DHAKA: Voting began this morning in Bangladesh's violence-plagued general elections amid calls from opposition BNP and its allies to resist the polls, even as six persons were killed in clashes across...

New York: A small plane made an emergency landing on a New York City expressway on Saturday, resulting in minor injuries to the three members onboard and backing up a traffic on the major thoroughfare...

Kabul: A bomb exploded in central Kabul on Saturday in a district housing several embassies and NATO's military headquarters, but no casualties were immediately reported, officials said.The apparent i...

KARACHI: Violence triggered by MQM chief Altaf Hussain's demand for a separate province for 'Muhajirs' claimed 11 lives in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi on Saturday. Violence erupted in parts of ...

BOSTON: A blanket of white provided the Northeast with little relief from teeth-chattering temperatures that forecasters said will rise over the weekend before plunging again.At least 16 deaths were b...

WASHINGTON: The US has dismissed as a hoax a video purportedly showing CCTV footage of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade's strip search after her arrest, saying it is a "dangerous and provocat...

A video currently in circulation on the social media, which claims to be allegedly showing the CCTV footage of the strip search of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade after her arrest in New York, is a...

Mexico City: Nine people were killed and two others wounded Friday when armed men talked their way into a prison in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero and started shooting, authorities said. The d...

Cairo: At least 13 people died in clashes Friday across Egypt as police dispersed thousands of protesters demanding the reinstatement of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, the health ministry s...

A storm dropped a blanket of light, powdery snow across the Northeast and heralded in frigid temperatures Friday that were unusual even for cities accustomed to blasts of winter weather. The storm, wh...

Wellington:Eight Indian-origin people were injured, one of them critically, after a van they were travelling in fell down a cliff in New Zealand.They were on their way to Hawke's Bay from Auckland air...

Chicago: A 21-year-old man has been arrested in the US for allegedly stealing brains of dead mental patients from a medical history museum and selling them on an online trading website.David Charles a...

Kaneohe Bay (United States): US President Barack Obama played golf with New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key in Hawaii, in a rare vacation encounter with a foreign official. The statesmen hit the gre...

London: Over 1,000 aspirants, including 62 from India, have been shortlisted for an ambitious private mission to send four men and women on a one-way trip to Mars in 2024 to establish a permanent colo...

Baghdad: A truck packed with explosives blew up in a city north of Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 19 people, as security forces and allied tribesman battled to put down an uprising by al Qaeda-lin...

BEIRUT : An explosion tore through a crowded commercial street Thursday in a south Beirut neighborhood that is bastion of support for the Shiite group Hezbollah, killing at least five people, setting ...

JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma for eight years, was in critical condition on Thursday, clinging to life after a decline in the functioning of various bodily organs, his...

Melbourne:  An Australian teenager, charged with brutally attacking and robbing a 20-year-old Indian student in Melbourne, was part of a gang that targeted people of Indian appearance, a court he...

A crop circle that appeared mysteriously at a farm in Salinas, Calif., disappeared just as quickly, but not so mysteriously.The intricate pattern -- resembling a huge computer chip with dots in the mi...

Los Angeles: The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit on Wednesday for hacking into the social media accounts of Intern...