New Delhi: All is well. India's maiden Mars mission on Monday entered the Martian neighbourhood, barely two days before its planned arrival in orbit. India's state-owned space agency said that the main rocket engine of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MoM) ...

Amsterdam: A Malaysian passenger jet which blew up over rebel-held east Ukraine with the loss of all 298 people on board was hit by numerous "high-energy objects", according to a report on Tuesday which appears to back up claims it was downed by a ...

Amsterdam: A Malaysian passenger jet which blew up over rebel-held east Ukraine with the loss of all 298 people on board was hit by numerous "high-energy objects", according to a report on Tuesday which appears to back up claims it was downed by a ...

Seoul: An Indian-origin mathematician has won prestigious global prizes in the field of mathematics with one of them being awarded the Fields Medal — known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics". Manjul Bhargava, a professor of mathematics at Princeton ...

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities blocked almost every entry point to Islamabad yesterday, with more than 20,000 police and paramilitary forces deployed to try to thwart a major anti-government rally. Major roads were barricaded with shipping containers and ...

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities blocked almost every entry point to Islamabad yesterday, with more than 20,000 police and paramilitary forces deployed to try to thwart a major anti-government rally. Major roads were barricaded with shipping containers and ...

London: Lights across Britain switched off for an hour on Monday night in a tribute to the dead of World War One inspired by the prophetic observation of Britain's foreign minister on the eve of war 100 years ago. "The lamps are going out all over Europe," ...

London: Lights across Britain switched off for an hour on Monday night in a tribute to the dead of World War One inspired by the prophetic observation of Britain's foreign minister on the eve of war 100 years ago. "The lamps are going out all over Europe," ...

Kiev: World leaders demanded an international investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine in which all 298 people on board were killed, a tragedy that could further heighten tensions between Russia and the West.

The meltdown of American and British policy in Iraq and Syria attracts surprisingly little criticism at home. Their aim for the past three years has been get rid of Bashar Al Assad as ruler of Syria and stabilise Iraq under the leadership of Nouri Al Maliki. The exact ...

Belo Horizonte: An unfinished overpass being built for the World Cup collapsed in Brazil's southeastern city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 19. Globo television images showed the front of a yellow bus crushed under a ...

Belo Horizonte: An unfinished overpass being built for the World Cup collapsed in Brazil's southeastern city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 19. Globo television images showed the front of a yellow bus crushed under a ...

Soma: Rescuers pulled more dead and injured from a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday more than 19 hours after an explosion, bringing the death toll to 205 in what could become the nation's worst ever mining disaster. Hundreds more were still ...

Sanaa: Yemen's defence minister and two senior security officers escaped unhurt when their convoy was ambushed yesterday by Al Qaeda militants in the south, as troops pressed an offensive against the militants in the region. The attack came amid high ...

Australia's prime minister Monday announced an expanded search across a huge swathe of seabed where Flight MH370 might have crashed seven weeks ago, admitting it is now "highly unlikely" that any surface wreckage will be found. A massive hunt for ...

South Korea's prime minister resigned Sunday, blaming corruption and "deep-rooted evil" for the sinking of a passenger ferry that left 300 people dead or missing, as anger grows over the bungled response to the tragedy. Chung Hong-Won admitted he had ...

I hit mute when the news channels cut to the trial of Oscar Pistorius. One need not sympathise with the athlete to find the exchanges with state prosecutor Gerrie Nel excruciating. I reader Terry Duncan of Bridlington, East Yorks, wrote to us asking: "Would ...

During the Cold War, both Russia and the West agreed to keep Finland out of the fight. Ukraine should be granted the same neutrality. Talks on Sunday night between the US Secretary of State, John Kerry and his Russian opposite, Sergeï Lavrov mark a ...