San Francisco, Aug 5 (DPA) A federal appeals court Tuesday ordered California to release some 40,000 inmates from its state prisons over the next two years, in a finding that ongo...More

Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) White and black Americans don't see eye to eye on last month's arrest of a black Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates by a white police officer,...More

Washington, Aug 5 (DPA) Two Russian nuclear-powered attack submarines have been spotted in the Atlantic Ocean off the US eastern seaboard, The New York Times reported late Tuesday...More

Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) India's Somdev Devvarman produced a stunner at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic here, dumping sixth seed Marin Cilic in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, in the secon...More

Kathmandu, Aug 5 (IANS) Six Indian were mowed down by a speeding car in the heart of capital city Kathmandu early Wednesday, the day Nepal celebrated the Rakshabandhan festival fo...More

A two-day international conference on genocide that concluded in Dhaka July 31 exhorted the UN to recognise the mass killings and rape that the Pakistan Army had unleashed in the ...More

Islamabad, Aug 5 (DPA) When Iran sought to hide its crackdown on people protesting the allegedly rigged presidential election of June 12, young Hamid Raza Khoshnya used his weblog...More

Sydney, Aug 5 (DPA) Three Australians were charged Wednesday with terrorism offences, bringing to four the number of suspects charged in a suspected plot to bomb an army base in S...More

Toronto, Aug 5 (IANS) The Canadian dollar - the only one among the major global currencies - is on the rampage, reaching its highest level against the US dollar in 2009 Tuesday. ...More

Washington, Aug 5 (DPA) US former president Bill Clinton left North Korea Wednesday morning with two American journalists who had been detained since March in the communist countr...More

San Francisco, Aug 5 (Xinhua) Social networking website Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth most trafficked website in the world, technology blog T...More

Pyongyang, Aug 5 (Xinhua) The two American journalists pardoned by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il left the country Wednesday aboard a chartered plane carrying the homebound forme...More

New York, Aug 5 (Xinhua) The UN Security Council has stepped up its efforts to protect children affected by armed conflict by adopting a resolution expanding a list of offenders w...More

Moscow, Aug 5 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his US counterpart Barack Obama have reaffirmed their commitment to drawing up a new strategic arms reduction pac...More

Vancouver, Aug 5 (DPA) Nearly 5,000 Canadians have had to flee raging forest and bush fires in the western province of British Columbia, the Vancouver Sun reported Tuesday. ...More