Fun and frolic is enjoyed by thousands of children in India. However, there are millions of kids in the same country who are unaware and deprived of it. They probably...

President Hamid Karzai, whose cabinet nominations are under scrutiny by both Afghans and Western countries that aid Afghanistan, sought to reassure the world on Sunday...

Israeli finance minister Yuval Steinitz will soon request between 450million to 1 billion Euros from the German government as part of a program of Holocaust...

A new joint report by the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab League - issued ahead of the September 2010 international gathering to mark the tenth...

American-Maltese graphic novelist Joe Sacco has over the years developed quite a following in many places - including Israel where Waltz with Bashir award-wining...

Grammy-winning Mexican accordionist Ramon Ayala is being held in a Mexican police headquarters holding cell for up to 40 days along with several other musicians who...

With just four days to Christmas, the old spectre of cash flow problems has risen once again in Zimbabwe, And when this was highlighted, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe...

When Edmund Ho, Macau’s first chief executive, assumed office on December 20, 1999, the former Portuguese colony near Hong Kong was a very different place. Hong...

France refused Monday to release an Iranian agent jailed for the murder of a former prime minister in exchange for the freedom of a young French academic charged with...

The Polish police said early Monday that they had found the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign that was stolen Friday from the gate of Auschwitz.

Silvio Berlusconi’s approval ratings, which had slipped over the past six months because of sex scandals and corruption charges, have bounced back amid a wave...

A strong earthquake destroyed several buildings in Malawi on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring about 200, a government official said. The quake struck...

President Hugo Chavez launched a federal police force on Sunday that he hopes will change the overwhelmingly negative image most Venezuelans have of their public...

The latest scandal hit this month, featuring video that showed Federal District Governor Jose Arruda and his allies stuffing money into pockets, bags and even...

Up to 100 people have been killed after a runaway truck ploughed into a crowded market in Nigeria. Officials said 55 people died, but a BBC reporter at the scene, in...

A court in the US has for the first time charged suspected members of al-Qaeda with plotting to traffic cocaine in order to fund terrorism. The three suspects, who are...

The UPDF has been shaken by the discovery that some of the battle-hardened Al Shabaab militants it is fighting in the volatile Somalia were trained here at...

Pakistan will not go as far as Washington wants, and there’s nothing the U.S. can do about it: That’s the sobering reality as the U.S. tries to persuade a...

Bus driver Mynor Gonzalez ignored the threats: “200 quetzales a week, or we’ll kill you.” He knew drivers who didn’t pay the roughly $24...

Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area...