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...More

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...More

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...More

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...More

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...More

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...More

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. ...More

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...More

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. ...More

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...More

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. ...More

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...More

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. ...More

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. ...More

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...More