Gold surged 1.5% on Thursday as investors sought shelter in the precious metal on fears of further turmoil after news that a Malaysian passenger jetliner had been downed in Ukraine. Earlier, safe-haven bids had already boosted bullion prices on new US ...

Gold surged 1.5% on Thursday as investors sought shelter in the precious metal on fears of further turmoil after news that a Malaysian passenger jetliner had been downed in Ukraine. Earlier, safe-haven bids had already boosted bullion prices on new US ...

Sometimes there are enough cues from the proceedings on the field of play to understand what's going on behind the scenes. While allowing the International Cricket Council's law to take its course in the James Anderson and Ravindra Jadeja case, it is ...

Tiger Woods returns to the scene of one of his greatest triumphs at Hoylake this week, as he attempts, in the 143rd British Open, to resurrect a career blighted by injury. It was at the Royal Liverpool links course in 2006 that Woods won the 12th of his 14 major ...

Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius's visit to a nightclub while on a charge of murdering his girlfriend was "unwise", his family admitted after the sprinter was involved in a drunken brawl. Pistorius, who is on bail during a break in his trial, suffers from an ...

Singer Drake says his relationship status "hasn't changed", hinting that he is still casually dating pop star Rihanna despite rumours they split in May. PlayPause. Pop star Rihanna is in love. But not with a guy! (Photos: Facebook/ Text: IANS). She has fallen in ...

Singer Drake says his relationship status "hasn't changed", hinting that he is still casually dating pop star Rihanna despite rumours they split in May. PlayPause. Pop star Rihanna is in love. But not with a guy! (Photos: Facebook/ Text: IANS). She has fallen in ...

Singer Drake says his relationship status "hasn't changed", hinting that he is still casually dating pop star Rihanna despite rumours they split in May. PlayPause. Pop star Rihanna is in love. But not with a guy! (Photos: Facebook/ Text: IANS). She has fallen in ...

Singer Drake says his relationship status "hasn't changed", hinting that he is still casually dating pop star Rihanna despite rumours they split in May. PlayPause. Pop star Rihanna is in love. But not with a guy! (Photos: Facebook/ Text: IANS). She has fallen in ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday left for Brazil to attend the five-nation BRICS summit, his first multilateral summit meeting since taking over office May 26, where he would also meet for the first time with the other heads of the bloc which include Brazil, ...

Finance minister Arun Jaitley has set an ambitious target to nurse India's delicate public finances back to health. He pledged to stick to a fiscal deficit target of 4.1% of GDP in 2014-15, penciling in a 17% rise in tax revenue collections during the year and ...

Confrontation with the US would be disastrous for both countries as well as the world, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday addressing an annual bilateral dialogue in Beijing. "Both sides should keep the big picture in sight and grasp the general goal of ...

Confrontation with the US would be disastrous for both countries as well as the world, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday addressing an annual bilateral dialogue in Beijing. "Both sides should keep the big picture in sight and grasp the general goal of ...

Indian diplomacy has scored a quick victory in securing the release of 46 nurses briefly held captive by Sunni Arab militants in Iraq. This raises hopes that another batch of workers from northern India kidnapped from the Iraqi town of Mosul can also be freed.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for restraint amid growing calls from the right-wing groups to revenge the abduction and murder of three Israeli teens last month. "I appeal to all the citizens of Israel and ask you: Please exercise restraint in ...

Japan will revoke some of its unilateral sanctions on North Korea, the prime minister announced Thursday, after talks on the Cold War kidnapping of Japanese nationals. Shinzo Abe said Tokyo judged Pyongyang, which pledged to re-investigate the ...

Japan will revoke some of its unilateral sanctions on North Korea, the prime minister announced Thursday, after talks on the Cold War kidnapping of Japanese nationals. Shinzo Abe said Tokyo judged Pyongyang, which pledged to re-investigate the ...

Ukraine's new Western-backed leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin both called for dialogue Sunday to end a pro-Moscow uprising that has threatened the ex-Soviet state's survival and brought Europe to the edge of all-out war. The twin calls from the ...

For years, the US has been clear about its intent to step back from Iraq. The restrained American military aid now being offered to defend Baghdad against a ferocious Sunni insurgency reaffirms the Obama administration's mantra that Iraq is still largely on its ...

For years, the US has been clear about its intent to step back from Iraq. The restrained American military aid now being offered to defend Baghdad against a ferocious Sunni insurgency reaffirms the Obama administration's mantra that Iraq is still largely on its ...