Kuala Lumpur: Investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board have discounted reports the plane may have been sighted over the Maldives, Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia rejected criticism on Tuesday from US government officials that it has not been sharing as much information as it could with foreign governments about the disappearance of passenger jet more than a week ago. Two US security ...

Madrid: Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to become Barcelona`s all-time record goalscorer as they cut the gap on La Liga leaders Real Madrid to four points ahead of their meeting next weekend with a 7-0 thrashing of Osasuna. After a slow start, the hosts were ...

According to reports, the commander of the missing Malaysia Airline jet Captain Zaharie Afmed Shah had said that there were no problems inside the plane. He also gave all-clear minutes after the transponders were shutdown. Malaysian authorities are now ...

Washington: Microsoft is reportedly following in the footsteps of its rivals by planning on offering its Windows Phone operating system for free or for reduced price. For the past one year, the software giant has been in talks with Indian phone companies to ...

Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia: The international search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded on Friday further into the Indian Ocean amid signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last contact with air-traffic control nearly a week ago. A US official ...

London: Researchers have revealed that a new after-sex vagina gel can be used by women to protect themselves against HIV. According to scientists at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, drugs applied three hours after exposure ...

Kiev: Just days before the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea is to hold a referendum on secession, Ukraine's interim President Oleksandr Turchynov has claimed that Russia is provoking Ukraine to act so that Moscow gets a pretext to attack the ex-Soviet bloc.

Malaysia time 4:10 pm/1:45 pm IST: Even as near and dear ones of the passengers of Malaysia Airlines MH370 spend anxious moments hoping for a miracle, the Malaysian authorities have come under fire for mishandling the crisis. From incompetence in ...

Kuala Lumpur: Two days after a Malaysian Airlines jet disappeared mysteriously over South China Sea, the fate of the missing plane remained a mystery on Monday, with Malaysian aviation chief calling it an "unprecedented aviation mystery", adding that a ...

Washington: A new study has found four new man-made gases in the atmosphere which are destroying the ozone layer. The scientists at the University of East Anglia have found that more than 74,000 tonnes of three new chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) and one ...

Paris: Researchers in the United States say they have developed a prototype blood test that can tell with 90 percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop Alzheimer`s disease within three years. The test looks for 10 signatures of fatty proteins called ...

Mumbai: A day after a mishap on advanced warship INS Kolkata at the Mazagaon Docks Ltd (MDL) here, the Defence Ministry on Saturday ordered a probe into the incident. It was the second major incident affecting the Indian Navy in a fortnight. An officer ...

Sevastopol: Ukrainian military base was reportedly stormed by pro-Russian soldiers on Friday who later withdrew after negotiations. However, no casualty has been reported as both sides held their fire. The soldiers were wearing Russian military uniform ...

San Francisco: Yahoo Inc will stop letting consumers access its various online services, including Fantasy Sports and photo-sharing site Flickr, by signing-in with their Facebook Inc or Google Inc credentials. The change, which will be rolled out gradually ...

London: In a finding that may baffle many Indians, Mumbai has emerged as the world's cheapest city to live in, followed closely by New Delhi at third place. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) 2014 'Worldwide Cost of Living' survey released ...

Beijing: In a major breakthrough in China's worst terrorist attack at the Kunming railway station, police on Monday captured three militants from the restive Xinjiang province who fled the scene of slashing rampage that killed 33 people and injured 143 others.

Kampala: The author of Uganda's new anti-gay bill that imposes tough jail terms for homosexual acts said aid cuts imposed by disapproving Western donors were a price worth paying to protect the east African nation's moral values. Lawmaker David Bahati ...

Geneva: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today under the shadow of a spiralling crisis in Ukraine, his spokeswoman said. The UN chief will have "a working lunch" with Lavrov on the sidelines of the ...

Islamabad: Just a couple of days after Pakistani Taliban declared unilateral ceasefire, two suicide bombers blew themselves up inside a court complex in Islamabad on Monday leaving 11 people dead and dozens injured. An additional session Judge Rafaqat ...