UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced a grant of US$7 million to support relief efforts in the aftermath of Monday's massive earthquake in...

Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama has lashed out at President George Bush for suggesting the Illinois senator would appease...

Freed Austrian dungeon boys Stefan and Felix Fritzl have taken their first ever steps in the outside world....

Myanmar's state media say the death toll from cyclone Nargis has reached almost 78,000 and that another 56,000 people are missing....

An Australian opposition party member has suggested a regime change in Myanmar if the generals continue to let the humanitarian crisis...

US President George Bush's request for Saudi Arabia to produce more oil has been rejected....

The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has accused European states of overturning the boats of Africans trying to reach...

The UN Committee Against Torture has reported that Indonesian police, armed forces and intelligence services regularly use torture on criminal suspects to extract...

The Gujarat special operations police forces have conducted searches in 35 different cyber cafes in Ahmedabad in the wake the Jaipur blasts....

Georgia has sent an envoy to Russia to ease tensions between two countries over its break-away region...

The run-off election for president has been announced by Zimbabwe's Electoral...

At least ten people, most of them policemen, were killed and over 90 injured when a suicide bomber rammed into a police van in the busy heart of the Sri Lankan capital at midday on...

Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl's threats to gas his cellar-dwelling family if they tried to escape, has proven a mere...

Italian police have arrested hundreds of suspected illegal...

In his latest audio message, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has vowed that Palestine will never be relinquished "as long as one true Muslim remains on earth."...

A US military court in the Japanese island of Okinawa has sentenced a 38-year-old US marine to four years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a 14-year-old Japanese girl....

China's Sichuan Province has suffered a severe aftershock which has triggered created fresh damage to buildings and severe...

Iran and a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency have finished their three-day talks here without resolving allegations that Iran is pursuing secret weapons studies....

DUBAI - Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape to mark Israel's 60th anniversary to continue to fight the Jewish state and its allies in the West.The al Qaeda leader, who has placed growing emphasis...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the United Nations is concerned with saving lives, not with politics, as he tries to ramp up aid efforts following Cyclone Nargis which struck Myanmar and has...

The United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today adjourned the trial of a former high-level official with the Serbian secret...

YINGXIU, China (AP) -- A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued 163 people who had...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took...

Last year, the panel imposed the harshest punishment it could render against the two states after they scheduled primaries in January, even though they were instructed not to vote until Feb. 5 or...

The top United Nations official in Sudan today welcomed the agreement to end the deadly fighting between Government forces and the former southern rebels in the disputed Abyei area, which has forced...

MARTINIQUE - A jury in Martinique has found a man guilty of murder after he set his ex-girlfriend on fire in front of the town hall three years ago.The public violent act occurred early in the...

WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) -- Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a...

The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) wrapped up its annual session today by emphasizing the need for ramping up investment in research and development in innovative and...

TOKYO: Japan have vowed to tighten up as they seek to win the inaugural Asian Five Nations title in style this weekend when they take on a Hong Kong side who are their only remaining...

Foreigners are confined to Yangon and roads to cyclone-battered regions are blocked in Myanmar. Photo / Reuters YANGON - Myanmar's military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around...

DETROIT (AP) -- A bitter 80-day United Auto Workers strike against an auto parts maker that has crippled dozens of General Motors Corp. factories could be coming to an end soon with a tentative...

LeBron James scored 32 points - 19 in the second half - and the Cavaliers forced a decisive and fitting finale to this home-sweet-home playoff series with a 74-69 victory Friday night over the...

WATERTOWN, South Dakota (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama said on Friday President George W. Bush's "failed policies" had strengthened U.S. enemies like Iran and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States intends to build a big new prison at its main military base in Afghanistan, a shift from earlier aims to transfer most detainees to Afghan custody, The New...

Lawyers say ex-soldier may rely on insanity defence in Iraq murder, rape case President George W. Bush's Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House yesterday as anti-war Democrats and...

McLEAN, VA (AP) -- The U.S. is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and translators in the war on terror, new Americans are...

KOTTAYAM, Kerala: The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) national secretary Amarjeet Kaur has alleged that the high inflation is due to the skewed policies of the UPA government at the Centre....

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was...

CANOVANAS, Puerto Rico (AP) -- For thoroughbreds in this U.S. Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a matter of life and death - losers often don't even make it off the...

Teenage girl was sexually assaulted by a man she met on the social Web site Girl's family claim MySpace didn't protect young users from sexual predators Court notes girl circumvented Web site's...

Days after calling German Chancellor Angela Merkel a political descendant of Adolf Hitler, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shook hands with her on Friday and apologized."I haven't come here to...

Texas says two pregnant girls from polygamist ranch are adults Case against sect hinges on the ages of pregnant girls Previously, authorities said 24 teens taken from the ranch were pregnant FLDS...

Fighter pilots used "Piddle packs," heavy-duty bags, when they had to "go" "Piddle packs" blamed for at least two crashes over the years, not always tidy Advanced...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. Aerial photos posted Friday at several celebrity Web...

Reuters photographer in stable condition after Iraqi police beat him with rifles Police said photographer ignored request to stay away from dangerous scene Reuters said the photographer had...

LONDON - The British military acknowledged Friday that one of its planes carrying more than 60 people in Iraq was damaged by insurgent fire - more than a year after it said there was no immediate...

STOCKHOLM: Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have in two recent studies shown that a receptor called ALK7 plays important roles in the regulation of body fat...

BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake...

RIYADH (Reuters) - President George W. Bush flies to Egypt on Saturday for talks with Palestinian leaders who will be looking for signs they will not be neglected after he lavished praise on Israel...

France's ambassador to the UN has accused Burma's government of being on the verge of committing a crime against humanity by not accepting foreign aid. Jean-Maurice Ripert made the comment during...