Paris authorities are mulling a plan to extend the Eiffel Tower downwards as above ground building would spoil the French capital's geometry, the head of the landmark's operating company said on Friday.

An impasse with the players' union over performance-related pay has been overcome and a final agreement was imminent, Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland said on Friday.

Pakistan could launch a nuclear strike on India within eight seconds, claimed an army general in Islamabad in 2001, a warning that is described in the latest volume of diaries by a key aide of former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A 17-year-old Jordanian went on a shooting spree, killing his father, mother, two brothers and an uncle because he had 'differences' with them, police said on Thursday.

Ab ke hum bichhade to shaayad kabhii khwabon mein milen (If we part now, we may meet in dreams). The world of ghazal will no longer be same without legendary singer Mehdi Hassan who leaves behind an legacy and treasure of soulful melodies

A US court has denied Pakistan-born Canadian terrorist Tahawwur Rana's motions for a new trial and set December 4 as his sentencing date.

About 10,000 Russians joined a march Tuesday against President Vladimir Putin's third Kremlin term, city police said, although organisers put the figure far higher.

Northwest Burma was tense on Monday after sectarian violence engulfed its largest city at the weekend, with Reuters witnessing rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torching houses and police firing into the air to disperse crowds.

Syria has the ‘biggest chemical weapons arsenal in the world,’ which it could use to threaten the Jewish state, Israel's deputy chief of the general staff has warned.

A Somali Islamist militant group is offering rewards of chickens and camels for information on the whereabouts of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, mocking the millions of