Taliban gunmen with suicide bombs and heavy weaponry launched coordinated attacks in Kabul on Tuesday, targeting Nato headquarters and the US embassy, killing at least six people. The attacks dealt a humiliating blow to the Afghan

Tehran: Iran on Saturday said it is removing the fuel from the reactor of a Russian-built nuclear power plant, a move seen as a big blow to its controversial nuclear programme.

The decision to rem

Cairo: Protesters in the Libyan capital Tripoli sacked state broadcast offices and set branches of the People's Committees that are the mainstay of the regime ablaze overnight, witnesses said on Monda

Guangzhou: After ending India's 24-year-old medal drought in the pool in Asian Games, teen swimming sensation Virdhawal Khade topped his 100m freestyle heats but the effort was not good enough to fet

The Reserve Bank on Wednesday said it would soon set up a working group to examine the possibility of deregulation of interest rates on savings account.

German coach Wolfgang Sidka has been signed on as manager of the Iraqi national football team ahead of its defence of its 2007 Asia Cup championship in Qatar in 2011.

A NATO soldier was killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the military said, adding to a toll of victims of explosives laid by insurgents which is rising almost daily.

China is funding a bid to buy Liverpool Football Club, as Beijing seeks to extend its rapidly growing global influence into the world of British sport, reports said on Thursday.