Campaign officials for Barack Obama say his new running mate will join the Democratic hopeful onstage this coming weekend in Springfield,...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused NATO of overemphasising its support of Georgia after the alliance declared there could no longer be business as usual with...

Russia and Georgia exchanged prisoners Tuesday as Russian troops slowly began pulling out of the conflict region in...

The leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition have failed to agree on a consensus candidate to succeed Pervez Musharraf as president, to provide him indemnity and to work out the modalities of restoring the judges who were sacked after an emergency was declared last...

The United States says it will study any application for asylum by ex-Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf but has pointed out that no such bid had been made so...

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has died in the Percy Military Hospital in Paris after being hospitalised there for more than a...

Lawyers for Indian doctor,Mohamed Haneef, who was arrested in Australia on terrorism charges, which were later dropped, say he has been vindicated in a new enquiry which has criticised the methods of the Australian Federal...

NATO and the European Union have strongly condemned Tuesday's suicide bomb attack against a police academy in Algeria that left at least 43 people...

A stolen 1933 painting by the legendary Spanish painter Pablo Picasso has been found abandoned in Sao Paulo by the Brazilian...

NATO should take a strong line with Russia over its use of force in the conflict with Georgia, but that strong line should not imperil NATO-Russia dialogue, the alliance's foreign ministers said at an emergency meeting in Brussels...

Two senior Congress leaders in India and three others have been charged by the Punjab vigilance department for the illegal construction of a building on government land in Amritsar...

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which begins Sep 3, will be a lighter affair this year in terms of film themes and their...

Colombo, Aug 20 (Xinhua) The Sri Lankan government Wednesday urged the international community to put pressure on the Tamil Tigers to allow civilians to leave the conflict zones to...

Troubled singer Amy Winehouse and her husband have become neighbours - the 'Back to black' singer has booked into a clinic which is only a short drive from the jail where Blake Fielder-Civil is...

The picture postcard land of lakes, reindeers and the mystic Santa Claus - Finland - has caught the Indian traveller's fancy. Statistics reveal that the number of Indian tourists to the small Nordic country has jumped by over 50 percent in the last one...

"Basic Instinct" star Sharon Stone is reportedly dating a man who is less than half her...

Indian car maker Tata Motors, which is planning to produce the world's cheapest car selling at 1,700 euros ($2,600), also has plans to produce an electric-drive version, according to a German press...

In a poll outcome set to delight children worldwide, British adults have voted Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling as their three favourite writers, putting them well ahead of authors of the critically acclaimed 'serious...

India will hold a special briefing for the 45 members of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) later Wednesday in an effort to get the existing ban that prevents nuclear commerce between NSG countries and New Delhi...

The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) international luxury executive airline Royal Jet has announced a new fare structure for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...

Discovering the advantages of international love, volunteering to try out one of the more than 100,000 condoms being handed out in the Village, or simply out to party is an Olympic experience down to the last...

Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is reportedly set to become a superhero in an adaptation of comic book classic...

NATO and the European Union (EU) strongly condemned Tuesday's suicide bomb attack against a police academy in Algeria that left at least 43 people...

Tbilisi/Russia and Georgia exchanged prisoners Tuesday as Russian troops slowly began pulling out of the conflict region in...

Military observers of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be deployed in Georgia starting this week, after Georgia and Russia reached a compromise and the organisation approved the mission...

A cell of young Pakistani-origin men found guilty of terror offences may have been plotting to attack the queen and other members of the British royal family, a newspaper reported...

An Iraqi interpreter, who was recently granted asylum in Denmark but was asked to divorce one of his two wives, has opted to return to Iraq instead, reports said...

Dubai, Aug.20 : The International Cricket Council will decide today whether next month's Champions Trophy will be held in Pakistan or in some other...

Islamabad, Aug 20 : Around 63 percent of people in Pakistan are happy at former president Pervez Musharraf's resignation, while 15 percent regret the move, a new survey conducted by Pakistan's unit of Gallup International has...

New Delhi, Aug 19 : The Sports Ministry has announced a prize money of Rs. 50 lakhs to Abhinav Bindra, for his gold medal in the Beijing Olympics 2008, under the scheme of special award to medal winners in International Sports events....

Kathmandu, Aug 19 : Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' met visiting Norwegian Minister for Environment and International Development Erik Solheim here...

United Nations, Aug 19 : United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is said to be ready to intervene for resolving the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, provided both India and Pakistan agree to his...

File photo shows US Marines holding detainees in Fallujah. The trial of a former US Marine accused of killing two Iraqi detainees during fighting in Fallujah four years ago began Tuesday with jury...

The Interior Ministry said the attack had targeted a paramilitary gendarmerie training school at Issers, 55km east of the capital. The ministry said 42 of the dead were civilians and one was a...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- British glam rocker Gary Glitter was refused entry into Thailand, officials said Wednesday, a day after the convicted child molester was freed by Vietnam following nearly...

The RBA will soon have discussions with PayPal on how the latter can accommodate its wishes. "There isn't a fixed date set yet," an RBA spokesperson said. "It won't be just one...

World Bank chief Robert Zoellick yesterday suggested limits for a proposed agricultural safeguard that torpedoed WTO trade talks last month, saying the world's poor need a successful Doha...

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations commemorated the fifth anniversary of the bombing of its office in Baghdad that killed 22 staffers, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. UN chief Ban Ki-moon...

WASHINGTON -- Republican John McCain again insisted victory in Iraq "is finally in sight." So why, asked Democrat Barack Obama, does his presidential opponent still oppose a timetable for withdrawing...

Sarron Malot, an 18-year-old cook, appeared in Napier District Court on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island today where he admitted peeing into council ticket machines. He has become the...

When his boss at the Long Island Marriott Hotel asked Army Spc. André Darnell Mitchell why he joined the military, he had an answer ready. "The love of my mother, the love of my country, and I'm...

DFAT note says NZ PM, controlling and left-wing Briefing provided to journalists Clark calls it a "bit of a laugh" NEW Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has laughed off an briefing note describing...

BANGKOK, THAILAND -- The Islamist bombers who killed 202 people on the resort island of Bali in 2002 have exhausted appeals against their death sentences, but they are returning to court to argue...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale inflation soared in July, leaving U.S. prices rising at the fastest pace in nearly three decades. While recent declines in oil and other commodity prices raise hopes...

ACTING Prime Minister Julia Gillard has defended slashing ministerial staff numbers amid warnings that public service cuts have put operational support for the Northern Territory intervention at...

BAGHDAD: Iraq will soon sign its first big international oil deal since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a $1.2 billion oil service contract with China, Oil Minister Hussain Al Shahristani was quoted as...

KABUL: French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Kabul on Wednesday in a show of support for French troops after 10 were killed in the deadliest attack yet on international forces in Afghanistan....

AUSTRALIANS could soon be travelling to London for $500 on low-cost airline AirAsia X, which will start flying within months. The Malaysian-based airline today announced its latest international...

WARSAW: Washington and Warsaw were set Wednesday to sign a deal on basing an US missile shield in Poland, in the face of strident opposition from Russia which has warned the Poles they risk attack....

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Just a day after Pervez Musharraf's resignation, Pakistan's governing coalition fell into wrangling Tuesday over restoring the judges he fired, exposing troublesome...