Islamabad, July 26 (DPA) Pakistani police Sunday said investigators were quizzing a former pro-Taliban lawmaker believed at the centre of the slaying of a Polish engineer by milit...More

Johannesburg, July 26 (IANS) There are trends developing in world cricket that are of concern to the future of the game, including in India, Indian coach Gary Kirsten said here, s...More

London, July 26 (IANS) Critics of a hotel project in the Andamans say the plan seems deliberately aimed at putting tourists at close range to the threatened Jarawa tribals, a news...More

Jakarta, July 26 (IANS) Gaganjeet Bhullar announced his arrival as the next big golfing star from India when he turned in yet another dominating performance with a flawless five-u...More

Lexington, July 26 (IANS) Sania Mirza moved into the final of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Lexington Challenger with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 win over Chinese Yuan Meng. ...More

Rome, July 26 (DPA) South Korean defending champion Park Taehwan Sunday failed to make it to the finals of the men's 400 metres freestyle at the world championships in Rome. ...More

Macau, July 26 (DPA) Former culture minister Ferdando Chui was elected as Macau's new leader Sunday after running unopposed in a poll of the former Portuguese colony's leading cit...More

Rome, July 26 (DPA) The newly-elected president of swimming's controlling body FINA has said that he believes that world records achieved with high-tech swimsuits should be kept. ...More

Manila, July 26 (DPA) Twelve homemade bombs were found aboard a passenger ferry in the Philippines just before it left port with more than 300 passengers, the coast guard said Sun...More

Kuala Lumpur, July 26 (IANS) Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmed who took up controversial issues like inter-racial relations is dead. She was laid to rest ...More

Sydney, July 26 (DPA) A British teenager who survived 12 days lost in the Australian wilderness was disowned by his father over the division of spoils from an exclusive contract t...More

Taipei, July 26 (DPA) Chinese athletes were to boycott the closing ceremony Sunday of the 8th World Games in Kaohsiung, south Taiwan, the Liberty Times reported. ...More

Johannesburg, Jul 26 (IANS) There is no onus on the Indian Premier League (IPL) to take responsibility for the possible decline in more traditional forms of the game in the wake o...More

Kathmandu, July 26 (IANS) As the toll in diarrhoea and cholera epidemics in western Nepal crossed 200 with thousands being affected in Dalit villages, Nepal's Health Minister Umak...More

Kathmandu, July 26 (IANS) A 65-year-old man died drenched in his own urine and stool in western Nepal after he was infected by the raging diarrhoea epidemic in his district but di...More