San Francisco, July 17 (DPA) Web search giant Google reported a 19-percent increase in profits as cost cutting made up for a decline in online ad spending due to the recession. ...More

Paris, July 17 (DPA) One person was killed and at least nine were injured Thursday in the French city of Marseille when a stage being set up for a Madonna concert collapsed, a spo...More

Washington, July 16 (IANS) Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the United States achieved a historic feat when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. 'One small st...More

Washington, July 16 (IANS) Birds, deer, monkeys and other wild animals all bark -- but why are dogs more vocal than others? The reason is related to dogs...More

Bangkok, July 16 (Xinhua) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will sign pacts with the ASEAN countries for the US accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast A...More

Washington, July 16 (IANS) A student team in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering is providing the blind with an opportunity many never thought possible -- the opportunity to...More

Islamabad, July 16 (Xinhua) A UN official was shot dead Thursday in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, TV reports said. Ibn-e-Usman, an official of the UN Hig...More

Moscow, July 16 (RIA Novosti) A Nigerian lottery winner gave all her prize money to a street beggar an hour after being given the cheque, a website said. ...More

London, July 16 (IANS) Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon made it loud and clear to Manchester City that John Terry is not for sale and the England captain will fly to Seattle t...More

London, July 16 (IANS) Carlos Tevez's transfer to Manchester City might have cleared the Agrentine's ownership doubts, but the identity of the 'mysterious overseas consortium' tha...More

Washington, July 16 (IANS) The accidental discovery of a bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air paves the way for exciting new possibilities to deal with gl...More

Washington, July 16 (RIA Novosti) The White House has expressed sadness over the abduction and murder of Russian human rights activist Natalya Estemirova in the North Caucasus, an...More

Sharm-el-Sheikh, July 16 (IANS) The much anticipated meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani began in the Egyptian re...More

Tehran, July 16 (DPA) The remains of all 168 victims of a crashed Iranian passenger plane have been transferred to a coroner's office, the head of the rescue team Ahmad Majidi sai...More

Sharm-el-Sheikh, July 16 (IANS) The much anticipated meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani began here Thursday amid...More