The Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has defended the placement of tens of thousands of classified US military files on his...

Residents of the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea have been pleading for help from the international community since their homes began sinking into the...

Heavy smog has been covering Russia's capital due to forest fires which have been raging for three...

Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, and Hidenori Ogata, 33, faced the hangman's noose after being convicted of multiple...

The federal court in the US has put a block on certain parts of a controversial new immigration law in...

The British prime minister has insulted the Pakistani government by claiming that Islamabad has been "exporting...

The Russian government will sell $29 billion worth of assets on the open...

Shops in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza have been told to dress their window mannequins to ensure lingerie is not on...

The Times of India has reported that an Indian teacher has been beaten to death by an angry mob after making a homemade porn film with one of his...

Jerusalem police have told deputy mayor Yitzhak Pindrus he will not be able to hold a so-called “donkey parade” alongside the annual Gay Pride Parade this...

A 45-year-old woman, who is the mother of two grown-up girls, has been charged with the murder of her eight newborn babies in...

Bicycles will become London's latest mode of public transport from...

Britain's military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan brought the Army close to the point of "seizing up", a former head of the service has...

Russia Thursday denied reports that it agreed to deliver S-300 air defence systems to...

The survival of some of the world's largest freshwater fish - including a giant catfish - is threatened by a series of hydro-power dams planned for the Mekong River, a leading environmental group has...

Researchers have found a molecule that causes nerve cell death in the brain, sparking Parkinson's disease, and hope they can soon stop it in its...

Thailand has threatened to withdraw from the UN's World Heritage Committee if it approves a Cambodian management plan for an 11th-century Hindu temple straddling the two countries'...

Patients with knee or hip problems will be able to 'grow' new replacement joints in the future, scientists...

Latest temperature readings from the upper atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean in a new climate change report from the Met Office in Britain and its US counterpart have provided the 'greatest evidence we have ever had' that the world is...

The Indian team had a good start at the world junior men's squash championships with four players progressing into the top 32 stage...

Kicking in sleep could mean you are more likely to develop dementia or Parkinson's, scientists...

Compared to high heels, flip-flops don't even look remotely hazardous. But experts are warning of the dangers of their prolonged use such as the risk of shin splints and joint...

Researchers have found that middle-aged women are sexually more active and enjoy better orgasms than younger...

Salman Rushdie, British author of Indian-origin, and his contemporaries like Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes are like prep-school boys, arrogant, self-satisfied and 'profoundly disappointing', a leading literature expert has...

The fastest broadband city in the world is Masan in South Korea, according to an...

Richard Heald has been appointed the new chief executive of the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) that networks businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals of the two...

Three ways of deflecting an...

A massive asteroid might crash into Earth in 2182, scientists have...

A huge number of British children are taken by one of their parents to an overseas country, including India and Pakistan, and never returned, officials said...

The international flavour of the week seems to be the WikiLeaks expose of the documents concerning the operations against the Al Queda and its allies in...

A popular grocery chain in Britain is reportedly selling grey squirrel meat, which it says is 'high in protein and low in...

South Korea's Prime Minister Chung Un Chan offered his resignation Thursday over the government's failure to get parliamentary approval to revise the planned relocation of ministries to a newly planned administrative...

Hollywood actress Jennifer Love-Hewitt is reportedly dating actor-director Alex...

India's ruling Congress is among the 48 political parties invited to attend an international forum organised by Malaysia's United Malays National Organisation...

Singer Justin Timberlake has been approached to play the lead role in the science fiction film 'I'm.mortal' alongside Amanda...

Winston Churchill's famous wartime oratory would perhaps not have been so powerful without his specially-designed gold-plated dentures that are now up for...

Cricket Australia has summoned 14 of its board members to Melbourne tomorrow to decide on former prime minister John Howard's nomination to the International Cricket...

Port-of-Spain, July 29(IANS) Over 100 scholars from India and around the globe will participate in the World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES) at the University of the West Indies early next...

A teacher at a school for deaf in Melbourne who allegedly made students expose themselves in class has avoided prison because he has...

If it was India's $35 computer that was splashed in Canadian news last week, now it is the country's relentless growth story that's making headlines...

A British ship abandoned in the Arctic in 1848 while on a rescue mission has been found intact in...

The personal details of 100 million users of social networking website Facebook are now available for download after they were leaked...

Evidences of global warming are unmistakable, according to a new report on climate change which presents a list of indicators including melting glaciers and rising sea...

Spain has allowed the medication derived from cannabis - the main ingredient in marijuana - for the treatment of spasticity in patients with multiple...

The United Nations Wednesday declared access to clean water a human right, voicing 'deep concern' about a human necessity denied to almost 900 million people...

The United States is open to holding talks with Iran designed to revive a nuclear swap deal and is hopeful that such a meeting, which would include other world powers, could take place in the coming weeks, the US State Department said...

Hollywood heartthrob Zac Efron reportedly enjoyed a racy night out at a strip club in New...

A set of gold-plated dentures used by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to disguise his childhood lisp is being auctioned in...

Investigators in northern France dug up the remains of eight infants in a garden, after a tip from the new owner of a house, justice sources said...

The oldest Tweeter user died in Britain at the age of...