The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries...

Every timing is priceless for the living, our’s madly-fast controversially-challenging the generation-established myths surely. Just news of the US judge Herman...

An Iranian proposal prohibiting military attacks against nuclear installations worldwide has been approved by the UN nuclear watchdog’s general conference, an...

The BBC and CNN will be able to report freely from Zimbabwe for the first time in eight years after restrictions were lifted by the country’s...

With the movie ‘Rock On’, people have suddenly started talking about rock a lot more but I am not sure how much will it help the Indian rock scenario....

Toronto has an ambitious plan to reduce waste to landfill by 70% by 2010. This means that consumption of one-time use containers will have to decrease dramatically.

A FLORIDA judge has deemed unconstitutional a law banning baggy pants that show off the wearer’s underwear.

France’s broadcast authority has banned French channels from airing TV shows aimed at children under 3 years old, to shield them from developmental risks it says...

Spain’s synchronised swimmers have been banned from wearing a swimsuit with embedded waterproof lights which they had hoped would give an extra sparkle to their...

Iraq will be allowed to participate in the Beijing games after the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday rescinded its suspension of the country’s Olympic...

A city council has blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism. Lawyers at the National Secular Society said the move by Birmingham City Council was...

Citing the high prices Americans are paying at the pump, Bush said from the White House Rose Garden that allowing offshore oil drilling is

The average US tax rate for most goods is 7.07 percent, but the taxman has a special affinity for wireless phone and data services, which are taxed at a whopping 15.9...

ICC Match Referee Javagal Srinath handed England captain Paul Collingwood a four-match ban following his side’s slow over rate in Wednesday’s match against...

Diplomats from more than 100 countries gathered in Dublin, Ireland, are still hopeful that a treaty banning cluster bombs will become a reality. However, the United...

Washington: More than 10 years after it was first introduced by New York Rep. Louise Slaughter, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act has passed the US Senate...

We being the most evolved of all species on the planet are expected to follow certain rules of conduct. But there lies the contradiction; we are human beings because we...

The Netherlands is to relax its ban on the Segway motorized scooter, a two-wheeled, gyroscopically-balanced machine of which U.S. President George W. Bush is a fan.

Recent incidents involving laser pointers being used to temporarily blind pilots have lead a ban in New South Wales, Australia. To combat the so-called “laser...

Thailand’s health chiefs barred hospitals and clinics on Wednesday from castrating would-be “ladyboys” amid growing concern about the operation being...