Dhaka, July 8 (IANS) Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has come under fire in parliament for its report claiming that lawmakers waste public money by arriving late or sta...More

Washington, July 8 (IANS) Even as the US recognises that India and Pakistan are two sovereign nations, it can still do much to encourage them to continue to talk in the event of an...More

Vancouver, July 8 (IANS) In a racist attack that has shocked Canadians, three white supremacists have been arrested for targeting a lone black man in Courtenay city on Vancouver Is...More

London, July 8 (IANS) Weeks before he died, pop star Michael Jackson had advised singer Britney Spears to leave the music industry so she does not 'end up' like him. ...More

Dhaka, July 8 (IANS) The preference shown by South Asian nations for bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) may lead to the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) eventually beco...More

L'Aquila (Italy), July 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold a bilateral meeting with his British counterpart Gordon Brown in this earthquake-hit Italian mountain town W...More

Washington, July 8 (IANS) Calling Kashmir as a 'sensitive hotspot', President Barack Obama's nominee to be his envoy in India says the US would diplomatically encourage India and P...More

Rome, July 8 (IANS) Leaders of the world's wealthiest and most industrialised countries are being briefed about emergency evacuation plans by Italian authorities as the earthquake-...More

Sydney, July 8 (DPA) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should not be pressuring Pope Benedict XVI to make Australian nun Mary MacKillop a saint, a prominent Jesuit priest said W...More

Washington, July 8 (IANS) Noting that no nation has suffered more from terrorism than India, an influential US lawmaker wants Washington to help it break with the perilous politics...More

Washington, July 8 (IANS) Barack Obama's nominee to be his envoy in India has set taking the civil nuclear deal forward and breaking the impasse on the Doha Round as key priorities...More

Los Angeles, July 8 (DPA) From the fleet of Bentley limousines that transported his family, to the endlessly fawning comments of television anchors throughout the blanket coverage,...More

Rome, July 8 (DPA) Chinese President Hu Jintao has pulled out of the Group of Eight summit that starts Wednesday, Italy's Ansa news agency reported. The dec...More

Jayapura (Indonesia), July 8 (DPA) Indonesians begin voting Wednesday in only the second direct presidential elections in the country's history, with incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudho...More

Geneva, July 8 (Xinhua) The number of people displaced by the escalating conflict in Mogadishu has reached 204,000, making it the biggest exodus from the troubled Somali capital si...More