India-born controversial author Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ has established an unassailable lead over five other contenders in global...

Tall, slim and with flowing locks, Lara Masters modelled in her teens. But the work dried up as she developed a degenerative nerve condition. So is the fashion world...

Tiny slivers of diamond forged on an infant Earth may contain the earliest traces of life, a study has shown. Analysis of the crystals showed they contain a form of...

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Three American defense contractors landed late on Wednesday in Texas, hours after they were freed from years of captivity in the jungles of...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Ingrid Betancourt, the symbol of rebel hostages in Colombia, hugged and wept with her children for the first time in six years on Thursday after a...

Iraq has met all but three of 18 original benchmarks set by Congress last year to measure security, political and economic progress, according to a report by the U.S....

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he is weighing whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Bush said it has been a “tough month” in Afghanistan,...

Colombian troops tricked rebels into freeing politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans in a bold but bloodless jungle rescue that dealt a severe blow to Latin...

India is seeing the ill effects of the ever-increasing oil prices. Recently the government had to marginally increase the price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas as the...

According to recent Pentagon and an independent website reports, combat deaths are on rise in parts of Afghanistan. American military death toll has been the highest in...

Egyptian security has ramped up restrictions on journalists covering the African Union summit after a British TV crew got into a verbal scuffle with Robert Mugabe.

The United States is considered as the center of gravity as far human rights are concerned, but there are many stories that tarnish that sparkling white reputation. One...

The Washington Post said investigators will also demand documents from other large internet and media companies.

Twins. Born apart. India and Bharat.Or should it be Bharat and India? The charade is more complicated and confusing when one sits down to contemplate that between the...

NEW YORK — Last week, Raffaello Follieri was living la dolce vita in a $37,500-a-month rental apartment on Fifth Avenue with his girlfriend, the actress and...

The war between quality and quantity is often won by the former and the bedroom - or the office table - is no exception. Researchers have found that even short duration...

Hitler hated Jews. So he mobilized people and machinery to eradicate the whole race. His concentration camps became death industry. He didn’t need nuclear weapons of...

An English boy wrote about his murder in a creative writing class just a few months before the crime. His murder has striking similarities with the actual crime that...

A Japanese firm on Tuesday began accepting reservations for couples who really want to make the big leap — by blasting into space to exchange their wedding...

Research identifies the reason humor is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the...