Panama stopped a North Korean vessel that President Ricardo Martinelli said had sailed from Cuba and tried to illegally sneak suspected sophisticated missile material through the Panama Canal.

There is more concern among US businesses now about investing in India than was a few years ago though New Delhi was pursuing reforms, senior American leaders have said.

The United States has told China it was upset it did not hand over US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden after he fled to Hong Kong, saying that the decision had undermined relations.

A Canadian rail disaster that “probably” killed as many as 50 people was likely the result of an engineer’s failure to set the brakes on an unmanned train owned by a US railway company, officials said Wednesday.

Disgraced ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the legal principle of being innocent until proven guilty was violated in the sex scandal that brought him down.

About 40 people were still missing a day after a runaway train derailed in Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a busy downtown district and killed five people.

The US state department was under fire for spending $630,000 over two years to win millions of “likes” on its Facebook pages at a time of severe government austerity measures.

Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that he is not in the race to become the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and has ruled out contesting the upcoming assembly polls there.

A Bible signed by physicist Albert Einstein, in which he refers to the book as an “inexhaustible” source of wisdom and solace that deserves frequent reading, has fetched $68,500 at an auction here.

A Hindu temple in Canada has been vandalised by two men armed with baseball bats, outraging the country’s minority community which termed it as a “hate crime.”