Street parties broke out in traditionally gay Manhattan neighborhoods overnight on Friday to Saturday, as crowds danced, kissed and hugged to celebrate the legalisation of gay marriage in New York st

Santosh Bhardwaj, the maid who has sued a top Indian diplomat here for alleged forced labour, was scared to take legal action against him given his high profile stature, her lawyer said on Tuesday.

A former maid has accused India’s consul-general in New York Prabhu Dayal of treating her like a “slave” and of making sexual advances, which the diplomat denied, calling it “complete nonsense” and “mischievous and malicious lies”.

A 25-year-old Palestinian refugee on Monday won a United Nations competition with his short film based on the story of a Palestinian refugee family returning to their ruined home in a conflict-ravaged

Former ambassador to China Jon Huntsman chided his ex-boss President Barack Obama on Wednesday for what he criticised as a too-tentative plan to draw down US forces in Afghanistan.

India's neighbours – Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka – are featured in the list of the ‘most failed states’, according to the annual ranking prepared by the Foreign Policy magazine.

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Polar bears and ice floes are prudently avoided by most people but to Scottish adventurer Jock Wishart they are food for the soul.

Prabhu Dayal, the Indian Consul General in New York, has been accused of treating a former domestic help as a slave and making sexual advances, a charge rejected by Dayal as 'complete nonsense'.

Star saxophonist Clarence Clemons, a defining member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has died after suffering a stroke, with the rock legend describing the loss of his longtime friend and music

A 17-year-old Indian-American youth was handcuffed and arrested by police when he went to the rescue of his mother who was harassed and spit on her face by a Chinese national in Flushing area of Queen