South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak paid a surprise visit to islands at the centre of a decades-long territorial dispute with Japan, which recalled...

The findings of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars will prove that life was discovered on the Red planet 30 years ago, an American scientist has...

Eight million chickens have so far been slaughtered in Mexico and 66 million more were vaccinated in a bid to contain a bird flu outbreak in the west...

The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) Monday decided to send a postcard...

Tropical Storm Ernesto drenched parts of Jamaica, but did not dampen the country’s joy over another record-breaking Olympic victory by Usain Bolt.As...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today met Nelson Mandela at his rural homestead where South Africa’s first black president is living out...

Scientists claim to have found that the recently discovered protein could reverse acute liver failure in humans, following its success in experiments...

A bomb blast rocked Syrian state television headquarters in the heart of Damascus wounding several people today just two days after the army said it...

A Catholic-run school in the southern Philippines has caused controversy by banning Muslim students from wearing the hijab headscarf.Mehol Sadain, who...

A suspected US drone strike killed five members of Al-Qaeda travelling in the same vehicle late Saturday in eastern Yemen, a local official told...

Al-Arabiya television aired footage said on Sunday that it had obtained from Syrian rebels of Iranians kidnapped in Damascus, in which a rebel fighter...

Shootings and a bombing killed at least six soldiers and five police on Friday, Iraqi security and medical officials said, a day after 33 people were...