They have braved gunfire, dog bites and threats from people with baseball bats.

The White House budget director Peter Orszag is leaving the administration, a senior US official said on late Monday, in a move that would mark the first departure from US President Barack Obama’s Cab

Two Indian women — Roshni Nadar and Nisa Godrej — have been listed among Forbes magazine’s list of “a breed of heiresses who choose to live a lower-key life ... and working to make a difference behind the scenes.”

The finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has said food inflation will begin to come down after the middle of next month on the back of good monsoon. The minister, however, predicted a difficult time for the global economy due to European crisis.

ust three places below Afghanistan, Pakistan has been ranked the 10th most failed state in the 2010 Failed State Index released by the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine on Monday.

The President of the United States said on Monday the most important job was not his but that of being a good father.

The Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that bars “material support” to foreign terrorist organisations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups.

With just three days left for her crucial run-off for the Republican governor’s nomination from South Carolina, American-Indian aspirant Nikki Haley received a major boost in her electoral prospects with a endorsement by the blogger who had alleged to have affair with her.

The West Asia envoy Tony Blair said on Thursday he believes Israel would consider an international presence along the Gaza Strip’s borders to allow the entry of goods other than weapons into the terri

American Sikh community leaders have complained US legislators that they were experiencing racial profiling, mostly during travel, after 9/11 and the trend has increased of late.