Washington, Aug 11 (IANS) Over 350 new species, including the world's smallest deer, a 'flying frog' and a 100 million-year-old gecko, have been discovered in the Eastern Himalaya...
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London, Aug 11 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he is angered by the sentence of 18 months' house arrest passed against Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel laureate...
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Taipei, Aug 11 (DPA) A rescue helicopter sent by Taiwan's Air Force to ship supplies to a mountain village crashed in the southern county of Pingtung Tuesday, the rescue unit said...
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Tehran, Aug 11 (DPA) Iran's political opposition said 69 people were killed in protests over the June 12 presidential election which led to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ah...
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London, Aug 11 (DPA) He was loved and was hated, but even those who loathed him could hardly deny that Cristiano Ronaldo had a key part to play in Manchester United's latest hat-t...
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Melbourne, Aug 11 (IANS) Cricket Australia (CA) Tuesday dropped Michel Hussey, Peter Siddle and Nathan Bracken from the Twenty20 side and selected young wicket-keeper Tim Paine in...
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Hamburg, Aug 11 (DPA) Michael Schumacher will not return to Formula One racing due neck problems from a motorbike accident in February, he said on his website Tuesday.
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London, Aug 11 (IANS) The Pakistan-India defence forces' one-upmanship continues with the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) announcing it would induct four airborne refuellers based on th...
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Grozny, Aug 11 (RIA Novosti) The bodies of the head of a humanitarian organisation and her husband were found in Grozny early Tuesday, a spokesman for Chechen investigators said.
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Yangon, Aug 11 (DPA) A Myanmar court Tuesday sentenced opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in prison and hard labour, but the sentence was immediately commuted to 18...
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Islamabad, Aug 11 (Xinhua) Eight militants were killed in a US drone attack in northwest Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal agency, a media report said Tuesday.
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Washington, Aug 11 (DPA) Eunice Shriver, the Kennedy sister who started a world movement for rights of the mentally handicapped, has suffered a setback since her hospitalization o...
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Nairobi/Kinshasa, Aug 11 (DPA) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showed her claws in the Congolese capital Kinshasa after a student asked her for her husband's opinion.
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Jakarta, Aug 11 (IANS) About 4.9 million people are HIV positive in the Asia-Pacific region including in India and China, the World Health Organisation has said.
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Islamabad, Aug 11 (IANS) Holding that attacks on minorities posed a 'great challenge', Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday reiterated the government's resolve to s...
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