The number of deaths in the Philippines caused by Typhoon Haiyan rose to 2,357, a government agency said
A new survey found that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose to record levels this year, with a 36 percent…
The killing of senior Haqqani network leader Naseeruddin Haqqani has fuelled talks of a rift between Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services…
The apex body of Bangladesh's woven garment manufacturers on Wednesday decided to shut down all garment factories in Ashulia on…
An estimated 10,000 people in central Philippine province of Leyte might have been killed by super typhoon 'Haiyan', media reported…
The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) confirmed that up to 1.7 million Philippine children could be affected by super typhoon…
The 25-year-old defeated 86 contestants including Miss India Manasi Moghe
The US Senate approved a bill prohibiting discrimination at work over sexual orientation or gender identity, but the measure faces…
An Indian origin whistle-blower, who exposed a massive fraud by the Indian pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy, has accused the generic drug…
Indian students largely drove the growth of new foreign enrolment in US graduate schools this year with a 40 percent…
Australia's unemployment rate increased 0.1 percentage points to 5.7 percent in October, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported on…
The authorities in Indonesia's Karo district of North Sumatra province evacuated 1,293 people from the slope of Mount Sinabung that…
Bomb experts defused a 1,800-kg bomb from World War II on Sunday in the western German city of Dortmund after…
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have appointed Asmatullah Shaheen as their interim leader after differences emerged among the ranks on a…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named the most powerful person in the world by Forbes.
The US National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links connecting Yahoo and Google data centres around…
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been listed the third most powerful woman as Russian President Vladimir Putin beat President Barack…
Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday said in the upper house of parliament that there was no…