Beijing: China's official Xinhua News Agency says at least 27 people are dead and 109 injured after a group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China.Xinhua did not provide ...

MOSCOW/SIMFEROPOL (Ukraine): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday submitted a request to the upper house of parliament asking approval for the use of Russian troops in Ukraine, the Kremlin sai...

Melbourne: An Indian-origin man has been charged in Australia with several offences after the truck he was driving crashed into a car, killing four members of a family.Jobandeep Gill, a 27-year-old su...

US President Barack Obama has warned Russia against any military intervention in Ukraine after the country's new leaders accused Moscow of deploying forces in the Crimea region.A week after Russian-ba...

A 111-year-old Italian has been crowned the world's oldest living man by the Guinness Book of World Records.Arturo Licata, from Enna, Sicily, has been awarded the title after officials checked his bir...

Washington: Almost six in 10 Americans express disappointment with Barack Obama's presidency, according to a new poll, which also shows Republicans with the edge heading into mid-term elections in Nov...

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry decried what he called a "new isolationism" in the United States on Wednesday and suggested that the country was beginning to behave like a poor nation. Sp...

An anti-gay pastor of a church in Harlem, New York, has raised many eyebrows by putting up a horrific anti-gay sign in front of the church. Dr James David Manning, a man who has been openly critical o...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has restrained the Tamil Nadu government from releasing four other convicts serving life sentences in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.The apex court observed that the ...

Los Angeles: A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tr...

US President Barack Obama has told the Pentagon to prepare for the possibility that the United States will not leave behind any troops in Afghanistan after its troop drawdown at the end of this year, ...

Washington: A US company is planning to build an 'Outernet - a global network of cube satellites broadcasting Internet data to all the people on the planet - for free.The idea is to offer free Interne...

Baghdad: A car bombing in Baghdad on Tuesday killed at least 15 people and wounded 36, officials said.Two police officers said an explosives-laden car went off late Tuesday in the crowded commercial a...

Washington: For the first time since he came to office more than five years ago, more Americans now believe US President Barack Obama is not respected by world leaders than those who do, a Gallup poll...

Washington: It is the ultimate symbol of chest-thumping American patriotic pride and now the United States flag must be "100 percent made in the USA" -- at least where the Pentagon is concerned. A new...

Live: Samsung Galaxy S5 launch, Live: Samsung Galaxy S5 launch, Live: Samsung Galaxy S5 launch Live: Samsung Galaxy S5 launchHere’s a list of most of the specs:ScreenThe phone sports a 5.1-inch disp...

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who has spearheaded the campaign for universal education for children, has backed a campaign led by the 17-year-old British student Fahma Mohamed to get educ...

Barcelona: The world's biggest messaging service WhatsApp will add voice calls to its product in the second quarter of this year, its CEO Jan Koum said, days after its blockbuster $19 billion acquisit...

Beijing: China on Monday asserted that it had never waged a war to occupy "an inch of land of other countries", days after BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi slammed the Communist giant f...

Oleksandr Turchynov takes charge following the dismissal of President Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday. Mr Turchynov told MPs they had until Tuesday to form a new unity government.Later, in a TV address,...