Al-Qaeda militants killed 23 members of Iraq's security forces across the country on...

Police in France say a woman has admitted to suffocating eight newborn...

Russia's special forces have managed to prevent a hijacker from taking complete control of a plane carrying 105...

The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military...

Police in riot gear stared down protesters in a tense stand-off in Pheonix, Arizona on...

Another US serviceman has been found dead in a remote area of...

Indonesian police have been involved in a confrontation with people who were attacking a mosque used by a minority Islamic...

The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist...

The British government has refused to consider returning the jewel in the British monarch's...

The Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has defended the placement of tens of thousands of classified US military files on his...

Residents of the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea have been pleading for help from the international community since their homes began sinking into the...

Heavy smog has been covering Russia's capital due to forest fires which have been raging for three...

Nepal's Supreme Court Friday upheld the conviction and life imprisonment awarded to Charles Sobhraj in a 35-year-old murder...

Australian authorities are investigating a case involving two Indian restaurants, the owner of which allegedly accepted large payments to prepare fake documents for migrant workers seeking permanent...

Scientists have developed a new pain-relief pill from a chemical in sea snails' saliva that they use to catch their...

A 75-year-old man in China is building a castle to win back his wife who separated from him 10 years...

Hollywood actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, who has been single since April, has now started dating actor-director Alex...

China has topped the list of the world's major polluters of the near-Earth space environment, followed by the US and Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said...

More than a third of young people suffer from high blood pressure, thanks to bad diet and binge drinking, according to a survey released...

Men may have become somewhat softer over time but society still prefers them to be rugged and 'manly'. Research shows that modesty is viewed as a sign of weakness, a low-status character trait for males, but in women it is not viewed negatively or linked to...

Bangladesh and India, home to the famous Royal Bengal tiger, will attend the 13-nation Tiger Conservation Summit in St. Petersburg in September to plan out urgent measures to save the...

Keep yourself busy to stay happy. People who have something to do, even if pointless, are happier than those who sit idle, say...

Hollywood's sound effect artists, who bring films to life with an unlikely range of props, including celery, polystyrene and soap, could be made redundant by a new generation of synthesised...

An American man was sentenced to death for beheading three children, including his daughter, as he believed they were possessed and he was the 'chosen one' who must kill them to save the...

Veteran actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is getting a feeding tube inserted into her stomach as she battles to recover from a fall earlier this...

A school in New Zealand gave out condoms to students attending a ball 'to help them make better choices' but the move has shocked an advocacy...

Calling it a 'difficult decision', 'American Idol' judge Ellen DeGeneres has announced that she is quitting the...

Aditya Jagtap carried India's hopes into the quarterfinal stage of the World Junior Men's Squash Championships...

The Taliban in Afghanistan has threatened to behead informers who have been revealed following the explosive disclosure by...

Hollywood actress Jessica Biel says she is paranoid about being bankrupt as she often doesn't know when her next pay cheque will...

Police are investigating whether the family of Tokyo's 'oldest man' - who appears to have been dead at home for decades - fraudulently received pension money paid to him, news reports said...

A rare shrimp that may be the most ancient animal species on earth is alive and well in Britain, scientists have...

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that the issue of hostile statements made by British Prime Minister David Cameron would be taken up at a diplomatic level, and warned that such statements could adversely affect the war against...

Women who take calcium supplements to improve bone density in middle age could face 30 percent higher risk of heart attacks, warn...

South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co Friday posted a record 83 percent net profit rise for the second quarter, boosted by strong demand for chips and flatscreen...

Hollywood heartthrob Zac Efron has launched his own production...

A page has been set up in the social network site facebook to reunite a thread bare teddy bear with its owner in...

A newborn baby in Australia died of head injuries after his mother pushed him out of his cot because she found it 'hard to cope' with very little money, a court was...

Hollywood star Leonardo Di Caprio has opted out of Mel Gibson's historical epic on Viking culture after the latter was accused of domestic...

Bangladesh has announced new wage scales for its ailing garment industry but the workers are still persisting with their Taka 5,000 ($71) minimum wage...

The following is the scoreboard at lunch on the final day of the second cricket Test match between India and Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club here...

Sri Lanka were 19 for no loss in the second innings at lunch, after bowling out India for 707 in the first innings, on the final day of the second cricket Test here...

A British woman suffered a damaged tooth after biting into a sandwich that had a pebble in it. She had to endure four complex dental procedures costing 3,000...

Three people of Indian origin - two of them brothers - have been acquitted by a high court in Malaysia of drug trafficking...

With Apple's iPhone 4 threatening to topple it from its top perch in North America and even President Barrack Obama admitting on a TV show Thursday that using BlackBerry is 'no fun'' any more, the smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) seems all set to unveil a new device next...

In an embarrassing case for the Canadian immigration system, a court here Thursday jailed an immigration judge for demanding sex from a South Korean woman to grant her permanent residence in this...

At least 230 people have died while hundreds of others have gone missing in floods triggered by heavy rains in the past three days in Pakistan's northwestern region bordering...

Noting that 12 percent of India's over 1.2 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, the US has asked donors to make targeted investments in India's water and sanitation...

Men are more likely to be involved in a car accident in summer as they are distracted by girls in skimpy outfits, a survey has...

A former Indian-American executive, who 'engaged in irrational and excessive buying sprees', faces up to 20 years in jail after pleading guilty to embezzling $34 million from stereo headphone manufacturer Koss Corporation where she worked as vice president,...