Washington: US President Barack Obama today said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin's claim that an invasion of Ukraine was needed to protect ethnic Russians is not "fooling anybody" and this "med...

Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Kiev on Tuesday to show US support for the fledgling Ukraine government, and the Obama administration announced with his arrival a USD 1 billion energy subsidy pa...

London: A large ancient virus that lied dormant in the Siberian permafrost for at least 30,000 years has sprung back to life after French scientists revived it in the laboratory.The virus, found burie...

Vatican City: To err is human, to forgive divine – this is what Pope Francis must have consoled himself with after he ended up mispronouncing a word, that came to mean the Italian equivalent of F***...

Dead man walking! In a "miracle", a 78-year-old man in the US who was declared dead at his home woke up in a body bag just before being embalmed. Walter Williams, from Holmes County, Mississippi, was ...

Acid attack victim Laxmi wins international award, Indian Acid attack victim wins international awardWashington: Laxmi, a victim of acid attack and a standard-bearer for the movement to end acid attac...

Islamabad: The hearing in the high-profile treason case against former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday postponed till Wednesday after the judges failed to turn up due to a ...

Singapore has topped a list of 131 cities globally to become the world's most expensive cities to live in 2014, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), reported by the BBC. Here is a list ...

WASHINGTON: Any Russian ultimatum to Ukraine threatening a possible attack would be a "dangerous escalation" of the tensions in Crimea, a US official said on Monday. Washington was working to find out...

Vienna: Russian President Vladimir Putin is repeating history by acting in Crimea much like Adolf Hitler did in central and eastern Europe in the late 1930s, a former Czech foreign minister said in an...

Damascus: The Damascus representative of UN-Arab League Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has asked to quit his post, a UN spokesman said on Monday. Mokhtar Lamani, who heads Brahimi's Damascus office, "has...

WASHINGTON: As Russia dispatched more forces and tightened its grip on the Crimean Peninsula on Sunday, President Barack Obama embarked on a strategy intended to isolate Moscow and prevent it from sei...

Islamabad District Court Attack, Islamabad Court Attack, bomb blast in Islamabad District Court, Islamabad District Court bomb blast, Firing in Islamabad District CourtISLAMABAD: Unidentified armed me...

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Nigeria: The death toll from a twin bomb attack carried out by suspected Islamist militants in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri has risen to 46 people, a witness and a rescue official said on ...

Doha: Five Indians were among 11 expatriates killed in a deadly blast at a Turkish restaurant here in Qatar's capital.The blast tore through the Turkish restaurant, which is attached to a mall in Doha...

Canada-Russia : Canada recalled its ambassador to Russia and pulled out of preparation talks for the G8 summit in protest at Moscow’s belligerence over developments in Ukraine, Prime Minister Stephe...

China: More than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at a train station in southern China, drawing police fire, in what authorities called a terrorist assault by ethnic separatists base...

Tripoli: Libya's electoral commission Saturday announced the preliminary results from polls for an assembly to draw up a new constitution, although 13 of 60 seats remained vacant after unrest in sever...

Washington: A US court has granted a Sikh group's plea to serve summons on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in India under an international convention for alleged rights abuses during his tenure. A feder...