The US government is concerned a Supreme Court ruling about the legal rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, could see suspected terrorists walking...

At least eight policemen have been in a Taliban insurgent attack on a check post in southern Afghanistan, while three suspected rebels were held for weapons smuggling in the...

The most senior judge in the UK, Lord Phillips has inflamed an existing controversy by saying that Muslims in Britain should be able to live according to Sharia law....

The Chinese government has told the Dalai Lama they will not hold further talks with him unless he publicly declares that the activists of Tibetan Youth Congress should not disturb the Beijing Olympic...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has become a controversial figure almost overnight with his latest comments on...

People magazine in the US has reported that Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but lives as a man due to hormone treatment, has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital....

US President George Bush has said he will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing...

U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain is meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon Thursday on the final leg of a three-day trip to Latin America....

Michael Scheuer’s new work “Marching Toward Hell” is very clear with its overall purpose of exposing where American interests have gone wrong in their interactions with the various peoples, beliefs, and religions of the Middle East....

Around two hundred Zimbabweans have sought refuge at the US embassy in Harare....

In the US, an internal State Department report suggests celebrities may have had their privacy breached by...

A car bomb has exploded near one of Baghdad's major hospitals, killing four people and wounding...

All nine defendants in Austria's biggest banking scandal BAWAG fraud case were given prison terms Friday, with the bank's former CEO getting the maximum sentence of nine and a half years in...

Zimbabwe Friday voluntarily offered to withdraw from the World Twenty20 tournament to be held in England in 2009, it was announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC)...

Singer Annie Lennox is the latest artist linked to the next James Bond movie's title...

Oscar winning actor Forrest Whitaker was mobbed at the Eiffel Tower and the security was forced to shut it down so that he could see it in...

Country singer Kenny Chesney was so depressed after his brief marriage to Renee Zellweger ended that he couldn't write songs or perform for...

The Oasis lead singer Noel Gallagher was upset when his partner Sara McDonald told him that the title he wanted to give to his new album was a Geri Halliwell...

Troubled supermodel Naomi Campbell was snubbed by rapper Jay-Z at a party thrown in London to launch the champagne Armand De...

Minsk/At least 50 people were injured when a bomb went off early Friday in Belarus' capital Minsk during a concert celebrating Independence Day, officials...

Ministers from eight South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries have resolved to work together to build regional capacity for mitigating the impacts of climate change and consult each other before international...

Washington, July 4 (Xinhua) US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has said that he will 'refine' his Iraq policy, but pledged not to change his basic policy position on the...

The Williams sisters lined up in a third Wimbledon final while veteran outsider Rainer Schuettler won a marathon to reach a semi-final against Rafael Nadal at the Wimbledon Championships...

Washington, July 4 : A new research into the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns a previous theory that hypothesized that the Americans had come from Asia....

Washington, July 4 : Actor Morgan Freeman has been roped in to play former South African leader Nelson Mandela in a new film about the 1995 Rugby World...

London, July 4 : An Indian woman has become the world's oldest mother after giving birth to twins - at the age of...

Police in London have been shocked at a frenzied attack on two French...

Britain says it will double assistance to Pakistan to secure the trouble-plagued border, which is shared with...

Eight people have been arrested in Cuba, in an action against opponents of the communist government....

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on says he will establish anti-corruption legislation by next...

India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy moved to the semi-finals of the Wimbledon men's double event here...

International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday named former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd as the new chairman of the high-profile ICC Cricket...

The family of a 30-year old East Jerusalem man who went amok Wenesday with a bulldozer, killing three people, say he was not a...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) failed to reach consensus Thursday on the fate of Zimbabwe's membership and decided to take a last call...

Four-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams cleared the penultimate hurdle towards a possible return to the trophy as she defeated fifth seed Elena Dementieva 6-1, 7-6 (7-3) in their Thursday...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is awaiting a security report of the ongoing Asia Cup in Pakistan before it can take any decision on holding the Champions Trophy there in...

Top Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh, chasing for a British Open berth, got off to a flying start at the European Open with a superb card of four-under 68 for a tied second after the first round at the London Golf Club here...

In a major victory for Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday changed the result of the controversial Oval Test in 2006 from an England win to a...

It was a proud and unthinkable moment for about two score women scavengers from remote parts of India who staged a catwalk with prominent fashion models in front of the representatives of over 150 countries at the United Nations headquarters here...

Pakistan's hockey chief Thursday promised to host an international tournament next summer in the memory of former premier Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated last...

India's long distance runners won three gold medals at the BMC Gold Race meet held at Watford on the outskirts of...

Islamabad, July 3 (Xinhua) Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Shah Qureshi would visit the UN headquarters in New York Tuesday for consultations with the world body for probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, an official said...

Warsaw, July 3 (RIA Novosti) Poland and the US have reached an agreement on the deployment of an American missile base in Poland, a Polish TV channel...

India and the Arab League Thursday discussed issues relating to the Middle East in a meeting External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee held with Arab League chief Amr...

Indian companies are in the top league of foreign investors in Britain, according to government figures published...

London, July 3 (DPA) With his Wimbledon over and the US Open less than two months away, Lleyton Hewitt is determined to find a solution to the left hip tear problem that has compromised his season - even if it means missing several months through a possible...

London, July 3 (DPA) Methodical Swiss champion Roger Federer is taking a long-term view about his Wimbledon...

The Colombian security forces may have freed Ingrid Betancourt from the captivity of Colombia's largest leftist insurgency group, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to have won a political victory from the undercover...

Moscow, July 3 (RIA Novosti) Russia has said it is ready to talk with Japan over territorial issues but insisted that its sovereignty over the southern Kuril islands north of Japan is...

The pressure had built at this edition of Wimbledon for Andy Murray. But it's all a part of the game now for no-stress home...