Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel...

Commonwealth Games officials are to investigate whether the quality of the water in the practice pool is causing illness among...

More than 1,000 teachers have been sacked in Kenya for sexually abusing girls over the past two years, the authorities...

Disaster officials say the toxic sludge has killed all the fish in the Marcal, the river first hit by a...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is allegedly pressuring Afghan Taliban members to shun US-backed peace talks aimed at ending the...

GoP’s share in overall credit offtake on the rise: With overall credit offtake rising by 1.4% FYTD up till August...

AFP - Over 4,500 couples register for divorce each day in China due to population controls and social and lifestyle...

AFP - Australia swept the board on the opening day of cycling at the Commonwealth Games Tuesday, taking three gold...

As the drums crash, the guitars jangle and the saxophones wail, a pack of attractive women wearing revealing evening dresses...

AFP -  Hundreds of technology firms came together in Japan on Tuesday to showcase the latest in high-end gadgetry, including...

Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistan-born American who pleaded guilty to attempting to detonate a homemade bomb in Times Square in May,...

Colombian officials announced late on Monday that police had carried out the biggest seizure of suspected drug money in the...

Iraqi authorities say gunmen have killed a senior police official who led a criminal investigation unit in the northern city...