Indian tennis star Sania Mirza lives below the poverty line, if government records in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh are to believed. A special ration card for poor people carrying Mirza\’s name and photograph has been recovered during...

The remains were found after the pond adjacent to a mortuary in the city of Aligarh dried up due to hot weather. Around 100 skulls, several bones and two skeletons have been recovered in the past three days, police say.

With just under two weeks left for the Lok Sabha poll outcome to be known, BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday made a strong pitch for her to be a potential prime ministerial candidate.

Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets searched frantically for students believed buried in a wrecked dormitory after Italy\’s deadliest quake in nearly three decades struck this medieval city before dawn Monday, killing more than 150 people,...

The four-year-old grandson of Zimbabwe\’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has drowned in a swimming pool at the family\’s home in Harare. The death of the child, Sean, comes less than a month after Mr Tsvangirai\’s wife Susan died in...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he would be willing to accept prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which U.S. President Barack Obama has said he will close, the Venezuelan government said Thursday.Chavez also said he hopes the...

Fidel Castro has called on Latin American countries to support an end to Cuba\’s isolation when they meet the US president at a regional summit. Cuba is not invited to attend the Summit of the Americas, which opens in Trinidad and Tobago on 17...

Mexican police have arrested one of the country\’s most-wanted alleged drug traffickers, authorities have said. Federal police said they arrested the suspect, Vicente Carrillo Leyva, while he was exercising in a park near his home in Mexico...

At least 50 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that struck central Italy, Italian officials say. Five children are said to be among the dead and many remain unaccounted for as a massive search for the trapped is under way. The...

He also used to feed her acid. After all, he wanted a son. To demonstrate how rampant acid attacks against women and children are in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, consider the fact that the country actually has an \”Acid Survivors’...