An Uzbek terrorist group, whose members are believed to be hiding in Pakistan's restive Waziristan tribal region, has claimed that its fighters had had staged Sunday's deadly attack on Karachi airport. Head of the Pakistani paramilitary forces, Rizwan Akhtar, ...

Relatives of those on-board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have launched a fund-raising campaign to find information regarding the whereabouts of the aircraft, media reported Sunday. Reward MH370, headed by Ethan Hunt, a technology ...

Former army Chief, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has been declared the new president of Egypt, beating his challenger, left-winger Hamdeen Sabahi, with 96.9 percent votes. The retired field marshal overthrew President Mohammed Morsi last July and has been in a ...

Canada's prime minister will travel to Ukraine on Saturday to attend the swearing-in of the country's new president. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will attend the swearing-in of Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko to show Canada's support of ...

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said today it had lost contact with a second four-member international team in restive eastern Ukraine. The Vienna-based security body said it had not heard from its team in the industrial region of ...

The White House has said that "clemency is not on the table" for whistleblower Edward Snowden and asserted that the former CIA contractor ought to return to the United States and face charges against him. "Look, let's be clear, clemency is not on the table," ...

Six Indian American youngsters are among 12 finalists vying for victory in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which has been won by one of them for the last six years in a row. The big shocker in Thursday's semifinals came when top contender Vanya ...

Thailand's new ruling military junta today said it will not "cling to power" and hold fresh elections under "right conditions", as tensions mounted in the troubled nation a week after the army seized power in a coup. Army Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha had ...

US President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he plans to keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014. The troops will be reduced by roughly half by the end of 2015 and draw down to a normal embassy presence in Kabul by the end of 2016, ...

US President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he plans to keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014. The troops will be reduced by roughly half by the end of 2015 and draw down to a normal embassy presence in Kabul by the end of 2016, ...

Australian conjoined twins Hope and Faith, who shared a body and skull but had separate brains and identical faces, have died almost three weeks after they were born in Sydney, medical officials said today. The girls, who were born six weeks early by ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally took charge of his office on a pleasant Tuesday, and his very first act was to announce ex-gratia to victims of a train disaster in Uttar Pradesh. Modi, who took oath as prime minister Monday evening, drove from the ...

Luka Modric, who became the second Croatian player in as many years to win the UEFA Champions League football trophy after Real Madrid came from behind to beat town rival Atletico 4-1 in extra time, dedicated the win to flood victims in the Balkans.

Ukraine was voting today in a presidential election seen as the most important in the country's history as it battles a deadly pro-Russian insurrection in the east. Turnout was strong in the capital Kiev and the west but across swathes of the rebel-controlled ...

Two of the three people shot dead in an attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels were Israeli tourists, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry said today. "An Israeli couple in their 50s from Tel Aviv, who were visiting Brussels as tourists, were among the ...

More than 90 people were reportedly arrested for hacking computers, using malware that allowed them to remotely hijack computers and turn on webcams, access data and steal passwords. According to CNN, FBI and police conducted a global hacker ...

More than 90 people were reportedly arrested for hacking computers, using malware that allowed them to remotely hijack computers and turn on webcams, access data and steal passwords. According to CNN, FBI and police conducted a global hacker ...

The Libyan capital remained tense today, a day after forces loyal to a renegade general stormed the parliament and said they suspended the house, challenging the legitimacy of the country's weak central government, three years after the overthrow of ...

Tata Communications has sold its 67% stake in its South African subsidiary Neotel to Vodacom, a Vodafone company, at an enterprise valuation of $675 million. Tata Communications is estimated to get $120-140 million as net proceeds for its 67% equity ...

Beyonce has posted some new photographs with sister Solange declaring that there is no ongoing fighting among the sisters after the infamous elevator Video Leak. The 32-year-old singer took to Instagram and posted cheerful photos with sister and to avoid ...