The Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has defended the placement of tens of thousands of classified US military files on his...

Residents of the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea have been pleading for help from the international community since their homes began sinking into the...

Heavy smog has been covering Russia's capital due to forest fires which have been raging for three...

Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, and Hidenori Ogata, 33, faced the hangman's noose after being convicted of multiple...

The federal court in the US has put a block on certain parts of a controversial new immigration law in...

The British prime minister has insulted the Pakistani government by claiming that Islamabad has been "exporting...

The Russian government will sell $29 billion worth of assets on the open...

Shops in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza have been told to dress their window mannequins to ensure lingerie is not on...

The Times of India has reported that an Indian teacher has been beaten to death by an angry mob after making a homemade porn film with one of his...

Jerusalem police have told deputy mayor Yitzhak Pindrus he will not be able to hold a so-called “donkey parade” alongside the annual Gay Pride Parade this...

Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg was stopped by police for allegedly running a stop sign as he was driving through Los...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the Pentagon is conducting an aggressive investigation into the source behind the leaking of tens of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan to the internet whistle-blower...

Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan is spending time in jail by 'creating art' and eating sweet snacks, says her...

A pair of dentures worn by war-time British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were auctioned for 15,200 pounds, thrice the expected...

'Rush Hour' star Chris Tucker reportedly owes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) $11.5 million in unpaid...

A representative for socialite-heiress Paris Hilton has denied she has been paid $1 million to party with a Malaysian...

Hollywood star Bradley Cooper has said he 'can't wait' to go to Thailand for 'The Hangover...

The seven doctors, who were under investigation over King of Pop Michael Jackson's death last year, will not be...

A man who allegedly tried to hijack a passenger plane at Moscow's Domodedovo airport was detained...

The Islamic Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, Thursday rejected the Arab League's conditions on which its support for direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks depend, calling them a...

A set of gold-plated false teeth worn by British wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill were sold for 15,200 pounds ($23,740) at an auction in Britain...

The Arab League laid out its three main conditions Thursday for supporting direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but the group remained doubtful if a stalemate could be...

A former Indian-American executive faces up to 20 years in jail after pleading guilty to stealing $34 million from stereo headphone manufacturer Koss Corporation for her 'irrational and excessive buying...

Japanese carmaker Toyota is recalling more than 400,000 cars in the US over fears of defects in the steering system, the company said...

Iran Thursday said it is ready to rethink its uranium enrichment to 20 percent level if it will be supplied with fuel for Tehran research...

Etihad Airways has, for the third consecutive time, passed a rigorous aviation industry safety...

The United Arab Emirates will develop comprehensive, professional and academic programmes for fighting sexual exploitation and abuse of...

Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar scored his fifth double century, after six years, to lead India's fightback in the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground here...

His father may have been an officer in an elite Israeli combat unit who went on to become prime minister, but that was not enough to save corporal Yair Netanyahu when he turned up late for...

Pakistan's hockey selectors Thursday ignored veteran drag-flick ace Sohail Abbas for the preliminary squad for this year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Asian Games in Guangzhou,...

A 45-year-old woman, who is the mother of two grown-up girls, has been charged with the murder of her eight newborn babies in...

Bicycles will become London's latest mode of public transport from...

Russia Thursday denied reports that it agreed to deliver S-300 air defence systems to...

Three birdies in the last five holes saw Indian golfer Gurki Shergill come in with a round of five-under 66 that placed him tied fifth at the end of the first round in the Brunei Open here...

The survival of some of the world's largest freshwater fish - including a giant catfish - is threatened by a series of hydro-power dams planned for the Mekong River, a leading environmental group has...

Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 100 people and injured dozens more in Pakistan's north-western province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, local media reported...

At least 130 people were killed when a boat with 250 passengers on board capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an official said...

Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar smashed his fifth double hundred and Suresh Raina scored a century on debut as India took a slim 27-run first innings lead at the end of fourth day's play in the second cricket Test here...

It has been billed as the wedding of the decade and of the century, but President Barack Obama has no invitation to the star-studded weekend wedding of former first daughter Chelsea...

Researchers have found a molecule that causes nerve cell death in the brain, sparking Parkinson's disease, and hope they can soon stop it in its...

A strong undersea tremor hit southern Philippines Thursday but no tsunami alert was issued, the US Geological Survey (USGS)...

Thailand has threatened to withdraw from the UN's World Heritage Committee if it approves a Cambodian management plan for an 11th-century Hindu temple straddling the two countries'...

The following is the scoreboard at the end of fourth day's play in the second cricket Test match between India and Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club here...

Patients with knee or hip problems will be able to 'grow' new replacement joints in the future, scientists...

A clash between Taliban militants and guards of a private security company left 10 people dead in Ghazni province of Afghanistan Thursday, police...

India made 669 for nine in the first innings, in reply to Sri Lanka's 642 for four declared, and took a 27-run lead at the end of the fourth day's play in the second cricket Test here...

The Sri Lankan High Court held its first hearing Thursday in a case against the former army chief, charged with bringing disrepute to the...

Latest temperature readings from the upper atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean in a new climate change report from the Met Office in Britain and its US counterpart have provided the 'greatest evidence we have ever had' that the world is...

Worshippers at a mosque in a Saudi Arabian village near Mecca discovered they were praying for 10 years in the wrong direction, a newspaper in the country reported...

Sachin Tendulkar hit his fifth double cetury and test debutant Suresh Raina scored a ton as India made 589 for five and closed in on Sri Lanka's mammoth first innings score of 642 for four declared, at tea on the fourth day of the second cricket Test here...