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We will still bring in players: Wenger
26 July 2012 1:48 AM ISTArsenal manager Arsene Wenger spoke of his desire to bring in fresh faces as his team arrived in China on Wednesday ahead of a game with Premier...
Attack choppers near N Korea border: report
25 July 2012 7:44 AM ISTNorth Korea has recently deployed dozens of attack helicopters near its disputed sea border with South Korea, media reports said Tuesday, as both...
Security tightened in Iraq
25 July 2012 7:38 AM ISTSecurity was tightened on Tuesday in Baghdad neighbourhoods engulfed by a wave of nationwide violence which saw 113 people killed and 250 wounded in...
'Syria will answer for chemical weapons'
25 July 2012 7:28 AM ISTUS President Barack Obama has warned Syria’s Assad regime that it would be held ‘accountable’ if it uses its stockpile of chemical weapons.‘Given the...
SL blow hapless India by 9 wickets
25 July 2012 1:40 AM ISTSri Lanka exacted a sweet revenge on India with a crushing nine-wicket victory in the second ODI on Tuesday, to draw the series level at 1-1. It...
Murray forgets tearful Wimbledon heartbreak
24 July 2012 11:56 PM ISTAndy Murray revealed on Monday he came to terms with his heart-breaking Wimbledon final defeat by Roger Federer by returning quickly to Centre Court...
Chemical weapons only against foreign attack: Syria
24 July 2012 6:36 AM ISTSyria will only use chemical weapons in case of a foreign attack, foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said on Monday and also rejected an Arab...
Japan, TEPCO accused of ignoring nuke risks
24 July 2012 6:35 AM ISTJapanese officials and Tokyo Electric Power ignored the risk of an atomic accident because they believed in the ‘myth of nuclear safety’, a...
Ela Bhatt is one of Hilary Clinton's 'heroines'
21 July 2012 7:23 AM ISTUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who relates Ela Bhatt as one of her 'heroines', has praised the eminent Indian social activist for playing an...
Discoverer of HIV sees 'hope' for cur
21 July 2012 7:22 AM ISTThe Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says there is hope for an AIDS cure following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a...
Bomb blasts in south Thai
21 July 2012 7:20 AM ISTThe holy month started ominously in southern Thailand, the region where most Thai Muslims live and where an insurgency has claimed thousands of lives....
Pak-origin terror couple jailed in UK
21 July 2012 7:19 AM ISTIn a case involving 'home-grown terrorists', a British husband and wife duo of Pakistani origin, who were plotting to carry out a terrorist attack in...


