Urumqi (China), July 26 (Xinhua) China has opened six hotlines to provide counselling service to the families of the victims of the July 5 ethnic riots in northwestern Xinjiang Uy...More

Sevastopol (Russia), July 26 (RIA Novosti) The Russian Navy is developing a concept of building a balanced nuclear missile force by 2050, the Russian Navy commander said Sunday. ...More

Paris, July 26 (DPA) The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) will re-analyse a number of samples taken from more than a dozen riders during the 2008 Tour de France, the daily L'Equip...More

Taipei, July 26 (DPA) The World Games closed in Kaohsiung Sunday with China boycotting the ceremony as expected. Just as they boycotted the opening cerem...More

Budapest, July 26 (DPA) Felipe Massa remains in a stable condition following emergency surgery for skull damage and a concussion suffered as a result of a crash Saturday in the qu...More

Budapest, July 26 (DPA) Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren-Mercedes claimed his first win of the 2009 Formula One season at the Hungarian Grand Prix Sunday. The...More

Damascus /Tel Aviv, July 26 (DPA) US special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell pushed a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace deal Sunday, as he met separately with Syrian Presi...More

London, July 26 (IANS) Pakistan's Foreign Minister S.M. Qureshi has promised to close down Pakistani sanctuaries for the Afghan Taliban after mounting US criticism, a newspaper re...More

Islamabad, July 26 (IANS) Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad, who brokered a peace deal between the militants and the government about six months ago in Swat Valley, was arrested by...More

Kathmandu, July 26 (IANS) Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Sunday dismissed reports in the Nepali and Indian media that his government was on an arms-shopping spree in In...More

London, July 26 (IANS) The website of Australia's biggest film festival was hacked into after a Chinese diplomat called to complain about the screening of a film about exiled Uigh...More

London, July 26 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has reportedly bought a 20 million pounds apartment in a posh area of London. The actor, who wa...More

Wellington, July 26 (IANS) Captain Daniel Vettori has said that New Zealand cricketers may not choose country over cash in the future if they are forced to chose between national ...More

Tehran, July 26 (DPA) Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi applied at the interior ministry for permission to hold a mourning ceremony for the victims of the recent prot...More

Kabul, July 26 (DPA) Two Afghan army soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, while Afghan troops backed by international forces killed 16 insurgents...More