Seoul, Aug 5 (DPA) North Korean leader Kim Jong Il granted pardons to two American journalists who have been held in the country for months, South Korea's Yonhap news agency repor...More

Los Angeles, Aug 5 (DPA) MTV announced Tuesday the nominees for its 2009 Video Music Awards with singers Beyonce and Lady Gaga leading the field with nine nominations each. ...More

Seoul, Aug 5 (DPA) North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has granted a special pardon to two American journalists held for illegally entering North Korea on a reporting tour, South Kore...More

Baghdad, Aug 5 (DPA) US and Iraqi forces have captured a senior commander of terrorist organisation Ansar al-Islam in Iraq, the US military command in Baghdad said Tuesday. ...More

Nairobi, Aug 4 (DPA) US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Kenya Tuesday on the first leg of her Africa tour. Clinton's visit demonstra...More

Shijiazhuang (China), Aug 4 (Xinhua) Seventeen people were killed Tuesday when an under-construction building collapsed in China's northern Hebei province, officials said. ...More

New York, Aug 4 (DPA) The wife of convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff must give a monthly accounting of her spending to a court-appointed trustee, the Wall Street Journal reported ...More

Johannesburg, Aug 4 (DPA) One of Zimbabwe's vice-presidents, Joseph Msika, has died at the age of 85 after a battle with illness, the South African public radio reported Tuesday. ...More

Washington, Aug 4 (DPA) US President Barack Obama turned 48 Tuesday and plans to spend part of his birthday meeting with the 58 Democrats in the Senate to push his health care pla...More

Gojra (Pakistan), Aug 4 (IANS) The governor of Pakistan's Punjab province Tuesday said the militants from the Swat Valley are responsible for the communal clashes in this Pakistan...More

Seoul, Aug 4 (DPA) Former US president Bill Clinton arrived Tuesday in Pyongyang and met North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in an unannounced visit aimed at securing the release of t...More

Urumqi (China), Aug 4 (Xinhua) Chinese authorities Tuesday formally arrested 83 people in connection with the July 5 riots that left 197 people dead and more than 1,600 injured in...More

Seoul, Aug 4 (Xinhua) Visiting former US president Bill Clinton Tuesday met North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang and conveyed a verbal message from US President Ba...More

Stockholm, Aug 4 (DPA) The European Union (EU) is to be officially represented by Sweden as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in for a second term as the president of Iran, the Swedish...More

London, Aug 4 (DPA) The British government came under increased pressure Tuesday to answer allegations that its intelligence agencies were complicit in the torture of terrorism su...More