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Four members of a Sikh family, including two minor children, have died in Atlanta in the US state of Georgia under mysterious circumstances with the ...

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would testify before a key Congressional ...

Tokyo summoned China’s envoy today in protest after what it says was another incursion into its territorial waters around islands at the centre of a ...

The explosion that killed 37 people at the headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil firm was caused by a gas build-up, officials have said, ruling out ...

"Anybody on the Republican side even thinking or talking about running for president in 2016, I’ve said needs to get their head

Indicating a tacit understanding between Islamabad and Washington over drone strikes, a US scholar has said that the Pakistan Government has now ...

With John Kerry starting his term as America’s top diplomat, the US has asserted that people-to-people and public diplomacy relations with India are ...

Boeing has asked US aviation authorities to let them carry out 787 Dreamliner test flights after the planes were grounded worldwide following a fire ...

Toyota Motor Corp raised its fiscal year profit forecast on Tuesday to triple what it eked out for the disaster-struck previous year, as the world’s ...

Switzerland’s biggest bank UBS AG has reported a fourth quarter net loss in 2012 of 1.9 billion Swiss francs ($2.08 billion) due to lawsuits and ...

Sri Lanka has suspended sending maids to work in Saudi Arabia following an international outcry over the beheading of a young Lankan housemaid in the ...

Britain’s treasury chief warned the country’s banks on Monday that they face being broken up if they fail to protect their retail operations from ...

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, spoke publicly for the first time on Monday since she was attacked last ...

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak believes North Korea could detonate multiple devices when it goes ahead with a nuclear test expected in the ...

A bipartisan group of 11 influential Senators has sought “legal justification’’ from US President Barack Obama for using armed drones or other ...

With the focus on helping India build up its community colleges, a senior US official is visiting the country to enhance an educational partnership ...

Hitting the road once again in his trademark style, US President Barack Obama has said it is “time to do something” to prevent the kind of deadly ...

Maintaining that its move to build three more dams on Brahmaputra river in Tibet will not affect the flows to down stream areas, China today said it ...

Women in Paris can finally wear trousers without fear of criminal prosecution after the government said a more than 200-year-old ban no longer had any ...

Wikipedia is aiming to use mobile phones to reach a billion people by 2015, a senior executive has said, doubling the present number. The rapid spread ...

Etihad Airways, the fast-growing carrier of Abu Dhabi, posted a 200 per cent rise in net profit in 2012 and a 17 percent increase in revenues, the ...

Russia’s main stock exchange said today that its initial public offering set to be held in Moscow later this month will value the company at $4.0-4.6 ...

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik today said he had ordered an inquiry into the death of Indian national Chambail Singh, who died after he was ...

Banks in the oil-rich countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are becoming active buyers of stakes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...