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Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai concluded his three-day US trip after his meeting with Deputy Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter at the Pentagon.

The University of Tokyo will begin offering free online courses as soon as by September, with a plan to issue certificates to people around the world ...

The Barack Obama Administration took another step toward institutionalising gay marriage, formally asking the US Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 ...

Angered by the jailing of scores of military figures, protesters in cities across Turkey are demanding justice with quiet but determined weekly ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has overseen a military drill, state media today said, his third such inspection in as many days as tensions run high ...

The prospect of a crippling economic sanction, “improving” electoral chances and his “desire” to be noted as the architect of India’s economic ...

The US military has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets — used in Air Force, the Navy and the Marines — as a precautionary ...

Georgia has executed a 38-year-old inmate convicted of killing two college students in 1995. Andrew Allen Cook was pronounced dead at 11:22 PM ...

A South Korean man who embezzled more than $ 4.0 million and had plastic surgery to evade capture, has been arrested after a hostess bar spending ...

A huge car bomb near the headquarters of Syria’s ruling party killed nearly 60 people and caused widespread destruction in the deadliest attack to hit ...

Amidst reports of Iran building an oil refinery inside Pakistan and a joint gas pipeline project, the United States today cautioned Islamabad against ...

North Korea will soon allow foreigners to tweet, Skype and surf the Internet from their cellphones, iPads and other mobile devices in its second ...

The VVIP chopper scandal hit Italian defence giant Finmeccanica has delayed publication of its 2012 results following the bribery probe into its Rs ...

A moderate earthquake today jolted two provinces in southern China, but no causalities were reported. A 4.8-magnitude quake jolted Heyuan city in ...

Russia has accused US diplomats of blocking a UN Security Council condemnation of a bomb attack in the Syrian capital that left at least 59 dead.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signed up for speaking circuit and will charge a whooping $ 200,000 per speaking appearance, making ...

In a bid to deter Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the US today warned Tehran of more sanctions and international isolations if it goes ahead with ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has joined the international community in condemning the terrorist attack in Hyderabad that killed more than a dozen ...

A Pakistani court has begun hearing a petition seeking the reopening of an 84-year-old case in which a court under the British administration had ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has signed into law a controversial bill that will give Pakistan’s intelligence agencies sweeping powers to conduct ...

Montepulciano produces one of Italy's oldest and famous red wines in a spectacular setting.

The Czech Republic became the latest country to detect horse meat in food products labelled as beef in a widening European food labelling scandal, ...

A string of recent violent attacks against journalists and media workers, including the murder of a blogger in Bangladesh, shows the urgent need to ...

Members of the Ahmadia Muslim community during their ‘Day on the Hill’ on last Friday have briefed US lawmakers on their alleged persecution in ...