Chinese authorities say they expect the death toll from Monday's devastating earthquake in the southwestern Sichuan province, to reach at least 50,000....

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

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...

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...

A previously unknown Islamic group has claimed responsibility for a string of bombings that killed 63 people in Jaipur in...

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...

As the world is facing a severe food crisis, agriculture needs to be reinvigorated to produce enough food to feed the burgeoning global population, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has...

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...

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who arrived here Thursday on a five-day tour of Germany, called for 'genuine autonomy' in his native Tibet but stressed that he did not want the territory's complete independence from...

The International Cricket Council's elite panel of umpires might face a crunch if the highly-rated Simon Taufel decides to call it a day, tired of the constant...

Beijing, May 15 (Xinhua) Heads of states and international aid organisations Thursday offered condolences to the victims of the devastating earthquake that hit China's southwestern province of Sichuan...

President of the European Commission (EC), Jose Manuel Barroso, has sent a message to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing 'shock and great sadness' over the bomb-blasts in Jaipur, EuAsiaNews reported...

Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin revealed that the relations between the band members was so strained that they needed the help of producer Brian Eno to get back to talking...

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon is asking for half a million pounds more to return to the hit show 'X Factor' where she is a...

For thousands of Indians and other international visitors, an Australian holiday will become dearer beginning July as Australian tourist visa fees and airport departure tax soar following the Kevin Rudd government's first...

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal rebounded from their recent disappointments in Rome with contrasting victories in the second round of the Hamburg Masters here...

Former Bond girl Denise Richards wants ex-husband Charlie Sheen to visit a mediator with her because she feels the silence between them is bad for their...

All operations at the Arcelor Mittal steel plant here came to a halt as government officials began investigations into the death of an Indo-Trinidadian worker whose head was crushed by a machine used to compact rolls of steel at the...

Close pals of former 'Friends' star Jennifer Aniston fear that the actress could be set for yet another heartbreak as her new love interest John Mayer may just be in the relationship 'for...

The unexpected retirement of world number one Justine Henin has cast a shadow over the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Rome Masters, with top seed Ana Ivanovic crashing to a disheartening defeat in her opening...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was one of the first to congratulate Dutch coach Dick Advocaat after his side Zenit St Petersburg beat Glasgow Rangers 2-0 to win the UEFA Cup Wednesday...

A special team of Malaysian police began work Thursday at the country's international airport after a spate of...

In order to strengthen disaster relief in Myanmar UN-Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon wants to send a high-ranking representative of the UN to that...

Rajasthan Royals captain-coach Shane Warne and several other leading international cricketers have said they will not return to Jaipur unless they received absolute guarantees about their safety and security and are even contemplating returning...

Nordic airline Finnair is in talks with leading airlines in India for a partnership in order to strengthen its position in the local market...

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. ...

London, May 15 : Leakage of credit card and bank account details on the internet has been a regular scenario, but the latest entrant in this virtual world of identity frauds involves hackers tapping into voice-over IP telephony...

New York, May 15 : American actress Ashley Judd, who travels the world as a global ambassador for YouthAIDS, has revealed that she never had an easy childhood....

New Delhi, May 15 : A little known militant group Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's blasts in Jaipur through a mysterious e-mail to various television channels and warned India to stop supporting the US in the international arena or else will face more attacks at other important tourist...

London, May 15 : In the latest extract of her memoirs, 'Speaking for Myself,' Cherie Blair disclosed that she found love with her future husband on the top deck of a Number 74...

Washington, May 15 : An international team of astronomers has found the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way, which will help in understanding how often supernovae explode in our...

Further aid and comfort has reached China's earthquake-devastated areas, after the 7.9 magnitude quake in southwestern Sichuan province spawned rumours of chemical spills and dam...

Hitler , all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history," Bush added.With the...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Currency traders now suspect U.S. and European finance officials of some atypical arm-twisting to support the U.S. dollar at last month's G7 meeting, a gathering that...

PARIS (AP) -- Teachers, postal workers and other public servants staged a one-day strike and tens of thousands marched through French cities Thursday, a widespread protest against President Nicolas...

JERUSALEM – President Bush gently urged Mideast leaders to “make the hard choices necessary for peace,” leaving it to embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stand before a...

IJEGUN, Nigeria – A road-grader accidentally tore open a fuel pipeline Thursday and sent an inferno raging over houses and a school, setting off a stampede of terrified children and killing...

Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 18:00 CDT Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMP) today announced that its wholly-owned European subsidiary, Sucampo Pharma Europe Ltd., received notice that...

Now the world was watching new tragedies unfurl in China and Myanmar. On Wednesday, Gunathilaka reflected and said she didn't believe her village would ever recover. “All the good people are...

Last year Waitakere went straight into the tournament after playing in the amateur New Zealand Football Championship and as a result they were no match for Iranian champions Sepahan. Waitakere...

Celtic legend and former Scotland international Tommy Burns died this morning after a battle with cancer. It was announced last month that Burns, 51, who was first diagnosed with skin cancer in...

BOGOTA, Colombia – Interpol said Thursday that computer files suggesting Venezuela was arming and financing Colombian guerrillas came from a rebel camp and were not tampered with, discrediting...