Three weeks before India joins the United Nations Security Council after a gap of nearly two decades, US President Barack Obama has underlined the significance of the UN's 15-member powerful wing in m

Two US Senators on Tuesday sought to attach legislation targeting China over alleged currency manipulation to a bill championed by President Barack Obama to avert a massive new year's tax cut.

Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee, whose very first book has become a runaway success, advocates a strong anti-smoking campaign and breast cancer screening to battle the growing i

Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, remained in critical condition after undergoing an additional surgery on Monday to repair a torn aorta.

The United States expressed regret for the incident involving Indian ambassador to the US Meera Shankar, who while wearing a sari was pulled out of an airport security line for a “pat-down” body searc

Marine biologists claim to have discovered three new fish species while undertaking deep-water ocean trawls of the Peru-Chile trench off South America.

Special US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke was hospitalised on Saturday after he fell ill while at work at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department.

Post 26/11, a section of the Congress leadership was seen playing religious politics after one of its leaders, A.R. Antulay, implied that Hindutva forces may have been involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, according to a confidential memo by the then US ambassador to India, David Mulford, released by WikiLeaks.

US scientists have used stem cell technology to create mice from two fathers, an advance they say could help preserve endangered species and even help same-sex couples have their own genetic children

Astronomers led by Indian American Nikku Madhusudhan have discovered a giant planet with an atmosphere and core dominated by carbon, raising the prospect that diamond-studded stars may exist.