Washington, Sep 11 (IANS) Visiting Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and asked Washington to put pressure on Pakistan to condu...More

New York, Sep 11 (DPA) US stocks rose for a fifth straight day Thursday as weekly jobless claims fell and energy sectors gained. Weekly unemployment clai...More

Geneva, Sep 11 (DPA) Most of the 2.6 million deaths of young people each year are preventable, according to a new study supported by the World Health Organisation and released in ...More

Washington, Sep 11 (Xinhua) The US trade deficit rose by 16.3 percent to $32 billion in July, the highest level in six months, the commerce department said Thursday. ...More

Islamabad, Sep 11 (IANS) Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Thursday that Pakistan will train Maldives Police. Malik made the remarks after a ...More

Washington, Sep 11 (DPA) The US Thursday criticised Iran's proposal for resolving the long-standing nuclear dispute, saying it failed to address the key issues that have put Tehra...More

New York, Sep 11 (IANS) India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe were outclassed by Americans Travis Parrott and Carly Gullickson 2-6, 4-6 in the mixed doubles final of the...More

San Francisco, Sep 11 (DPA) Google is working on a micropayment system that would allow newspapers to easily charge for online content, the web search giant has revealed in a prop...More

Berlin, Sep 11 (DPA) Michael Jackson may not have found his last resting place in a California cemetery, with his brother Jermaine telling a German television show Thursday he wou...More

Berlin/Zurich, Sep 10 (DPA) Giant US carmaker General Motors (GM) Thursday announced plans to sell off 55 percent of its European offshoot Opel to a consortium led by the Canadian...More

Prague, Sep 10 (DPA) China protested Thursday against a Prague visit by Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and Uighur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer. ...More

New York, Sep 10 (IANS) India's Yuki Bhambri prevailed over American Jack Sock 6-4, 6-3 to move into the quarterfinals of the boys' singles in the US Open tennis championship here...More

Moscow, Sep 10 (RIA Novosti) Russia and Venezuela signed Thursday a package of deals, including one to develop the Latin American country's Orinoco oil belt, with estimated reserv...More

London, Sep 10 (IANS) Americal talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres has been named the new judge of music-based talent hunt show 'American Idol'. The former sta...More

Washington, Sep 10 (DPA) An extra 2.5 million people were nudged into poverty in the United States in 2008, bringing the poverty rate to an 11-year high as a deep recession began ...More