The Russian upper house of Parliament today passed the bill ratifying Russia’s entry into the WTO, the final legislative step required before...

Google has unveiled an online information exchange platform to try to give some extra lasting power to more than 3,000 endangered languages.Called...

Britain’s Supreme Court has struck down a key provision in immigration rules for foreign workers on the ground that it had not been scrutinised by...

The Pakistan government will write to its Indian counterpart to allow the cross-examination of key witnesses in the Mumbai attacks case following a...

Workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant removed nuclear fuel on Wednesday for the first time since last year’s...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai admitted on Wednesday his Western-backed administration was unable to deliver justice to the people, despite decade-long...

The eurozone is in ‘critical’ danger but can restore credibility with urgent action for a banking union, with some form of eurobonds, and if the ECB...

Nawaf Fares, the first Syrian ambassador to defect, said in an interview on Monday that the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will use chemical weapons...

Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has trashed Barack Obama, saying the US President was the ‘most liberal and incompetent president...

US lawmakers accused the global bank HSBC of opening the doors of the financial system to terrorists, drug dealers and money launderers, ahead of a...

Moody's cut its rating for 13 Italian banks, citing the weakened borrower standing of the Italian government after its credit grade was lowered last...

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke admitted on Tuesday that US economic data had been ‘disappointing’ and that a future reduction in unemployment...