The Catholic church has chosen a new pope.White smoke is billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning 115 cardinals in a papal conclave...

Senior Iranian clerics have criticised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for consoling Hugo Chavez’s mother with a hug a physical contact considered a sin...

Key gas exporter Qatar has discovered additional reserves of 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in a northern offshore field, media reported on...

Some of Australian central bank's computers have been hacked, apparently by a Chinese-developed 'malware' spy programme, in a series of successful...

Howard Stringer, who fought to bring a divided and struggling Sony Corp. together as the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's first...

Ford is recalling 2,30,000 minivans in 20 cold-weather states and Washington, D.C., to fix rust problems that can cause the third-row seats to come...

Hugo Chavez has been carried back to the military academy where he started his army career, his flag-draped coffin lying in state in the echoing halls...

Legislation easily passed the US House of Representatives on Wednesday to avert another partisan budget battle and a possible government shutdown, and...

Indicative of the new confidence in the US corporate sector and the economic recovery, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed over 125 points to...

Gun trafficking and purchasing firearms with the intent of transferring them to someone else would become federal crimes under bipartisan legislation...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik tops a list of Pakistani ministers who have defaulted on the payment of electricity bills, with the outstanding dues...

The family of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian charged with murdering his girlfriend, is feuding publicly over whether guns are a...