Dhaka, July 10 (IANS) A US-trained political scientist and security analyst who has served in India has been appointed adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. ...More

Dubai, July 10 (IANS) Friday prayers were cancelled in China's Urumqi city where riots have left at least 156 people dead and over 1,000 injured, a media report said. ...More

Kathmandu, July 10 (IANS) Delhi-bound Anil Kumar Sharma had a traumatic experience in Nepal during his recent visit. The 40-year-old was stopped from boa...More

Kunming (China), July 10 (Xinhua) More than 300 people were injured and over 30,000 houses were damaged in an earthquake that hit China's Yunnan Province Thursday evening, authori...More

Washington, July 10 (IANS) Citigroup has announced changes in several top management roles in the company in what the troubled bank's Indian American CEO Vikram Pandit described a...More

Manila, July 10 (DPA) A failed effort by a spokesman to cover up the real reasons behind last week's hospitalisation of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has further er...More

Rome, July 10 (Prensa Latina) China has called on the group of eight industrialised nations (G8) to take steps to steady the exchange rate. It also propo...More

Moscow, July 10 (RIA Novosti) Several flights have been delayed at New York's Kennedy Airport when some 80 turtles blocked one of the runways, a media report said. ...More

Quetta, July 10 (IANS) At least five soldiers were killed and four wounded when the truck in which they were travelling struck a landmine in Pakistan's southwestern Quetta City, a...More

New York, July 10 (Xinhua) Bernard Madoff, who was charged with 11 criminal counts in the biggest investment fraud in history, won't appeal his 150-year prison sentence, his attor...More

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (DPA) French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pushing for an expansion of the Group of Eight (G8). 'The G8 are no longer representa...More

New York, July 10 (DPA) US stocks edged up Thursday, led by financial shares, which were buoyed by a positive report on banking giant Goldman Sachs. Bank...More

Washington, July 10 (Xinhua) The US defence department is sending thousands of mine-proof vehicles to Afghanistan to protect its troops from improvised explosive devices, official...More

Islamabad, July 10 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the international community should come forward to help the displaced people in the country's northwest ...More

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (EFE) US President Barack Obama has urged his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to help convince Iran to keep its nuclear programme peacefu...More