Kathmandu: Nepal on Tuesday announced it would enforce a UN freeze on bank accounts of over 200 terror suspects, including Dawood Ibrahim, though officials said they had no information of India's mos

Moscow: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Foreign Minister on Monday welcomed Russia's proposal that Damascus hand over control of its chemical weapons arsenal to international supervision to avoid

New York: Two scientists who illuminated how brain cells communicate, three researchers who developed implants that let deaf people hear and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates have won prestigiou

Islamabad: India-born Mamnoon Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was on Monday sworn in as the President of Pakistan, marking the culmination of the country’s first democratic tran

Washington, District of Columbia: Sryian President Bashar al-Assad warned Washington Monday to brace for retaliation if US forces attacked his war-torn country, as he denied using chemical weapons ag

Beijing: Chinese Internet users could face three years in prison for writing defamatory messages that are then re-posted 500 times under regulations announced Monday amid a broader crackdown on 'onli

New York: In a freak accident, an 18-year-old Indian-origin girl was killed in the US when she jumped out of a closet to surprise a friend, who shot her thinking she was an intruder.
Premila Lal jump

London: British companies sold chemicals to Syria that could have been used to produ-ce the deadly nerve agent that killed 1,400 people.
The revelation was made by Daily Mail on Sunday. Between July

Sydney: Tony Abbott celebrated his election triumph with an early morning bike ride Sunday, vowing to "get down to business" and be prime minister for all Australians after a divisive campaign that e

Afghan officials say an apparent NATO airstrike has killed 15 people, nine of them civilians, including women and children in an eastern province where the Taliban are strong. NATO, however, says 10 insurgents were killed.