Around one million people have been evacuated from the Chinese city of Beichuan for fear that a dam may burst....

A reported plot against the life of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has postponed his return from Europe and South Africa where he had been in exile for a...

In Italy, angry residents of the city of Naples have set fire to the piles of uncollected rubbish lying in the streets....

Myanmar's government is denying entry to helicopters and relief supplies from U.S. Navy ships waiting offshore, near the Irawaddy...

Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama has lashed out at President George Bush for suggesting the Illinois senator would appease...

Freed Austrian dungeon boys Stefan and Felix Fritzl have taken their first ever steps in the outside world....

An Australian opposition party member has suggested a regime change in Myanmar if the generals continue to let the humanitarian crisis...

US President George Bush's request for Saudi Arabia to produce more oil has been rejected....

The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has accused European states of overturning the boats of Africans trying to reach...

The UN Committee Against Torture has reported that Indonesian police, armed forces and intelligence services regularly use torture on criminal suspects to extract...

A French warship carrying 1,000 tonnes of aid for cyclone victims in Myanmar is off the south coast of the devastated Irrawaddy delta, the French Defence Ministry said in Paris...

A visiting US official Saturday called on the Middle East countries to benefit from the United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s example of tolerance, WAM news agency...

Moscow, May 17 (RIA Novosti) The Russian Navy will participate in a large-scale submarine rescue exercise conducted by the NATO, a navy spokesman...

Moscow, May 17 (RIA Novosti) Georgia will continue to block Russia's entry to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) until Kremlin withdraws its support for the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, the country's reintegration minister...

Moscow, May 17 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Oleg Markov to the post of presidential aide in charge of personnel issues, Kremlin press service...

REM lead singer Michael Stipe has problems listening to Nirvana albums because the memory of his friend Kurt Cobain's death is still too...

Three Indian companies, including Religare, are bidding to acquire city stockbrokers Arden Partners, the Financial Times...

The UN agency that was invited by Nepal's major political parties last year to assist in the critical peace negotiations will exit the Himalayan nation July 23 after its contract ends, as it has no hope of getting an extension, according to a report tabled before the UN Security...

Almost all of the 800 million pounds ($1.6 billion) offered by Britain to help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change will have to paid back with interest, a newspaper reported Saturday. The revelation drew criticism from developing country diplomats and...

Lima, May 17 (DPA) The European Union-Latin America-Caribbean (EU-LAC)summit stressed in its final declaration in Lima that participants were 'deeply concerned by the impact of increased food prices', specifically citing troubled Haiti as an...

Filmmaker David Lynch is all set to make a new horror movie based on a Greek...

Don't go by its size. The Etruscan shrew, one of tiniest known mammals that weighs just two grams, ranks among the quickest, most ruthless and adaptive...

Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse reportedly rejected every song that rocker Pete Doherty wrote for thier collaborative...

Pop superstar Justin Timberlake has offered to perform at talk show host Ellen DeGeneres' wedding and said he would compose a song specially for the...

Elton John has been offered 2.6 million pounds ($5 million) to play for a Russian woman tycoon for just an...

Rafael Nadal meets Novak Djokovic in the Hamburg Masters tennis tournament semi-finals Saturday where the winner earns the number two ranking in men's...

Legendary rocker David Bowie has given permission for a stage show based on his...

Disgraced pop star Boy George has been forced to sell T-shirts for 10 pounds ($20) in east London to make a...

Moscow, May 17 (Xinhua) A Russian cargo spaceship has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) to deliver food, water, fuel and equipment for the crew, the Mission Control said...

New York, May 17(Xinhua) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a grant of $7 million to support relief efforts in the aftermath of Monday's massive earthquake in...

Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson described his team's qualification for the UEFA Cup as 'a dream' after they were confirmed as England's entrants through the Fair Play league...

Kathmandu, May 17 : United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has remarked that he does not anticipate the extension of the term of the United Nations Mission in Nepal...

Washington, May 17 : Nearly 30 per cent of the US' aid for Afghanistan and Pakistan is siphoned off as "overhead expenses", in the form of consulting fee and other costs, before it reaches the region, said US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher during a recent hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South...

San Mateo/ Mumbai, May 17 (ANI/Business Wire India): Eros International, the leading global studio of Indian filmed entertainment and Jaman.com, the premier online destination for international and independent films, announced a multi-year international partnership....

London, May 17 : Freed dungeon boys Stefan and Felix Fritzl have taken their first ever steps in the "magical" outside world....

London, May 17 : More than one million pounds of the British tax-payers' money will be spent annually on the security of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe Abu Qatada, once he is released from the Belmarsh Prison in South East London. He will be kept under house-arrest in a government...

Thimphu, May 17 : Having spent the better part of his two-day official visit to Bhutan lauding that country's emergence as the youngest democracy in the world and for its improving relations with India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, cautioned that the challenge before both would be to evolve a "model of sustainable, inclusive and equitable development in the coming...

The Gujarat special operations police forces have conducted searches in 35 different cyber cafes in Ahmedabad in the wake the Jaipur blasts....

Lima/The Brazilian government plans to launch an international campaign to defend the use of ethanol as an alternative to oil-derived fuels, a key advisor to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday in...

Georgia has sent an envoy to Russia to ease tensions between two countries over its break-away region...

Agencies US PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush, responding to Arab dismay about his praise for Israel, said on Saturday he was confident a deal on Palestinian statehood could be reached before he leaves...

TOKYO -- The food shortage that has hit Japan is announced by the glaring gap on supermarket shelves next to the margarine and the sour cream and just above the cheese. The butter shelf is empty....

"My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation... I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation," he said,...

ROME (AP) -- An American student suspected in the slaying of her British roommate in Italy must remain behind bars, an Italian judge ruled...

FEARS of an assassination plot against Zimbabwe's opposition leader delayed his long-awaited homecoming today ahead of an election showdown with veteran President Robert Mugabe on June 27. After...

The prime minister returned to Baghdad from Mosul - where he has been overseeing the crackdown - to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who made a surprise visit to Iraq on...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – A new round of talks between the Dalai Lama's envoys and Chinese officials is expected to be held in mid-June, Tibet's prime minister in exile said Saturday. Prime...

JERUSALEM – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday to discuss efforts to work out a cease-fire between the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip and...

South Africa coach Peter de Villiers has chosen most of the World Cup squad in a 42-man training group to prepare for June's two-Test series with Wales. Overseas-based John Smit, Victor Matfield,...

LAFAYETTE, La. - Six cars of a freight train derailed early Saturday, including one that began leaking hydrochloric acid, causing thousands of people to evacuate homes, businesses and two nursing...