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...

Harare/Zimbabwe's presidential run-off election between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will take place June 27, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission head George Chiweshe said...

After a long dispute, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows for the computers of 'One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) educational project for children in developing...

United Arab Emirates (UAE) will sign an agreement with the US to boost cooperation in the education sector, WAM news agency...

Seven police personnel and two civilians were killed and some 95 wounded when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a police bus in the heart of the busy Sri Lankan capital at midday...

The prestigious Asia Society has started work on its Texas centre's new headquarters in Houston. Projected to cost $40 million, it will be completed by...

Yingxiu Township (China), May 16 (Xinhua) With China still reeling under the deadly earthquake that is feared to have killed more than 50,000 people, severity of the catastrophe is slowly surfacing in Wenchuan - the epicentre of the...

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...

Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, whose supporters are awaiting his return to his troubled country after more than a month's absence, was thousands of miles away in Northern Ireland...

The Red Cross launched an emergency appeal Friday for $50.8 million for Myanmar following Cyclone...

Kabul, May 16 (Xinhua) At least five Taliban militants were killed and six injured Friday in a gunfight with the police in southern Afghan province of Zabul, officials said...

Arjun Atwal continuing his bid for full playing rights on the US PGA Tour next year, shot a fine three-under 69 in the first round of the BMW Charity Pro-Am on the Nationwide Tour in the...

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...

Cricket Australia (CA) is contemplating its own version of Indian Premier League (IPL) within two years after the inaugural Twenty20 tournament has become a mega-hit in the...

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...

Revenues of IT companies have been growing at a healthy rate but US-based firms witnessed higher revenue growth than their Indian...

Beijing, May 16 (Xinhua) China's Ministry of Finance Friday set aside another 1.17 billion yuan ($167 million) for disaster relief work in the wake of Monday's massive earthquake in the...

The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its ally Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are embroiled in a fresh row - this time over journalist-businessman Salmaan Taseer who has been named the governor of Punjab...

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...

Beijing, May 16 (Xinhua) A moderate aftershock measuring 5.69 on the Richter scale jolted the Lixian County in China's quake-hit south-western Sichuan Province Friday, the seismological bureau...

Three wives of a Malaysian odd job worker appeared in a court to bless his fourth wedding. His first wife Wan Rukiah said: 'Go ahead, I have no...

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...

Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has released a biography of an Indian origin policeman who fought the communist insurgency during the British colonial...

A powerful bomb, apparently triggered by a suicide bomber, exploded in the heart of Colombo during rush hour Friday morning, killing and wounding an unspecified number of...

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...

India has condoled the death of Sheikh Sa'ad AI-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, father of the amir of...

Bogota, May 16 (Xinhua) Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has urged the country's largest leftist guerrilla group to free former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages in its captivity ahead of an European Union-Latin American summit in...

At least six policemen and a civilian were killed when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle rammed into a police bus in the heart of the Sri Lankan capital, officials...

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...

Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has confirmed his availability for the West Indies cricket tour, but he will miss the first Test starting next week, it was reported by the media here...

An improved fuel cell, developed by MIT engineers, not only delivers 50 percent greater output, but is also substantially cheaper than older...

Enraged residents blocked roads and began anti-Maoist demonstrations in Kathmandu's busy Koteshwor area Friday after allegations by a woman that her husband was abducted and killed by former guerrilla soldiers in a camp in south Nepal that is under the supervision of the...

Manmohan Singh arrived in Bhutan on a two-day visit Friday, the first trip by an Indian prime minister after the Himalayan nation became the youngest democracy in South Asia. He was received by his Bhutanese counterpart Jigne Thinley at the...

The Perak state headquarters in Ipoh of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) led by Malaysian Indian lawmaker Karpal Singh was attacked by two people with Molotov cocktails in what media reports termed an attempt to burn down the...

Beijing, May 16 (Xinhua) China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has ordered the local authorities to investigate the reasons why school buildings collapsed in Monday's earthquake, an official...

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...

Beijing, May 16 (Xinhua) There had been no minor quakes in the area around the epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in China's southwestern province of Sichuan May 12, the provincial seismological bureau said...

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...