Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has said it is time to finalize a deal on the Middle East peace...

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack which killed 10 parliamentary campaign workers and injured two others including a...

A US general has revealed the Taliban in Afghanistan are very short of money with their drug labs and supply routes under pressure from US...

The relief effort in the area hit by floods in Pakistan may be helped by a new request for Muslims to tithe for the aid...

A new book written by famous British physicist, Stephen Hawking, claims that God did not create the universe and the "big bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of...

A fuel tanker is aground on a sandbar in Canada’s far...

Another Gulf coast rig has caught fire, causing the United States Coast Guard to scramble into...

The three Pakistani cricketers, who are at the centre of an alleged betting scam, were provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday night after being charged under the anti-corruption...

Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake, an estimated 1.3 million Haitians are still living in temporary shelters while the country struggles with reconstruction and rebuilding a government, the United Nations said Thursday in an updated...

The International Monetary Fund Thursday pledged $450 million in emergency loans to Pakistan to help the country cope with a massive flood...

Four people were killed and one injured in Iraq Thursday by unknown gunmen and a roadside bomb, while an army base came under rocket attack...

Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman shocked the 67th Venice International Film Festival (Sept 1-11) attendees with a steamy lesbian scene with Mila Kunis in 'Black Swan' that opened the...

To deal with his successor Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair turned to Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson for...

The body that monitors betting patterns in Europe has said that none of the bookmakers that it regulates were involved in the Lord's Test 'spot-fixing'...

India went down 3-6 to Australia in their second match of the women's hockey WOrld...

Jamaican sprinter and three-time world and Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt has revealed that he loves...

Citing the rejection of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operational head Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi's bail plea, an editorial in a leading Pakistani newspaper has said that it is time for the country to evolve a strong legal system to boost its fight against...

The Netherlands will host a charity hockey match on September 14 to raise funds for Pakistan flood victims. This match will be played between Pakistan and Holland. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has extended its full support to the...

The United Nations expressed fears Thursday that flood-affected people in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan could move toward Iran, sparking illegal cross-border...

The World Bank has raised its emergency funding to Pakistan to one billion dollars to help the country cope with the unprecedented disaster caused by the...

The debate surrounding Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta's international future has ended with FIFA ruling that he is ineligible to play for England unless he holds a British passport at the time he first represented Spain in official competition 12 years...

Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson believes that David Haye has the charisma and talent to become the best heavyweight boxer around, but he still has to prove himself against the Klitschko...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has claimed in his memoir 'A Journey' that ex-US President George W. Bush was no 'dumb...

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed in his book that he was an animal in the...

Hindus have asked Europe to select another scapegoat in place of Roma (Gypsies) to blame for their ills and instead work on ending apartheid faced by them for...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has hit out at criticism being leveled against its anti-corruption unit, and expressed its determination to clean up the...

If you were planning to fly in a developing country, the results of this new study might change those plans, for the risk of airplane crashes is 13 times more than that in US and other First World...

As a US-brokered Middle East peace summit got underway here, US President Barack Obama urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to seize the 'moment of opportunity' as such a chance may not come again...

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed in his memoirs that wife Cherie had an 'incredible instinct' for offending people, especially the powerful...

Bombardier, a world leader in metro rail cars and aerospace business, said Wednesday that orders for its business jets still remain slack despite signs of global recovery. But demand for its metro cars remains strong, the company said, reporting a 27 percent drop in its quarterly...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Wednesday to seek a 'historic compromise' between Israelis and Palestinians that would lead to a peaceful resolution of the long-simmering Middle East...

A twelve-year-old girl, riding in a car which was driving through Tapuach Junction in the West Bank, has been hit with a stone which came through the...

Another 250 were wounded in the first major attack since huge floods devastated the country more than a month...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have met in a meeting promoted by...

Mexican authorities are searching for migrants they believe have been kidnapped in north...

Catherine Zeta-Jones has been angered by a medical diagnosis of her husband, Michael Douglas, in which he was told he has stage four cancer of the...

Authorities in Western Australia have used a large amount of explosives to blow up a live...

Libya has allowed 37 Islamists, including a former driver of Osama bin Laden and members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, to leave a prison in which they had been held since...

An evacuation has started in the US as residents of eastern beaches wait for Hurricane...

A New York man has survived after plunging from the rooftop of a 40 storey...

The United States has charged Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, with the US government still offering a reward of up to $5 million for information about...

In the US, a hostage drama played out at the US Discovery Channel has ended in the shooting of the...

The trapped Chilean miners have been sent down hot packaged...

US President Barack Obama has met with Israeli-Palestinian leaders in Washington to launch a series of meetings aimed at restarting direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian...

Pakistani bombers have targeted Shia Muslims, walking in a solemn...

The World Youth Conference (WYC) closed in León, Mexico last week with frustrated and confused delegates adopting what is being called the Declaration of Guanajuato, which will be presented to...

Last week at the World Youth Conference, organized primarily by the Mexican government and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the main event for most of estimated 5000...

Margaret Warner reports from Baghdad on the growing frustration among Iraqis -- and allies -- that a government has yet to be formed five months after parliamentary...

Iraq's security and the role of private contractors. Others asked about the condition of the infrastructure, electricity service and the status of...

meeting with President Obama at the White House , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sit down for the first of a series of meetings aimed at creating...