The Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, scheduled to begin Oct 3, is under serious risk of being called off, the New Zealand team\’s chef de mission Dave Currie said on Tuesday. The unprepared state of the athletes village has stunned foreign...

The U.S. is working to draw India to the Asia Pacific region, a top Obama Administration official told lawmakers. “One of the desires of the administration is to take a multi-faceted approach, deeper integration in regional diplomacy, in...

The EU Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, says the European Commission is considering legal action against France over its deportations of Roma (Gypsies). Ms Reding called French actions a \”disgrace\”. Last week Euro MPs accused the...

Google\’s decision to fix what wasn\’t broken is a bold bet on the future of search and the way people use the Internet. Google Instant, which the company unveiled Wednesday, is a fundamental shift: instead of search as an outcome, Google...

Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, told delegates at the IFA technology show in Berlin that Google TV would go live in the US this autumn, and would launch worldwide next year. Google TV, which was unveiled at the company’s annual I/O...

A suicide car bomber killed at least fourteen people and injured 34 in an attack Monday on a police post in northwest Pakistan, a police official said.

DUTCH anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, the country\’s most heavily guarded politician, has denounced an Australian Muslim cleric\’s reported call for his beheading for denigrating Islam. \”This is really terrible news and a very serious...

Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa. Such “geomagnetic field reversals” occur every couple hundred thousand years,...

Australia has a reputation as one of the world\’s most gay-friendly countries - unless you\’re learning about an indigenous bird perched on a gum tree. A school in Victoria has created controversy by banning the word gay from the classic...

An albino girl from Swaziland has been shot dead and then beheaded for the sake of witchcraft, according to reports. Banele Nxumalo, 11, was on her way home with friends, after washing clothes and bathing in a river, when she was grabbed by a man...