Britain’s Nehal Bhogaita has won the title of Miss India Worldwide, making her the first deaf to win the beauty pageant.

Expressing concern over the continuing buildup of nuclear weapons in South Asia, the US has asked India and Pakistan to restrain their atomic and missile programmes and play a positive role in the global non-proliferation community.

For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s President — courtesy of the CIA, a media report today said.

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is reportedly upset with journalist Tom Brokaw after he commented that the actress ruined his last year’s White House correspondent’s dinner.

Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan, who was briefly detained on Wednesday at a US airport, today accused external affairs minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a “conspiracy” to defame him outside India.

A rusted 1.5-meter-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque site that once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.

Actress Emma Stone is in talks to make her Broadway debut in an upcoming stage production of Cabaret.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla Bruni, were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and his family back in 2011.

The US has asked China to safeguard the rights of its Uighur minority in Xinjiang province and carry out a transparent probe into the latest incident of violence in which 21 people died.

R&B star Usher was targeted by a crazed fan while taping singing reality show The Voice.