Pope Francis today declared the Internet “a gift from God,” in a statement released by the Vatican to mark the Catholic Church’s World Communications Day.The pope said the Internet “offers imm...

Geneva: UN human rights chief Navi Pillay urged Myanmar on Thursday to investigate reports that more than 40 people had been killed in attacks on Rohingya Muslims in the country's strife-torn Rakhine ...

Both a young boy and his grandmother are run over in Brazil but both make it out alive....

The US military has eased restrictions on religious clothing for the first time, but their new policy still falls short of what some advocacy groups were seeking.The Pentagon’s unveiling of its new ...

Cairo: Egypt's military-backed interim President said on Thursday that the country's uprisings have put an end to the police state and to abuses, part of a campaign to rebrand the security forces amid...

Justin Bieber has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and drag racing, it has been reported.According to law enforcement sources, the pop star was taken into custody for his invo...

Davos: India is looking to create as many as 100 million skilled jobs in the manufacturing sector by raising its share of GDP to 25 percent from 16 percent, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma...

Ankara: At least 21 people were killed on on Thursday during a bus accident in central Turkey, a local governor said.The bus tipped over after sliding on an icy road in a town in the Kayseri province,...

Washington: All schools in a Texas city were placed on lockdown Wednesday after an unidentified man made a threat against at least one campus.Authorities in Columbus, a city about 128 km west of Houst...

Damascus: Syrian state television broadcast a speech by opposition chief Ahmad Jarba at peace talks in Switzerland on Wednesday while at the same time showing footage of "terrorist crimes" in Syria. T...

Montreux: After a row of bitter exchanges with the United States over the Devyani Khobragade issue, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday met the US Secretary of State John Ker...

Edward Snowden, the famed National Security Agency (NSA) leaker, has found himself in the good graces of young Americans, a new Pew Research study has found.When asked whether Snowden "has served the ...

Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said he acted alone in leaking US government secrets and that suggestions by some US lawmakers he might have had help from Russia were "absurd," a US bas...

Hamilton: India were dethroned as the number one ODI team after they suffered an agonising 15-run defeat in a rain-truncated second cricket one-dayer against New Zealand, who have now taken a 2-0 lead...

According to the National Weather Service, the snowstorm will produce moderate to heavy snow with dropping temperatures in the area. The snow storm is expected to end by Wednesday evening, a news agen...

Worst Passwords list of 2013, 2013 Worst Passwords list, Worst Passwords of 2013, top ten Worst Passwords of 2013New Delhi: Software firm SplashData has released the 2013 edition of its annual "Worst ...

Beirut: A government air strike killed 10 people in a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria's main northern city Aleppo today, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reporte...

Chicago: A shooting on a US university campus left one person dead and a suspect in custody today in what police described as a targeted attack. Police provided few details as to why the gunman opened...

Twenty-two people were killed in a bomb attack on two buses carrying Shia pilgrims returning from Iran in Mastung area of Balochistan on Tuesday night.According to a Quetta based journalist Shahzada Z...

MOSCOW: The Russian lawyer of Edward Snowden said on Tuesday that the fugitive US intelligence leaker has feared for his life since reading of explicit threats against him by unnamed Pentagon official...