The presidents of the Mercosur trade bloc nations expressed their “most energetic condemnation” of the coup in Honduras and announced their “full...

The latest case - five US nationals arrested in Pakistan on Wednesday on suspicion of plotting an attack - deepened concern that militant Islamist groups are...

The officials told NBC News that the attack using Hellfire missiles had taken place in the last few days. They said the target was not the network’s Saudi leader...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, but the prime minister said he was too busy to see Mr....

Eritrean Yirgalam Beyene’s tired eyes swell with tears as she recalls the day her son was killed. One night in April 2008, Beyene found herself lying in the cold...

Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, the New York Times has...

Bougainvillea shade the pathways at the Cementerio General del Sur, where the mausoleums of statesmen and movie stars stand next to the graves of aristocrats and...

A methane gas explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey killed 19 miners, federal officials said Friday. Three survivors were pulled from the mine after the explosion...

So Nicolas Sarkozy, responding to the minaret ban in Switzerland, admonishes us to practise our faiths with “humble discretion”. To be recommended humble...

Two weeks today is Christmas Day - and whilst it may not be celebrated completely around the world, it is the day that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son...

A healthy man in blockaded Gaza faked cancer, hoping the deadly disease would be his ticket out of the territory that has become an open-air prison for its 1.4 million...

The public option may be dead, but Democrats have a stronger proposal on the table, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said at a press conference...

An Israeli soldier snatches some sleep after live-fire drills yesterday on the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Syria warned Israel that it...

There will be no “precipitous drawdown” of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and U.S. troops could still be in the country for years to come, President Barack...

PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM). The object of the Bill is to provide for legislation necessary for criminalising the...

Today is a glorious day. Or a wretched day but it is a day like any other day from dawn to dusk. Consider her plight. Her name is UZMA. An abandoned lady of Muslim...

Welcoming 30,000 troops coupled with at least 7000 NATO forces, Afghanistan doesn’t appear at all ready for taking up the security responsibilities nor is the...

Telengana, Bundelkhand, Gurkhaland, Bodoland, Kutch, there seems to be no end to the aspirations for statehood. I have a simple formula which will solve all such...

Great Britain is reasonable for giving the world that awful state of Israel. It was British colonialism that sponsored a “Jewish homeland” in the early 20th...

Very recently, Anjali Sinha, a columnist with the Navbharat Times and a women’s rights activist wrote a column in Hindi, translated as “Is the Dowry law being...