The process of carving a new state of Telangana out of the existing Andhra Pradesh will soon begin, Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced late on Wednesday...

State officials issued a warning today about a scam targeting unemployment benefits deposited onto debit cards. Laid off workers are getting text messages on their...

A recent pay increase for Afghan troops and police appears to have resulted in a surge of applicants, said the top U.S. military official for Afghan security...

Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi religious channel Awtan...

Five young Muslim American men from the Washington suburbs who disappeared late last month were detained in Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to...

Schoolteacher Shana Richey misses the playroom she decorated with Glamour Girl decals for her daughters. Fireman Jay Fernandez misses the custom putting green he...

Decades ago, a pioneering individual posited that adolescent students claiming to be bisexual, gay, or identifying as transexual should not meet with ridicule or...

Australia’s UniSA is introducing the Master of Science (Information Assurance) course in 2010 to help meet the growing demand for IT security professionals.The...

Congressman Brian Baird (D-Washington) has announced his retirement after six terms - 12 years - in the House of Representatives. He will sorely be missed by me and all...

The 25-year-old chemistry student, who has not been named by police, was working at his parents’ home in Konotop when relatives heard a “loud pop”....

Having commentated on the Zimbabwean crisis for a few years - and having the ‘inside edge’ of having lived in that country for 3o-odd years - I am still...

WTF went down in Norway. A blue spiral in the sky giving way to a spinning white circle was seen over the skies of Norway. It immediately caught the attention of...

Egypt has begun building a steel wall sunk 30 meters into the ground along the Egyptian-Gaza Strip border to combat the smuggling tunnels. Will pro-Arabists condemn...

Few people in American life behave with arrogance toward the rule of law as American cops. Do not misunderstand me: Most police officers are decent people. But a few...

It’s absolutely shameful how Lebanese and Palestinian television glorify and promote suicide bombings to children. This video aired on al-Quds TV in Lebanon on...

Indulgence. Dubai is not $80 billion in debt. It spent billions on such absurd and lavish projects - paid through borrowing - as this indoor ski slope in the middle of...

For all of the U.S. establishment’s self-righteous and arrogant lecturing to Muslims about how backwards Muslim society is, these people are the elite in one of...

Is Liberhan Commission report is drama of political parties? I think everyone is watching this drama on media. During the time of Babri Masjid demolition in 1992,...

Mexico and Climate Change With heavily polluting oil industry, heavy use of road transport, and 110 million people, Mexico accounts for about 1.5% of global emissions....

The war on terror continues to slither across the country and the most recent surge in armed conflict between security forces and militants has been in the Orakzai...