Afghan officials say a U.S.-led coalition air strike has killed 22 civilians in eastern...

US experts, investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center, say building fires on several different floors probably caused the collapse....

Leading defense officials from the United States and Israel, meeting in Israel this week, raised the controversial attack on the U.S. ship USS Liberty, by Israel, in June...

North Korea has refused to take further steps to dismantle its nuclear...

In Pakistan, nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, has said his country may have supplied nuclear centrifuges to North Korea under the supervision of the...

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has asked for demolition orders for two homes belonging to Palestinians behind recent deadly attacks against...

An angry Robert Mugabe, after flying home from an African Union summit, has told thousands of his supporters that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai should not think he will renounce the...

California firefighters appear to be holding two bushfires burning along the California...

Elements opposed to Asif Ali Zardari, co-chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that leads the country's ruling coalition, have begun to pool their energies to 'return the party to the Bhutto family' that has been at the centre of the country's politics since the late...

The heart of Toronto city turned into a mini-Bengal as more than 50,000 Bengalis from North America and India descended on the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to join in what has been billed as the biggest Bengali cultural show outside West...

Kandahar/An Afghan parliamentarian and renowned chieftain from the southern Kandahar province was assassinated overnight by unknown gunmen, an official said...

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has expressed his happiness over the rescue of former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other people held hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) insurgents and decried hostage-taking as...

After making sweeping immigration changes last month, the Canadian government Monday begins nationwide consultations to identify occupations needing manpower from countries like...

Two days after she and 14 other hostages were rescued dramatically from the captivity of Colombia's leftist guerrillas, former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt has urged the insurgents to be 'good losers' and stand down, EFE reported...

President George Bush has reiterated that there will never be an effective agreement on climate change without the participation of emerging economies like China and India. He also said the world must wake up to the "beauty of nuclear power" that produces renewable energy with "zero greenhouse gas...

Anaconda, an innovative wave energy concept, holds the key to cheaper energy from the sea...

Bogota/The daring rescue of 15 hostages from leftist rebels in Colombia used a fake team of Colombian commandos posing as journalists to ease the way into the FARC camp in the...

A conservation worker in New Zealand has killed a flightless takahe - one of the world's rarest birds - by mistake, it was reported...

Renovations to a research institute will turn the facility into Singapore's first zero-energy building by next year, news reports said...

Japan's northern town of Toyako is known for its beautiful green surroundings, blue lake and majestic mountains, but despite its natural beauty the area is still getting some touch ups ahead of the G8 summit meeting July...

Six months ago, anyone driving a truck at night on the highway linking Baghdad and Iraq's most southerly city of Basra would have needed nerves of steel or had to be suicidal. Now, since the offensive that got going last March against Shia militias and criminal gangs in Basra, the night highway is relatively...

Hangzhou (China), July 4 (Xinhua) At least 10 people were missing Friday after their boat sank off the coast in eastern China, the police...

Pakistan made short work of Bangladesh in their final Asia Cup Super Four game, thrashing the visitors by 10 wickets at the National Stadium here...

The fFollowing is the final scorecard Asia Cup cricket match in which Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by 10 wickets here...

An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale Friday jolted the Kadekan region in Iran's north-eastern province of Razavi Khorassan, IRNA news agency...

Qingdao (China), July 4 (Xinhua) Thousands of soldiers and volunteers Friday in the eastern Chinese coastal city of Qingdao, where the Olympic sailing events would be held, were battling to clear a major algae bloom in the...

In a rare medical development that has neurologists fascinated, a Canadian woman has acquired a new accent after suffering a brain...

Islamabad, July 4 (Xinhua) Two Pakistani journalists were kidnapped Friday by Taliban insurgents in the country's north-western region, a media report...

Pakistani pacers Abdul Rauf and Rao Iftikhar Anjum ripped through the Bangladesh batting line, bowling out the visitors for a paltry 115 in the final Asia Cup Super Four game here at the National Stadium on...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Friday made it clear that it has no plans to sack captain Shoaib Malik and coach Geoff Lawson a day after the home team crashed out of the six-nation Asia Cup...

Harare/Police in Zimbabwe have put seven elected opposition members of parliament on a wanted list in a move that is likely to further jeopardise the possibility of a resumption of talks between President Robert Mugabe and his political...

Iran said it would respond Friday to the package of incentives offered by five Security Council members and Germany (P5+1), official IRNA news agency...

Shahid Afridi's critics believe that the senior Pakistani all-rounder has lost his lightning reflexes that once made him the most dreaded pinch-hitter in the game. His fans and supporters are of the view that the player, who was dropped for Pakistan's dead rubber against Bangladesh here Friday due to poor form, is just passing through a lean patch and will soon return to...

An Indian worker died of a heart attack as he prepared to visit India on his first holiday in two years while another committed suicide in...

Driven by rising corporate demand, Asia's second biggest serviced-apartment operator, Frasers Hospitality (Frasers) is looking at India, China and Vietnam as areas of expansion, the firm said...

Till 24 hours ago, few in Nepal knew about Nihita Biswas. But as the news of her becoming engaged to imprisoned former crime guru Charles Sobhraj spread like wildfire, the 20-year-old overnight became the quarry of the media at home and...

It is not just companies sending work offshore, computer science students in Australia are outsourcing assignments to programmers in India and other...

Indian public sector Bank of Baroda (BoB) has announced that it would be offering wealth management services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and its joining hands with Reliance Mutual Fund (RMF) marked the beginning of this...

Brazil has said it would increase annual exports to China threefold to $30 billion by 2010, EFE reported...

Researches have devised an inexpensive test to verify whether vegetables have been grown organically or with the help of synthetic...

Nepal's Terai plains, which emerged as the main stumbling block to the formation of a new government after the April elections, were paralysed Friday as three minor parties called a shutdown to oppose the demand for a single Madhes...

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

Islamabad, July 4 (Xinhua) One person was killed and seven others injured in an explosion in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province Friday, Dawn News TV channel...

Rio de Janeiro, July 4 (Xinhua) Following the Colombian troops' dramatic rescue of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others from the country's largest leftist rebels group, Brazil has called for an end to armed struggle in Latin...

Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt arrived in Paris Friday as questions arose about the official story regarding her...

The International Cricket Council Friday said it was overwhelmed by the response of the member countries to preserve the sanctity of the Test cricket and holding a Test Championship could be a way to...

The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) jumped above $140 a barrel for the first time Thursday, a statement issued by OPEC said...

A Pakistani court on Friday allowed controversial pacer Shoaib Akhtar to return to international cricket for the summer by temporarily suspending his 18-month ban but the player will have to prove his fitness to make his comeback in the Pakistan team, an official...

Khabarovsk (Russia), July 4 (RIA Novosti) Russia would hand over two border river islands to China in August, a senior Russian security official said...

A British minister says Muslims in Britain 'feel like the Jews of Europe' and related how he has been targeted for physical...