Bogota, Aug 27 (EFE) Colombian and US officials have seized more than four tonnes of cocaine and captured nine drug traffickers from a vessel in the international waters near this...More

Stockholm, Aug 27 (Xinhua) European health officials said more than 43,000 people have been affected by the swine flu in Europe. On Wednesday 745 new cas...More

Los Angeles, Aug 27 (DPA) Music legend Bob Dylan is to release his first ever Christmas album. The collection of songs will be called 'Christmas in the Heart' and will hit stores ...More

San Francisco, Aug 27 (DPA) Online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia announced a tightening of its editing rules Wednesday aimed at preventing vandalism, as it becomes an incre...More

Shanghai, Aug 27 (Xinhua) China's first indigenously built jet engine will debut in 2016, an official said Wednesday. 'China is expected to complete its ...More

Washington, Aug 27 (Xinhua) US Senator Edward Kennedy who died Wednesday after a battle with brain cancer will be buried at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia Saturday, h...More

New York, Aug 27 (DPA) US President Barack Obama is scheduled to preside over a UN Security Council session next month on nuclear disarmament - the first such event by the body th...More

Bangkok, Aug 27 (Prensa Latina) The number of people to die of swine flu in Thailand has risen to 119 after health officials confirmed eight more deaths from the viral disease Wed...More

Islamabad, Aug 27 (IANS) Interior Minister Rehman Malik said a task force would be constituted to address the problems of Pakistani students studying abroad, a media report said. ...More

Lahore, Aug 27 (IANS) The lawyer of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner awaiting execution in a Pakistani jail on terrorism charges, said the case has affected India-Pakistan relat...More

Warsaw, Aug 26 (DPA) Microsoft officials in Poland apologized Wednesday for a photo on the company's Polish website that changed a black man's face to white. ...More

Kabul, Aug 26 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai has significantly extended his lead over his challenger Abdullah Abdullah in the presidential election count, latest returns show...More

Senator Edward Kennedy, the influential American politician who died Wednesday in Massachusetts, was one of the first international figures to alert the world of the Pakistani arm...More

New York, Aug 26 (IANS) Hollywood comeback kid Mickey Rourke was reportedly grilled by security officials at a New York airport last week, after he tried to board a flight with t...More

London, Aug 26 (IANS) Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has beaten competition from co-native Hollywood stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman to be crowned Australia's most powerfu...More