London, Aug 12 (IANS) Rapper Corey Miller faces a mandatory life sentence after a jury in New Orleans, Louisiana found him guilty of second-degree murder. ...More

Cairo, Aug 12 (RIA Novosti) The police in the Egyptian resort city of Hurghada have arrested a woman on charges of polygamy, a media report said. The 25-year-old waitress was marr...More

Washington, Aug 12 (IANS) Pakistan's nuclear facilities have been attacked three times by home-grown extremists over the past two years, but there is 'no waning confidence regardi...More

Washington, Aug 12 (IANS) In the first significant outcome of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India, the US has given clearance to Indian Space Research Organisat...More

Toronto, Aug 12 (IANS) Indian Canadians celebrated India's independence day in advance by holding a grand parade and a cultural extravaganza in the heart of the city here. ...More

Toronto, Aug 12 (IANS) In a rather sweeping advisory to its citizens travelling in India, the Canadian foreign office says terror attacks, bomb blasts and violence can happen at a...More

Berlin, Aug 12 (DPA) When Baerbel Gruebel was 25, she and her husband Ota decided they would risk anything rather than have their two young children grow up in Communist East Germ...More

Bogota, Aug 12 (DPA) Conservative Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has said that he would seek a third term in office if a referendum on presidential re-elections was approved. ...More

San Jose, Aug 12 (DPA) Costa Rican President Oscar Arias was suffering from the A-H1N1 virus, or swine flu, the government announced. Arias, 68, had a co...More

New York, Aug 12 (DPA) The UN Security Council met Tuesday to discuss a Myanmar court's verdict against the country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but failed to agree immed...More

Sydney, Aug 12 (DPA) The wreckage of a light plane with 13 people on board that went missing in Papua New Guinea has been found, officials said Wednesday. ...More

Paris, Aug 12 (Xinhua) French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday urged the European Union to impose tougher sanctions on Myanmar, denouncing a court ruling against democracy icon A...More

Baghdad, Aug 12 (Xinhua) At least eight people were killed and 30 others injured in two separate car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Tuesday night, the police said. ...More

Budapest, Aug 12 (DPA) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom expressed outrage Tuesday over plans by neo-Nazi groups to hold a commemoration marking the death anniversary of Adolf Hit...More

Washington, Aug 12 (DPA) The US called on Russia Tuesday to rigorously investigate the murders of a human rights activist and her husband in Chechnya. 'I...More