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...More

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...More

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...More

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...More

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...More

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. ...More

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. ...More

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...More

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. ...More

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. ...More

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...More

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...More

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...More

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...More

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...More