A boat, laden with relief supplies to Myanmar cyclone victims, has...

According to government officials, some electricity supplies have been fixed in parts of Myanmar's biggest city of...

Zimbabwe's top electoral official has told a state newspaper that it is likely the country's presidential run-off poll will be...

A delegation of Arab League members has gone to Beirut to try to solve the latest crisis in Lebanon....

The Bush administration has told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they will need to show progress in their secret talks soon, or risk a potentially fatal erosion in public support for a process now in its sixth month without any obvious...

Powerful tornadoes have strewn debris across the United States, while shattering homes and businesses and killing at least 21...

Italy's new interior minister says he wants to reimpose border controls for travellers from Europe's Schengen Zone....

Serbia's pro-western President Boris Tadic has declared victory in the country’s closely contested parliamentary elections against the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party....

Haitian authorities say a ferryboat capsized near the capital Port-au-Prince late on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and leaving dozens more missing....

Thousands of Chinese students and Chinese Dutch people have staged a rally on the Dam Square in downtown Amsterdam in support of the Beijing Olympic Games being held in...

Islamabad/Pakistan's fragile ruling coalition was facing collapse after a US official's last-ditch mediation Sunday failed to help break the deadlock on reinstating judges and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was set to withdraw its ministers from the...

The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) said its first aid shipment to cyclone-hit Myanmar sank Sunday after hitting a submerged tree while travelling by...

Arab foreign ministers cut short an emergency meeting Sunday over the crisis in Lebanon to appeal for an immediate end to armed violence in Mount Lebanon and other parts of the...

Serbs voted for closer ties with Europe instead of isolation for the second time in three months in Sunday's snap parliamentary poll, in a stunning turnaround that negated pre-election...

Johannesburg/Post-election violence in Zimbabwe continued unabated Sunday as the country headed for a presidential run-off, with more than 50 opposition members arrested in the past days for allegedly burning property at a farm belong to the country's top...

Sudan Sunday announced it had broken off diplomatic relations with Chad over a row about Chad's alleged support for rebels from Darfur launching an attack on Sudan's capital,...

Los Angeles, May 12 (Xinhua) Veteran American film and televison actor Dennis Farina was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Sunday for carrying a gun as he attempted to board an airplane, the police...

A cautious calm prevailed Sunday night in Mount Lebanon following fierce clashes between followers of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and opposition...

The European Union (EU) has welcomed the 'clear victory' of the pro-European forces in Serbian parliamentary elections and promised to advance the country's path towards eventual membership of the...

Nearly 2,000 people in Singapore have signed a petition calling on the international community to enter cyclone-battered Myanmar with or without the military government's permission, organizers said...

A ceasefire between followers of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and opposition followers failed Sunday after clashes broke out on Jumblatt's stronghold of Mount...

The Nepali police Sunday arrested more than 550 Tibetan demonstrators, most of them women, during anti-China protests in the capital...

A senior US diplomat intervened Sunday to end the deadlock between Pakistan's governing coalition partners over the reinstatement of deposed judges that seriously threatens their month-old...

At least 19 people were killed Saturday and many injured as tornadoes ploughed across the mid-west and south-east of the US, reports said...

Yangon, May 11 (Xinhua) The toll in Myanmar's cyclone disaster Sunday rose to 28,458 from the earlier figure of 23,335, the state-run television channel...

Ponte Vedra, Florida, May 11 (IANS) Daniel Chopra endured a topsy-turvy round of one-over 73 that dropped him at the tied 20th position at the $9.5 million Players Championship...

Islamabad, May 11 (Xinhua) Pakistan Sunday dispatched two military C-130 aircraft with relief goods on board to the cyclone-hit...

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) chief selector Richard Hadlee has criticised the board's decision to allow five Kiwi players to extend their stay in India for Indian Premier League (IPL) and arrive late for their tour to...

Shiv Kapur made a great recovery on the back nine to return a card of two-under 70 that saw him finish the day in tied 26th place after the penultimate round of the Italian Open golf championship...

After rising to world domination, Indian-owned steel giant ArcelorMittal and mining company Vedanta Resources are being accused of paying scant attention to the environment and the rights of tribals in their areas of...

Beijing, May 11 (Xinhua) Beijing is to standardise the city's toilet direction plates ahead of the Olympic Games, according to Beijing Youth Daily. The plates, already in use in some places, feature white male and female characters on a blue background, the paper quoted officials with the city...

Beijing, May 11 (Xinhua) Lagos: The Nigerian government has concluded plans to mobilise the country's athletes for the Olympic Games to reach their optimum conditions for medals in August, a top official in the National Sports Commission (NSC) has...

Beijing, May 11 (Xinhua) Beijing: Siemens, Motorola, Amway and other 13 international companies donated $149,990 to support tree planting in Beijing, said the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on its...

Wellington: New Zealand will send a 30-strong team to the Paralympic Games in Beijing in September, Radio New Zealand has...

Lagos: The Nigerian athletes who have been on a month's break are back in camp at the Liberty Stadium in Southwest Nigeria Ibadan in Oyo State to intensify their preparations for the Paralympics Games in...

Ipoh,The young Indian outfit shed off their clumsy performance to post a comprehensive 3-1 win over Canada in the Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament here...

Leading Indian software company Satyam Computer Services has registered over 100 percent growth in revenue, pushing it to 102.76 million dirhams ($28 million), from the Middle East in...

With steady growth of the non-oil sector, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the emirate of Abu Dhabi in the UAE will hit $300 billion by 2025, according to a new...

Pakistan's leading ruling coalition partners, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), have failed to reach an agreement to reinstate superior court judges as a senior American official reached London for possible...

The sighting of two rarely seen tropical birds in Hong Kong could be due to climate change, bird experts here have...

Community leaders, a corporate group and newspaper readers in Malaysia have pooled in resources to help an Indian origin mother of seven who was thrown out of her house...

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Taiwan early Sunday morning, but there was no report of damage or...

FUZHOU (China), May 11 (Xinhua) The Olympic flame will start its relay Monday in Quanzhou and Xiamen, the home city of millions of overseas Chinese and a special economic zone in China's southeastern Fujian...

Singapore May 11 (DPA) A woman eager to show her son how donations are made turned over 100,000 Singapore dollars ($74,000) for victims of the cyclone in Myanmar, the Sunday Times...

A relative calm was restored Sunday to Beirut as the fighting reached north Lebanon where 17 people were killed in clashes between fighters loyal to the opposition and the country's ruling...

Music group Whitesnake are confident that they will be invited by legendary rock band Led Zeppelin to join them on a world...

Chengdu (China), May 11 (Xinhua) A Japanese non-government foundation has resumed funding for bamboo plantation in China's southwestern province of Sichuan as part of an effort to protect the Giant pandas. Bamboo is an important food for these...

Afghan and NATO forces killed eight insurgents and captured four in combat operations in the south-eastern region of the country, officials said...

The labour ministers of eight of the world's most powerful economies gathered in the central Japanese city of Niigata Sunday for a three-day summit on labour...

The stronghold of the Shia Mahdi Army militia in Baghdad's Sadr City has been bombed overnight by US aircraft hours before a deal to end the fighting in the area comes into effect, witnesses said...