to be...

Messages that are being sent down to the trapped miners in Chile include a 'dirty joke of the...

A monster potato in Britain, weighing nearly 3.75 kg, has smashed the world...

Singer Katy Perry, who is weeks away from getting married to her fiance Russell Brand, says had she been single she would have slept with singer Cheryl...

Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has asked people for more help in flood relief efforts in Pakistan, saying humanitarian needs should transcend international...

A Chicago dentist is paying for a new ad advocating that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make a second presidential run in...

The machinegun used by Al Pacino's gangster character in the mafia movie 'Scarface' is likely to fetch 100,000 pounds at an auction in the...

A 106-year-old woman in Britain is not only a virgin, she has never ever been...

With the vacuum in the Pakistani leadership visible right from the onset of the flood tragedy, foot-soldiers of extremist organisations have rushed in where President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif are reluctant to...

As the US lost 54,000 jobs last month, President Barack Obama promised a new package of ideas next week on job creation and lashed out at Republicans for blocking a legislation to help small...

'The biggest fireball ever seen' and a 'massive 20-storey tower of smoke and flames' was how witnesses described the crash of a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane in Dubai, in which two crew members were...

'Clear Blue Tuesday', a musical offering a unique perspective on the Sep 11, 2001 terror attack in New York was released here...