Brasilia, Aug 28 (EFE) A total of 577 people have died from swine flu in Brazil, putting the South American nation at the top of the list of countries reporting fatalities from th...More

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 28 (DPA) Police in Malaysia have launched a manhunt for a Pakistani man who jumped bail after being charged with raping and sodomising his 15-year-old stepdaugh...More

Toronto, Aug 28 (IANS) Over 200 million Facebook users around the world scored a major victory Thursday when the social networking site agreed to implement new privacy safeguards....More

Jakarta, Aug 28 (Xinhua) An earthquake with magnitude of 6. 9 jolted eastern part of Indonesia Friday, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said. ...More

Tokyo, Aug 28 (DPA) The unemployment in Japan rose 0.3 percentage points in July to hit a post-war high of 5.7 percent, the government announced Friday. ...More

San Francisco, Aug 28 (DPA) A woman who was snatched as an 11-year-old from a bus stop was reunited Thursday with her family after spending 18 years as the captive of a convicted ...More

San Francisco, Aug 28 (DPA) US computer maker Dell reported a 23-percent drop in second-quarter profits Thursday as corporate spending continued to lag. ...More

New York, Aug 28 (DPA) US stocks gained Thursday after economic output figures signalled that the country's recession could be nearing an end. The US eco...More

Islamabad, Aug 28 (DPA) At least 28 people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing and a missile attack carried out by a US pilotless aircraft in Pakistan's troubled northwest r...More

Madrid, Aug 28 (EFE) Spain's gross domestic product fell 4.2 percent in the second quarter of 2009 compared with the same period in 2008, the largest such decline since 1970, the ...More

Johannesburg, Aug 28 (DPA) A bishop was arrested Thursday for raping his three daughters aged nine, 17 and 18 at their home in the Vaal Triangle region of South Africa, police sai...More

New York, Aug 27 (DPA) The United Nations Security Council Thursday renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year and called on parties in con...More

Washington, Aug 27 (DPA) NASA has delayed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery by 24 hours to allow more time to review data about a suspect valve in the liquid hydrogen fuel...More

London, Aug 27 (IANS) Canadian singer-actress Avril Lavigne has fuelled rumours she is set to split from husband Deryck Whibley after a series of solo nightouts in New York. ...More

London, Aug 27 (IANS) Hollywood actress-singer Beyonce Knowles is set to rent an apartment in Singapore for five million pounds. The 'Crazy in Love' sing...More