UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has declared that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are...

A Palestinian youth was killed over the weekend in clashes with Israeli...

Russians have rallied in force to protest economic conditions in the...

A student has died after being beaten to death by pro-Taliban radicals at a Pakistani...

Pope Benedict XVI has spoken from Rome to apologise to victims of child sex abuse by Irish...

Schoolgirls who were allegedly abused at Oprah Winfrey's academy in South Africa, will soon testify at an upcoming trial in...

As a young girl brought up in a conservative household in the Nepal capital, Ashmina Ranjit remembers how her mother used to scold her for touching things during menstruation. 'I used to hate that,' the artist says adding her anger inspired her to create and 'celebrate womanhood and the feminine...

With the death of Girija Prasad Koirala on the eve of the promulgation of a new constitution, the question of who would assume the mantle of leadership is plaguing...

Ethiopia's ministry of education has awarded Indian media house Laxmi Publications a contract to print and distribute textbooks and teacher training...

Mourned by thousands, including world leaders, Nepal's peace architect and former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala's last journey started Sunday, marking the end of an era and raising questions about the fate of the republic's fragile peace...

Projecting a requirement of 100,000 foreign workers, a Malaysian Indian trade body wants a dialogue with Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak over the prevailing shortage of foreign labour in the...

Calling nuclear power as the 'next frontier' where investments in India will come, the FICCI chief hopes the controversial civil nuclear liability bill goes through Indian parliament to bring in more foreign...

India will woo Canadian investment in its infrastructure during the four-day visit of Minister for Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath to Canada from March...

Two tonnes of watermelons fell from a truck on Auckland's southern motorway Sunday, closing the highway for more than two...

A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted the Papua New Guinea's coast Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey, Xinhua...

Ensuring that teenagers get a good night's sleep could make them less likely to use drugs, according to a...

Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow admits that she is a big fan of body...

London, March 20(IANS) Forget crash diets and obsessive calorie counting. A new study shows that it takes only slight changes to your eating habits to improve your long term...

London, March 20(IANS) Model Katie Price has been ordered to pay 'substantial' damages after falsely claiming her ex-husband Peter Andre was romancing his...

Pearls trade in Dubai has crossed the record $27 million mark last year, registering 30 percent increase in the import of the precious gem from several countries including India and...

Married people are twice as likely to become obese than their single counterparts, according to a new...

The death of Nepal's former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala was 'a huge loss for Nepal and its ongoing peace process', UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said...

A bomb exploded outside a police detention centre in Athens Saturday, although no one was injured, Greek radio...

Rapper 50 Cent has revealed his friend Eminem inspired him to want to become an internationally successful...

London, March 20(IANS) Singer Alicia Keys, who got engaged to music producer Swizz Beats in January, says she can't wait to have a...

London, March 20(IANS) Hollywood actress Demi Moore saved a man's life when she responded to his suicide threat on the social networking site...

Australian pop star Dannii Minogue loves being short because it is more comfortable on...

Veteran Spain defender Carlos Marchena is the latest player to join Valencia's lengthy injury...

Paleontoligists in China Saturday claimed to have found the skeleton of a new species of carnivorous dinosaur that believed to have lived about 80 million years...

US President Barack Obama Saturday appealed directly to the Iranian people and repeated his offer of a dialogue with Tehran in a video message timed to coincide with Nowruz, the Persian New...

Pope Benedict XVI Saturday apologised to victims of sexual abuse by priests in Ireland, saying he is 'truly sorry' for what they have...

Former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi's Iraqi List eked out a narrow lead over Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition in early election results announced...

The Russian Navy needs at least 50 nuclear-powered submarines to counterbalance the fleets of the US, Britain and France, a senior Navy official said...

At least 32 people, most of them Islamist insurgents, were killed Saturday in clashes with pro-government tribesmen and airstrikes by Pakistani military in the restive north-western region, security officials...

At least 14 militants were killed in an exchange of fire between Taliban and local residents in northwest Pakistan's Kurram tribal agency, local sources said...

More than 100,000 anti-government demonstrators joined a 'red caravan' protest on wheels through Bangkok's congestion-prone streets Saturday in an attempt to win the capital over and force the dissolution of...

Fate had written Girija Prasad Koirala, the man known as the Kennedy and Nehru of Nepal, would be at the helm of the Himalayan republic's politics, coming as he did from a family that was one of the biggest champions of democracy in...

Pakistan faces a staggering 4,500 MW power shortfall, leading to outages of up to 16 hours in rural...

Thousands of British Airways (BA) travellers suffered flight cancellations Saturday because of a strike called by cabin crews over pay and working...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah Saturday to push for talks that would eventually lead to direct negotiations between Israel and...

The Nepal government Sunday announced three-day state mourning for former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who passed away Saturday after multiple organ failures at the age of...

Oscar winner Christoph Waltz is to make his directorial debut with a German language movie 'Up and...

The Pakistan Army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, left Saturday on an official visit to the United States to participate in Pakistan-US strategic dialogue scheduled for March...

British singer Robbie Williams poked fun at his former Take That bandmate Mark Owen on stage while performing in...

Alarm and grief swept through Nepal Saturday after former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala - architect of the peace negotiations that ended a decade of Maoist insurgency - died following fortnight-long respiratory problems. He was...

Alarm and concern began to spread like wildfire in Nepal after former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, the architect of the peace negotiations that ended a decade of Maoist insurgency, slipped into a coma Saturday after suffering from respiratory problems for nearly a...

Former Nepalese prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, the architect of the peace negotiations that ended a decade of Maoist insurgency, died Saturday after suffering from respiratory problems for nearly a fortnight. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described him as 'one of Nepal's tallest leaders and an elder statesman of South...

Nepal's ruling parties are pitted against one another and the Maoists have joined the uproar as Nepal's government finally decided to award a prestigious contract for printing smart passports to a state-owned company in...

The editors of a German magazine have apologised to singer Beyonce Knowles after running an erroneous article about the singer and her marriage to rap superstar Jay...

Alarm and concern began to spread like wildfire in Nepal after former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, the architect of the peace negotiations that ended a decade of Maoist insurgency, slipped into a coma Saturday after suffering from respiratory problems for nearly a...