Wellington, Aug 17 (IANS) A thief provided his name and contact details to a store clerk in New Zealand's Christchurch city 'before grabbing money from the cash register in full v...
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Melbourne, Aug 17 (IANS) A second man has pleaded guilty to attacking India-born doctor and former head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Mukesh Haikerwal in this Austra...
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Kampala, Aug 17 (DPA) Rosemary Bagagga, a penniless AIDS sufferer, is five months pregnant, but what worries her most is that she may not be able to get the drugs she needs to kee...
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London, Aug 14 (IANS) A British minister Friday defended his decision to walk out of a Muslim wedding where men and women were separated, saying such practices ran against his eff...
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Sydney, Aug 14 (IANS) An Australian man accused of killing three of a family in 2003 had faked a brain tumour and claimed he had only six months to live, in an attempt to gain sym...
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Kathmandu, Aug 14 (IANS) He created a storm by choosing to visit China immediately after assuming office last year as republic Nepal's first prime minister.
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Yangon, Aug 14 (Xinhua) US Senator Jim Webb has arrived in Myanmar to hold talks with the country's military leadership, according to an official statement Friday.
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Washington, Aug 14 (IANS) An Arizona man caught leaving water bottles in the desert for illegal immigrants has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service and a year of proba...
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Washington, Aug 14 (IANS) New research shows that even in people who have been blind since birth, the brain still separates living and non-living objects.
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Montreal, Aug 14 (DPA) Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal resumed their dominance in tennis, with the top two seeds powering into the quarter-finals of the Montreal Masters.
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Cincinnati (Ohio), Aug 14 (DPA) Kim Clijsters reached a Women Tennis Association (WTA) quarter-final for the first time since early 2007 as her comeback to tennis continued full t...
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Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday termed terrorism as the biggest threat to the country and said his government was committed to eliminat...
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New York, Aug 14 (IANS) Unsustainable use of water in India's northern states threatens farm output and can fuel the spectre of a major water crisis, distressing 114 million peopl...
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Kathmandu, Aug 14 (IANS) Two years after one of Nepal's Living Goddesses -- the Kumaris -- was sacked by her priests for travelling to the US, another Kumari will make her appeara...
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Washington, Aug 14 (IANS) Although open-heart surgery is a frequent treatment for heart disease, it remains extremely dangerous. But an injected protein can potentially regrow blo...
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