L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) Convincing her father to let her go to school has paid dividends for a teenaged Indian girl from a tribal area of Orissa. She has now rubbed shoul...More

Karachi, July 10 (IANS) Pakistan's banned Test pacer Mohammad Asif is eyeing a second successful comeback to international cricket this September after completing his one-year dop...More

Washington, July 10 (IANS) Middle-aged mice, fed with the anti-biotic rapamycin, lived between nine and 14 percent longer than other mice, according to a new study. The drug has t...More

Kabul, July 10 (DPA) Two British troops and at least two militants were killed in fighting in Afghanistan, the British and US militaries said Friday. The...More

Kathmandu, July 10 (IANS) Though they ended their two-month siege of parliament, Nepal's former guerrilla party, the Maoists, Friday indicated they would keep up their oppositio...More

Kunming (China), July 10 (Xinhua) At least one person was killed and over 400,000 people displaced when an earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale shook southwest China's Yunn...More

Moscow, July 10 (RIA Novosti) A Russian nuclear submarine that is to be leased to India and which was damaged in an accident that killed 20 people resumed sea trials Friday after ...More

Washington, July 10 (IANS) Sanjay Kumar, an Indian American researcher at California University, Berkeley is among 100 beginning researchers named by President Batack Obama as rec...More

Washington July 10 (IANS) Consuming fewer calories ensures a longer, healthier life, according to research on restricted diets involving monkeys. A team ...More

London, July 10 (IANS) The futuristic city to come up on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi will meet its entire energy requirements from renewable sources, producing neither carbon dioxi...More

Madrid, July 10 (DPA) Around 15,000 Real Madrid fans welcomed Karim Benzema to the club Thursday night, in another spectacular presentation of its new signings. ...More

Washington, July 10 (DPA) Michael Phelps, the 14-time Olympic gold medal winner, set a new world record in the men's 100-metre butterfly at the US swimming championships. ...More

Johannesburg, July 10 (DPA) Fishermen have pulled 18 bodies from the Indian Ocean off Tanzania more than a week after 152 people died in a Yemen Airways plane crash, a police spok...More

Kathmandu, July 10 (IANS) Amid increasing incidents of lynchings triggered by suspicions of kidnapping, Nepal police Friday said they had rescued an abducted young woman who was b...More

Islamabad, July 10 (DPA) At least 24 Islamist militants and four policemen were killed in overnight airstrikes in Pakistan's north-western region near Afghanistan, officials said ...More