The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar...

Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting...

Zimbabwe's Unity Government has suffered what might be a fatal blow at the hands of President Robert...

Thailand has warned it will imprison migrant workers who attend anti-government rallies scheduled for this weekend in...

With vote counting underway in Iraq, officials have said their work is being complicated by the large number of overseas votes coming...

An American-born al-Qaeda spokesman, Adam Gadahn, who was supposedly captured in Pakistan over the weekend, has escaped an intelligence dragnet after...

US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Monday to take part in a high-level peace...

At a meeting in Vienna, the United States has told Iran it would be happy to work with the country on a drug eradication...

Uganda has told 300,000 people living on the slopes of Mount Elgon they will be immediately moved because of the risk of...

Eastern Turkey was struck by a 6.0-magnitude quake on Monday, killing 51...

A California state senator has come out as a homosexual after many years as a staunch opponent of gay...

Nicklas Bendtner scored a superb hat-trick as Arsenal produced a virtuoso performance to crush Porto 5-0 to storm into the quarter-finals of the Champions League...

The US government has charged a Pennsylvania woman with conspiring to commit terrorism by using the internet to find recruits to carry out attacks in Europe and South Asia, the Justice Department announced...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) were selected Tuesday winners of the 2010 UN Population...

Cypriot authorities Tuesday arrested two people, including an Indian national, for allegedly stealing the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave three months ago and said the suspects had earlier demanded a...

Actress Brooke Shields says being famous is like a 'drug' because it gives such great...

Hollywood star Johnny Depp's girlfriend Vanessa Paradis has been signed on as the new face of Chanel Coco Cocoon...

British pop star Robbie Williams has come under fire from anti-drugs campaigners for championing marijuana as a 'lovely'...

The United Nations mourned Tuesday 101 of its personnel who were killed by the devastating earthquake in Haiti in...

Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood's celebrity friends are leaving no stone unturned to help their pal overcome his alcohol...

Five suspected Al Qaeda members were arrested Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a police source...

Hollywood star Sean Penn's representative has denied reports that the actor was thrown out of the Governor's Ball after picking up a fight with producer Greg...

Russia will provide by the end of 2010 the first batch of low-enriched uranium for an international nuclear fuel reserve bank under control of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, a senior official...

Actress Brooke Shields is planning to narrate her side of the story about her marriage to retired tennis ace Andre Agassi in her own...

Cage-fighter Alex Reid, who doesn't mind men fantasizing about him, refused to pose nude for a gay magazine because he wanted to maintain his...

Disgraced American World No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods is reportedly working with swing coach Hank Haney in Florida, indicating that he is on course to play competitive golf from next...

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham says her heart goes out to heartbroken singer Cheryl Cole, whose husband Ashley Cole has cheated on...

Australia will strengthen legislation to better protect international students, including Indians, and ensure world class quality education for them, Education Minister Julia Gillard said...

Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz, who has teamed up with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake in 'Bad Teacher', says he is the best suited for the role and will entertain...

Pakistan's hockey captain Zeeshan Ashraf Tuesday offered to retire from international hockey following his team's poor performance in the World...

Indian-born industrialist and Labour Party supporter Lord Swraj Paul Tuesday said he is giving up his non-domicile tax status just as British police announced it was dropping a probe into his parliamentary expenses...

While a high voter turn in Iraq's parliamentary elections has been lauded by the West as a symbolic step towards democracy, critics and political commentators across the Middle East are viewing it nothing more than a window dressing to tidy up the image of authoritarian leaders and absolute...

Concerned over the precarious security conditions in that country, Tennis New Zealand has asked the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to move its upcoming Davis Cup tie against Pakistan to New Zealand or to a neutral...

Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has described all rounder Shahid Afridi as the 'best man to lead' the team in the forthcoming T20 World Championship in the Caribbean, and said the flamboyant cricketer should be appointed skipper for all the three forms of the...

India's legendary fast bowler Kapil Dev has been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in...

People who have the ability to taste fat are likely to remain slim as they tend to eat less fatty food, a new study...

Simple motor actions like moving marbles upward or downward between two cardboard boxes might seem meaningless to many. But a new study shows that such actions can partly determine people's emotional memories or help recall their good or bad...

Pakistan has strongly objected to Tennis New Zealand's request to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to move its upcoming Davis Cup tie against Pakistan to New Zealand or to a neutral venue due to security...

Former Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso has said that he is delighted to get another chance to lock horns with seven-times champion Michael...

An executive at internet giant Google said Tuesday that Washington's latest move to encourage service providers to expand their work into Iran, Cuba and Sudan was a 'great...

Britain has decided to provide 42million condoms to South Africa before the Soccer World Cup as part of HIV prevention...

Reports indicate that an international team of scientists has developed a new type of semiconductor called 'magnetic quantum dots' that could lead to faster and more efficient computers with over double the average existing hard drive storage...

A pig vaccine can eliminate the spread of a fatal form of brain disease known as neurocysticercosis. Tapeworm plays a vital role in the...

Actor Alec Baldwin admits he envies Leonardo DiCaprio and wishes his career would have been as successful as the 'Titanic'...

Recuperating New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder, who has had an operation to repair his long-term abdominal injury, is keen to prove his fitness after being included in the Black Caps' preliminary squad of 30 for the World Twenty20...

A man attending a movie in a US cinema has been stabbed after asking a woman to turn off he...

Legendary folk rock duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are reuniting for a concert tour in North...

'Good Charlotte' rocker Benji Madden is reportedly planning to move in with girlfriend and Playboy model Holly...

It was a case of real life spilling over from the reel for British girl for whom a routine movie outing turned out to be the ultimate marriage proposal. When the lights went out, Kerrie Richardson saw not 'Avatar' but a homemade movie starring her boyfriend who asked her to marry...

Hollywood actor George Clooney, counted as one of the world's sexiest men, doesn't fear experimenting new look as he knows he can get away with...