Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama....

Iran has executed two youths who were convicted of murder when they were fifteen years of...

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with "a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric", but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American...

Russian-backed paramilitaries are ethnically cleansing villages on Georgian soil, The Times has quoted refugees and officials, as saying....

The G7, the seven most industrialised nations, have issued a stinging condemnation of the Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia....

The death toll in Haiti from tropical storm Gustav has risen to 14....

St Stanislaus College, in Bathurst, New South Wales, is under fire over child-sex allegations, following which the police sex crimes squad has been called in to investigate the claims involving a former college boarder subjected to alleged late-night sex...

Barack Obama has swept to the Democratic presidential nomination after thousands of national convention voted him...

New Guinean authorities, with the help of the Australian, US and Japanese governments, are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II...

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has used a visit to Ukraine to warn Russia not to start a new Cold...

The US economy grew at 3.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008, the government said Thursday in revised figures that showed strong international trade had helped stave off a feared...

Georgia's foreign minister called on the UN Security Council Thursday to take action against Russia, alleging it had breached international security by its action in her...

The US-based Citibank has advised Pakistan to secure help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avoid default on its foreign debt repayments in the face of an ongoing political...

A British court has found a Pakistani-born man guilty of child cruelty after he forced two teenaged boys to flog themselves with a bladed whip during...

Both Sri Lanka and India will make changes in their line-ups for the fifth and final One-Daye International (ODI) at the R. Premadasa Stadium here Friday. India have already won the series 3-1 and the final match will be a dead rubber, but for the Sri Lankans their pride is at stake after their poor showing in the...

London, Aug 28 (Xinhua) Former London mayor Ken Livingstone will act as an adviser to the Venezuelan government in refurbishing the country's capital,...

Moscow/Paris, Aug 28 (RIA Novosti) European Union (EU) countries are considering imposing sanctions on Russia over the Georgia crisis, the French foreign minister said...

Dubai, Aug 28 : The England and Wales Cricket Board today confirmed it is working with the Dutch, Scottish and Irish cricket authorities to ensure that as many tickets as possible for the ICC World Twenty20 2009 (ICC WT20 2009) get to the fans of the three Associate...

London, Aug.28 : European leaders like British Foreign Secretary David Miliband have condemned Russia for jeopardizing European security by recognizing Georgia's two breakaway regions -- Abkhazia and South...

Thailand's criminal court has issued arrest warrants for eight leaders of an anti-government protest group that took over several state buildings to try to force the administration to...

Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar...

Nearly 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in coalition airstrikes and clashes with Afghan forces, while four Afghan policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern region on...

President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has granted an executive pardon to 700 prisoners, both UAE nationals and expatriates, lodged in various jails across the country ahead of the Islamic holy month of...

Washington, Aug 28 : American actor Brad Pitt was stunned when he was handed over the Best Actor trophy he had won last year for 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' at the 65th Venice International Film Festival....

Bangalore, Aug 28 (ANI/Business Wire India): Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services announced that it has won the prestigious Intel Global Innovation Award for Storage at the Intel Developer Forum 2008 in San Francisco....

London, August 28 : Monopoly fans in London joined forces with players in 22 cities across the world on Wednesday to attempt a world record for the most people playing the game at any one time....

Beijing, Aug 28 (Xinhua) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) have entered into a partnership to support rebuilding of southwest China's Sichuan province devastated by the May 12 earthquake, the UN agency said...

Patients discontinuing statin medication after acute myocardial infarction, increased their risk of dying over the next year, said researchers at McGill...

Washington, Aug.28 : The United States, Europe and several of their allies have termed Russia's decision to recommend independence to two Georgian rebel provinces of South and North Ossetia as...

Islamabad, Aug 28 : Pakistan would not be able to get civilian reactors from the West, which would in fact bring along nuclear acceptance from the World community, until its Army controlled its nuclear arms, said a report in the Financial Times on the basis of opinion of a host of Western...

London, August 28 : NASA has confirmed that a computer virus made its way into space, through a laptop carried to the International Space Station (ISS) in July this...

New York, Aug.28 : Indian American Indra Nooyi, the Chairman and CEO of Pepsico U.S., has been ranked as the third most powerful woman in the world by Forbes...

Spain striker David Villa finally negotiated a deal to improve his contract and stay at Valencia, as the club turned down an offer from Real...

Atletico Madrid powered their way into the Champions League with an impressive 4-0 thrashing of German giants Schalke...

Supermodel Kate Moss says breast implants are 'awful' but she admits she might change her mind when she gets...

'Star Wars' actor Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey liplock for the black comedy 'I Love You, Phillip...

Nicole Scherzinger, lead singer of Pussycat Dolls, has written an emotional song for her boyfriend, F1 racer Lewis...

British comic actor Steve Coogan has named his new character after 'Matrix' star Keanu...

Hanover goalkeeper Robert Enke will be first choice under the bar for Germany when the World Cup qualifying campaign gets underway next month, coach Joachim Loew...

Spanish champions Real Madrid could not have imagined a more difficult start to their league programme than away to Deportivo La...

New Delhi, Aug 28 : The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will organise a two-day workshop on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) at Baroda in Gujarat from...

Socialite heiress Paris Hilton made his boyfriend Benji Madden wear a T-shirt with the word 'Obey' written on it and paraded him in front of paparazzi to defuse rumours that he has dumped...

British singer George Michael, who gave his farewell concert recently, makes his acting debut on a US TV...

Gaydon (Britain) Aug 28 (DPA) Aston Martin has released scant details and sketches of its new super car codenamed One-77 that will sell for at least 1.3 million euros excluding tax ($1.95 million), making it the most expensive car on the...

NATO has reassured Ukraine about its prospects of joining the transatlantic alliance, with both sides condemning Russia's decision to recognise Georgia's breakaway...

Many of the sanctuaries for coral reefs in the Indian Ocean are unable to protect the reefs from the worst of climate change, a team of international scientists has...

Somali gunmen have released the head of the UN refugee agency's office in Somali capital Mogadishu after two months in captivity, the agency...

London, Aug 28 (Xinhua) Britain Wednesday formally presented its territorial claim over south Atlantic Ascension Island to the...

Following is the scorecard of the fourth one-day international here Wednesday in which India beat Sri...

Dead men found floating in ocean off Florida carried no ID Authorities believe that the men started out together Their bodies were found along a 30-mile stretch of the Florida Keys Authorities were...