ATS chief Hemant Karkare, two senior police officers and 80 others were killed when terrorists struck with impunity in Mumbai on Wednesday night in coordinated multiple blasts and gunfire in a dozen areas including at iconic landmarks CST railway...

A Briton who escaped the terrorist attack at the five-star Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai Wednesday night said the attackers specifically asked for American and British tourists. Alex Chamberlain, who is working in Mumbai, said the terrorists allowed him to...

The gap between men and women was widest in Yemen, with Chad, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Benin, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Bahrain near the bottom of the list. The report released this week at a press conference by the Swiss-based World Economic...

India’s first Moon Impact Probe (MIP), painted in the tricolour, successfully landed on the lunar surface on Friday night, after being detached from unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1. With this, India becomes the fourth country to land a probe on...

World leaders have been welcomed to Washington by President George W Bush for a summit to discuss measures to contain the current financial turmoil.

Rescue teams have been working through the night under floodlights at the site of a school in Haiti that collapsed with several hundred children inside.

“Don’t kill me, don’t kill me,” she said, according to the man who wanted to remain anonymous. A few minutes later, more than 50 men threw stones. Human rights group Amnesty International says the victim was a 13-year-old girl who had been...

It is the UN’s biggest and most expensive peacekeeping operation ever. But when things got serious in the Democratic Republic of Congo the blue helmets failed to defend the population from rebel troops and instead concentrated on protecting...

Twelve coordinated bomb blasts across the troubled north-eastern Indian state of Assam have killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 80. Police said one of the blasts targeted a high security zone containing a court, offices and homes of senior...

Perhaps it’s appropriate that it is on Columbus Day that the Old World appears to be getting into gear. All I can say is wow. What a day in Europe.