UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that no religion in the world can condone the burning of the...

Mullah Omar, the shadowy figure who leads the Taliban, has issued a statement saying his group is winning the war in...

The Iraqi government has put on display hundreds of artifacts recovered from many different...

The government of Mexico, tired of drug war violence, is considering the legalization of marijuana and possibly other...

A coyote which bit humans in New York City has been tested positive for...

Children and teenagers are being found with serious eye damage after using laser...

An Mumbai-based documentary filmmaker is finally set to be released from a Texas jail after pleading 'no contest' to charges of illegally carrying brass knuckles in his luggage to avoid a lengthy...

The United States believes that India as 'an anchor of stability' in a critical part of the world will have to play a leading role in resolving regional and global issues more...

It's official: reality contest judge Piers Morgan is to take over Larry King's CNN talk show in January, the cable news station said...

The top US commander in Afghanistan warned Wednesday that a Florida pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran could be as harmful to the US as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in...

Rock-steady Serb Novak Djokovic tamed the big-hitting flamboyant game of Gael Monfils as he defeated the Frenchman 7-6 (7-2), 6-1, 6-2 Wednesday to reach a fourth straight semi-final at the US...

US President Barack Obama appealed for public support Wednesday against a Republican plan to extend tax cuts for the richest Americans, arguing that such a move would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national...

Hollywood star couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett's daughter Willow is following the footsteps of her father and has launched her own album, which is said to be inspired by R&B singer...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that no religion in the world can condone the burning of the...

Police in Pakistan Wednesday said they had arrested three men allegedly having links with Faisal Shahzad, held in New York in May on charges of plotting a failed bombing in New York's Times...

The Vatican has spoken out against an American pastor's plan to burn copies of the Quran to commemorate the Sep 11, 2001, terror attack, calling it 'an outrageous and grave...

Declaring that 'a new American moment' had arrived, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday said that President Barack will use his November visit to India to take its relationship with an 'indispensable' partner to the next...

Seizing a 'new American moment', President Barack Obama will use his November visit to India to take the relationship with an 'indispensable' partner to the next level, says Secretary of State Hillary...

In a move that would hit Indian IT companies, America's Ohio state has prohibited spending of public funds for services provided...

Maoists and Indian authorities should protect schools and children's access to education during the upcoming Bihar state elections, Human Rights Watch has...

Washington, Sep 8, (ANI): Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders held an emergency summit in Washington to condemn "the derision, misinformation and outright bigotry" about American Muslims over the proposed Islamic Community Center that is to come up near Ground...

Retired basketball player Dennis Rodman is said to have shocked partygoers when his sex romp with six girls was broadcast through a cordless microphone in his...

Tennis ace Serena Williams is said to be courting R 'n' B star...

Tom Barrack, the CEO of private investment firm Colony Capital, wants to make a 'rock star' of an unlikely figure - Bikram Choudhury, the yogi behind Bikram...

India and Latin American countries have steadily gravitated towards each other since the turn of the century, evidenced by rising bilateral trade and investment flows, said Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya...

The upcoming mid-term polls in November are presenting a grim picture for the Democrats, with a series of media polls claiming that majority of Americans would vote for the Republicans if elections were to be held today, and saying that they trusted the GOP more to handle issues like the...

Supermodel Naomi Campbell's billionaire boyfriend is reportedly set to buy her the former house of real-life Shakespearean heroine...

A new application called 'You the Man' aims at keeping boozy revellers from getting behind the...

Ben Affleck has revealed his new look-full head of grey hair-at the Venice Film Festival where he appeared with 'The Town' co-star Rebecca...

Two alleged mistresses of Tiger Woods, Rachel Uchitel and Jamie Grubbs, almost ran into each other in...

Beyonce Knowles' hubby Jay-Z threw an intimate party to celebrate his wife's 29th...

Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi has become the first Pakistan tennis player to qualify for the final of any Grand Slam competition. On Tuesday, he entered the US Open mixed doubles final along with Czech teammate Kveta...

India's Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan cruised into their first ever Grand Slam semifinal with a hard fought straight sets victory over 10th-seeded Dick Norman of Belgium and Wesley Moodie of South Africa in the US Open tennis tournament...

The US Justice Department is reportedly probing the throat slashing of a New York Muslim taxi driver by 21-year-old American film student Michael Enright, as a possible hate...

The man who snatched actress Kirsten Dunst's purse has been sentenced to four years behind...

Rafael Nadal was untouchable at the US Open, unbroken for the fortnight after reaching the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 defeat of friend Feliciano Lopez on a day of Spanish domination...

Indian American cancer geneticist Dr. Anil Potti's application for a US patent has been rejected, as he is under scrutiny for falsifying his CV and there are also doubts over the data included in his research...

An Indonesian maid who mixed her own urine with the formula milk she fed to a Hong Kong infant she was looking after has been jailed, a report said...

Rumours are abuzz that 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson is set to appear in the final episode of American drama comedy show...

Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, has been denied parole for the sixth time and will remain imprisoned for at least two more years, New York state officials have...

A woman claiming to be the love child of the late pop legend Michael Jackson has had her case thrown out by a Los Angeles...

A Thai Airways plane with about 200 passengers on board was grounded in Los Angeles Wednesday after a bomb threat was made, authorities...

The Schramm T-130 drill, Chile's Plan B for rescuing the 33 miners trapped underground since Aug 5, reached an excavation depth of 113 metres just two days after it started digging, officials...

GE and PepsiCo in India are among 12 American companies selected as finalists for the Secretary of State's prestigious 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence...

Another body was found Monday among the tonnes of mud and rocks that fell Saturday on a highway in western Guatemala, bringing to 45 the number of deaths in the torrential...

The United States says it will look to New Delhi to see what changes can be made to the nuclear liability bill passed by Indian parliament making suppliers of nuclear equipment also potentially...

As a Florida church vowed to move forward with a controversial plan to burn the Koran, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined other US officials in condemning it as 'disrespectful and...

An ex-soldier turned gunman has been accused of trying to kill the US...

A 70-feet-tall steel column, that literally formed the backbone of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, made a return to the original site and would be part of a memorial to the Sep 11, 2001 terror...

US White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has said that the presence of al-Qaeda and its extremist allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan is not an issue of concern for only the US, rather it is of international concern and that is the reason for deploying the international security force...