Colombo, Aug 29 (IANS) Romesh Jayasinghe, the high commissioner to India, will be Sri Lanka's foreign secretary from Oct 1, the government has announced. ...More

Mexico City, Aug 29 (EFE) Mexico will receive some $4 billion in special drawing rights, or SDRs, from the International Monetary Fund to bolster its reserves and liquidity, the c...More

Mexico City, Aug 29 (EFE) Mexican authorities said they expect average daily crude output to fall in 2010 to 2.5 million barrels per day, which would represent a four percent drop...More

Washington, Aug 29 (DPA) Amid tears and laughter, in words and music, the family, friends and political rivals of Edward 'Ted' Kennedy remembered the former US senator at a privat...More

Washington, Aug 29 (DPA) Space shuttle Discovery blasted off in a midnight launch on a mission taking it to the International Space Station (ISS). Discov...More

Toronto, Aug 29 (IANS) People with speech disability will now be able to speak, literally. A Canadian professor at the University of Toronto says heat-se...More

Geneva, Aug 29 (Xinhua) Over 2,100 people worldwide have died from the influenza A (H1N1) since the virus was identified in April, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday....More

San Francisco, Aug 29 (DPA) The California couple charged with abducting an 11-year-old girl and holding her for 18 years denied all 28 charges Friday during a brief court appeara...More

Zurich, Aug 29 (DPA) Usain Bolt continued his winning run by beating fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell to claim the 100 metres at the Golden League meeting in Zurich Friday in 9.81 sec...More

Washington, Aug 29 (DPA) The space shuttle Discovery was set for a midnight launch on Friday after problems associated with a fuelling valve that forced previous delays were resol...More

Los Angeles, Aug 29 (DPA) The Los Angeles County Coroner Friday ruled the June 25 death of Michael Jackson a homicide and said that the pop star died of 'acute intoxication' by th...More

Los Angeles, Aug 29 (DPA) California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a wildfire emergency Friday in Los Angeles County as firefighters battled two blazes that forced the e...More

Vienna, Aug 29 (DPA) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) increased its pressure on Iran to prove it had not done work related to nuclear weapons, in a report published ...More

Kabul, Aug 29 (DPA) Afghan and international forces killed several militants, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan after they came under fire while travelling to search a mi...More

London, Aug 28 (IANS) The joint statement issued at Sharm el-Sheikh should provide the 'necessary impetus' for the resumption of the dialogue between India and Pakistan, President...More